| English > English | |
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| concluding | |
| 1. adj. Finishing; closing; final. |  |
| The concluding chapters of the book summarise the main points. | |
| 2. adj. (obsolete) Conclusive; convincing; decisive. | |
| 3. n. A conclusion. | |
| conclude | |
| 1. v. (intransitive) To end; to come to an end. | |
| The story concluded with a moral. | |
| 2. v. To bring to an end; to close; to finish. | |
| 3. v. To bring about as a result; to effect; to make. | |
| to conclude a bargain | |
| 4. v. To come to a conclusion, to a final decision. | |
| From the evidence, I conclude that this man was murdered. | |
| 5. v. (obsolete) To make a final determination or judgment concerning; to judge; to decide. | |
| 6. v. 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. | |
| 7. v. (obsolete) To shut up; to enclose. | |
| 8. v. (obsolete) To include; to comprehend; to shut up together; to embrace. | |
| 9. v. (logic) to deduce, to infer (develop a causal relation) | |
