discard

To throw away, to reject.

A man discards the follies of boyhood.

My next stop is Oxford, which has also grown with the addition of new platforms to accommodate the Chiltern Railways service to London via Bicester - although, short sightedly, the planned electrification from Paddington was canned. Evidence of the volte-face can be seen along the line at places such as Radley, where mast piles are already sunk or lie discarded at the lineside.

To make a discard; to throw out a card.

To dismiss from employment, confidence, or favour; to discharge.

[…] They blame the Favourites in point of Policy, and think it nothing extraordinary, that the Queen ſhould be at an end of Her Patience, and reſolve to diſcard them.

Anything discarded.

A discarded playing card in a card game.

A temporary variable used to receive a value of no importance and unable to be read later.

Discards can be used with out parameters, with tuples, with pattern matching (Chapters 6 and 8), or even as stand-alone variables.