Terminate vs. Dismiss
Terminateverb
To end, especially in an incomplete state.
Terminateverb
To set or be a limit or boundary to.
Terminateverb
To kill.
Terminateverb
To end the employment contract of an employee; to fire, lay off.
Terminateadjective
Terminated; limited; bounded; ended.
Terminateadjective
Having a definite and clear limit or boundary; having a determinate size, shape or magnitude.
Terminateadjective
(mathematics) Expressible in a finite number of terms; (of a decimal) not recurring or infinite.
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.
Terminateverb
To put an end to; to make to cease; as, to terminate an effort, or a controversy.
Terminateverb
Hence, to put the finishing touch to; to bring to completion; to perfect.
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.
Terminateverb
To come to a limit in time; to end; to close.
Terminateverb
bring to an end or halt;
Terminateverb
have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical;
Terminateverb
be the end of; be the last or concluding part of;
Terminateverb
terminate the employment of;
Dismissverb
(transitive) To discharge; to end the employment or service of.
Dismissverb
(transitive) To order to leave.
Dismissverb
(transitive) To dispel; to rid one's mind of.
Dismissverb
(transitive) To reject; to refuse to accept.
Dismissverb
To send or put away.
Dismissverb
To get a batsman out.
Dismissverb
To give someone a red card; to send off.
Dismissverb
To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away.
Dismissverb
To discard; to remove or discharge from office, service, or employment; as, the king dismisses his ministers; the matter dismisses his servant.
Dismissverb
To lay aside or reject as unworthy of attentions or regard, as a petition or motion in court.
Dismissnoun
Dismission.
Dismissverb
bar from attention or consideration;
Dismissverb
cease to consider; put out of judicial consideration;
Dismissverb
stop associating with;
Dismissverb
terminate the employment of;
Dismissverb
end one's encounter with somebody by causing or permitting the person to leave;
Dismissverb
declare void;
Dismissverb
order or allow to leave; send away
Dismissverb
remove from employment or office, typically on the grounds of unsatisfactory performance
Dismissverb
(of a group assembled under someone's authority) disperse
Dismissverb
end the innings of (a batsman or a side)
Dismissverb
treat as unworthy of serious consideration
Dismissverb
deliberately cease to think about
Dismissverb
refuse further hearing to (a case)
