单词 | concluding |
释义 | concluding (once / 913 pages) adj The adjective concluding means "bringing to a close," or "final." If you're writing a mystery novel, you'll want to reveal in your concluding chapter the person whodunit. Concluding can mean either "forming" the end of something or "being" the end of something. Often these end up being the same thing, anyway, like the concluding chapter or your mystery novel that comes last and sum everything up, or the concluding remarks ("closing statements") of a trial that wrap up the arguments and come on the last day. WORD FAMILYconclude: concluded, concludes, concluding, conclusion, conclusive+/conclusion: conclusions/conclusive: conclusively, conclusiveness, inconclusive/inconclusive: inconclusively, inconclusiveness USAGE EXAMPLESConcluding her message, May also speaks of the late Labour MP Jo Cox, murdered last year. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) Department of Justice also cleared Wilson, concluding he acted in self-defense. Seattle Times(Dec 31, 2016) It begins 2017 by concluding a survey of 40 years of movies at least partly defined by their use of Steadicam shots. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) adj occurring at or forming an end or termination his concluding words came as a surprise Syn final, last, terminal closing final or ending |
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