What is the difference between complete and accomplish?
complete | accomplish | Synonyms |
To finish; to make done; to reach the end.
To make whole or entire.
With all parts included; with nothing missing; full.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
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, title=Well-connected Brains
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Finished; ended; concluded; completed.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5
, passage=In the eyes of Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke the apotheosis of the Celebrity was complete . The people of Asquith were not only willing to attend the house-warming, but had been worked up to the pitch of eagerness. The Celebrity as a matter of course was master of ceremonies.}}
(Generic intensifier).
(analysis, Of a metric space) in which every Cauchy sequence converges.
(algebra, Of a lattice) in which every set with a lower bound has a greatest lower bound.
(math, Of a category) in which all small limits exist.
(logic, of a proof system of a formal system) With respect to a given semantics, that any well-formed formula which is (semantically) valid must also be provable.Sainsbury, Mark [2001] Logical Forms : An Introduction to Philosophical Logic . Blackwell Publishing, Hong Kong (2010), p. 358.
* Gödel's first incompleteness theorem showed that Principia'' could not be both consistent and complete. According to the theorem, for every sufficiently powerful logical system (such as ''Principia''), there exists a statement ''G'' that essentially reads, "The statement ''G'' cannot be proved." Such a statement is a sort of Catch-22: if ''G'' is provable, then it is false, and the system is therefore inconsistent; and if ''G is not provable, then it is true, and the system is therefore incomplete.(w)
To finish successfully.
To complete, as time or distance.
* That He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. - Daniel 9:2
* He had accomplished half a league or more. -
To bring to an issue of full success; to effect; to perform; to execute fully; to fulfill; as, to accomplish a design, an object, a promise.
* This that is written must yet be accomplished in me - Luke 22:37
(archaic) To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish.
* The armorers accomplishing the knights - Shakespeare, Henry V, IV-chorus
* It [the moon] is fully accomplished for all those ends to which Providence did appoint it. -
* These qualities . . . go to accomplish a perfect woman. -
(obsolete) To gain; to obtain
:(Shakespeare)
Accomplish is a synonym of complete.
In transitive terms the difference between complete and accomplish
is that complete is to make whole or entire while accomplish is to bring to an issue of full success; to effect; to perform; to execute fully; to fulfill; as, to accomplish a design, an object, a promise.As an adjective complete
is with all parts included; with nothing missing; full.complete
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Alternative forms
* compleat (archaic)Verb
(complet)- He completed the assignment on time.
- The last chapter completes the book nicely.
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . SeeSynonyms
* accomplish * finishAdjective
(en-adj)citation, passage=Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work.}}
