different between discontinue vs conclude

English

Etymology

From Old French descontinuer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?sk?n?t?nju/

Verb

discontinue (third-person singular simple present discontinues, present participle discontinuing, simple past and past participle discontinued)

1. To interrupt the continuance of; to put an end to, especially as regards commercial productions; to stop producing, making, or supplying something.

   They plan to discontinue that design.

   • 1603, Samuel Daniel, A Defence of Rime

     Taught the Greek tongue, discontinued before in these parts the space of seven hundred years.

   • 1669, William Holder, Elements of Speech

     They modify and discriminate the voice, without appearing to discontinue it.

Synonyms

• terminate
• break off

Antonyms

• continue

Translations

French

Adjective

discontinue

1. feminine singular of discontinu

Italian

Adjective

discontinue

1. feminine plural of discontinuo

English

Etymology

From Middle English concluden, borrowed from Latin concl?dere (“to shut up, close, end”), present active infinitive of concl?d?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n.?klu?d/

Verb

conclude (third-person singular simple present concludes, present participle concluding, simple past and past participle concluded)

1. (intransitive) To end; to come to an end.

   The story concluded with a moral.
2. (transitive) To bring to an end; to close; to finish.
   • 1623, Francis Bacon, A Discourse of a War with Spain

     I will conclude this part with the speech of a counsellor of state.

3. (transitive) To bring about as a result; to effect; to make.

   to conclude a bargain
4. (transitive) To come to a conclusion, to a final decision.

   From the evidence, I conclude that this man was murdered.

   • a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Advantages of Religion to Societies

     No man can certainly conclude God's love or hatred to any person by anything that befalls him.

5. (obsolete) To make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide.
   • 1717, Joseph Addison, Metamorphoses

     But no frail man, however great or high, / Can be concluded blest before he die.

6. 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.

   • 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature

     If therefore they will appeal to revelation for their creation they must be concluded by it.

7. (obsolete) To shut up; to enclose.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     The very person of Christ [was] concluded within the grave.

8. (obsolete) To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace.
9. (logic) to deduce, to infer (develop a causal relation)

Antonyms

• (to end): begin, initiate, start, commence

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ude

Verb

conclude

1. third-person singular present indicative of concludere

Latin

Verb

concl?de

1. second-person singular present active imperative of concl?d?