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Existing vs Completed - What's the difference?

existing | completed |

As verbs the difference between existing and completed

is that existing is while completed is (complete).

As adjectives the difference between existing and completed

is that existing is that exists, or has existence, especially that exists now while completed is finished.

existing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • That exists, or has existence, especially that exists now.
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    • , title= The attack of the MOOCs , passage=Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.}}

    Synonyms

    * existent

    Anagrams

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    completed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (complete)
    • Aldrichimica Acta Volume 30 No 4] (pdf) from [http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/chemistry/chemical-synthesis/learning-center/aldrichimica-acta.html Sigma-Aldrich
  • :: He completed his B.Sc. (Hons.) degree at the University of New South Wales in 1958 and went on to the Victoria University of Manchester where his studies on the fungal pigment phomazarin led to the award of a Ph.D. in 1963 under the supervision of (the late) Professor Arthur J. Birch.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • finished