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Dismiss vs Dissolve - What's the difference?

dismiss | dissolve |

In transitive terms the difference between dismiss and dissolve

is that dismiss is to reject; to refuse to accept while dissolve is to break the continuity of; to disconnect; to loosen; to undo; to separate.

As a noun dissolve is

a film punctuation in which there is a gradual transition from one scene to the next.

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.}}

    dissolve

    English

    (dissolution)

    Verb

    (dissolv)
  • To terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding
  • ''The ruling party or coalition sometimes dissolves parliament early when the polls are favorable, hoping to reconvene with a larger majority
  • To destroy, make disappear
  • To liquify, melt into a fluid
  • * Shakespeare
  • as if the world were all dissolved to tears
  • To be melted, changed into a fluid
  • (chemistry) To disintegrate chemically into a solution by immersion into a liquid or gas.
  • (chemistry) To be disintegrated by such immersion.
  • To disperse, drive apart a group of persons.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Nothing can dissolve us.
  • To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to loosen; to undo; to separate.
  • * Fairfax
  • Down fell the duke, his joints dissolved asunder.
  • * The Declaration of Independence
  • For one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another.
  • (legal) To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release.
  • to dissolve an injunction
  • (cinematography) To shift from one shot to another by having the former fade out as the latter fades in.
  • To resolve itself as by dissolution
  • (obsolete) To solve; to clear up; to resolve.
  • * Tennyson
  • dissolved the mystery
  • * Bible, Daniel v. 16
  • Make interpretations and dissolve doubts.
  • To relax by pleasure; to make powerless.
  • * Dryden
  • Angels dissolved in hallelujahs lie.

    Synonyms

    * melt * (cinematography) fade out

    Derived terms

    * dissolvable * dissolver

    Antonyms

    * (terminate a union of multiple members actively) establish, found

    See also

    * melt

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (cinematography) A film punctuation in which there is a gradual transition from one scene to the next.
  • Synonyms

    * fade out