Final vs Consummated - What's the difference?
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(US) A final examination; a test or examination given at the end of a term or class; the test that concludes a class.
(sports) The last round, game or match in a contest, after which the winner is determined.
A contest that narrows a field of contestants (finalists) to ranked positions, usually in numbered places (1st place/prize, 2nd place/prize, etc.) or a winner and numbered runners-up (1st runner-up, etc.).
(phonology) The final part of a syllable, the combination of medial and rime in phonetics and phonology.
(music) The tonic or keynote of a Gregorian mode, and hence the final note of any conventional melody played in that mode.
Last; ultimate.
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*1671 , (John Milton), (Samson Agonistes)
*:Yet despair not of his final pardon.
Conclusive; decisive.
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Respecting an end or object to be gained; respecting the purpose or ultimate end in view.
(lb) Expressing purpose; as in the term final clause.
(lb) Word-final, occurring at the end of a word.
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*:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
(consummate)
Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.
* Addison
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highly skilled and experienced; fully qualified
* a consummate sergeant
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To bring (a task, project, goal etc.) to completion; to accomplish.
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To make perfect, achieve, give the finishing touch
To make (a marriage) complete by engaging in first sexual intercourse.
* 1890 , Giovanni Boccacio, translated by James MacMullen Rigg, ,
To become perfected, receive the finishing touch
Final is a related term of consummated.
As a noun final
is .As a verb consummated is
(consummate).final
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(wikipedia final)Noun
(en noun)Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* endly * terminalAntonyms
* initial * early * firstDerived terms
* final cause * finalist * semifinalExternal links
* * ----consummated
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Verb
(head)consummate
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Adjective
(en adjective)- A man of perfect and consummate virtue.
- Belinda Bellonia Bunting//Behaved like a consummate loon
- The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, ; thus it is in his power to control success.
Synonyms
* (complete) absolute, complete, perfect, sheer, total, utterDerived terms
* consummatelyVerb
(consummat)- After the reception, he escorted her to the honeymoon suite to consummate their marriage.