Culminate vs. Conclude
Culminate and Conclude Definitions
Culminate
To reach the highest point or degree; climax
Habitual antagonism that culminated in open hostility.
Conclude
To bring to an end; close
Concluded the rally with the national anthem.
Culminate
To come to completion; end
Years of waiting culminated in a tearful reunion.
Conclude
To bring about (a final agreement or settlement)
Conclude a peace treaty.
Culminate
(Astronomy) To reach the highest point above an observer's horizon. Used of stars and other celestial bodies.
Conclude
To arrive at (a conclusion, judgment, or opinion) by the process of reasoning
The jury concluded that the defendant was innocent.
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Culminate
To bring to the point of greatest intensity or to completion; climax
The ceremony culminated a long week of preparation.
Conclude
(Obsolete) To confine; enclose.
Culminate
Of a heavenly body, to be at the highest point, reach its greatest altitude.
Conclude
To come to an end; close
The show concluded with a dance routine.
Culminate
(intransitive) To reach the (physical or figurative) summit, highest point, peak etc.
Conclude
To come to a decision or agreement
The committee concluded on a course of action.
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Culminate
To reach a climax; to come to a decisive point, especially an end or conclusion.
Their messy breakup culminated in a restraining order.
The class will culminate with a rigorous examination.
Conclude
(intransitive) To end; to come to an end.
The story concluded with a moral.
Culminate
To reach a point at which continued progress is not possible.
Conclude
(transitive) To bring to an end; to close; to finish.
Culminate
(transitive) To finalize, bring to a conclusion, form the climax of.
Conclude
(transitive) To bring about as a result; to effect; to make.
To conclude a bargain
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Culminate
(anatomy) Relating to the culmen
Conclude
(transitive) To come to a conclusion, to a final decision.
From the evidence, I conclude that this man was murdered.
Culminate
To reach its highest point of altitude; to come to the meridian; to be vertical or directly overhead.
As when his beams at noonCulminate from the equator.
Conclude
(obsolete) To make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide.
Culminate
To reach the highest point, as of rank, size, power, numbers, etc.
The reptile race culminated in the secondary era.
The house of Burgundy was rapidly culminating.
Conclude
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.
Culminate
Growing upward, as distinguished from a lateral growth; - applied to the growth of corals.
Conclude
(obsolete) To shut up; to enclose.
Culminate
End, especially to reach a final or climactic stage;
The meeting culminated in a tearful embrace
Conclude
(obsolete) To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace; to confine.
Culminate
Bring to a head or to the highest point;
Seurat culminated pointillism
Conclude
(logic) to deduce, to infer develop a causal relation
Culminate
Reach the highest or most decisive point
Conclude
To shut up; to inclose.
The very person of Christ [was] concluded within the grave.
Culminate
Of a celestial body: reach its highest altitude or the meridian
Conclude
To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace.
For God hath concluded all in unbelief.
The Scripture hath concluded all under sin.
Culminate
Rise to, or form, a summit;
The helmet culminated in a crest
Conclude
To reach as an end of reasoning; to infer, as from premises; to close, as an argument, by inferring; - sometimes followed by a dependent clause.
No man can conclude God's love or hatred to any person by anything that befalls him.
Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith.
Conclude
To make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide.
But no frail man, however great or high,Can be concluded blest before he die.
Is it concluded he shall be protector?
Conclude
To bring to an end; to close; to finish.
I will conclude this part with the speech of a counselor of state.
Conclude
To bring about as a result; to effect; to make; as, to conclude a bargain.
Conclude
To shut off; to restrain; to limit; to estop; to bar; - generally in the passive; as, the defendant is concluded by his own plea; a judgment concludes the introduction of further evidence argument.
If therefore they will appeal to revelation for their creation they must be concluded by it.
Conclude
To come to a termination; to make an end; to close; to end; to terminate.
A train of lies,That, made in lust, conclude in perjuries.
And, to conclude,The victory fell on us.
Conclude
To form a final judgment; to reach a decision.
Can we conclude upon Luther's instability?
Conclude and be agreed.
Conclude
Decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion;
We reasoned that it was cheaper to rent than to buy a house
Conclude
Bring to a close;
The committee concluded the meeting
Conclude
Reach a conclusion after a discussion or deliberation
Conclude
Come to a close;
The concert closed with a nocturne by Chopin
Conclude
Reach agreement on;
They concluded an economic agreement
We concluded a cease-fire
