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Terminate vs. Dismiss

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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’;

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