completion, culmination, closing, windup, mop up
(noun) a concluding action
completion, pass completion
(noun) (American football) a successful forward pass in football
Source: WordNet® 3.1
completion (plural completions)
The act or state of being or making something complete; conclusion, accomplishment.
(legal) The conclusion of an act of conveyancing concerning the sale of a property.
(American football) A forward pass that is successfully caught by the intended receiver.
(mathematics) The act of making a metric space complete by adding points.
(mathematics) The space resulting from such an act.
• (state of being complete): completeness, doneness; see also completion
• (state of being or making complete): incompletion, unfinishedness; see also incompletion
• (making complete; accomplishment): termination
• autocompletion
• recompletion
Source: Wiktionary
Com*ple"tion, n. Etym: [L. completio a filling, a fulfillment.]
1. The act or process of making complete; the getting through to the end; as, the completion of an undertaking, an education, a service. The completion of some repairs. Prescott.
2. State of being complete; fulfillment; accomplishment; realization. Predictions receiving their completion in Christ. South.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
17 November 2024
(noun) asceticism as a form of religious life; usually conducted in a community under a common rule and characterized by celibacy and poverty and obedience
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
