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Completion vs Begin - What's the difference?

completion | begin |

As nouns the difference between completion and begin

is that completion is the act or state of being or making something complete; conclusion, accomplishment while begin is (nonstandard) beginning; start.

As a verb begin is

(ambitransitive) to start, to initiate or take the first step into something.

completion

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act or state of being or making something complete; conclusion, accomplishment.
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  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=10 , passage=Mr. Cooke had had a sloop?yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin, which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush, and accommodations for keeping things cold.}}
  • (label) The conclusion of an act of conveyancing concerning the sale of a property.
  • (label) The act of making a metric space complete by adding points.
  • (label) The space resulting from such an act.
  • Synonyms

    * (state of being complete) completeness

    Antonyms

    * (state of being or making complete) incompletion * termination

    begin

    English

    (wikipedia begin)

    Verb

  • (ambitransitive) To start, to initiate or take the first step into something.
  • * (John Locke) (1632-1705)
  • The apostle begins our knowledge in the creatures, which leads us to the knowledge of God.
  • * (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
  • Ye nymphs of Solyma! begin the song.
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  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.}}
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  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.}}
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  • , title= Unspontaneous combustion , passage=Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia.}}
  • To commence existence.
  • * (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
  • Vast chain of being! which from God began .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nonstandard) Beginning; start.
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