Completion
[kəm'pliːʃn] or [kəm'pliʃən]
Definition
(noun.) a concluding action.
(noun.) (American football) a successful forward pass in football.
Typed by Elbert--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act or process of making complete; the getting through to the end; as, the completion of an undertaking, an education, a service.
(n.) State of being complete; fulfillment; accomplishment; realization.
Typist: Tyler
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Consummation, accomplishment, performance, execution, conclusion, finishing, finishing touch.[2]. Fulfilment, realization.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
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Checker: Marsha
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of completing a task or piece of work, denotes that you will have acquired a competency early in life, and that you can spend your days as you like and wherever you please. For a young woman to dream that she has completed a garment, denotes that she will soon decide on a husband. To dream of completing a journey, you will have the means to make one whenever you like.
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Examples
- Its completion depended on others. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- The strike had thrown him terribly behindhand, as to the completion of these orders. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- And apart from such steps and the consequent modification of the situation, there is no completion of the act of thinking. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Only the hold which the completion of the work has upon a person will keep him going. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The live-long day we sauntered on, still keeping in view the end of our journey, but careless of the hour of its completion. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Where an activity takes time, where many means and obstacles lie between its initiation and completion, deliberation and persistence are required. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The completion of the reaper set the wheels of farm invention spinning. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The removal of the dike by a discharge of forty tons of dynamite, set off by President Wilson, from Washington, was the last stage in the completion of the great waterway. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The completion of this labour occupied them about a fortnight. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The completion of my demoniacal design became an insatiable passion. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- When it is desired to give it a smooth, glossy surface, the paper, after its completion, is passed through animal sizing material, and then between drying and smoothing rollers. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Ten minutes sufficed for the completion of his toilet, and at the expiration of that time he was by the old gentleman's side. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The work of reconciliation, begun by Gladstone in 1886, and brought so near to completion in 1914, was completely and finally wrecked. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He remained constantly in his own study; the whole front part of the house being closed until some time after the completion of the general mourning. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Soon after the completion of his college course, his whole nature was kindled into one intense and passionate effervescence of romantic passion. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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