different between consummate vs choice

English

Etymology

From Latin c?nsumm?tus, past participle of c?nsumm?re (“to sum up, finish, complete”), from com- (“together”) + summa (“the sum”) (see sum, summation).

Pronunciation

Adjective

• (UK) enPR: k?n's?m?t, k?n'syo?om?t, k?ns?m'?t, IPA^(key): /?k?ns?m?t/, /?k?nsj?m?t/, /k?n?s?m?t/
• (US) enPR: k?n's?m?t, k?ns?m'?t, IPA^(key): /?k?ns?m?t/, /k?n?s?m?t/

Verb

• (UK) enPR: k?n's?m?t, k?n'syo?om?t, IPA^(key): /?k?ns?me?t/, /?k?nsj?me?t/
• (US) enPR: k?n's?m?t, IPA^(key): /?k?ns?me?t/

Adjective

consummate (comparative more consummate, superlative most consummate)

1. Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.

   Synonyms: absolute, complete, perfect, sheer, total, utter; see also Thesaurus:total

   • 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 5:

     A sweeping and consummate vengeance for the indignity alone should satisfy him.

   • 1880, Georges Bernard Shaw, The Irrational Knot, Chapter VII,

     […] Marmaduke, who had the consummate impudence to reply that […]

   • 1900, Guy Wetmore Carryl, "The Singular Sangfroid of Baby Bunting",

     Belinda Bellonia Bunting//Behaved like a consummate loon

2. Highly skilled and experienced; fully qualified.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:skilled

   • 1910, Lionel Giles (translator), The Art of War, Section IV (originally by Sun Tzu)

     The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, […]  ; thus it is in his power to control success.

Derived terms

• consummately

Translations

Verb

consummate (third-person singular simple present consummates, present participle consummating, simple past and past participle consummated)

1. (transitive) To bring (a task, project, goal etc.) to completion; to accomplish.

   Synonyms: complete, finish, round off; see also Thesaurus:end
2. (transitive) To make perfect, achieve, give the finishing touch.

   Synonyms: complete, perfect, top off

3. (transitive) To make (a marriage) complete by engaging in first sexual intercourse.
4. (intransitive) To become perfected, receive the finishing touch.

   Synonyms: come to a head, mature, ripe

Derived terms

• consummation
• consummative
• consummator
• consummatory

Related terms

• consume

Translations

Further reading

• consummate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• consummate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Latin

Verb

c?nsumm?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of c?nsumm?

English

Alternative forms

• choise, choyse (both obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English chois, from Old French chois (“choice”), from choisir (“to choose, perceive”), possibly via assumed Vulgar Latin *caus?re (“to choose”), from Gothic ???????????????????????????? (kausjan, “to make a choice, taste, test, choose”), from Proto-Germanic *kauzijan?, from *keusan? (“to choose”), from Proto-Indo-European *?ews- (“to choose”). Akin to Old High German kiosan (“to choose”), Old English ??osan (“to choose”), Old Norse kjósa (“to choose”). More at choose.

The adjectival meaning of "especially good, preferred, select" was likely influenced by Middle English chyse, chys, chis (“choice, excellent”), from Old English ??s, *??es (“choice; dainty; nice”), related to Old English ??osan (“to choose”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t???s/
• Rhymes: -??s

Noun

choice (countable and uncountable, plural choices)

1. An option; a decision; an opportunity to choose or select something.

   Do I have a choice of what color to paint it?

2. (uncountable) The power to choose.

   She didn't leave us much choice.
3. One selection or preference; that which is chosen or decided; the outcome of a decision.

   The ice cream sundae is a popular choice for dessert.

4. Anything that can be chosen.

5. (usually with the) The best or most preferable part.
6. (obsolete) Care and judgement in selecting; discrimination, selectiveness.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Apophthegms

     I imagine they [the apothegms of Caesar] were collected with judgment and choice.

   • 1757, Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, London: R. & J. Dodsley, Part I, Section I, p. 1,^[2]

     We see children perpetually running from place to place to hunt out something new; they catch with great eagerness, and with very little choice, at whatever comes before them; their attention is engaged by every thing, because every thing has, in that stage of life, the charm of novelty to recommend it.

7. (obsolete) A sufficient number to choose among.

Synonyms

• (selection or preference): option, possibility; see also Thesaurus:option
• (anything that can be chosen): assortment, range, selection
• (definite: best or most preferable part): the cream
• (sufficient number to choose among): abundance, profusion; see also Thesaurus:cornucopia

Derived terms

• choicy
• Hercules' choice
• Hobson's choice
• Sophie's choice

Related terms

• choose
• choosey
• chosen

Translations

Adjective

choice (comparative choicer or more choice, superlative choicest or most choice)

1. Especially good or preferred.

   It's a choice location, but you will pay more to live there.
2. (obsolete) Careful in choosing; discriminating.
   • 1856, J. R. Planché (tr.), Fairy Tales by the Countess d'Aulnoy, The Princess Carpillon:

     Thus musing, he ate nothing; the Queen, believing that it was in consequence of his having been unkindly received, loaded him with caresses; she herself handed him some exquisite fruits, of which she was very choice.

Synonyms

• (especially good or preferred): prime, prize, quality, select, choicy

Translations

Interjection

choice

1. (slang, New Zealand) Cool; excellent.

   "I'm going to the movies." —"Choice!"

See also

• choicy

References

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

Anagrams

• echoic