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end
1[ end ]
noun
- the last part or extremity, lengthwise, of anything that is longer than it is wide or broad:
the end of a street;
the end of a rope.
kindness without end;
to walk from end to end of a city.
- a part or place at or adjacent to an extremity: the west end of town.
at the end of the table;
the west end of town.
- the furthermost imaginable place or point:
an island at the very end of the world.
The journey was coming to an end.
- the concluding part:
The end of her speech had to be cut short because of time.
- an intention or aim:
to gain one's ends.
- the object for which a thing exists; purpose:
The happiness of the people is the end of government.
- an outcome or result:
What is to be the end of all this bickering?
- termination of existence; death:
He met a horrible end.
- a cause of death, destruction, or ruin:
Another war would be the end of civilization.
- a remnant or fragment: ends and trimmings.
mill end;
ends and trimmings.
- a share or part in something:
He does his end of the job very well.
- Textiles. a warp thread running vertically and interlaced with the filling yarn in the woven fabric.
- Football.
- either of the linemen: stationed farthest from the center.
- the position played by this lineman.
- Archery. the number of arrows to be shot by a competitor during one turn in a match.
- Cricket. a wicket, especially the one where the batsman is taking a turn.
- a unit of a game, as in curling or lawn bowling.
- Kantianism. any rational being, regarded as worthy to exist for its own sake.
- either half of a domino.
- Knots. the part of a rope, beyond a knot or the like, that is not used.
- the end, Slang. the ultimate; the utmost of good or bad:
His stupidity is the end.
verb (used with object)
- to bring to an end or conclusion:
We ended the discussion on a note of optimism.
- to put an end to; terminate:
This was the battle that ended the war.
- to form the end of:
This passage ends the novel.
- to cause the demise of; kill:
A bullet through the heart ended him.
- to constitute the most outstanding or greatest possible example or instance of (usually used in the infinitive):
You just committed the blunder to end all blunders.
verb (used without object)
- to come to an end; terminate; cease:
The road ends at Rome.
- to issue or result:
Extravagance ends in want.
- to reach or arrive at a final condition, circumstance, or goal (often followed by up ): to end as a happy person.
to end up in the army;
to end as a happy person.
adjective
- final or ultimate:
the end result.
end
2[ end ]
verb (used with object)
- to put wheat, hay, or other grain into a stack or barn.
end-
3- variant of endo- before a vowel:
endameba.
end.
4abbreviation for
- endorsed.
-end
1end-
2combining_form
- a variant of endo-
end
3/ ɛnd /
noun
- the extremity of the length of something, such as a road, line, etc
- the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object
- the extreme extent, limit, or degree of something
- the most distant place or time that can be imagined
the ends of the earth
- the time at which something is concluded
- the last section or part
- ( as modifier ) finalterminalultimate
the end office
- a share or part
his end of the bargain
- often plural a remnant or fragment (esp in the phrase odds and ends )
- a final state, esp death; destruction
- the purpose of an action or existence
- sport either of the two defended areas of a playing field, rink, etc
- bowls curling a section of play from one side of the rink to the other
- American football a player at the extremity of the playing line; wing
- all ends uptotally or completely
- a sticky end informal.an unpleasant death
- at a loose end or at loose endswithout purpose or occupation
- at an endexhausted or completed
- at the end of the daySee day
- come to an endto become completed or exhausted
- end on
- with the end pointing towards one
- with the end adjacent to the end of another object
- go off the deep end informal.to lose one's temper; react angrily
- get one's end away slang.to have sexual intercourse
- in the endfinally
- keep one's end up
- to sustain one's part in a joint enterprise
- to hold one's own in an argument, contest, etc
- make ends meet or make both ends meetto spend no more than the money one has
- no end or no end of informal.(intensifier)
I had no end of work
- on end
- upright
- without pause or interruption
- the end informal.
- the worst, esp something that goes beyond the limits of endurance
- the best in quality
- the end of the roadthe point beyond which survival or continuation is impossible
- throw someone in at the deep endto put someone into a new situation, job, etc, without preparation or introduction
verb
- to bring or come to a finish; conclude
- to die or cause to die
- tr to surpass; outdo
a novel to end all novels
- end it all informal.to commit suicide
end
4/ ɛnd /
verb
- tr to put (hay or grain) into a barn or stack
Derived Forms
- ˈender, noun
Other Words From
- end·er noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of end1
Word History and Origins
Origin of end1
Origin of end2
Idioms and Phrases
- at loose ends, without an occupation or plans; unsettled; uncertain:
He spent two years wandering about the country at loose ends.
- at one's wit's end, at the end of one's ideas or mental resources; perplexed: Also at one's wits' end.
I'm at my wit's end with this problem.
- end for end, in reverse position; inverted:
The cartons were turned end for end.
- end on, with the end next to or facing:
He backed the truck until it was end on with the loading platform.
- end to end, in a row with ends touching:
The pipes were placed end to end on the ground.
- go off the deep end, Informal. to act in a reckless or agitated manner; lose emotional control:
She went off the deep end when she lost her job.
- in the end, finally; after all:
In the end they shook hands and made up.
- keep / hold one's end up, to perform one's part or share adequately:
The work is demanding, but he's holding his end up.
- make an end of, to conclude; stop:
Let's make an end of this foolishness and get down to work.
- make ends meet, to live within one's means: Also make both ends meet.
Despite her meager income, she tried to make ends meet.
- no end, Informal. very much or many:
They were pleased no end by the warm reception.
- on end,
- having the end down; upright:
to stand a box on end.
- continuously; successively:
They talked for hours on end.
- put an end to, to cause to stop; terminate; finish:
The advent of sound in motion pictures put an end to many a silent star's career.
- at the end of the day. at the end of the day ( def ).
More idioms and phrases containing end
- all's well that ends well
- at loose ends
- at one's wit's end
- be-all and end-all
- beginning of the end
- bitter end
- burn the candle at both ends
- can't see beyond the end of one's nose
- come to an end
- dead end
- go off the deep end
- hair stand on end
- hold one's end up
- in the end
- light at the end of the tunnel
- make ends meet
- never hear the end of
- odds and ends
- on end
- on the receiving end
- play both ends against the middle
- put an end to
- rear end
- short end (of the stick)
- tail end
- wrong end of the stick
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
In the end, the clarity that comes from moments of horror can help us recommit to deeper principles.
In the end, I find it never fails to modernize even the most dramatic things.
Kennedy: "Mankind must put an end to war — or war will put an end to mankind."
This reporter knocked at the Wilkins home on Tuesday morning but received neither an answer nor the business end of a shotgun.
I presume the twenty-five or thirty miles at this end is unhealthy, even for natives, but it surely need not be so.
On to Gaba Tepe just in time to see the opening, the climax and the end of the dreaded Turkish counter attack.
He wanted to tell her that if she called her father, it would mean the end of everything for them, but he withheld this.
Under the internal pressure his whiskers stood on end and his face grew red.
She stood, in her young purity, at one end of the chain of years, and Mrs. Chepstow—did she really stand at the other?
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