different between conclusion vs intention

English

Alternative forms

• concl. (shortening)

Etymology

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French conclusion, from Latin concl?si?, from the past participle stem of concl?dere (“to conclude”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?klu???n/
• Rhymes: -u???n

Noun

conclusion (plural conclusions)

1. The end, finish, close or last part of something.
   • 1856-1858, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip II

     A flourish of trumpets announced the conclusion of the contest.

2. The outcome or result of a process or act.
3. A decision reached after careful thought.
4. (logic) In an argument or syllogism, the proposition that follows as a necessary consequence of the premises.
5. (obsolete) An experiment, or something from which a conclusion may be drawn.
6. (law) The end or close of a pleading, for example, the formal ending of an indictment, "against the peace", etc.
7. (law) An estoppel or bar by which a person is held to a particular position.

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Synonyms

• (end): endpoint, terminus; see also Thesaurus: finish
• (end of literary work): epilogue, postamble; see also Thesaurus: afterword

Antonyms

• (end): beginning, initiation, start; see also Thesaurus: beginning

Coordinate terms

• (in logic): premise

Related terms

• conclude
• conclusive
• conclusively
• conclusiveness

Translations

French

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin concl?si?, from the past participle stem of concl?dere (“conclude”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.kly.zj??/

Noun

conclusion f (plural conclusions)

1. conclusion

Related terms

• conclure

Anagrams

• concluions

Further reading

• “conclusion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Noun

conclusion (plural conclusiones)

1. conclusion

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin concl?si?.

Pronunciation

Noun

conclusion f (plural conclusions)

1. conclusion

Related terms

• conclure

English

Alternative forms

• entention (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French intention, entention, from Old French entencion, from Latin intentio, intentionem. Compare intent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?t?n??n/
• Hyphenation: in?ten?tion
• Rhymes: -?n??n
• Homophone: intension

Noun

intention (countable and uncountable, plural intentions)

1. The goal or purpose behind a specific action or set of actions.
   • a. 1784, attributed to Samuel Johnson

     Hell is paved with good intentions.

   • “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
2. (obsolete) Tension; straining, stretching.
   • , I.iii.3:

     cold in those inner parts, cold belly, and hot liver, causeth crudity, and intention proceeds from perturbations […].

3. A stretching or bending of the mind toward an object or a purpose (an intent); closeness of application; fixedness of attention; earnestness.

   • it is attention : when the mind with great earnestness, and of choice, fixes its view on any idea, considers it on all sides, and will not be called off by the ordinary solicitation of other ideas, it is that we call intention or study

4. (obsolete) The object toward which the thoughts are directed; end; aim.
   • 1732, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Ailments …, Prop. II, p.159:

     In a Word, the most part of chronical Distempers proceed from Laxity of Fibres; in which Case the principal Intention is to restore the Tone of the solid Parts; […].

5. (obsolete) Any mental apprehension of an object.
6. (medicine) The process of the healing of a wound.
   • 2007, Carie Ann Braun, Cindy Miller Anderson, Pathophysiology: Functional Alterations in Human Health, p.49:

     When healing occurs by primary intention, the wound is basically closed with all areas of the wound connecting and healing simultaneously.

Synonyms

• (purpose behind a specific action): See also Thesaurus:intention

Derived terms

• counter-intention
• intentional
• secondary intention
• the road to hell is paved with good intentions
• well-intentioned

Related terms

• intend
• intent
• well-intended

Translations

Verb

intention (third-person singular simple present intentions, present participle intentioning, simple past and past participle intentioned)

1. Intend

Translations

References

• intention at OneLook Dictionary Search
• intention in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Finnish

Noun

intention

1. Genitive singular form of intentio.

French

Etymology

From Middle French entention, from Old French entencion, borrowed from Latin intenti?, intenti?nem. Respelled intention in Middle French to more closely match the Classical Latin form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.t??.sj??/

Noun

intention f (plural intentions)

1. intention

Derived terms

Further reading

• “intention” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Noun

intention f (plural intentions)

1. Alternative form of entention