Consummate vs. Professional — What's the Difference?

To bring to completion or fruition; conclude

A professional is a member of a profession or any person who earns a living from a specified professional activity. The term also describes the standards of education and training that prepare members of the profession with the particular knowledge and skills necessary to perform their specific role within that profession.

To realize or achieve; fulfill

Of, relating to, engaged in, or suitable for a profession

To complete (a marriage) with the first act of sexual intercourse after the ceremony.

Conforming to the standards of a profession

To fulfill (a sexual desire or attraction) especially by intercourse.

Engaging in a given activity as a source of livelihood or as a career

Complete or perfect in every respect

Performed by persons receiving pay

Supremely accomplished or skilled

Having or showing great skill; expert

Complete; utter

A person following a profession, especially a learned profession.

Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.

One who earns a living in a given or implied occupation

Supremely skilled and experienced; highly accomplished; fully qualified.

A skilled practitioner; an expert.

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

A person who belongs to a profession

(transitive) To make perfect, achieve, give the finishing touch.

A person who earns their living from a specified activity

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

A prostitute

(intransitive) To become perfected, receive the finishing touch.

A reputation known by name

Carried to the utmost extent or degree; of the highest quality; complete; perfect.

An expert

To bring to completion; to raise to the highest point or degree; to complete; to finish; to perfect; to achieve.

Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.

Of marriages

That is carried out for money, especially as a livelihood.

Make perfect; bring to perfection

(by extension) Expert.

Having or revealing supreme mastery or skill;

Of or pertaining to a profession, or calling; conforming to the rules or standards of a profession; following a profession; as, professional knowledge; professional conduct.

Perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary qualities;

Engaged in by professionals; as, a professional race; - opposed to amateur.

Without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers;

A person who prosecutes anything professionally, or for a livelihood, and not in the character of an amateur; a professional worker.

A person engaged in one of the learned professions

An athlete who plays for pay

An authority qualified to teach apprentices

Engaged in a profession or engaging in as a profession or means of livelihood;

Of or relating to or suitable as a profession;

Characteristic of or befitting a profession or one engaged in a profession;

Of or relating to a profession;

Engaged in by members of a profession;