Concluded vs Whole - What's the difference?

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Concluded is a related term of whole.

As a verb concluded

is (conclude).

As an adjective whole is

entire.

As an adverb whole is

(colloquial) in entirety; entirely; wholly.

As a noun whole is

something complete, without any parts missing.

concluded

English

Verb

(head)

(conclude)

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

whole

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Entire.

*1661 , , The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond

*:During the whole' time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the ' whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant

*:Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging.He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.

*, chapter=16

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=“[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”}}

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=28, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= High and wet , passage=Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages.}}

Sound, uninjured, healthy.

*1939 , (Alfred Edward Housman), Additional Poems , X, lines 5-6

*:Here, with one balm for many fevers found, / Whole of an ancient evil, I sleep sound.

(lb) From which none of its constituents has been removed.

Adverb

(en adverb)

(colloquial) In entirety; entirely; wholly.

I ate a fish whole !

Noun

(en noun)

Something complete, without any parts missing.

An entirety.

Meronyms

* part

Derived terms

* as a whole * go the whole hog * make whole * on the whole * out of whole cloth * the whole nine yards * whole shitting match * whole shooting match * whole ball of wax * whole-hearted * wholemeal * whole number * whole step * wholesome * whole-wheat

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External links

* All and whole — Linguapress online English grammar