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Accelerate vs Conclude - What's the difference?

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Accelerate is a related term of conclude.


As verbs the difference between accelerate and conclude

is that accelerate is (label) to cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of while conclude is to end; to come to an end.

As an adjective accelerate

is (rare) accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried.

accelerate

English

Verb

(accelerat)
  • (label) To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.
  • (label) To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.
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  • To cause a change of velocity.
  • (label) To hasten, as the occurrence of an event.
  • To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time.
  • (label) To become faster; to begin to move more quickly.
  • (label) Grow; increase.
  • (label)
  • Synonyms

    * advance * dispatch * expedite * forward * further * hasten * quicken * speed up

    Antonyms

    * decelerate * retard

    Derived terms

    * accelerative * accelerator * accelerated motion * accelerating force

    Adjective

  • (rare) Accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried.
  • * 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems , Dialogue 2:
  • ... a general knowledg of the definition of motion, and of the distinction of natural and violent, even and accelerate , and the like, sufficing.

    References

    * English ergative verbs ----

    conclude

    English

    Verb

    (conclud)
  • To end; to come to an end.
  • The story concluded with a moral.
  • To bring to an end; to close; to finish.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • I will conclude this part with the speech of a counsellor of state.
  • To bring about as a result; to effect; to make.
  • to conclude a bargain
  • * Shakespeare
  • if we conclude a peace
  • To come to a conclusion, to a final decision.
  • From the evidence, I conclude that this man was murdered.
  • * Tillotson
  • No man can conclude God's love or hatred to any person by anything that befalls him.
  • (obsolete) To make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide.
  • * Addison
  • But no frail man, however great or high, / Can be concluded blest before he die.
  • To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar;generally in the passive.
  • The defendant is concluded by his own plea.
    A judgment concludes the introduction of further evidence.
  • * Sir M. Hale
  • If therefore they will appeal to revelation for their creation they must be concluded by it.
  • (obsolete) To shut up; to enclose.
  • * Hooker
  • The very person of Christ [was] concluded within the grave.
  • (obsolete) To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace.
  • * Bible, Romans xi. 32
  • For God hath concluded all in unbelief.
  • * Bible, Gal. iii. 22
  • The Scripture hath concluded all under sin.
  • (logic) to deduce, to infer (develop a causal relation)
  • Derived terms

    * concluder * concludable * conclusion * conclusive * conclusible

    Antonyms

    * (to end) begin, initiate, start