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Definition: DISMISSING |
DISMISSINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Dismiss |
Date "DISMISSING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1605. (references) |
Crosswords: DISMISSING |
| English words defined with "DISMISSING": Dimission, Dimissory ♦ Letters dimissory. (references) |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | The power of assembling and dismissing the legislative, placed in the executive, gives not the executive a superiority over it, but is a fiduciary trust placed in him, for the safety of the people, in a case where the uncertainty and variableness of human affairs could not bear a steady fixed rule: for it not being possible, that the first framers of the government should, by any foresight, be so much masters of future events, as to be able to prefix so just periods of return and duration to the assemblies of the legislative, in all times to come, that might exactly answer all the exigencies of the common- wealth; the best remedy could be found for this defect, was to trust this to the prudence of one who was always to be present, and whose business it was to watch over the public good. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | She made him the sign of a superior dismissing an inferior. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | The King, who had a much better understanding, dismissing his learned men, sent for the farmer, who by good fortune was not yet gone out of town. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Russia | Several religious communities have been forced to defend themselves in court from charges by local authorities that they are engaging in harmful activities; however, at times local courts demonstrated their independence by dismissing frivolous cases or ruling in favor of the religious organizations. (references) |
Economic History | Swaziland | In October 1985, Queen Regent Ntombi demonstrated her power by dismissing the leading figures of the Liqoqo. (references) |
Albania | The President chairs the High Council of Justice (HCJ) which is responsible for appointing and dismissing other judges. (references) | |
Human Rights | Armenia | This authority gives the President dominant influence in appointing and dismissing judges at all levels. (references) |
El Salvador | In November 2000, the Legislative Assembly passed a law, at the Attorney General's urging, that created an expedited process for dismissing employees of the Attorney General's office. (references) | |
Ukraine | Critics of the Government also claimed credibly that the Government abused its authority over officers of the court by selectively charging and dismissing politically unsympathetic judges. (references) | |
Political Economy | EL SALVADOR | There were credible reports of factories dismissing union organizers. (references) |
Vietnam | The Assembly was active in revising legislation, criticizing officials' performance, screening ministerial and other senior candidate appointments, and dismissing senior officers. (references) | |
Women | Israel and the occupied territories | The amendment also prohibited any employer from dismissing an employee during that person's first 6 months of residence in a shelter. (references) |
Worker Rights | Jordan | Labor law prohibits employers from dismissing a worker during a labor dispute. (references) |
Honduras | Some employers have threatened to close down unionized companies and have harassed workers seeking to unionize, in some cases dismissing them outright. (references) | |
Cambodia | However, senior officials, including the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Commerce, made public statements throughout the year dismissing the labor movement as being made up of political agitators intent on sabotaging the economy. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "DISMISSING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 99.11% of the time. "DISMISSING" is used about 336 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 99.11% | 333 | 15,728 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.6% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.3% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 336 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dismissing employee | 2 |
bankruptcy dismissing | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DISMISSING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 遣散 (Disband, Disbanded, Disbanding, Dismiss, Dismissed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | dom,hvorved kravet afvises (judgment dismissing the action), begæring ikke taget til følge (decision dismissing, decisions dismissing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | vonnis dat de vordering afwijst (judgment dismissing the action), uitspraak waarbij de procedure wordt verworpen (judgement dismissing the application), afwijzende beslissingen (decision dismissing, decisions dismissing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | démettant. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | entlassend (disbanding, sacking, unburdening). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | απορριπτική απόφαση (decision dismissing, decision rejecting the complaint, decisions dismissing), δικαστική απόφαση που απορρίπτει την αγωγή (judgment dismissing the action). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | decisione di rigetto (decision dismissing, decision rejecting the complaint, decisions dismissing), decisione che rigetta l'opposizione (judgement dismissing the application), sentenza che respinge l'istanza giudiziale (judgment dismissing the action). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 笑殺 (dismissing with a laugh, laughing off). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しょうさつ (booklet, careful observation, dismissing with a laugh, laughing off, pamphlet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 해산시킴. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ismissingday sentença que indefere a acção (judgment dismissing the action), indeferimento (decision dismissing, decisions dismissing). (various references) sentencia por la que se desestima la acción (judgment dismissing the action), resolución desestimatoria (decision dismissing, decisions dismissing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"DISMISSING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dimissing, dismission. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "DISMISSING" (pronounced di'smi"sing) |
| 5 | -m i" s i ng | missing. |
| 4 | -i" s i ng | hissing, kissing, reminiscing, wissing. |
| 3 | -s i ng | accessing, acquiescing, addressing, advancing, affixing, amassing, annexing, announcing, assessing, balancing, basing, blessing, bouncing, boxing, bracing, busing, bussing, buttressing, bypassing, canvassing, caressing, casing, ceasing, chasing, classing, coalescing, coaxing, coercing, collapsing, commencing, compressing, condensing, conferencing, confessing, conversing, convincing, coursing, crisscrossing, crossing, cursing, cussing, dancing, debasing, decreasing, defacing, denouncing, depressing, diagnosing, digressing, disbursing, discussing, dispensing, dispersing, displacing, distancing, distressing, divorcing, dosing, dousing, dowsing, dressing, eclipsing, effacing, embarrassing, embracing, encompassing, endorsing, enforcing, engrossing, enhancing, enticing, erasing, expensing, experiencing, expressing, facing, faxing, fencing, financing, fixing, flexing, focusing, forcing, freelancing, fundraising, fussing, gassing, glancing, greasing, grimacing, grossing, grousing, guessing, hairdressing, harassing, harnessing, horsing, icing, impressing, increasing, indexing, inducing, influencing, intermixing, introducing, invoicing, Lancing, lapsing, leasing, lensing, licensing, loosing, massing, menacing, mensing, messing, mincing, mixing, noticing, nursing, obsessing, oppressing, outdistancing, outpacing, outsourcing, overproducing, pacing, parsing, passing, perplexing, piecing, piercing, placing, policing, possessing, pouncing, practicing, prancing, prejudicing, pressing, pricing, processing, producing, professing, progressing, promising, pronouncing, pulsing, racing, reassessing, rebalancing, recessing, redressing, reducing, referencing, refinancing, refocusing, rehearsing, reimbursing, reinforcing, reintroducing, rejoicing, relapsing, relaxing, releasing, renouncing, replacing, repressing, repricing, reprocessing, reproducing, repulsing, repurchasing, resurfacing, retracing, reversing, rinsing, romancing, sacrificing, seducing, sensing, sentencing, sequencing, servicing, showcasing, silencing, slicing, sluicing, sourcing, spacing, spicing, splicing, sprucing, stressing, subleasing, suppressing, surfacing, surpassing, taxing, teleconferencing, tossing, tracing, traipsing, traversing, trespassing, trouncing, unceasing, unconvincing, underpricing, unpromising, vexing, videoconferencing, voicing, waltzing, waxing, wincing, witnessing, xeroxing. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-g-i-i-i-m-n-s-s-s" | |
-2 letters: smidgins. | |
-3 letters: dismiss, dissing, missing, sidings, smidgin. | |
-4 letters: missis, siding. | |
-5 letters: dings, imids, midis, minds, minis, signs, sings. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-g-i-i-i-m-n-s-s-s" | |
+2 letters: misdiagnosis. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 49 53 4D 49 53 53 49 4E 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. ... -- .. ... ... .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01001001 01010011 01001101 01001001 01010011 01010011 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D I S M I S S I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0049 0053 004D 0049 0053 0053 0049 004E 0047 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38435347435353434841 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , kineser, Chinois, Chinesisch, Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ, cinese, チフス菌 , チャイニーズ , 중국, chinês, chino |
Danish | ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelse | 丹麦语, danois, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, danese, 덴마크, dinamarquês, danés |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | 菏蘭語 , 荷兰语, hollandsk, néerlandais, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, olandese, 네덜란", holandês, holandés |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francese, フレコン化 , 仏文 , フランス" , 仏 , ふつぶ", ふつ, フレンチ , フランセ , "랑스, francês, francés |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , tysker, Duitse, allemand, "ερμανός, tedesco, ジプシー音楽 , ジャーマン , 독일, alemão, alemán |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | 希腊语, 希臘語 , græker, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, greco, ギリシア語 , ギリシア", 그리스, grego, griego |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italiener, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, italiano, 이탈리아 |
Japanese Kanji | 辭典 , 辞典 , 字引 , 辞林 , 字書 , ディーゼル電気車 , 言海 , 辞彙 , 辞書 , 確定 , ディーゼル電気車 , デ'ドロ酢酸 , 翻訳 | 日語 , 日语, 日本 , 日文 , 倭 , Japonais, japaner, japanisch, ιαπωνικόσ, Ιάπωνας· "ιαπωνέζος, ιάπωνεσ, ιάπων, ιαπωνικά, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", 일본, japonês, japonés |
Japanese Katakana | じい, じびき, じて", ディクショナリー , じり", じしょ, '"かい, ディクショナリ , デフィニション , ディフィニション , ていぎ, かくてい, へい"ういどう, やくじゅつ, トランスレーション , やくしょ, やくしゅつ, "うどく, ほ"やく, ほ"やくしょ | 日語 , 日语, 日本 , 日文 , 倭 , Japonais, japaner, japanisch, ιαπωνικόσ, Ιάπωνας· "ιαπωνέζος, ιάπωνεσ, ιάπων, ιαπωνικά, giapponese, 邦語 , 邦人 , ジャスミン茶 , ほう", ジャパニーズ , ほうじ", 일본, japonês, japonés |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , Koreaans, coréen, koreanisch, Koreaner, κορεάτικοσ, κορεάτησ, 한국, coréia, a língua coreana, coreano |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | 葡萄牙語 , 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙语, portugiser, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portoghese, ポルトガル語 , ポルトガル", 포르투갈, português, portugués |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | 西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, Spaans, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spagnolo, スペイン語 , スパイ罪 , スペイン", スパニッシュ , 스페인, espanhol, español |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, inglese, 영국, inglês, inglés |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Quotations: Historic 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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