end to end

Idioms  

1. In a row with the ends touching. For example, The logs were laid end to end . [Mid-1800s]

2. from end to end . Throughout the length of something, as in We hiked the Appalachian Trail from end to end . [First half of 1600s]

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end to end

Washington's journey lasted about five hours on the ferry service that takes up to 50 hours from end to end.

From Barron's ● May 18, 2026

To enable AI to scale across the enterprise, processes need to be redesigned end to end, according to Krishna.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 2026

My friend Joseph Lee has his painting studio on the second floor of a strip mall plaza, his half-squeezed tubes of paint line the walls from end to end.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026

While Signal is encrypted from end to end, all you have to do is take screenshots of the conversations to bypass the encryption protocols.

From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2025

His eye opened wider, his body brightened from end to end.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner