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end

/ɛnd/

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pin pen merger/ɪnd/

end noun: the terminal point of something in space or time.

Noun (1)

end (plural ends)

  1. The terminal point of something in space or time.
    • 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.1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC
    • 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.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter IV, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
  2. Share of joint responsibility.
    • Are you sure they'll honor their end of the deal?
  3. (broadly) The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
    • 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.1986, The Army Communicator, volume 11, number 2, page 46
  4. (broadly, often) Death.
    • He met a terrible end in the jungle.
    • I hope the end comes quickly.
  5. The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide.
    • Hold the string at both ends.
    • My father always sat at the end of the table nearest the kitchen.
  6. Result.
    • O that a man might know / The end of this day's business ere it come!1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
    • The end was that he was thought an archfool.1876, Great Britain. Public Record Office, John Sherren Brewer, Robert Henry Brodie, James Gairdner, Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII (volume 4, issue 3, part 2...
  7. A purpose, goal, or aim.
    • For what end should I toil?
    • The end of our club is to advance conversation and friendship.
    Synonyms:
    purpose
  8. One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
    • The Pavillion End
  9. The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.
    • Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven […].1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1953, →ISBN
  10. A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
  11. An ideal point of a graph or other complex. See End (graph theory)
  12. That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
    • 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.c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
  13. A single warp thread.
    • Wind a warp of 459 ends 3¾ yd long, following the warp color order in Figure 1.2026, Shelby Moravec, “Flight of the Dragonflies Scarf”, in Handwoven, volume XLVII, number 1, page 28
  14. (in plural, slang, African-American Vernacular) Money.
    • Don't give them your ends. You jack that shit!

Verb

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

  1. (ergative, intransitive) To come to an end.
    • Is this movie never going to end?
    • The lesson will end when the bell rings.
  2. (intransitive) To conclude; to bring something to an end.
    • The orchestra ended with a performance of Dvořák.
  3. (transitive) To finish, terminate.
    • The referee blew the whistle to end the game.
    • And on the seventh day God ended his worke[…]1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 2:2

Noun (2) capitalized: END

END (plural ENDs)

  1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of equivalent narcotic depth.

Noun (3) capitalized: End

End (plural Ends)

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

end meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Sanskrit

end in Hindi

extreme part
अंत ant
intransitive: be finished, be terminated
ख़त्म होना xatm honā
transitive: finish, terminate (something)
ख़त्म होना xatm honā, अंत करना ant karnā

end in Tamil

intransitive: be finished, be terminated
முடி muṭi
transitive: finish, terminate (something)
முடி muṭi

end in Urdu

extreme part
انت ant
intransitive: be finished, be terminated
ختم ہونا xatm honā
transitive: finish, terminate (something)
ختم کرنا xatm karnā

end in Sanskrit

extreme part
अन्त anta, समाप्ति samāpti
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end in Assamese
ওৰ ür, শেষ xex
end in Tagalog
katapusan, wakas, kamatayan, dulo
end in Arabic
نِهَايَة nihāya, غَايَة ḡāya, اِنْتَهَى intahā, أَنْهَى ʔanhā
end in Malay
akhir, hujung
end in Indonesian
akhir, ujung, berakhirkan, berakhir
end in Persian
انتها entehâ, پایان pâyân, آخر âxar, تمام شدن tamâm šodan
end in Thai
จบ jòp, ยุติ yút-dtì
end in Vietnamese
chóp, mút, kết, kết thúc
end in Myanmar
အဆုံး a.hcum:

Examples of end in a sentence

  • 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.
  • 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).1946, Tsai-yu Hsiao, Epidemiology of the Diseases of Naval Importance in Manchuria, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, →OCLC, page 20:
  • Confound your hidden falsehood, and award / Either of you to be the other's end.c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, &...
  • A safe companion and an easy friend / Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end.1732, Alexander Pope, (epitaph) On Mr. Gay, in Westminster Abbey

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Synonyms of end

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Antonyms

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Forms of end

Noun
pluralends
pluralENDs
pluralEnds
alternative form (obsolete)eend
alternative form (obsolete)ende
Verb
third-person singular presentends
present participleending
past participleended
pastended

Past tense of end: ended

Plural of end: ends

Origin of end

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...

Words formed from end

Phrases with end

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Words that rhyme with end

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Questions about end

What does end mean?
End means the terminal point of something in space or time.
What is end in Hindi?
End in Hindi is अंत (ant), ख़त्म होना (xatm honā), अंत करना (ant karnā). See End meaning in Hindi.
How do you use end in a sentence?
At the end of the garden there was a beautiful fountain.
What part of speech is end?
End can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce end?
End is pronounced /ɛnd/.
What is the plural of end?
The plural of end is ends.

Words near end in the dictionary

  1. encysted
  2. encysting
  3. encystment
  4. encystments
  5. encysts
  6. end
  7. end arteries
  8. end artery
  9. end bearing pile
  10. end bearing piles
  11. end board

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