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on end

on end prepositional phrase: without interruption, without stopping, continuously.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (idiomatic) without interruption, without stopping, continuously
    • These batteries last for hours on end.
    • The arrangement of some seats facing and some one behind the other, bus fashion, seems a sensible compromise; I am one of those who do not enjoy staring at my fellow travellers for perhaps hours on end.1964 July, Mary Allen, “A Woman's View of the New Coaches”, in Modern Railways, page 9
  2. (dated) upright; erect; endways
    • How silent, on the other hand, lie all Cotton-trades and such like; not a steeple-chimney yet got on end from sea to sea!1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “chapter 5, ’’Twelfth Century’’”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The...
    • When he was dried he struggled into his shirt. Then, ruddy and shiny, with hair on end, and his flannelette shirt hanging over his pit-trousers, he stood warming the garments he was going to put on.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 8, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC

on end meaning in Bengali

on end in Bengali

বিরামহীনভাবে, না থেমে, ক্রমাগত, খাড়া, সোজা

Questions about on end

What does on end mean?
On end means without interruption, without stopping, continuously.
What is on end in Bengali?
On end in Bengali is বিরামহীনভাবে, না থেমে, ক্রমাগত. See On end meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is on end?
On end is a prepositional phrase.

Words near on end in the dictionary

  1. on drive
  2. on drives
  3. on duty
  4. on earth
  5. on edge
  6. on end
  7. on equal footing
  8. on equal terms
  9. on eternal patrol
  10. on everybody's lips
  11. on everyone's lips

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Adapted from Wiktionary: on end (page history and authors); on end (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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