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end

noun
/ɛnd/

Etymology

From Middle English ende, from Old English ende, from Proto-West Germanic *andī, from Proto-Germanic *andijaz (“end”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂entíos (“forehead; front”), from *h₂ent- (“face; forehead; front”), from *h₂en- (“on, onto”). Cognates Cognate with Yola een, eene (“end”), Saterland Frisian Eend, Eende (“end”), West Frisian ein (“end”), Alemannic German End, Endi (“end”), Central Franconian Eng, Enk (“end”), Cimbrian énte (“end”), Dutch eind, einde, end (“end”), German Ende (“end”), Luxembourgish Enn (“end”), Vilamovian end, ent (“end”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk ende (“end”), Faroese endi (“end”), Icelandic endi, endir (“end”), Swedish ända, ände (“end”), Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌴𐌹𐍃 (andeis, “end”); also Irish éadan (“end; front”), Manx eddin (“face; front”), Scottish Gaelic aodann (“face; hillside”), Latin antiae (“forelock”), Ancient Greek ἀντίος (antíos, “opposite”), Albanian anë (“brink; edge; facet; side”), Latvian no (“for; from”), Lithuanian nuo (“for; from”), Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, and Ukrainian на (na, “on”), Czech, Kashubian, Lower Sorbian, Polish, Slovak, and Slovene na (“on”), Serbo-Croatian на, na (“on”), Old Armenian ընդ (ənd, “in the place, instead of”), Old Persian 𐎠𐎲𐎡𐎹 (abiy, “against; towards; upon”), Tocharian A ānt (“in front”), Tocharian B ānte (“in front of”), Sanskrit अन्त (anta, “boundary; border, edge; end, termination”). More at and and anti-. The verb is from Middle English enden, endien, from Old English endian (“to end, to make an end of, complete, finish, abolish, destroy, come to an end, die”), from Proto-Germanic *andijōną (“to finish, end”), denominative from *andijaz.

  1. derived from *andijōną✻
  2. derived from endian
  3. derived from enden
  4. inherited from *h₂entíos✻ — “forehead; front”
  5. inherited from *andijaz✻ — “end”
  6. inherited from *andī✻
  7. inherited from ende
  8. inherited from ende

Definitions

  1. The terminal point of something in space or time.

    • they followed him... into a sort of a central hall; out of which they could dimly see other long tunnel-like passages branching, passages mysterious and without apparent end.
    • An epidemic of the disease started in Lü-shun at the end of 1927 and extended to April 1928, involving 271 cases with 14 deaths (Migai, 1928).

  2. The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.

    • Is there no end to this madness?
    • The new electronic switching system means expanded service and an end to irritances such as cross-talk, line-hum, and being cut off in mid-conversation.

  3. Death.

    • He met a terrible end in the jungle.
    • I hope the end comes quickly.
    • Confound your hidden falsehood, and award / Either of you to be the other's end.
  4. ›+ 15 more definitions

    1. The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide.

      • Hold the string at both ends.
      • My father always sat at the end of the table nearest the kitchen.
      • All the ends of the woꝛld ſhall remember, and turne vnto the Lord: and all the kinreds of the nations ſhall woꝛſhip befoꝛe thee.

    2. Result.

      • O that a man might know / The end of this day's business ere it come!
      • The end was that he was thought an archfool.

    3. A purpose, goal, or aim.

      • For what end should I toil?
      • The end of our club is to advance conversation and friendship.
      • But, losing her, the End of Living lose.

    4. One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.

      • The Pavillion End

    5. The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split…

      The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.

      • Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven […].

    6. A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating…

      A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.

    7. An ideal point of a graph or other complex. See End (graph theory)

    8. That which is left

      That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.

      • 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.

    9. A single warp thread.

      • Wind a warp of 459 ends 3¾ yd long, following the warp color order in Figure 1.

    10. Money.

      • Don't give them your ends. You jack that shit!

    11. To come to an end.

      • Is this movie never going to end?
      • The lesson will end when the bell rings.

    12. To conclude

      To conclude; to bring something to an end.

      • The orchestra ended with a performance of Dvořák.

    13. To finish, terminate.

      • The referee blew the whistle to end the game.
      • And on the seventh day God ended his worke[…]
      • If thou keep promise, I shall end this strife

    14. A key that when pressed causes the cursor to go to the last character of the current line.

    15. Acronym of equivalent narcotic depth.

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Derived

3′ end, 5′ end, abend, all ends up, all good things come to an end, all good things must come to an end, anend, arse end, Arse-end Charlie, arse end of nowhere, at a loose end, at loose ends, at one's fingers' ends, at the end of one's tether, at the end of the day, at the receiving end, backend, back-end, back end, Bar End, baulk end, beam-ends, begin at the wrong end, beginning of the end, bell-end, bell end, best end, big end of town, blank end, bookend, bottom-end, bring an end to, bring to an end, burn one's candle at both ends, burnt ends, burn the candle at both ends, business end, butt end, by-end, candle-end · +321 more

Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA