What's the difference between dismiss and unimagine?
Dismiss
Definition:
(v. t.) To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away.
(v. t.) To discard; to remove or discharge from office, service, or employment; as, the king dismisses his ministers; the matter dismisses his servant.
(v. t.) To lay aside or reject as unworthy of attentions or regard, as a petition or motion in court.
(n.) Dismission.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this book, he dismisses Freud's idea of penis envy - "Freud got it spectacularly wrong" - and said "women don't envy the penis.
(2) Earlier this month, Khamenei insisted that all sanctions be lifted immediately on a deal being reached, a condition that the US State Department dismissed.
(3) Whenever you are ill and a medicine is prescribed for you and you take the medicine until balance is achieved in you and then you put that medicine down.” Farrakhan does not dismiss the doctrine of the past, but believes it is no longer appropriate for the present.
(4) But employers who have followed a fair procedure may have the right to discipline or finally dismiss any smoker who refuses to accept the new rules.
(5) Similarly, while those in the City continue to adopt a Millwall FC-style attitude of "no one likes us, we don't care", there is no incentive for them to heed the advice and demands of the public, who those in the Square Mile prefer to dismiss as intemperate ignoramuses.
(6) They also dismiss those who suggest that the current record-low interest rates mean countries could safely stimulate growth by raising their borrowing levels higher: Economists simply have little idea how long it will be until rates begin to rise.
(7) The venture capitalist argued in his report, commissioned by the Downing Street policy guru Steve Hilton, in favour of "compensated no fault-dismissal" for small businesses.
(8) They have not remotely done this so far, largely from fear of domestic political consequences that cannot be simply dismissed.
(9) The prime minister sent back a letter dismissing his allegations.
(10) Francis dismissed the suggestion that changing the fine defaulting policy would significantly reduce the prisoner population, saying defaulters made up less than 0.4% of the total prison population, both male and female.
(11) But the rest of Israeli society has its own reasons to dismiss Bibi.
(12) His employer, Billund city council, has denied that obesity was among the reasons for Kaltoft’s dismissal.
(13) Activists, who claim they are the enemies of patriarchy, dismiss allegations of sexual abuse as a CIA conspiracy.
(14) Jeremain Lens, signed from Dynamo Kyiv, was fortunate to escape dismissal for a second yellow card, while Yann M’Vila, on loan from Rubin Kazan, followed his headbutt in the reserves by raising arms to Graham Dorrans during an unpunished, but unwise, bout of push ’n’ shove.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest May dismisses reports of frosty dinner with EU chief as ‘Brussels gossip’ The EU delegation are said to have wondered whether Davis might still be in his post following the general election.
(16) The difficulty has been increased with the recent Supreme Court decision which it ruled the Alien Tort Claims Act does not apply outside of the country and dismissed a case against Royal Dutch Shell.
(17) The dismissals were prompted by their participation in a racist orgy during what was supposed to be a goodwill trip to the homeland of the club’s billionaire owner, Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha.
(18) Another senior member of Abdullah's team dismissed the audit as a sham.
(19) We can confirm that Oscar Pistorius’s leave to appeal has been denied … The court dismissed the application for leave to appeal because there are are no prospects of success,” Luvuyo Mfaku, spokesperson of the National Prosecuting Authority, told reporters.
(20) When physicians dismiss illness because ascertainable "disease" is absent, they fail to meet their socially assigned responsibility.
Unimagine
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) As a Hollywood player, she isn’t going to give Jennifer Lawrence or Scarlett Johansson sleepless nights, but as an actor-activist she has the kind of influence that would have been unimaginable a generation ago.
(2) It is also a club in which Britain plays a leading role, and which would be unimaginable without British leadership.” Schäfer told the Guardian he was sad to see Johnson joining “a group of anti-European nationalists made up of Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, and Front National leader Marine Le Pen”.
(3) We are still far from this – but not unimaginably far.
(4) Nick Clegg has hinted at the need for a wider inquiry into the "unimaginable" power of spying technology as US whistleblower Edward Snowden's leaks are chipping away at public support for the intelligence agencies.
(5) Now, if this is bad for News Corp it's unimaginably terrible for the senior executives who having apparently so misread the public mood then persuaded the boss to make the wrong call.
(6) In an era of previously unimagined opportunities for exploring the far-off and strange, we want mainly to stare at ourselves.
(7) In A Child of Our Time he is standing back from the conflict, refusing to take sides, envisaging the universal peace and reconciliation that will follow unimaginable suffering.
(8) In what was widely seen as an attempt to diminish his responsibility, he said: "It may seem strange to you here, especially the many of you who lost members of your family, but all over the world there were people like me sitting in offices, day after day after day, who did not fully appreciate the depth and speed with which you were being engulfed by this unimaginable terror."
(9) For a black man who grew up under apartheid, it is unimaginable to even dare to compare: I grew up with stories of my father and my brother being arrested or harassed because they were in a "white area".
(10) She approached everything with Christmas-morning levels of excitement: the very fact that she was out in town, after dark, on a school night; the meal beforehand at Pizza Express, where – thrillingly – we saw people who were also going to see Jessie J and who waved at us; the unimaginable bounty of the merchandise stall; the crowd screaming; the fact that she had seen the support act, a briefly popular boyband called Lawson , on TV.
(11) The Communist party leader, Marie-George Buffet, said the party was recommending a pro-Chirac vote in the May 5 runoff "to ensure that the candidate Le Pen gets as low a score as possible", while the Green candidate Noel Mamère said his party had resolved to vote Chirac in the second round "because, although this choice is unimaginable, we have a responsibility to society".
(12) It would have been an utterly unimaginable headline when Nicolas Sarkozy – who once provoked an entire continent when he said that " the tragedy of Africa is that the African has never really entered into history "– was at the helm.
(13) But the Google boss now appears to accept that many of those "tax incentives" are in truth loopholes that have opened up as technological innovation has allowed companies to operate in ways unimaginable by those who drafted international tax rules.
(14) It might be able to manage the politics of some structural savings measures – restricting family benefits to lower income households for example, although explaining the cut to household incomes after all that hyperventilating about the “unimaginable” cost of the carbon tax could prove tricky.
(15) Evidence reveals, however, that our planet is an almost unimaginably complicated beast, which reacts to a dramatically changing climate in all manner of different ways; a few – like the aforementioned – straightforward and predictable; some surprising and others downright implausible.
(16) Perhaps the most impressive part is the way Leicester City , closing in on an almost unimaginable piece of football history, made the latest stage of what increasingly resembles a victory procession such a stress-free occasion.
(17) What is clear is that 31-year-old Lynn led an "unimaginably wretched" life through illness which led her to attempt suicide, consider ending her days at Dignitas, the Swiss-based assisted suicide clinic, and sign a "living will" after saying she "feared degeneration and indignity far more than I fear death".
(18) After the unlawful killing verdict at the inquest it was unimaginable to us that PC Harwood could be acquitted of the criminal charge of manslaughter.
(19) Their joy has done more to drive embryo research through the bastions of ethical conservatism than any amount of argument, recently releasing human biology to unimagined excitement.
(20) In 2014, we and others across the world will be organising cultural, political and educational activities to mark the courage of many involved in the war but also to remember the almost unimaginable devastation caused.