Terminateverb
To end, especially in an incomplete state.
‘to terminate a surface by a line’; ‘to terminate an effort, or a controversy’;
Dismissverb
(transitive) To discharge; to end the employment or service of.
‘The company dismissed me after less than a year.’;
Terminateverb
To set or be a limit or boundary to.
Dismissverb
(transitive) To order to leave.
‘The soldiers were dismissed after the parade.’;
Terminateverb
To kill.
Dismissverb
(transitive) To dispel; to rid one's mind of.
‘He dismissed all thoughts of acting again.’;
Terminateverb
To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.
Dismissverb
(transitive) To reject; to refuse to accept.
‘The court dismissed the case.’;
Terminateadjective
Terminated; limited; bounded; ended.
Dismissverb
To send or put away.
‘She dismissed him with a wave of the hand.’;
Terminateadjective
Having a definite and clear limit or boundary; having a determinate size, shape or magnitude.
‘Mountains on the Moon cast shadows that are very dark, terminate and more distinct than those cast by mountains on the Earth.’;
Dismissverb
To get a batsman out.
‘He was dismissed for 99 runs.’;
Terminateadjective
(mathematics) Expressible in a finite number of terms; (of a decimal) not recurring or infinite.
‘One third is a recurring decimal, but one half is a terminate decimal.’;
Dismissverb
To give someone a red card; to send off.
Terminateverb
To set a term or limit to; to form the extreme point or side of; to bound; to limit; as, to terminate a surface by a line.
Dismissverb
To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away.
‘He dismissed the assembly.’; ‘Dismiss their cares when they dismiss their flock.’; ‘Though he soon dismissed himself from state affairs.’;
Terminateverb
To put an end to; to make to cease; as, to terminate an effort, or a controversy.
Dismissverb
To discard; to remove or discharge from office, service, or employment; as, the king dismisses his ministers; the matter dismisses his servant.
Terminateverb
Hence, to put the finishing touch to; to bring to completion; to perfect.
‘During this interval of calm and prosperity, he [Michael Angelo] terminated two figures of slaves, destined for the tomb, in an incomparable style of art.’;
Dismissverb
To lay aside or reject as unworthy of attentions or regard, as a petition or motion in court.
Terminateverb
To be limited in space by a point, line, or surface; to stop short; to end; to cease; as, the torrid zone terminates at the tropics.
Dismissnoun
Dismission.
Terminateverb
To come to a limit in time; to end; to close.
‘The wisdom of this world, its designs and efficacy, terminate on zhis side heaven.’;
Dismissverb
bar from attention or consideration;
‘She dismissed his advances’;
Terminateverb
bring to an end or halt;
‘She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime’; ‘The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WWI’;
Dismissverb
cease to consider; put out of judicial consideration;
‘This case is dismissed!’;
Terminateverb
have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical;
‘the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed’; ‘Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other’; ‘My property ends by the bushes’; ‘The symphony ends in a pianissimo’;
Dismissverb
stop associating with;
‘They dropped her after she had a child out of wedlock’;
Terminateverb
be the end of; be the last or concluding part of;
‘This sad scene ended the movie’;
Dismissverb
terminate the employment of;
‘The boss fired his secretary today’; ‘The company terminated 25% of its workers’;
Terminateverb
terminate the employment of;
‘The boss fired his secretary today’; ‘The company terminated 25% of its workers’;
Dismissverb
end one's encounter with somebody by causing or permitting the person to leave;
‘I was dismissed after I gave my report’;
Dismissverb
declare void;
‘The President dissolved the parliament and called for new elections’;
Dismissverb
order or allow to leave; send away
‘she dismissed the taxi at the corner of the road’;
Dismissverb
remove from employment or office, typically on the grounds of unsatisfactory performance
‘the prime minister dismissed five members of his cabinet’;
Dismissverb
(of a group assembled under someone's authority) disperse
‘he told his company to dismiss’;
Dismissverb
end the innings of (a batsman or a side)
‘Australia were dismissed for 118’;
Dismissverb
treat as unworthy of serious consideration
‘it would be easy to dismiss him as all brawn and no brain’;
Dismissverb
deliberately cease to think about
‘he suspected a double meaning in her words, but dismissed the thought’;
Dismissverb
refuse further hearing to (a case)
‘the judge dismissed the case for lack of evidence’;