Pronunciation Noun
end (plural ends)
- The terminal point of something in space or time.
- 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows:
- they followed him... into a sort of a central hall; out of which they could dimly see other long tunnel-like passages branching, passages mysterious and without apparent end.
- At the end of the road, turn left.
- At the end of the story, the main characters fall in love.
- 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows:
- (by extension) The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
- Is there no end to this madness?
- (by extension) Death.
- He met a terrible end in the jungle.
- I hope the end comes quickly.
- circa 1592 William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Richard the Third, Act II, scene i:
- Confound your hidden falsehood, and award / Either of you to be the other's end.
- 1732, Alexander Pope, (epitaph) On Mr. Gay, in Westminster Abbey:
- A safe companion and and easy friend / Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end.
- The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide.
- Hold the string at both ends.
- My father always sat at the end of the table.
- Result.
- circa 1599 William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Act V, scene i:
- O that a man might know / The end of this day's business ere it come!
- circa 1599 William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Act V, scene i:
- A purpose, goal, or aim.
- 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe, Act III, scene i:
- But, losing her, the End of Living lose.
- 1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character, Aphorism VI, page 146:
- When every man is his own end, all things will come to a bad end.
- 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.21:
- There is a long argument to prove that foreign conquest is not the end of the State, showing that many people took the imperialist view.
- 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe, Act III, scene i:
- (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
- The Pavillion End
- (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.
- 1926, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Penguin 2000, page 11:
- Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven [...].
- 1926, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Penguin 2000, page 11:
- (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
- (mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex.
- That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
- odds and ends
- circa 1592 William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Richard the Third, Act I, scene iii:
- I clothe my naked villainy / With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ, / And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
- One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
- (in the plural, slang, AAVE) Money.
- Don't give them your ends. You jack that shit!
- (final point in space or time) conclusion, limit, terminus, termination
- See also Thesaurus:goal
- French: fin, bout, extrémité
- German: Ende, Schluss
- Italian: fine
- Portuguese: fim, cabo, término
- Russian: коне́ц
- Spanish: fin
- Portuguese: fim
- Russian: энд
end (ends, present participle ending; past and past participle ended)
- (intransitive, ergative) to come to an end
- Is this movie never going to end?
- The lesson will end when the bell rings.
- (transitive) To finish, terminate.
- The referee blew the whistle to end the game.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Genesis 2:2 ↗:
- And on the seventh day God ended his worke […]
- circa 1599 William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II, scene iii:
- If thou keep promise, I shall end this strife
- 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XLV, lines 7-8:
- But play the man, stand up and end you, / When your sickness is your soul.
- French: finir, terminer
- German: enden
- Italian: finire
- Portuguese: acabar, terminar, findar, finalizar, concluir
- Russian: зака́нчиваться
- Spanish: acabar, terminar, finir (Colombia)
- French: finir, terminer
- German: beenden
- Italian: finire
- Portuguese: acabar, terminar
- Russian: зака́нчивать
- Spanish: acabar, terminar, finalizar
End
Noun
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