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Definitions for: End
[n] a position on the line of scrimmage; "no one wanted to play end"
[n] the part you are expected to play; "he held up his end"
[n] a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
[n] 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"
[n] 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"
[n] the last section of a communication; "in conclusion I want to say..."
[n] the concluding parts of an event or occurrence; "the end was exciting"; "I had to miss the last of the movie"
[n] a boundary marking the extremities of something; "the end of town"
[n] 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"
[n] the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object; "one end of the box was marked `This side up'"
[n] 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"
[n] (football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage; "the end managed to hold onto the pass"
[n] a final state; "he came to a bad end"; "the so-called glorious experiment came to an inglorious end"
[n] the point in time at which something ends; "the end of the year"; "the ending of warranty period"
[v] 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"
[v] put an end to; "The terrible news ended our hopes that he had survived"
[v] 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"
[v] be the end of; be the last of concluding part of; "This sad scene ended the movie"
Webster (1913) Definition: End, n. [OE. & AS. ende; akin to OS. endi, D. einde, eind,
OHG. enti, G. ende, Icel. endir, endi, Sw. ["a]nde, Dan.
ende, Goth. andeis, Skr. anta. ????. Cf. Ante-, Anti-,
Answer.]
1. The extreme or last point or part of any material thing
considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being
side); hence, extremity, in general; the concluding part;
termination; close; limit; as, the end of a field, line,
pole, road; the end of a year, of a discourse; put an end
to pain; -- opposed to beginning, when used of anything
having a first part.
Better is the end of a thing than the beginning
thereof. --Eccl. vii.
8.
2. Point beyond which no procession can be made; conclusion;
issue; result, whether successful or otherwise; conclusive
event; consequence.
My guilt be on my head, and there an end. --Shak.
O that a man might know The end of this day's
business ere it come! --Shak.
3. Termination of being; death; destruction; extermination;
also, cause of death or destruction.
Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end. --Pope.
Confound your hidden falsehood, and award Either of
you to be the other's end. --Shak.
I shall see an end of him. --Shak.
4. The object aimed at in any effort considered as the close
and effect of exertion; ppurpose; intention; aim; as, to
labor for private or public ends.
Losing her, the end of living lose. --Dryden.
When every man is his own end, all things will come
to a bad end. --Coleridge.
5. That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap; as,
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. --Shak.
6. (Carpet Manuf.) One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a
Brussels carpet.
An end.
(a) On end; upright; erect; endways. --Spenser
(b) To the end; continuously. [Obs.] --Richardson.
End bulb (Anat.), one of the bulblike bodies in which some
sensory nerve fibers end in certain parts of the skin and
mucous membranes; -- also called end corpuscles.
End fly, a bobfly.
End for end, one end for the other; in reversed order.
End man, the last man in a row; one of the two men at the
extremities of a line of minstrels.
End on (Naut.), bow foremost.
End organ (Anat.), the structure in which a nerve fiber
ends, either peripherally or centrally.
End plate (Anat.), one of the flat expansions in which
motor nerve fibers terminate on muscular fibers.
End play (Mach.), movement endwise, or room for such
movement.
End stone (Horol.), one of the two plates of a jewel in a
timepiece; the part that limits the pivot's end play.
Ends of the earth, the remotest regions of the earth.
In the end, finally. --Shak.
On end, upright; erect.
To the end, in order. --Bacon.
To make both ends meet, to live within one's income.
--Fuller.
To put an end to, to destroy.
End, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ended; p. pr. & vb. n.
Ending.]
1. To bring to an end or conclusion; to finish; to close; to
terminate; as, to end a speech. ``I shall end this
strife.'' --Shak.
On the seventh day God ended his work. --Gen. ii. 2.
2. To form or be at the end of; as, the letter k ends the
word back.
3. To destroy; to put to death. ``This sword hath ended
him.'' --Shak.
To end up, to lift or tilt, so as to set on end; as, to end
up a hogshead.
End, v. i.
To come to the ultimate point; to be finished; to come to a
close; to cease; to terminate; as, a voyage ends; life ends;
winter ends.
Synonyms: cease, close, closing, conclusion, death, destruction, ending, ending, final stage, finish, goal, last, oddment, remainder, remnant, scrap, stop, terminate, terminate
Antonyms: begin, begin, beginning, beginning, commence, commencement, first, get, kickoff, lead off, middle, middle, offset, outset, set about, set out, start, start, start, start out, starting time
See Also: abort, address, adjourn, adjudicate, aim, alter, anticlimax, ax, axe, bathos, be, bitter end, bitthead, bound, boundary, bounds, bourn, bourne, break, break, break off, break up, break up, cease, cease, change, climax, close, close, close, close out, closure, cloture, coda, cognitive content, come out, complete, conclude, conclusion, conclusion, content, contribution, crush out, culminate, culminate, cut out, death, decide, demise, design, destination, destination, destroy, destruct, die hard, disappear, discontinue, discontinue, dissolve, division, dying, eleven, end, end game, end point, end up, end-all, endgame, ending, endpoint, epilog, epilogue, expiration, expiry, extinguish, extremity, fag end, fag end, fetch up, finale, finale, finalise, finalize, finis, finish, finish, finish, finish, finish up, football team, go, go away, go out, goal, heel, homestretch, intent, intention, interrupt, kill, land up, lapse, last, lift, limit, lineman, lineman, magnetic pole, mental object, nail down, narration, nerve end, nerve ending, no-goal, object, objective, part, part, pass away, passing, period, peroration, phase out, piece of cloth, piece of material, place, plan of action, point, point, point in time, pole, press out, purpose, railhead, raise, recess, recital, resolve, run low, run short, section, section, settle, share, speech, split end, spot, stamp out, state, stop, stopping point, stub out, subdivision, surface, tail, tail end, target, telomere, terminal point, termination, termination, terminus, terminus, terminus ad quem, tight end, tip, topographic point, turn out, vanish, wind up, yardarm, yarn, year-end
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