from beginning to end
Start to finish
From beginning to end means completely, covering the entire duration or extent of something: I read the book from beginning to end.
The phrase emphasizes thoroughness—nothing skipped, no shortcuts taken.
It can describe time We watched the movie from beginning to end without a break or sequential experience He knows the process from beginning to end.
- completenessState of being whole
- start to finishEntire duration of something
- progressionSequential forward movement
- entiretyThe whole of something
- the whole nine yardsTotality, without exception
duration · timeline · exhaustiveness · journey · long haul · A-to-Z · cover to cover · sequence · unfolding · holistic · flow · trajectory · wire to wire · full circle · chronology · evolution · wholeness · thoroughness
from beginning to endpartially
To an incomplete extent
incompletely · in part · here and there · piecemeal · sporadically
from beginning to endskimming
Passing lightly over
cursorily · superficially · in passing · at a glance · browsing
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