conclude vs cease

conclude is not a noun while cease is a noun.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
conclude	No	No	Yes	No
cease	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, cease is a hypernym of conclude; that is, cease is a word with a broader meaning than conclude:

conclude: come to a close
cease: have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical

Other hypernyms of conclude include end, finish, stop, terminate.

conclude (noun)	cease (noun)
	(`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') end

conclude (verb)	cease (verb)
decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion	put an end to a state or an activity
bring to a close	have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
reach a conclusion after a discussion or deliberation
reach agreement on
come to a close