| wood-note | A wild or natural note, as of a forest bird. "Or sweetest Shakespeare, fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild." (Milton) Origin: Wood, n. + note. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| note | 1. A mark or token by which a thing may be known; a visible sign; a character; a distinctive mark or feature; a characteristic quality. "Whosoever appertain to the visible body of the church, they have also the notes of external profession." (Hooker) "She [the Anglican church] has the note of possession, the note of freedom from party titles,the note of life a tough life and a vigorous." (J. H. Newman) "What a note of youth, of imagination, of impulsive eagerness, there was through it all !" (Mrs. Humphry Ward) 2. A mark, or sign, made to call attention, to point out something to notice, or the like; a sign, or token, proving or giving evidence. 3. A brief remark; a marginal comment or explanation; hence, an annotation on a text or author; a comment; a critical, explanatory, or illustrative observation. "The best writers have been perplexed with notes, and obscured with illustrations." (Felton) 4. A brief writing intended to assist the memory; a memorandum; a minute. 5. Hence, a writing intended to be used in speaking; memoranda to assist a speaker, being either a synopsis, or the full text of what is to be said; as, to preach from notes; also, a reporter's memoranda; the original report of a speech or of proceedings. 6. A short informal letter; a billet. 7. A diplomatic missive or written communication. 8. A written or printed paper acknowledging a debt, and promising payment; as, a promissory note; a note of hand; a negotiable note. 9. A list of items or of charges; an account. "Here is now the smith's note for shoeing." (Shak) 10. A character, variously formed, to indicate the length of a tone, and variously placed upon the staff to indicate its pitch. Hence: A musical sound; a tone; an utterance; a tune. A key of the piano or organ. "The wakeful bird . . . Tunes her nocturnal note." (Milton) "That note of revolt against the eighteenth century, which we detect in Goethe, was struck by Winckelmann." (W. Pater) 11. Observation; notice; heed. "Give orders to my servants that they take No note at all of our being absent hence." (Shak) 12. Notification; information; intelligence. "The king . . . Shall have note of this." (Shak) 13. State of being under observation. "Small matters . . . Continually in use and in note." (Bacon) 14. Reputation; distinction; as, a poet of note. "There was scarce a family of note which had not poured out its blood on the field or the scaffold." (Prescott) 15. Stigma; brand; reproach. Note of hand, a promissory note. Origin: F. Note, L. Nota; akin to noscere, notum, to know. See Know. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| note blindness | Loss of the ability to read music. (27 Sep 1997) |
| vaginal discharge | A common gynecologic disorder characterised by an abnormal, nonbloody discharge from the genital tract. (12 Dec 1998) |
| patient discharge | The administrative process of discharging the patient, live or dead, from hospitals or other health facilities. (12 Dec 1998) |
| glow discharge | <radiobiology> Low-density, low-temperature plasma discharge (such as in a fluorescent light) which, well, glows. Sputtering in glow discharges is useful in plasma processing of materials. The voltage applied to the plasma must be greater than the ionisation potential of the gas used, most of the plasma voltage drop is near the cathode, where the majority of ionisation occurs. Discharge is sustained by secondary electrons emitted when ions or recombination radiation impact on the cathode, electrons are accelerated away from the cathode and ionize neutral gas in the discharge. (09 Oct 1997) |
| discharge | 1. To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel. 2. To free of the missile with which anything is charged or loaded; to let go the charge of; as, to discharge a bow, catapult, etc.; especially, said of firearms, to fire off; to shoot off; also, to relieve from a state of tension, as a Leyden jar. "The galleys also did oftentimes, out of their prows, discharge their great pieces against the city." (Knolles) "Feeling in other cases discharges itself in indirect muscular actions." (H. Spencer) 3. To of something weighing upon or impeding over one, as a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to clear. "Discharged of business, void of strife." (Dryden) "In one man's fault discharge another man of his duty." (L'Estrange) 4. To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss. "Discharge the common sort With pay and thanks." (Shak) "Grindal . . . Was discharged the government of his see." (Milton) 5. To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty; as, to discharge a prisoner. 6. To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled; as, to discharge a cargo. 7. To let fly, as a missile; to shoot. "They do discharge their shot of courtesy." (Shak) 8. To set aside; to annul; to dismiss. "We say such an order was "discharged on appeal."" (Mozley & W) "The order for Daly's attendance was discharged." (Macaulay) 9. To throw off the obligation of, as a duty or debt; to relieve one's self of, by fulfilling conditions, performing duty, trust, and the like; hence, to perform or exte, as an office, or part. "Had I a hundred tongues, a wit so large As could their hundred offices discharge." (Dryden) 10. To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to. "If he had The present money to discharge the Jew." (Shak) 11. To give forth; to emit or send out; as, a pipe discharges water; to let fly; to give expression to; to utter; as, to discharge a horrible oath. 12. To prohibit; to forbid. Discharging arch, a piece set to carry thrust or weight to a solid point of support. <physics> Discharging rod, a bent wire, with knobs at both ends, and insulated by a glass handle. It is employed for discharging a Leyden jar or an electrical battery. See Discharger. Synonym: See Deliver. Origin: OE. Deschargen, dischargen, OF. Deschargier, F. Decharger; pref. Des- (L. Dis) + chargier, F. Charger. See Charge. 1. The act of discharging; the act of relieving of a charge or load; removal of a load or burden; unloading; as, the discharge of a ship; discharge of a cargo. 2. Firing off; explosive removal of a charge; explosion; letting off; as, a discharge of arrows, of artillery. 3. Act of relieving of something which oppresses or weighs upon one, as an obligation, liability, debt, accusation, etc.; acquittance; as, the discharge of a debtor. 4. Act of removing, or getting rid of, an obligation, liability, etc.; fulfillment, as by the payment of a debt, or the performance of a trust or duty. "Indefatigable in the discharge of business." (Motley) "Nothing can absolve us from the discharge of those duties." (L'Estrange) 5. Release or dismissal from an office, employment, etc.; dismission; as, the discharge of a workman by his employer. 6. Legal release from confinement; liberation; as, the discharge of a prisoner. 7. The state of being discharged or relieved of a debt, obligation, office, and the like; acquittal. "Too secure of our discharge From penalty." (Milton) 8. That which discharges or releases from an obligation, liability, penalty, etc, as a price of ransom, a legal document. "Death, who sets all free, Hath paid his ransom now and full discharge." (Milton) 9. A flowing or issuing out; emission; vent; evacuation; also, that which is discharged or emitted; as, a rapid discharge of water from the pipe. "The hemorrhage being stopped, the next occurrence is a thin serous discharge." (S. Sharp) Charge and discharge. <physiology> The increased secretion from a gland resulting from the cutting of all of its nerves. Origin: Cf. F. Decharge. See Discharge. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| discharge of dredged material | Any addition of dredged material into the waters of the U.S. The term includes, without limitation, the addition of dredged material to a specified discharge site located in waters of the U.S. And the runoff or overflow from a contained land or water disposal area. Discharges of pollutants into waters of the U.S., resulting from the onshore subsequent processing of dredged material that is extracted from any commercial use (other than fill), are not included within this term and are subject to Section 402 of the CWA even though the extraction and deposit of such material may require a permit from the Corps of Engineers. The term does not include plowing, cultivating, seeding, and harvesting for the production of food, fibre, and forest products. The term does not include de minimis, incidental soil movement occurring during normal dredging operations. (09 Oct 1997) |
| discharge of fill material | The addition of fill material into waters of the U.S. The term generally includes, without limitation, the following activities: placement of fill that is necessary for the construction of any structure in a water of the U.S., the building of any structure or impoundment requiring rock, sand, dirt, or other material for its construction, site-development fills for recreational, industrial, commercial, residential, and other uses, causeways or road fills, dams and dikes, artificial islands, property protection and/or reclamation devices such as riprap, groins, seawalls, breakwaters, and revetments, beach nourishment, levees, fill for structures such as sewage treatment facilities, intake and outfall pipes associated with power plants and subaqueous utility lines, and artificial reefs. The term does not include plowing, cultivating, seeding, and harvesting for the production of food, fibre, and forest products. (09 Oct 1997) |
| electron cyclotron discharge cleaning | Using relatively low power microwaves (at the electron cyclotron frequency) to create a weakly ionised, essentially unconfined hydrogen plasma in the vacuum chamber. The ions react with impurities on the walls of the tokamak and help remove them from the chamber. For instance, Alcator C-mod typically applies electron cyclotron discharge cleaning for a few days prior to beginning a campaign, and a few hours before each day's run. (09 Oct 1997) |