–verb (used with object)

1.	to deduct a certain amount from (a bill, charge, etc.): All bills that are paid promptly will be discounted at two percent.

2.	to offer for sale or sell at a reduced price: The store discounted all clothing for the sale.

3.	to advance or lend money with deduction of interest on (commercial paper not immediately payable).

4.	to purchase or sell (a bill or note) before maturity at a reduction based on the interest for the time it still has to run.

5.	to leave out of account; disregard: Even if we discount the irrelevant material, the thesis remains mediocre.

6.	to allow for exaggeration in (a statement, opinion, etc.): Knowing his political bias they discounted most of his story.

7.	to take into account in advance, often so as to diminish the effect of: They had discounted the effect of a decline in the stock market.

–verb (used without object)

8.	to advance or lend money after deduction of interest.

9.	to offer goods or services at a reduced price.

–noun

10.	the act or an instance of discounting.

11.	an amount deducted from the usual list price.

12.	any deduction from the nominal value.

13.	a payment of interest in advance upon a loan of money.

14.	the amount of interest obtained by one who discounts.

15.	an allowance made for exaggeration or bias, as in a report, story, etc.: Even after all the discounts are taken, his story sounds phony.

–adjective

16.	selling or offered at less than the usual or established price: discount theater tickets.

17.	selling goods at a discount: a discount drugstore.

—Idiom

18.	at a discount, a. Commerce. below par. b. below the usual list price. c. in low esteem or regard: His excuses were taken at a discount by all who knew him. d. not in demand; unwanted: Such ancient superstitions are at a discount in a civilized society.

–noun

1.	the blossom of a plant.

2.	Botany. a. the part of a seed plant comprising the reproductive organs and their envelopes if any, esp. when such envelopes are more or less conspicuous in form and color. b. an analogous reproductive structure in other plants, as the mosses.

3.	a plant, considered with reference to its blossom or cultivated for its floral beauty.

4.	state of efflorescence or bloom: Peonies were in flower.

5.	an ornament representing a flower.

6.	Also called fleuron, floret. Printing. an ornamental piece of type, esp. a stylized floral design, often used in a line to d 3e8 ecorate chapter headings, page borders, or bindings.

7.	an ornament or adornment.

8.	the finest or most flourishing period: Poetic drama was in flower in Elizabethan England.

9.	the best or finest member or part of a number, body, or whole: the flower of American youth.

10.	the finest or choicest product or example.

11.	flowers, (used with a singular verb) Chemistry. a substance in the form of a fine powder, esp. as obtained by sublimation: flowers of sulfur.

–verb (used without object)

12.	to produce flowers; blossom; come to full bloom.

13.	to come out into full development; mature.

–verb (used with object)

14.	to cover or deck with flowers.

15.	to decorate with a floral design.