end
end (end)
noun
- a limit or limiting part; point of beginning or stopping; boundary
- the last part of anything; final point; finish; completion; conclusion the end of the day
- a ceasing to exist; death or destruction
- the cause or manner of this
- the part at, toward, or near either of the extremities of anything; tip
- an outer district or region the west end of town
- a division, sector, area of responsibility, etc., as in an organization
- what is desired or hoped for; object; purpose; intention
- an outcome; result; upshot; consequence
- a piece left over; fragment; remnant odds and ends
- the reason for being; final cause
- ☆ Football
- a player at either end of the line
- his position
Etymology: ME & OE ende, akin to Ger ende, Goth andeis < IE *antyos, opposite, lying ahead < *anti-, opposite, facing (< base *ants, front, forehead) < OHG endi, forehead, Ger anti, L ante
transitive verb
- to bring to an end; finish; stop; conclude
- to be or form the end of
Etymology: ME enden < OE endian
intransitive verb
- to come to an end; terminate: often with up
- to die
adjective
at the end; final end man, end product
end for end
with the ends, or the position, reversed
ends of the earth
remote regions
end to end
in a line so that the ends touch or meet
in the end
finally; ultimately
keep one's end up
Informal to do one's share
make an end of
- to finish; stop
- to do away with
make (both) ends meet
Etymology: as in Fr joindre les deux bouts
to manage to keep one's expenses within one's income
no end
Informal extremely; very much or many
on end
- in an upright position
- without interruption for days on end
put an end to
- to stop
- to do away with
to end
that surpasses or exceeds a trip to end all trips
end
- endorse
- endorsement
end
n.
Purpose
The close of an action
expiration, completion, termination, adjournment, final event, ending, close, denouement, finish, conclusion, arrangement, finale, cessation, discontinuation, target date, deadline, retirement, accomplishment, attainment, determination, achievement, fulfillment, payoff, realization, period, consummation, concluding part, culmination, perfection, execution, performance, last line, finis, epilogue, closing piece, closing scene, curtain, terminus, omega, last word, swan song, bottom line*, wrap-up*, windup*, beginning of the end, cutoff*, mopping up*, end of the line*. A result
conclusion, effect, outcome, upshot; see result.The extremity
terminal, termination, terminus, boundary, limit, borderline, border, bound(s), point, stub, stump, tail end, edge, tip, top, head, butt end, nib, pole, remnant, fragment. The close of life
keep one's end up*
make (both) ends meet*
no end*
on end
ceaselessly, without interruption, continuously; see consecutively, regularly 2.straight, vertical, standing up;
put an end to
end
v.
To bring to a halt
stop, finish, quit, close, halt, terminate, conclude, complete, terminate, settle, shut down, leave off, switch off, bring to an end, make an end of, wind up, get done, break off, adjourn, break up, leave unfinished, relinquish, put an end to, discontinue, cut off, cut short, abort, postpone, play out, interrupt, dispose of, drop, give up, call it a day*, call it quits*, pull the plug*, put the lid on*, call off*, choke off*, ring down the curtain*, wrap up*. * To bring to a conclusion
To come to an end
To die
to end means to stop some process, whether or not it has been satisfactorily completed let's end this argument; to close is to come or bring to a stop, as if by shutting something regarded as previously open nominations are now closed; to conclude is to bring or come to a formal termination, often involving some final arrangement, decision, or action to conclude negotiations; to finish is to bring to a desired end that which one has set out to do, as by adding perfecting touches to finish a painting; to complete is to finish by filling in the missing or defective parts the award completed his happiness; to terminate is to bring or come to an end regarded as a limit or boundary to terminate a privilege
Converse of object
- put: Put the pointy end of the balloon into the tub.
- mark: Secondly it should be enforceable, Thirdly, it does not mark the end of the road.
Adjective modifier
- West: The offer is also available at Sri Thai Soho in Old Compton Street in the West End.
- east: Two other important buildings stood at the east end of High Green.
- East: But Emma dreams of escaping the poverty of the East End.
- west: The best chance would appear to be offered by the west end or nave, of which the nave would allow a larger area.
- southern: At the southern end of the village lies the hamlet of Samlesbury Bottoms and the 19th century Samlesbury Bottoms Mill.
- eastern: At the eastern end of the intervention a large number of postholes were identified along with several pits lined with charcoal.
Modifies a noun
- user: The end users should be experienced drivers who are familiar with the system.
- result: The end result is some superb trial scenes, where the audiences hopes are raised or dashed, depending on how evidence is accepted.
Adjective complement
- 31st: Innovation announced pre-tax profits of 3.51 million pounds, on turnover of 15.2 million, for the six months ending 31st March 2001.
- 30th: Trace Computers announced pre-tax profits of 1.09 million pounds, on turnover of 8.38 million, for the six months ending 30th November 2000.
Preposition: in
- tear: Fresh hopes, great expectations but will it all end in tears or cheers?
Preposition: of
- season: The photograph was taken toward the end of the 2000 season.
- century: More... Dark days are rising at the end of the 21st century.
- year: Pupils sit three examinations at the end of year 12.
- day: By the end of the day she had learned 30 words.
- period: At the end of this period of teaching, students are required to complete a research project.
- month: Of this number the greater part died from disease ' ere the end of the month had expired.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- up: The houses on the left of the stream ended up under about a foot of water.
If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
Handle so, dass du die Menschheit, sowohl in deiner Person, als in der Person eines jeden andern, jederzeit zugleich als Zweck, niemals bloÞ als Mittel brauchst. Act in such a way that you always treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end.
Many timesI had heard the military take positions which, if wrong, had the advantage that no one would be around at the end to know.
Far too many relied on the classic formula of a beginning, a muddle, and an end. Larwood
For the beginning is assuredly the endösince we know nothing, pure and simple, beyond our own complexities.
What we call the beginning is often the end And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
Voila' le commencement de la fin. This is the beginning of the end.
And sad,Oh sad, that glen with one thin stream He met his death in; and a farmer told me There was but one small bird to shoot: it sang 'Better Beast and know your end, and die Than Man with murderous angels in his head.'
Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
So the L blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning.
At eleven o'clock this morning came to an end the cruellest and most terrible war that has ever scourged mankind. I hope we may say that thus, this fateful morning, came to an end all wars.
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
En toute chose il faut conside¤ rer la fin. One must consider the end in everything.
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.
A parler humainement, la mort a un bel endroit, qui est de mettre fin a' la vieillesse. To speak humanely, death has a useful function: it puts an end to old age.
Cansado, sobre todo, de estar siempre conmigo, de hallarme cada d|¤a, cuando termina el suen o, all |¤ , donde me encuentre, con las mismas narices y con las mismas piernas. Tired, above all, of being always with myself, of finding myself everyday, when the dream comes to an end, wherever I am, with the same old nose and with the same old legs.
A bumper of good liquor, Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.
The end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered.
The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.
For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
And ye shall hear of wars and rumours or wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdomagainst kingdom: and thereshall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
The end may justify the means, as long as there is something that justifies the end.
Our composition must be more accurate in the beginning and end thaninthemidst, and intheendmore than in the beginning; for through the midst the stream bears us.
We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.
There's ane end of ane auld sang.
When you come to the end of a perfect day, And you sit alone with your thought, While the chimes ring out with a carol gay For the joy that the day has brought, Do you think what the end of a perfect day Can mean to a tired heart, When the sun goes down with a flaming ray, And the dear friends have to part?
It does mean the end of Britain as an independent European state. It means the end of a thousand years of history.
If his thinking has been sound, then this world is at the end of its tether. The end of everything we call life is close at hand and cannot be evaded.
The end of man is an action and not a thought, though it were the noblest.
Pass me the can, lad; there's an end of May.
Now thisisnotthe end.It isnot eventhebeginningofthe end.But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
And the end of the fight is a tombstone white, with the name of the late deceased, And the epitaph drear: 'A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.'
Or say that the end precedes the beginning, And the end and the beginning were always there before the beginning and after the end. And all is always now.
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army isthe non-commissioned man!
Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end, where I begun.
I read the first 2 pages of the usual sloppy English and [Stuart Gilbert] read me a lyrical bit about nudism in the wood and the end which is a piece of propaganda in favour of something which, outside of D. H. L.'s country at any rates, makes all the propaganda for itself.
Every individualintends only his own gain, and he is in this as in many other cases led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the publick good.
Every position must be held to the last man: there must be no retirement.With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of ourcause, each one of us must fight on until the end.
We used to say that a passage of good style beganwith a fresh, usual word, and continued with fresh, usual words to the end; there was nothing more to it.
'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,'the King said, gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end; then stop.'
One thing alone I charge you. As you live, believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to a greater, broader and fuller life. The only possible death is to lose belief in this truth simply because the great end comes slowly, because time is long.
Experience shows that great enterprises seldom end with a tidy and satisfactory flourish. Together, we are doingourbesttore-establishpeaceand civil order inthe Gulf region, and to help those members of civil and ethnic minorities who continuetosuffer through no fault oftheirown.If wesucceed,ourmilitarysuccesswill have achieved its true objective.
In my beginning is my end.
So that in the end there were the trees. The boy walking through them with his head drooping as he increased in stature. Putting out shoots of green thought. So that, in the end, there was no end.
And there was that wholesale libel on aYale prom. If all the girls attending it were laid end to end, Mrs Parker said, she wouldn't be at all surprised.
Lord, let me know mine end, and thenumberof mydays: that I may be certified how long I have to live.
Some books are lies frae end to end, And some great lies were never penn'd.
Mankind must put anend towaror war will put anend to mankind.
A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared.
En ma fin git mon commencement. In my end is my beginning.
There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, thanthemanwho has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
Power isnot a means, it is an end.One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
Or la fin,ce crois-je, en est tout'une, d'envivre plus a' loisir et a' son aise. Now the end, I take it, is all one, to live at more leisure and at one's ease.
The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.
Oh Happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts th'eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
And what you thought you came for Is onlya shell, a husk of meaning From which the purpose breaks only when it is fulfilled If at all. Either you had no purpose Or the purpose is beyond the end you figured And is altered in fulfilment.
In the uncertain hour before the morning Near the ending of interminable night At the recurrent end of the unending.
Enjoyanother glass, for you see what the end is.
The fear of every man that heard him was, lest he should make an end. 450
There lies the port; the vessel, puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toiled, and wrought, and thought with meö That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheadsöyou and I are old: Old age hath yet his honour and his toil; Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with gods. The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices.Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows: for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Though much is taken, much abides: and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and hearth: that which we are, we are: One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Once to die is better than length of days in sorrow without end.
First follow Nature, and your judgement frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force and beauty must to all impart, At once the source and end and test of art.
Poetry therefore, is an art of imitation A speaking picture, with this end: to teach and delight.
Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy.
We know our will is free, and there's an end on't.
Do nothing in haste, look well to each step, and from the beginning think what may be the end.
Nor at all can tell Whether I mean this day to end myself, Or lend an ear to Plato where he says, That men like soldiers may not quit the post Allotted by the Gods.
This is not the end of anything. This is the beginning of everything.
I long for the Person from Porlock To bring my thoughts to an end. I am growing impatient to see him I think of him as a friend.
Think of the heroism of Johnson, think of that superb indifference to mortal limitation that set him upon his dictionary, and carried him through triumphantly until the end! Who, if he were wisely considerate of things at large, would ever embark upon any work much more considerable than a halfpenny post-card? Who would project a serial novel, afterThackeray and Dickens had each fallen in mid-course? Who would find heart enough to begin to live, if he dallied with the consideration of death?
When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me; Until Iwent intothesanctuaryof God; thenunderstood I their end.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract ourattention from serious things. Theyare but improved means to an unimproved end.
Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end. What is there to be or do? What's become of me or you?
The War that will End War.
Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.
Wisdom begins at the end.
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