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Conclude vs Consider - What's the difference?

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In transitive terms the difference between conclude and consider

is that conclude is to come to a conclusion, to a final decision while consider is to take up as an example.

As verbs the difference between conclude and consider

is that conclude is to end; to come to an end while consider is to think about seriously.

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

    consider

    English

    Alternative forms

    * considre (archaic)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (label) To think about seriously.
  • * (John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • Thenceforth to speculations high or deep / I turned my thoughts, and with capacious mind / Considered all things visible.
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  • (label) To think of doing.
  • (label) To assign some quality to.
  • * (1800-1859)
  • Considered as plays, his works are absurd.
  • *
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
  • , chapter=2 citation , passage=Mother very rightly resented the slightest hint of condescension. She considered that the exclusiveness of Peter's circle was due not to its distinction, but to the fact that it was an inner Babylon of prodigality and whoredom,
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
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  • (label) To look at attentively.
  • * Bible, (w) xxxi. 16
  • She considereth a field, and buyeth it.
  • (label) To take up as an example.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author= Sam Leith
  • , volume=189, issue=1, page=37, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Where the profound meets the profane , passage=Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses", "oaths" and "swearing" itself.}}
  • To debate or dispose of a motion.
  • To have regard to; to take into view or account; to pay due attention to; to respect.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • Consider , sir, the chance of war: the day / Was yours by accident.
  • * (1628–1699)
  • England could grow into a posture of being more united at home, and more considered abroad.

    Usage notes

    * In sense 2, this is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See .

    Synonyms

    * (think about seriously) bethink, reflect on * (think of doing) think of, bethink * (assign a quality) deem, regard, think of; see also * (look at closely) regard, observe * (debate a motion) deliberate, bethink * (include in an estimate or plan) take into account