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Synonyms for discard

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Synonyms for discard

to let go or get rid of as being useless or defective, for example

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Synonyms for discard

anything that is cast aside or discarded

(cards) the act of throwing out a useless card or of failing to follow suit

getting rid something that is regarded as useless or undesirable

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In this study, the second most common cause of discarding blood units was the fail tap, constituting 27.18% of total discarded units.
High discard mortality of physoclistous fishes caught in deep waters (depths >40 m), combined with intense gulf-wide recreational fishing effort (Coleman et al., 2004; Hanson and Sauls, 2011), likely amplifies the impact of discarding practices during closed-season trips given the greater depths fished compared to open-season trips (Wilson and Burns, 1996; Coggins et al., 2007; Rummer, 2007; Campbell et al., 2014).
UK Fisheries Minister Richard Benyon said that discarding was a "terrible waste of good food."
The European Commission is currently finalising its proposals for a thorough reform of the EU's Common Fisheries Policy and the issue of discarding is a key element in the coming reform.
It is for this reason that the proposed method discards frames of the 2D video data and the depth map data symmetrically according to frame discarding policy 1.
* Specifically prohibits the auditor from deleting or discarding workpapers after the documentation completion date.
You win the ace of clubs and take the ace of hearts, East discarding a low club.
Discarding them without taking advantage of their possible uses, Poznansky says, would be a tragedy.
Reversing the process of subtraction that leads to a discarding of what isn't needed, we obtain new data, information about the past and its traces, descriptions of a specific experience.
Strain through a fine mesh sieve, discarding the milk.
''The problem came to light when we were in the process of discarding old documents, so depending on the division, the task may have been proceeding at a different pace.
Discarding some of the data may be valid because those records may come from climate-shifting events other than tides, Bond says.
The highly competitive fishing industry also disrupts the entire oceanic food chain by indiscriminately catching and discarding billions of very young fish, sea birds, porpoises and other marine animals.
Records for each year from 1992 through 1994 were grouped by one-degree area and quarter (A/Q) to identify areas and seasons with high rates of swordfish discarding. In this paper, all discarded swordfish are assumed to be undersized.