end
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English ende, from Old English ende, from Proto-West Germanic *andī, from Proto-Germanic *andijaz (“end”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂entíos (“forehead; front”), from *h₂ent- (“face; forehead; front”), from *h₂en- (“on, onto”).
Cognates
Cognate with Yola een, eene (“end”), Saterland Frisian Eend, Eende (“end”), West Frisian ein (“end”), Alemannic German End, Endi (“end”), Central Franconian Eng, Enk (“end”), Cimbrian énte (“end”), Dutch eind, einde, end (“end”), German Ende (“end”), Luxembourgish Enn (“end”), Vilamovian end, ent (“end”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk ende (“end”), Faroese endi (“end”), Icelandic endi, endir (“end”), Swedish ända, ände (“end”), Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌴𐌹𐍃 (andeis, “end”); also Irish éadan (“end; front”), Manx eddin (“face; front”), Scottish Gaelic aodann (“face; hillside”), Latin antiae (“forelock”), Ancient Greek ἀντίος (antíos, “opposite”), Albanian anë (“brink; edge; facet; side”), Latvian no (“for; from”), Lithuanian nuo (“for; from”), Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, and Ukrainian на (na, “on”), Czech, Kashubian, Lower Sorbian, Polish, Slovak, and Slovene na (“on”), Serbo-Croatian на, na (“on”), Old Armenian ընդ (ənd, “in the place, instead of”), Old Persian 𐎠𐎲𐎡𐎹 (abiy, “against; towards; upon”), Tocharian A ānt (“in front”), Tocharian B ānte (“in front of”), Sanskrit अन्त (anta, “boundary; border, edge; end, termination”). More at and and anti-.
The verb is from Middle English enden, endien, from Old English endian (“to end, to make an end of, complete, finish, abolish, destroy, come to an end, die”), from Proto-Germanic *andijōną (“to finish, end”), denominative from *andijaz.
Inflected forms:
form: ends
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: eend
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: ende
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: ends
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ending
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ended
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ended
pos: verb
tags: past
form: eend
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: ende
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The terminal point of something in space or time.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.
An epidemic of the disease started in Lü-shun at the end of 1927 and extended to April 1928, involving 271 cases with 14 deaths (Migai, 1928).
At the end of the garden there was a beautiful fountain.
At the end of the story, the main characters fall in love.
As it was a great play, the audience applauded at the end.
gloss: The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: Is there no end to this madness?
The new electronic switching system means expanded service and an end to irritances such as cross-talk, line-hum, and being cut off in mid-conversation.
gloss: Death.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
often
with-definite-article
examples: He met a terrible end in the jungle.
I hope the end comes quickly.
Confound your hidden falsehood, and award / Either of you to be the other's end.
A safe companion and an easy friend / Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end.
Regulators and developers should consider the privacy risks. But more than anything, Sparrow thinks we should all reflect on how we prepare for the end. “My mother has late-stage cancer, she’s clearly thinking about her own death, and so she is going through a process of throwing out all the things she doesn’t want the kids to deal with and prepping her house,” he says.
gloss: The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide.
pos: noun
examples: Hold the string at both ends.
My father always sat at the end of the table nearest the kitchen.
All the ends of the woꝛld ſhall remember, and turne vnto the Lord: and all the kinreds of the nations ſhall woꝛſhip befoꝛe thee.
gloss: Result.
pos: noun
examples: O that a man might know / The end of this day's business ere it come!
The end was that he was thought an archfool.
gloss: A purpose, goal, or aim.
pos: noun
examples: For what end should I toil?
The end of our club is to advance conversation and friendship.
But, losing her, the End of Living lose.
When every man is his own end, all things will come to a bad end.
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.
gloss: One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
pos: noun
examples: The Pavillion End
gloss: The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.
pos: noun
examples: Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven […].
gloss: A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
pos: noun
gloss: An ideal point of a graph or other complex. See End (graph theory)
pos: noun
gloss: That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A single warp thread.
pos: noun
examples: Wind a warp of 459 ends 3¾ yd long, following the warp color order in Figure 1.
gloss: Money.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
slang
examples: Don't give them your ends. You jack that shit!
gloss: To come to an end.
pos: verb
tags: ergative
intransitive
examples: Is this movie never going to end?
The lesson will end when the bell rings.
gloss: To conclude; to bring something to an end.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The orchestra ended with a performance of Dvořák.
gloss: To finish, terminate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The referee blew the whistle to end the game.
And on the seventh day God ended his worke[…]
If thou keep promise, I shall end this strife
But play the man, stand up and end you, / When your sickness is your soul.
So, subject to the salvaging of serviceable parts, all five were withdrawn for breaking up in 1936-7, and thus ended one of the shortest histories of an important locomotive class on record.
Ending civil wars is hard. Hatreds within countries often run far deeper than between them. The fighting rarely sticks to battlefields, as it can do between states. Civilians are rarely spared. And there are no borders to fall back behind.
Synonyms: absolve
complete
conclude
consummate
discontinue
do
end
finalize
finish
fullcome
get through
round off
stay
stop
terminate
wind up
Antonyms: beginning
start
begin
commence
execute
inaugurate
launch
continue
maintain
proceed
restart
Related words: final
Derived words: 3′ end
5′ end
abend
all ends up
all good things come to an end
all good things must come to an end
anend
arse end
Arse-end Charlie
arse end of nowhere
at a loose end
at loose ends
at one's fingers' ends
at the end of one's tether
at the end of the day
at the receiving end
backend
back-end
back end
Bar End
bar end
baulk end
beam-ends
begin at the wrong end
beginning of the end
bell-end
bell end
best end
big end of town
blank end
bookend
bottom-end
bring an end to
bring to an end
burn one's candle at both ends
burnt ends
burn the candle at both ends
business end
butt end
by-end
candle-end
Church End
cigarette end
closed-end fund
cod end
coend
come to an end
come to a sticky end
compromise to a permanent end
deadend
dead end
dead-end
deep end
dog-end
double-end
draw to an end
end artery
endband
endblown
end board
endboard
endbox
endbrain
endbud
endbulb
end button
end-button
endcap
end cap
end-consumer
end consumer
endcourt
end credits
end-Cretaceous
-ended
end-effector
ender
end feel
end-feel
end-feet
end-foot
end for end
endful
end game
endgame
end-game
endgate
end goal
end grain
endif
end in itself
endism
end item
endknot
end lap
endleaf
end-leaf
endless
endlike
end line
endling
endloader
end lockdown
endly
endman
end mark
endmatcher
end matter
endmember
end member
end-member
endmill
end moraine
endmost
end-node
endnote
endo
end of
end of day
End of Days
end of days
end of discussion
end of history
end-of-history illusion
end of life
end-of-life
end of quote
end of story
end of terrace
end of the day
end of the line
end-of-the-pier
end of the rainbow
end of the road
end of the world
end-of-train
end of watch
end on
end-on
end-on-end
end organ
end-organ
endpaper
end piece
endpiece
endpin
endplate
endplay
end play
end point
endpoint
end product
end quote
end result
end rhyme
end run
endsay
endscraper
end-scraper
endsheet
end slate
ends of the earth
ends of the world
endsome
endspan
endspeech
endstage
end state
endstation
endstone
end table
end-tidal
endtime
end times
end titles
end-to-end
end-Triassic mass extinction
end user
end-user license agreement
end user license agreement
endward
endwards
endways
endwise
endwork
end zone
every stick has two ends
extra ends
face like the back end of a bus
fag end
fag-end
follow someone to the ends of the earth
follow someone to the ends of the world
fore-end
forend
free end
beginning to end
front end
front-end
front end loader
front-end loader
front-end processor
fuzzy end of the lollipop
gable end
game-end
genetic dead end
get one's end away
get one's end in
get on the end of
go to the ends of the earth
go to the ends of the world
headend
hear the end of it
high-end
high end
hold up one's end
hot end
idiot end
in at the deep end
in the end
keep one's end up
knob end
knob-end
know which end is up
latter end
light at the end of the tunnel
like the back end of a bus
live end dead end
look beyond the end of one's nose
look past the end of one's nose
loose ends
low-end
make both ends meet
make ends meet
make someone's hair stand on end
means to an end
meet a sticky end
meet one's end
middle-end
month's end
most an end
New End
nob end
nob-end
no end
nose-ender
not know which end is up
not the end of the world
odds and ends
off the deep end
on end
on one's beam ends
on the receiving end
open-end fund
open-end spinning
other end
other end of the ball
paired-end tag
play both ends against the middle
pointier end
pointiest end
pointy end
put an end to
quote end quote
rainbow's end
rear-end
rear-end collision
rope's-end
rope's end
rough end of the pineapple
scrag end
scrag-end
beyond the end of one's nose
past the end of one's nose
shallow end
sharp end
sharp end of one's tongue
shit end of the stick
shoemaker's end
short end
short end of the stick
show end
small end of the wedge
snitches get stitches and end up in ditches
Southend
Southend-on-Sea
standing end
stand on end
sticky end
stone end
stub end
tag end
tail-end
tail end
tailend
the end justifies the means
the end of one's rope
the ends justify the means
there are two ends to every stick
thick end
thin end of the wedge
think no end of oneself
this is the end
thrombo-end-arterectomy
through the wrong end of the telescope
throw in at the deep end
tie up loose ends
tight end
time of the end
to no end
top-end
top end of town
to that end
to the end of the chapter
to the end of time
to this end
to what end
Townsend
upend
up-end
warp end
war to end all war
war to end all wars
waxed end
wax-end
wax end
week-end
weekend
well end
wet end
without end
wit's end
wits' end
work both ends against the middle
working end
world without end
wrong end of the stick
yearend
year-end
unend
all's well that ends well
be-all and end-all
be-all end-all
endable
end-all and be-all
end-all be-all
end in
ending
end in smoke
end in tears
end it all
end off
end one's days
end one's life
end out
end scene
end up
Father Charles goes down and ends battle
my watch has ended
neverending
never-ending
nonending
September that never ended
unending
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