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end

(noun) (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage; “no one wanted to play end”

end

(noun) the part you are expected to play; “he held up his end”

end, remainder, remnant, oddment

(noun) a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold

end

(noun) a final part or section; “we have given it at the end of the section since it involves the calculus”; “Start at the beginning and go on until you come to the end”

goal, end

(noun) the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it; “the ends justify the means”

conclusion, end, close, closing, ending

(noun) the last section of a communication; “in conclusion I want to say...”

end, last

(noun) the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence; “the end was exciting”; “I had to miss the last of the movie”

end

(noun) a boundary marking the extremities of something; “the end of town”

end, terminal

(noun) either extremity of something that has length; “the end of the pier”; “she knotted the end of the thread”; “they rode to the end of the line”; “the terminals of the anterior arches of the fornix”

end

(noun) the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object; “one end of the box was marked ‘This side up’”

end

(noun) one of two places from which people are communicating to each other; “the phone rang at the other end”; “both ends wrote at the same time”

end

(noun) (football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage; “the end managed to hold onto the pass”

end, destruction, death

(noun) a final state; “he came to a bad end”; “the so-called glorious experiment came to an inglorious end”

end, ending

(noun) the point in time at which something ends; “the end of the year”; “the ending of warranty period”

end, terminate

(verb) bring to an end or halt; “She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime”; “The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I”

end, stop, finish, terminate, cease

(verb) have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; “the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed”; “Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other”; “My property ends by the bushes”; “The symphony ends in a pianissimo”

end, terminate

(verb) be the end of; be the last or concluding part of; “This sad scene ended the movie”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

End (plural Ends)

A key that when pressed causes the cursor to go to the last character of the current line.

Antonyms

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Anagrams

• DEN, DNE, Den, Den., NDE, NED, Ned, den, ned

Etymology

Noun

end (plural ends)

The terminal point of something in space or time.

(by extension) The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.

(by extension) Death.

The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide.

Result.

A purpose, goal, or aim.

(cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.

(American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.

(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.

One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.

(in the plural, slang, African-American Vernacular) Money.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often used with "end": final, ultimate, deep, happy, etc.

Synonyms

• (final point in space or time): conclusion, limit, terminus, termination

• See also goal

Antonyms

• (final point of something): beginning, start

Hyponyms

• Audley End

• big end

• bitter end

• Bourne End

• Cliffsend, Cliffs End

• Crouch End

• East End

• Elmers End

• Four Lane Ends

• Hatch End

• Land's End

• living end

• loose end

• Mile End

• Princes End

• rear end

• split end

• Streetly End

• The End

• tight end

• Town End, Townend

• Wallsend

• weekend

• West End

Verb

end (third-person singular simple present ends, present participle ending, simple past and past participle ended)

(intransitive, ergative) to come to an end

(transitive) To finish, terminate.

Anagrams

• DEN, DNE, Den, Den., NDE, NED, Ned, den, ned

Source: Wiktionary


End, n. Etym: [OE. & AS. ende; akin to OS. endi, D. einde, eind, OHG. enti, G. ende, Icel. endir, endi, Sw. Ànde, Dan. ende, Goth. andeis, Skr. anta. Ante-, Anti-, Answer.]

1. The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; the concluding part; termination; close; limit; as, the end of a field, line, pole, road; the end of a year, of a discourse; put an end to pain; -- opposed to Ant: beginning, when used of anything having a first part. Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof. Eccl. vii. 8.

2. Point beyond which no procession can be made; conclusion; issue; result, whether successful or otherwise; conclusive event; consequence. My guilt be on my head, and there an end. Shak. O that a man might know The end of this day's business ere it come! Shak.

3. Termination of being; death; destruction; extermination; also, cause of death or destruction. Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end. Pope. Confound your hidden falsehood, and award Either of you to be the other's end. Shak. I shall see an end of him. Shak.

4. The object aimed at in any effort considered as the close and effect of exertion; ppurpose; intention; aim; as, to labor for private or public ends. Losing her, the end of living lose. Dryden. When every man is his own end, all things will come to a bad end. Coleridge.

5. That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap; as, odds and ends. I clothe my naked villainy With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ, And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. Shak.

6. (Carpet Manuf.)

Definition: One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.

An end. (a) On end; upright; erect; endways. Spenser (b) To the end; continuously. [Obs.] Richardson.

– End bulb (Anat.), one of the bulblike bodies in which some sensory nerve fibers end in certain parts of the skin and mucous membranes; -- also called end corpuscles.

– End fly, a bobfly.

– End for end, one end for the other; in reversed order.

– End man, the last man in a row; one of the two men at the extremities of a line of minstrels.

– End on (Naut.), bow foremost.

– End organ (Anat.), the structure in which a nerve fiber ends, either peripherally or centrally.

– End plate (Anat.), one of the flat expansions in which motor nerve fibers terminate on muscular fibers.

– End play (Mach.), movement endwise, or room for such movement.

– End stone (Horol.), one of the two plates of a jewel in a timepiece; the part that limits the pivot's end play.

– Ends of the earth, the remotest regions of the earth.

– In the end, finally. Shak.

– On end, upright; erect.

– To the end, in order. Bacon.

– To make both ends meet, to live within one's income. Fuller.

– To put an end to, to destroy.

End, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ended; p. pr. & vb. n. Ending.]

1. To bring to an end or conclusion; to finish; to close; to terminate; as, to end a speech. "I shall end this strife." Shak. On the seventh day God ended his work. Gen. ii. 2.

2. To form or be at the end of; as, the letter k ends the word back.

3. To destroy; to put to death. "This sword hath ended him." Shak. To end up, to lift or tilt, so as to set on end; as, to end up a hogshead.

End, v. i.

Definition: To come to the ultimate point; to be finished; to come to a close; to cease; to terminate; as, a voyage ends; life ends; winter ends.

En"do-, End-. Etym: [Gr. In.]

Definition: A combining form signifying within; as, endocarp, endogen, endocuneiform, endaspidean.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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