End
End (end) , noun
[Old English & Anglo-Saxon ende; akin to Old Saxon endi, Dutch einde, eind, Old High German enti, German ende, Icelandic endir, endi, Swedish ande, Danish ende, Gothic andeis, Sanskrit anta. r208. Compare 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.
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.
O that a man might know
The end of this day's business ere it come!
3.
Termination of being; death; destruction; extermination; also, cause of death or destruction.
Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end.
Confound your hidden falsehood, and award
Either of you to be the other's end.
I shall see an end of him.
4.
The object aimed at in any effort considered as the close and effect of exertion; purpose; intention; aim; as, to labor for private or public ends.
Losing her, the end of living lose.
When every man is his own end, all things will come to a bad end.
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.
6.
(Carpet Manufacturing) One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
Collocations (16)
An end , (a) On end; upright; erect; endways. — Spenser (b) To the end; continuously. [Obsolete] — Richardson
End bulb (Anatomy) , 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 (Nautical) , bow foremost.
End organ (Anatomy) , the structure in which a nerve fiber ends, either peripherally or centrally.
End plate (Anatomy) , one of the flat expansions in which motor nerve fibers terminate on muscular fibers.
End play (Machinery) , movement endwise, or room for such movement.
End stone (Horology) , 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. — Shakespeare
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 , transitive verb
1.
To bring to an end or conclusion; to finish; to close; to terminate; as, to end a speech.
I shall end this strife.
On the seventh day God ended his work.
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.
Collocations (1)
To end up , to lift or tilt, so as to set on end; as, to end up a hogshead.
End , intransitive verb
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.