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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
End \End\ ([e^]nd), n. [OE. & AS. ende; akin to OS. endi, D.
einde, eind, OHG. enti, G. ende, Icel. endir, endi, Sw.
[aum]nde, Dan. ende, Goth. andeis, Skr. anta. [root]208. 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.
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Better is the end of a thing than the beginning
thereof. --Eccl. vii.
8.
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2. Point beyond which no procession can be made; conclusion;
issue; result, whether successful or otherwise; conclusive
event; consequence.
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My guilt be on my head, and there an end. --Shak.
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O that a man might know
The end of this day's business ere it come! --Shak.
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3. Termination of being; death; destruction; extermination;
also, cause of death or destruction.
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Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end. --Pope.
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Confound your hidden falsehood, and award
Either of you to be the other's end. --Shak.
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I shall see an end of him. --Shak.
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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.
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Losing her, the end of living lose. --Dryden.
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When every man is his own end, all things will come
to a bad end. --Coleridge.
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5. That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap; as,
odds and ends.
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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.
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6. (Carpet Manuf.) One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a
Brussels carpet.
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{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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
End \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.
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On the seventh day God ended his work. --Gen. ii. 2.
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2. To form or be at the end of; as, the letter k ends the
word back.
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3. To destroy; to put to death. "This sword hath ended him."
--Shak.
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{To end up}, to lift or tilt, so as to set on end; as, to end
up a hogshead.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
End \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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Endo- \En"do-\, End- \End-\ [Gr. 'e`ndon within, fr. ? in. See
{In}.]
A combining form signifying within; as, endocarp, endogen,
endocuneiform, endaspidean.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
end
n 1: 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"; "the terminals of the anterior
arches of the fornix" [syn: {end}, {terminal}]
2: the point in time at which something ends; "the end of the
year"; "the ending of warranty period" [syn: {end}, {ending}]
[ant: {beginning}, {commencement}, {first}, {get-go},
{kickoff}, {middle}, {offset}, {outset}, {showtime}, {start},
{starting time}]
3: the concluding parts of an event or occurrence; "the end was
exciting"; "I had to miss the last of the movie" [syn: {end},
{last}, {final stage}]
4: 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" [syn: {goal}, {end}]
5: 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" [ant:
{beginning}, {middle}]
6: a final state; "he came to a bad end"; "the so-called
glorious experiment came to an inglorious end" [syn: {end},
{destruction}, {death}]
7: the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional
object; "one end of the box was marked `This side up'"
8: (football) the person who plays at one end of the line of
scrimmage; "the end managed to hold onto the pass"
9: a boundary marking the extremities of something; "the end of
town"
10: 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"
11: the part you are expected to play; "he held up his end"
12: the last section of a communication; "in conclusion I want
to say..." [syn: {conclusion}, {end}, {close}, {closing},
{ending}]
13: a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been
used or sold [syn: {end}, {remainder}, {remnant}, {oddment}]
14: (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage; "no
one wanted to play end"
v 1: 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" [syn: {end},
{stop}, {finish}, {terminate}, {cease}] [ant: {begin},
{start}]
2: 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 WW I" [syn: {end}, {terminate}] [ant: {begin},
{commence}, {get}, {get down}, {lead off}, {set about}, {set
out}, {start}, {start out}]
3: be the end of; be the last or concluding part of; "This sad
scene ended the movie" [syn: {end}, {terminate}]
4: put an end to; "The terrible news ended our hopes that he had
survived"
From Danish-English Freedict dictionary [fd-dan-eng]:
end
than
From German-English Freedict dictionary [fd-deu-eng]:
End... [eːnt]
terminal; terminative
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