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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.
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Conclude

To arrive at (a conclusion, judgment, or opinion) by the process of reasoning
The jury concluded that the defendant was innocent.

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.
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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.

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

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

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