different between future vs final

English

Etymology

From Middle English future, futur, from Old French futur, from Latin fut?rus, irregular future active participle of sum (“I am”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?uH- (“to become, be”). Cognate with Old English b?o (“I become, I will be, I am”). More at be. Displaced native Old English t?weard and Middle English afterhede (“future”, literally “afterhood”) in the given sense.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?fju?t???/
• (US) enPR: fyo?o'ch?r, IPA^(key): /?fju?t???/
• Rhymes: -u?t??(?)

Noun

future (countable and uncountable, plural futures)

1. The time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced.
2. Something that will happen in moments yet to come.
3. Goodness in what is yet to come. Something to look forward to.

4. The likely prospects for or fate of someone or something in time to come.
5. (grammar) Verb tense used to talk about events that will happen in the future; future tense.
6. (finance) Alternative form of futures
7. (computing, programming) An object that retrieves the value of a promise.
8. (sports) A minor-league prospect.

Usage notes

• (finance): The one who agrees to, at a future date, sell the commodity is considered to be selling the future; the other buys it.
• (finance): A non-standardized contract to buy and sell in the future is called forward or forward contract.

Synonyms

• (time or moments yet to be experienced): to-come, toward (obsolete); see also Thesaurus:the future

Derived terms

Coordinate terms

• (finance): forward

Translations

Adjective

future (not comparable)

1. Having to do with or occurring in the future.

   • So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills, […] a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

Synonyms

• unborn; see also Thesaurus:future

Translations

Derived terms

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fy.ty?/
• Homophones: futur, futurs, futures

Adjective

future

1. feminine singular of futur

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ure

Adjective

future

1. feminine plural of futuro

Latin

Participle

fut?re

1. vocative masculine singular of fut?rus

Middle English

Alternative forms

• futur, ffutur, futire

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French futur, from Latin fut?rus, past participle of sum (cognate to Middle English been).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fiu??tiu?r/, /?fiu?tur/, /?fiu?tir/

Noun

future (plural futures)

1. (rare) A future action or doing; that which happens in the future.
2. (rare) The future; the time beyond the present.

Descendants

• English: future
• Scots: futur

References

• “f?t?r(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-20.

Adjective

future

1. Occurring after the present; future or upcoming.
2. (rare, grammar) Having the future tense; grammatically marking futureness.

Descendants

• English: future
• Scots: futur

References

• “f?t?r(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-20.

Norman

Adjective

future

1. feminine singular of futur

Old French

Noun

future m (oblique plural futures, nominative singular futures, nominative plural future)

1. (grammar) future (tense)

English

Etymology

From Middle English final, fynal, fynall, from Old French final, from Latin f?n?lis (“of or relating to the end or to boundaries”), from f?nis (“end”); see fine. Replaced native English endly (“final”)

Pronunciation

• enPR: f?'n?l, IPA^(key): /?fa?.n?l/, [-n??]
• Rhymes: -a?n?l
• Hyphenation: fi?nal

Noun

final (plural finals)

1. (US, Canada) A final examination; a test or examination given at the end of a term or class; the test that concludes a class.
2. (sports) The last round, game or match in a contest, after which the winner is determined.
3. A contest that narrows a field of contestants (finalists) to ranked positions, usually in numbered places (1st place/prize, 2nd place/prize, etc.) or a winner and numbered runners-up (1st runner-up, etc.).
4. (phonology) The final part of a syllable, the combination of medial and rime in phonetics and phonology.
5. (music) The tonic or keynote of a Gregorian mode, and hence the final note of any conventional melody played in that mode.

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ????? (fainaru)

Translations

Adjective

final (comparative more final, superlative most final)

1. Last; ultimate.
   • 1671, John Milton, Samson Agonistes

     Yet despair not of his final pardon.

2. Conclusive; decisive.

3. Respecting an end or object to be gained; respecting the purpose or ultimate end in view.
5. (grammar) Expressing purpose; as in the term final clause.
6. (linguistics) Word-final, occurring at the end of a word.

Synonyms

• (last, ultimate): dernier (dated), endly, terminal

Antonyms

• initial
• early
• first

Translations

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• alfin, flain

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /fi?nal/

Adjective

final (masculine and feminine plural finals)

1. final

Synonyms

• darrer, últim

Derived terms

• finalment

Related terms

• finalitat

Noun

final m (plural finals)

1. end (last point or moment of something)
2. finale (chronological conclusion of a series of narrative works)

Synonyms

• (end): fi

Derived terms

• finalisme
• finalitzar

Noun

final f (plural finals)

1. (sports, competitions) final, final round

Derived terms

• finalista

Further reading

• “final” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From Italian finale, from Latin f?n?lis, from f?nis (“end”).

Noun

final

1. a final

Declension

Adjective

final

1. final

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?^[1], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN

French

Etymology

From Latin f?n?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi.nal/

Adjective

final (feminine singular finale, masculine plural finaux, feminine plural finales)

1. final (last)
2. (linguistics, grammar) expressing purpose

Derived terms

Related terms

• finale
• finalement
• finaliser
• finaliste
• finalité

Further reading

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

German

Etymology

18th century, from Latin fin?lis, perhaps in part through French final. Recently revived to some degree by influence of English final.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi?na?l/
• Rhymes: -a?l

Adjective

final (not comparable)

1. (grammar) final; expressing purpose
2. (solemn) final; conclusive; irrevocable (that which will not or cannot be changed anymore, sometimes implying death)

3. (rare, pompous, chiefly anglicism) final; last

Declension

Synonyms

• (conclusive, irrevocable): endgültig; abschließend; unwiderruflich; entscheidend
• (last): letzter

Related terms

• Finale

Italian

Adjective

final (invariant)

1. Apocopic form of finale

Noun

final m

1. Apocopic form of finale

Ladin

Adjective

final m (feminine singular finala, masculine plural finai, feminine plural finales)

1. final

Old French

Adjective

final m (oblique and nominative feminine singular finale)

1. final, definitive, last

Declension

Descendants

• English: final
• French: final

Portuguese

Etymology

From Late Latin f?n?lis, from f?nis.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /fi.?na?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /fi.?naw/, [f?.?n?ä??]
• Hyphenation: fi?nal

Adjective

final m or f (plural finais, comparable)

1. final, ultimate, last

   Synonyms: derradeiro, último

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:final.

Noun

final m (plural finais)

1. an end

   Synonyms: fim, término

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:final.

Noun

final f (plural finais)

1. (sports) final

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:final.

Related terms

• fim
• finalista
• finalizar
• finalmente

Romanian

Etymology

From French final, from Latin finalis.

Adjective

final m or n (feminine singular final?, masculine plural finali, feminine and neuter plural finale)

1. final

Declension

Related terms

• finalitate
• finaliza

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

final m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. (linguistics) final (last letter of word)
2. (sports) final

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi?nal/, [fi?nal]
• Hyphenation: fi?nal
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

final (plural finales) (superlative finalísimo)

1. final

Derived terms

Noun

final m (plural finales)

1. an end

   Synonyms: fin, término

2. (sports) final

Derived terms

Related terms

• fin
• finalista
• finalizar
• finalmente

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??n??l/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian finale and French final from Latin fin?lis, from f?nis + -?lis.

Noun

final c

1. a finale

Adjective

final (not comparable)

1. (grammar) final, expressing purpose

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English final.

Noun

final c

1. (sports) a final

Declension

Derived terms

See also

• kval
• turnering

Anagrams

• flina

Turkish

Etymology

From French final.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /final/

Noun

final (definite accusative finali, plural finaller)

1. the end
2. (education) the final exam
3. (music) finale
4. (sports) in tournaments: the last contest

Declension