The difference between Consummate and Sheer

When used as verbs, consummate means to bring (a task, project, goal etc.) to completion, whereas sheer means to swerve from a course.

When used as adjectives, consummate means complete in every detail, perfect, absolute, whereas sheer means very thin or transparent.

Sheer is also noun with the meaning: a sheer curtain or fabric.

Sheer is also adverb with the meaning: clean.

check bellow for the other definitions of Consummate and Sheer

  1. Consummate as an adjective:

    Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.

  2. Consummate as an adjective:

    Highly skilled and experienced; fully qualified.

  1. Consummate as a verb (transitive):

    To bring (a task, project, goal etc.) to completion; to accomplish.

  2. Consummate as a verb (transitive):

    To make perfect, achieve, give the finishing touch.

  3. Consummate as a verb (transitive):

    To make (a marriage) complete by engaging in first sexual intercourse.

    Examples:

    "After the reception, he escorted her to the honeymoon suite to consummate their marriage."

  4. Consummate as a verb (intransitive):

    To become perfected, receive the finishing touch.

  1. Sheer as an adjective (textiles):

    Very thin or transparent.

    Examples:

    "Her light, sheer dress caught everyone’s attention."

  2. Sheer as an adjective (obsolete):

    Pure in composition; unmixed; unadulterated.

  3. Sheer as an adjective (by extension):

    Downright; complete; pure.

    Examples:

    "I think it is sheer genius to invent such a thing."

    "This poem is sheer nonsense."

    "Through technological wizardry and sheer audacity, Google has shown how we can transform the intellectual riches of our libraries...."

  4. Sheer as an adjective:

    Examples:

    "The army's sheer size made it impossible to resist."

  5. Sheer as an adjective:

    Very steep; almost vertical or perpendicular.

    Examples:

    "It was a sheer drop of 180 feet."

  1. Sheer as an adverb (archaic):

    Clean; quite; at once.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Milton"

  1. Sheer as a noun:

    A sheer curtain or fabric.

    Examples:

    "Use sheers to maximize natural light."

  1. Sheer as a noun (nautical):

    The curve of the main deck or gunwale from bow to stern.

  2. Sheer as a noun (nautical):

    An abrupt swerve from the course of a ship.

  1. Sheer as a verb (chiefly, nautical):

    To swerve from a course.

    Examples:

    "A horse sheers at a bicycle."

  2. Sheer as a verb (obsolete):

    To shear.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Dryden"

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