Agree vs Conclude - What's the difference?
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To harmonize in opinion, statement, or action; to be in unison or concord; to be or become united or consistent; to concur.
* {{quote-book, year=1594
, author=Thomas Lodge
, title=The wounds of civil war: Lively set forth in the true tragedies of Marius and Scilla
, page=46
, passage=You know that in so great a state as this, Two mightie foes can never well agree .}}
* (rfdate) Shakespeare
* (rfdate) Mark xiv. 56.
* (rfdate) Sir T. Browne
To yield assent; to accede;—followed by to.
(transitive, UK, Irish) To yield assent to; to approve.
* {{quote-book, year=1666
, author=Samuel Pepys
, title=The Diary of Samuel Pepys
, page=88
, passage=... and there, after a good while in discourse, we did agree a bargain of £5,000 with Sir Roger Cuttance for my Lord Sandwich for silk, cinnamon, ...}}
* {{quote-book, year=2005
, author=Paddy McNutt
, title=Law, economics and antitrust: towards a new perspective
, page=59
, passage=The essential idea is that parties should enter the market, choose their contractors, set their own terms and agree a bargain.}}
* 2011 April 3, John Burke, in The Sunday Business Post :
To make a stipulation by way of settling differences or determining a price; to exchange promises; to come to terms or to a common resolve; to promise.
* (rfdate) Matt. v. 25.
* (rfdate) Matt. xx. 13.
To be conformable; to resemble; to coincide; to correspond.
To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well.
(grammar) To correspond to in gender, number, case, or person.
(legal) To consent to a contract or to an element of a contract.
To end; to come to an end.
To bring to an end; to close; to finish.
* Francis Bacon
To bring about as a result; to effect; to make.
* Shakespeare
To come to a conclusion, to a final decision.
* Tillotson
(obsolete) To make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide.
* Addison
To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar;generally in the passive.
* Sir M. Hale
(obsolete) To shut up; to enclose.
* Hooker
(obsolete) To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace.
* Bible, Romans xi. 32
* Bible, Gal. iii. 22
(logic) to deduce, to infer (develop a causal relation)
In intransitive terms the difference between agree and conclude
is that agree is to suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well while conclude is to end; to come to an end.agree
English
Verb
- all parties agree in the expediency of the law.
- If music and sweet poetry agree .
- Their witness agreed not together.
- The more you agree together, the less hurt can your enemies do you.
- to agree to an offer, or to opinion.
- Bishops agree sex abuse rules
- Agree with thine adversary quickly.
- Didst not thou agree with me for a penny ?
- the picture does not agree with the original; the two scales agree exactly.
- the same food does not agree with every constitution.
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . See * The transitive usage could be considered as just an omission of to'' or ''upon . * US and Canadian English do not use the transitive form. Thus "they agreed on a price" or "they agreed to the conditions" are used in North America but not "they agreed a price" or "they agreed the conditions".Synonyms
* assent, concur, consent, acquiesce, accede, engage, promise, stipulate, contract, bargain, correspond, harmonize, fit, tally, coincide, comportAntonyms
* disagreeDerived terms
* disagree * disagreementExternal links
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*conclude
English
Verb
(conclud)- The story concluded with a moral.
- I will conclude this part with the speech of a counsellor of state.
- to conclude a bargain
- if we conclude a peace
- From the evidence, I conclude that this man was murdered.
- No man can conclude God's love or hatred to any person by anything that befalls him.
- But no frail man, however great or high, / Can be concluded blest before he die.
- The defendant is concluded by his own plea.
- A judgment concludes the introduction of further evidence.
- If therefore they will appeal to revelation for their creation they must be concluded by it.
- The very person of Christ [was] concluded within the grave.
- For God hath concluded all in unbelief.
- The Scripture hath concluded all under sin.
