Conclude vs Involve - What's the difference?
conclude | involve |
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)
To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
* (John Milton)
To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity.
* (John Milton)
To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.
* (John Locke)
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, chapter=17 To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.
* (John Milton)
* Tillotson
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, title= To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.
* (Alexander Pope)
* (John Milton)
To envelop, enfold, entangle, or embarrass.
To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb.
* Sir (Walter Scott)
(mathematics) To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of times.
As verbs the difference between conclude and involve
is that conclude is to end; to come to an end while involve is to roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.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.
Derived terms
* concluder * concludable * conclusion * conclusive * conclusibleAntonyms
* (to end) begin, initiate, startinvolve
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Alternative forms
* envolveVerb
(involv)- Some of serpent kind involved / Their snaky folds.
- And leave a singèd bottom all involved / With stench and smoke.
- Involved discourses.
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- He knows / His end with mine involved .
- The contrary necessarily involves a contradiction.
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- The gathering number, as it moves along, / Involves a vast involuntary throng.
- Earth with hell / To mingle and involve .
- Involved in a deep study.