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Consummate vs Conjugate - What's the difference?

consummate | conjugate |

As adjectives the difference between consummate and conjugate

is that consummate is complete in every detail, perfect, absolute while conjugate is united in pairs; yoked together; coupled.

As verbs the difference between consummate and conjugate

is that consummate is to bring (a task, project, goal etc.) to completion; to accomplish while conjugate is to inflect (a verb) for each person, in order, for one or more tenses.

As a noun conjugate is

any entity formed by joining two or more smaller entities together.

consummate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.
  • * Addison
    • A man of perfect and consummate virtue.
  • * 1900 , ",
    • Belinda Bellonia Bunting//Behaved like a consummate loon
  • * 1880 , ,
  • highly skilled and experienced; fully qualified
  • * a consummate sergeant
  • * ,
    • The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, ; thus it is in his power to control success.

    Synonyms

    * (complete) absolute, complete, perfect, sheer, total, utter

    Derived terms

    * consummately

    Verb

    (consummat)
  • To bring (a task, project, goal etc.) to completion; to accomplish.
  • *
  • *
  • To make perfect, achieve, give the finishing touch
  • To make (a marriage) complete by engaging in first sexual intercourse.
    • After the reception, he escorted her to the honeymoon suite to consummate their marriage.
  • * 1890 , Giovanni Boccacio, translated by James MacMullen Rigg, ,
  • To become perfected, receive the finishing touch

    • Synonyms

    * (bring to completion) complete, finish, round off

    Derived terms

    * consummation * consummative * consummator * consummatory

    Related terms

    * consume

    External links

    * * English heteronyms ----

    conjugate

    English

    Verb

    (conjugat)
  • (grammar) To inflect (a verb) for each person, in order, for one or more tenses.
    • In English, the verb 'to be' is conjugated as follows: 'I am', 'you are', 'he/she/it is', 'we are', 'you are', 'they are'.
  • (rare) To join together, unite; to juxtapose.
  • *2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 55:
  • *:The effects of hunger were often conjugated with epidemic disease.
  • (biology) To reproduce sexually as do some bacteria and algae, by exchanging or transferring DNA.

    • Hypernyms

    * inflect

    Related terms

    * conjugable * conjugatable * conjugation * conjugator

    See also

    * decline

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any entity formed by joining two or more smaller entities together.
  • (mathematics) (of a complex number ) A complex conjugate.
  • (mathematics) More generally, any of a set of irrational or complex numbers that are zeros of the same polynomial with integral coefficients.
  • (mathematics) An explementary angle.
  • (grammar) A word agreeing in derivation with another word, and therefore generally resembling it in meaning.
  • * Archbishop Bramhall
    • We have learned, in logic, that conjugates are sometimes in name only, and not in deed.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • United in pairs; yoked together; coupled.
  • (botany) In single pairs; coupled.
  • (chemistry) Containing two or more radicals supposed to act the part of a single one.
  • (grammar) Agreeing in derivation and radical signification; said of words.
  • (math) Presenting themselves simultaneously and having reciprocal properties; said of quantities, points, lines, axes, curves, etc.