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to the end of the chapter

to the end of the chapter prepositional phrase: to the very end; exhaustively; to the last.

Prepositional phrase

  1. To the very end; exhaustively; to the last.
    • He kept a whole row of pipes there ready loaded, stuck in a rack, within easy reach of his hand; and, whenever he turned in, he smoked them all out in succession, lighting one from the other to the end of the chapter; then loading them again to be in readiness anew.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 27”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

Questions about to the end of the chapter

What does to the end of the chapter mean?
To the end of the chapter means to the very end; exhaustively; to the last.
What part of speech is to the end of the chapter?
To the end of the chapter is a prepositional phrase.

Words near to the end of the chapter in the dictionary

  1. to the core
  2. to the day
  3. to the death
  4. to the dot
  5. to the effect
  6. to the end of the chapter
  7. to the end of time
  8. to the exclusion of
  9. to the extent that
  10. to the fore
  11. to the full

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