Dictionary Definition
end
Noun
1 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"
2 the point in time at which something ends; "the
end of the year"; "the ending of warranty period" [syn: ending] [ant: beginning, middle]
3 the concluding parts of an event or occurrence;
"the end was exciting"; "I had to miss the last of the movie" [syn:
last, final
stage]
4 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" [syn: goal]
5 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" [ant: beginning, middle]
6 a final state; "he came to a bad end"; "the
so-called glorious experiment came to an inglorious end" [syn:
destruction,
death]
7 the surface at either extremity of a
three-dimensional object; "one end of the box was marked `This side
up'"
8 (football) the person who plays at one end of
the line of scrimmage; "the end managed to hold onto the
pass"
9 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"
10 a boundary marking the extremities of
something; "the end of town"
11 the part you are expected to play; "he held up
his end"
12 the last section of a communication; "in
conclusion I want to say..." [syn: conclusion, close, closing, ending]
13 a piece of cloth that is left over after the
rest has been used or sold [syn: remainder, remnant, oddment]
14 a position on the line of scrimmage; "no one
wanted to play end"
Verb
1 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" [syn: stop, finish, terminate, cease] [ant: begin]
2 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 WWI" [syn: terminate] [ant: begin, get down]
3 be the end of; be the last or concluding part
of; "This sad scene ended the movie" [syn: terminate]
4 put an end to; "The terrible news ended our
hopes that he had survived"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology 1
etyl ang ende, from , from . Cognate with Dutch einde, German Ende, Swedish ände.Pronunciation
- , /ɛnd/, /End/
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- Rhymes: -ɛnd
Noun
- Extreme part.
- Extreme line.
- Death.
- Result.
- Purpose.
- One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
- The Pavillion End
- The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.
- A period of play in which each team throws 8 rocks, 2 per player, in alternating fashion.
Translations
extreme part
- Bosnian: kraj
- Breton: diwezh
- Bulgarian: край (kraj)
- Czech: konec
- Danish: ende, afslutning
- Dutch: einde
- Ewe: nuwuwu
- Finnish: loppu
- French: fin
- German: Ende
- Greek: τέλος (télos)
- Hebrew: סוף (sof), קצה (q'tzeh) (literally edge)
- Hungarian: vég
- Ido: fino
- Indonesian: akhir, ujung
- Italian: fine
- Japanese: 終了 (しゅうりょう, shūryō), 終わり (おわり, owari), 端 (はし, hashi)
- Korean: 끝 (kkeut)
- Kurdish: dawî , talî , dûmahî , xilasî , kutahî
- Latin: finis
- Maltese: tmiem, għeluq
- Persian: (enteha)
- Polish: koniec
- Romanian: sfârşit, terminaţie, capăt
- Russian: конец (konéts)
- Serbian:
- Slovak: koniec
- Slovene: konec
- Spanish: fin
- Tagalog: katapusan
- Turkish: son
curling
Derived terms
- at the end of the day
- big end
- bitter end
- dead-end
- East End
- -ended
- endless
- End of Days
- endpaper
- end piece, endpiece
- end times
- end-to-end
- endways, endwise
- high-end
- loose end
- low-end
- make ends meet
- off the deep end
- on end
- rear end
- split end
- The End
- tight end
- to this end
- up-end
- West End
- week-end, weekend
- without end
Etymology 2
endianTranslations
intransitive: finish, terminate
- Albanian: mbaron
- Bosnian: svršiti
- Catalan: acabar
- Croatian: svršiti
- Czech: končit
- Dutch: eindigen
- Estonian: lõppema
- Finnish: loppua
- French: finir, terminer
- German: enden
- Greek: : τελειώνω (telióno)
- Hungarian: befejeződik
- Ido: finar
- Indonesian: berakhirkan, berakhir, tamat, selesai, habis
- Kurdish: qedîn, xilas bûn, temam bûn, kuta bûn, neman, bi dawî hatin
- Polish: kończyć się
- Romanian: sfârşi, termina
- Russian: кончиться (končít’sja)
- Serbian:
- Slovene: končati
- Spanish: acabar, acabarse, terminarse, finir
- Tagalog: tumapos
- Turkish: bitmek
transitive: finish, terminate (something)
- Bosnian: završiti
- Breton: echuiñ
- Bulgarian: приключвам (priključvam)
- Dutch: eindigen, beëindigen, ophouden
- Estonian: lõpetama
- Finnish: lopettaa
- French: finir, terminer
- German: beenden
- Greek: τελειώνω (telióno)
- Ido: finar
- Japanese: 終了する (しゅうりょうする, shūryō-suru), 終わる (おわる, owaru), 終える (おえる, oeru)
- Kurdish: qedandin, xilas kirin, temam kirin, kuta kirin, nehêlan, bi dawî anîn
- Polish: skończyć, zakończyć
- Romanian: sfârşi, termina
- Russian: окончать (okončát’)
- Serbian:
- Slovak: skončiť, ukončiť
- Spanish: acabar, terminar
- Tagalog: tapusin
Derived terms
Albanian
Verb
end- to weave
Danish
Conjunction
end- than (in comparisons):
- Han er venligere end hun. (He is friendlier than she.)
Extensive Definition
An end of an object is a point where it
terminates, or stops. When the object is thought of as running in a
certain direction, the end is whichever end occurs last, or is furthest from the
beginning.
End may also refer to:
- End (philosophy)
- In mathematics:
- End (category theory)
- End (topology)
- End can also denote a monoid (or a ring) of endomorphisms
- End (football)
- Ending (linguistics)
- End (video game)
- End (film)
- End key on a modern computer keyboard
- End Records, a record label
END may refer to:
- European Nuclear Disarmament
- Endoglin, a glycoprotein
See also
- Boundary
- Doomsday, Ragnarok, Armageddon, the Apocalypse, the Last Judgment, and the Big Crunch are, on various accounts, the end of the world.
- Happy ending
- Telos, from the Greek end, meaning a goal or final state.
- The basic unit into which a game of Curling is divided, in which each team throws all of its respective rocks.
- "The End"
- Trim levels in cars.
end in German: Ende
end in Spanish: Fin
end in French: FIN
end in Italian: Estremo
end in Japanese: エンド
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Friday,
Friday the thirteenth, abandon, abort, accomplishment, acme, afterglow, afterimage, aim, all, allotment, allowance, amateur athlete,
annihilate, annihilation, answer, apogee, appointed lot, archer, arrest, astral influences,
astrology, athlete, attend, balance, ballplayer, bane, baseballer, baseman, batter, battery, be done for, be no
more, become of, belay,
bell, bereave of life, big
end, bigger half, biological death, bit, bite, bitter end, blocking back,
book of fate, border line, borderline, bound, boundary, boundary condition,
boundary line, bourn,
bowman, break boundary,
breakoff point, budget,
butt, butt end, button up,
by-end, by-purpose, cancel, candle ends, cap, carry away, carry off, carry to
completion, catastrophe, catcher, cease, ceiling, center, cessation, cessation of life,
chaff, check, checkmate, chip, chloroform, chunk, circumscription, clean
up, clearing up, climax,
clinical death, clip,
clipping, close, close out, close up,
closing, closure, coach, coda, collop, come about, come of, come
out, come to naught, come to nothing, commission, compass, competitor, complete, completing, completion, conclude, conclusion, confine, confines, conk out, constellation, consummation, contingent, cracking, cricketer, crossing the bar,
crown, crumb, culminate, culmination, cup, curtains, cut, cut down, cut it out, cut off,
cut short, cutoff, cutoff
point, cutting, dead
stop, deadline,
deadlock, deal, death, death knell, deathblow, debris, debt of nature, decease, decipherment, decoding, defensive lineman,
delimitation,
demise, denouement, departure, deprive of life,
desist, desistance, destination, destiny, destroy, desuetude, determinant, determination, determine, detritus, develop, die, dies funestis, disappear, discontinuance, discontinuation,
discontinue,
disentanglement,
dispatch, dispose of,
dissolution,
dividend, division
line, do away with, do for, do to death, dole, dollop, doom, drop it, dying, ebb of life, end in view,
end of life, end result, endgame, ending, ensue, equal share, eternal rest,
eventuate, execute, exit, expiration, expire, explanation, exterminate, extinction, extinguishment, extreme, extremity, fade away, fag end,
fall out, fare, fatality, fate, filings, final cause, final
result, final summons, final whistle, finale, finality, finalize, finding, finding-out, finger of
death, finis, finish, finish off, finish up,
finishing, floor, follow, footballer, foredoom, fortune, fossil, fragment, frontier, full development,
full stop, future,
game, games-player,
gamester, get done, get
it over, get rid of, get through, get through with, give over,
go, goal, gob, gobbet, going, going off, grave, grinding halt, guard, gun, half, halt, halver, hand of death, have done
with, hedge, helping, high-water mark,
highest degree, hold,
holdover, hunk, husks, ides of March, immolate, inevitability, infielder, interest, interface, interpretation, issue, jaws of death, jock, jumper, kill, kismet, knell, knock it off, last act,
last debt, last muster, last rest, last roundup, last sleep, launch
into eternity, lay off, leave off, leaving, leaving life, leavings, leftovers, limen, limit, limitation, limiting factor,
line, line of demarcation,
lineman, liquidate, lockout, loss of life, lot, low-water mark, lower limit,
lump, lynch, make away with, making an
end, march, mark, martyr, martyrize, maturation, maturity, maximum, measure, meed, mess, mete, modicum, moiety, moira, mop up, morsel, ne plus ultra, nip, nth degree, object, object in mind, objective, odds and ends,
offensive lineman, offscourings, orts, outcome, outfield, outfielder, pan out, paring, parings, part, particle, parting, pass, pass away, passing, passing away, passing
over, payoff, peak, peg out, percentage, perfect, perfection, period, perish, perishing, perorate, piece, pinnacle, planets, player, poison, poloist, portion, prey, professional athlete,
proportion, prove, prove to be, pugilist, purge, pursuit, put away, put down, put
paid to, put to death, put to sleep, quantum, quarry, quarterback, quietus, quintain, quit, quota, racer, rags, rake-off, rasher, ration, reason, reason for being,
refrain, refuse, release, relics, relinquish, remainder, remains, remnant, remove from life,
renounce, residue, residuum, resolution, resolve, resolving, rest, result, reward, riddling, ripeness, roach, round out, rounding off,
rounding out, rubbish,
ruins, rump, run out, sacrifice, sawdust, scoop, scourings, scrap, scraps, scratch, scrub, segment, sentence of death,
shades of death, shadow,
shadow of death, shard,
share, shaving, shavings, shiver, shred, sit-down strike, skater, slaughter, slay, sleep, slice, sliver, small share, smithereen, snack, snatch, snip, snippet, solution, solving, somatic death, sorting
out, splinter, sport, sportsman, stake, stalemate, stand, standoff, standstill, stars, start, starting line, starting
point, starve, stay, stitch, stock, stop, stoppage, straw, strike, stubble, stump, succumb, summit, summons of death,
survival, sweepings, tackle, tailback, take life, take off,
target, target date,
tatter, teleology, term, terminal, terminal date,
terminate, termination, terminus, the whole, threshold, time allotment,
tip, to, top, top off, top out, topping off,
toxophilite,
trace, turn out, ultimate, ultimate aim,
unfold, unlucky day,
unraveling, unriddling, unscrambling, unspinning, untangling, untwisting, unweaving, upper limit,
upshot, utmost, utmost extent, uttermost, vanish, vestige, walkout, waste, weird, wheel of fortune, will of
Heaven, wind up, windup,
wingback, work out,
work stoppage, working,
working-out, wrap up, wrestler