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Beckoned vs Dismissed - What's the difference?

beckoned | dismissed |

As verbs the difference between beckoned and dismissed

is that beckoned is (beckon) while dismissed is (dismiss).

beckoned

English

Verb

(head)
  • (beckon)

    • beckon

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (ambitransitive) To wave and/or to nod to somebody with the intention to make the person come closer.
  • * Dryden
    • His distant friends, he beckons near.
  • * Shakespeare
    • It beckons you to go away with it.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sign made without words; a beck.
  • * Bolingbroke
    • At the first beckon .

    dismissed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (dismiss)

    • dismiss

    English

    Verb

  • (senseid)(lb) To discharge; to end the employment or service of.
  • :
  • (lb) To order to leave.
  • :
  • (lb) To dispel; to rid one's mind of.
  • :
  • (lb) To reject; to refuse to accept.
  • :
  • *
  • *:"He was here," observed Drina composedly, "and father was angry with him." ¶ "What?" exclaimed Eileen. "When?" ¶ "This morning, before father went downtown." ¶ Both Selwyn and Lansing cut in coolly, dismissing the matter with a careless word or two; and coffee was served—cambric tea in Drina's case.
  • To get a batsman out.
  • :
  • To give someone a red card; to send off.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2010, date=December 28, author=Kevin Darlin, work=BBC
    • , title= West Brom 1-3 Blackburn , passage=Kalinic later saw red for a rash tackle on Paul Scharner before Gabriel Tamas was dismissed for bringing down Diouf.}}

    Related terms

    * dismissal