Toss vs Dismissed - What's the difference?
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A throw, a lob, of a ball etc., with an initial upward direction, particularly with a lack of care.
(cricket, football) The toss of a coin before a cricket match in order to decide who bats first, or before a football match in order to decide the direction of play.
(British, slang) A jot, in the phrase 'give a toss'.
To throw with an initial upward direction.
To lift with a sudden or violent motion.
* Addison
To agitate; to make restless.
* Milton
To subject to trials; to harass.
* Herbert
To flip a coin, to decide a point of contention.
To discard: to toss out
To stir or mix (a salad).
(British, vulgar, slang) To masturbate
(informal) To search (a room or a cell), sometimes leaving visible disorder, as for valuables or evidence of a crime.
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* 2009 , , Red Dragon :
* 2011 , Linda Howard, Kill and Tell: A Novel :
To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion.
To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean.
(obsolete) To keep in play; to tumble over.
To peak (the oars), to lift them from the rowlocks and hold them perpendicularly, the handle resting on the bottom of the boat.
(dismiss)
(senseid)(lb) To discharge; to end the employment or service of.
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(lb) To order to leave.
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(lb) To dispel; to rid one's mind of.
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(lb) To reject; to refuse to accept.
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*:"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.
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To give someone a red card; to send off.
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As verbs the difference between toss and dismissed
is that toss is to throw with an initial upward direction while dismissed is (dismiss).As a noun toss
is a throw, a lob, of a ball etc, with an initial upward direction, particularly with a lack of care.toss
English
Noun
(es)- I couldn't give a toss about her.
Derived terms
* argue the tossVerb
- Toss it over here!
- to toss the head
- He tossed his arm aloft, and proudly told me, / He would not stay.
- Calm region once, / And full of peace, now tossed and turbulent.
- Whom devils fly, thus is he tossed of men.
- I'll toss you for it.
- ''I don't need it anymore, you can just toss it.
- to toss''' a salad; a '''tossed salad.
- "Someone tossed just his living room and bedroom." / "They probably found what they were looking for."
- John Orr had occasion to complain in writing to the senior supervisor that his Playboy and Penthouse magazines had been stolen by deputies. And he believed that was what prompted a random search of his cell for contraband. He was stripped, handcuffed, and forced to watch as they tossed his cell .
- Rankin and Willingham, when they tossed his cell , they took Polaroids so they could get everything back in place.
- Hayes had watched him toss a room before. He had tapped walls, gotten down on his hands and knees and studied the floor, inspected books and lamps and bric-abrac.
- tossing and turning in bed, unable to sleep
- (Shakespeare)
- to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar
- (Ascham)
See also
* tosser * toss off * toss in * toss and turnAnagrams
* * *dismissed
English
Verb
(head)dismiss
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Verb
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