Act vs Consummate - What's the difference?
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A certain standardized college admissions test in the United States, originally called the (term).
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Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.
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highly skilled and experienced; fully qualified
* a consummate sergeant
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To bring (a task, project, goal etc.) to completion; to accomplish.
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To make perfect, achieve, give the finishing touch
To make (a marriage) complete by engaging in first sexual intercourse.
* 1890 , Giovanni Boccacio, translated by James MacMullen Rigg, ,
To become perfected, receive the finishing touch
In intransitive terms the difference between act and consummate
is that act is to behave in a certain way while consummate is to become perfected, receive the finishing touch.In transitive terms the difference between act and consummate
is that act is to feign while consummate is to make (a marriage) complete by engaging in first sexual intercourse.As a proper noun ACT
is initialism of Australian Capital Territory|lang=en, a federal territory of Australia.As a noun ACT
is a certain standardized college admissions test in the United States, originally called the {{term||American College Test}}.As an adjective consummate is
complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.act
English
Noun
(en noun)Coordinate terms
* (American College Test) SAT , GMAT , MCAT , DATAnagrams
* * * * English three-letter wordsconsummate
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Adjective
(en adjective)- A man of perfect and consummate virtue.
- Belinda Bellonia Bunting//Behaved like a consummate loon
- The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, ; thus it is in his power to control success.
Synonyms
* (complete) absolute, complete, perfect, sheer, total, utterDerived terms
* consummatelyVerb
(consummat)- After the reception, he escorted her to the honeymoon suite to consummate their marriage.