Definition of ends Ends
/ɛˈndz/ - [endz] -
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- ends (Noun)
Plural of end.
Part of speech
🔤WordNet
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| end - the point in time at which something ends; "the end of the year"; "the ending of warranty period" | ||
| ending | ||
| starting time, showtime, get-go, outset, commencement, kickoff, beginning, first, offset, start an academic exercise in which diplomas are conferred | ||
| middle the middle area of the human torso (usually in front); "young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable" | ||
| point in time, point sharp end; "he stuck the point of the knife into a tree"; "he broke the point of his pencil" | ||
| death, last the act of killing; "he had two deaths on his conscience" | ||
| demise, dying, death the act of killing; "he had two deaths on his conscience" | ||
| period a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations; "in England they call a period a stop" | ||
| year-end the end of a calendar year; "he had to unload the merchandise before the year-end" | ||
| stopping point, finis, close, finale, last, conclusion, finish the temporal end; the concluding time; "the stopping point of each round was signaled by a bell"; "the market was up at the finish"; "they were playing better at the close of the season" | ||
| cease (`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') end | ||
| fag end, tail end, tail the frayed end of a length of cloth or rope | ||
| last gasp the point of death or exhaustion or completion; "the last gasp of the cold war" | ||
| expiry, expiration, termination the act of ending something; "the termination of the agreement" | ||
| end - 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" | ||
| terminal | ||
| extremity an external body part that projects from the body; "it is important to keep the extremities warm" | ||
| bitter end (nautical) the inboard end of a line or cable especially the end that is wound around a bitt | ||
| bitthead the upper end of a bitt | ||
| heel the bottom of a shoe or boot; the back part of a shoe or boot that touches the ground and provides elevation | ||
| point sharp end; "he stuck the point of the knife into a tree"; "he broke the point of his pencil" | ||
| magnetic pole, pole either of two points where the lines of force of the Earth's magnetic field are vertical | ||
| railhead a railroad depot in a theater of operations where military supplies are unloaded for distribution | ||
| terminus either end of a railroad or bus route | ||
| yardarm either end of the yard of a square-rigged ship | ||
| nerve end, nerve ending the terminal structure of an axon that does not end at a synapse | ||
| telomere either (free) end of a eukaryotic chromosome; "telomeres act as caps to keep the sticky ends of chromosomes from randomly clumping together" | ||
| heel the bottom of a shoe or boot; the back part of a shoe or boot that touches the ground and provides elevation | ||
| endpoint, end point, termination, terminus a place where something ends or is complete | ||
| destination, goal, finish the ultimate goal for which something is done | ||
| end - the concluding parts of an event or occurrence; "the end was exciting"; "I had to miss the last of the movie" | ||
| last, final stage | ||
| ending, conclusion, finish the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme); "I don't like words that have -ism as an ending" | ||
| end game, endgame the final stages of a chess game after most of the pieces have been removed from the board | ||
| end game, endgame the final stages of a chess game after most of the pieces have been removed from the board | ||
| homestretch the straight stretch of a racetrack leading to the finish line | ||
| end - 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" | ||
| beginning the act of starting something; "he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations" | ||
| division, part, section the act or process of dividing | ||
| end - a final state; "he came to a bad end"; "the so-called glorious experiment came to an inglorious end" | ||
| destruction, death | ||
| state the way something is with respect to its main attributes; "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state" | ||
| end - (football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage; "the end managed to hold onto the pass" | ||
| lineman (American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed on the line of scrimmage | ||
| football game, football any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal | ||
| split end (football) an offensive end who lines up at a distance from the other linemen | ||
| end - a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold | ||
| remainder, remnant, oddment | ||
| piece of cloth, piece of material a separate part consisting of fabric | ||
| end - (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage; "no one wanted to play end" | ||
| lineman (American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed on the line of scrimmage | ||
| end - a boundary marking the extremities of something; "the end of town" | ||
| bounds, boundary, bound the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something | ||
| end - the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object; "one end of the box was marked `This side up'" | ||
| surface the outer boundary of an artifact or a material layer constituting or resembling such a boundary; "there is a special cleaner for these surfaces"; "the cloth had a pattern of red dots on a white surface" | ||
| end - the part you are expected to play; "he held up his end" | ||
| end - 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" | ||
| end - the last section of a communication; "in conclusion I want to say..." | ||
| conclusion, close, closing, ending | ||
| subdivision, section the act of subdividing; division of something previously divided | ||
| yarn, narration, recital (rhetoric) the second section of an oration in which the facts are set forth | ||
| address, speech the stance assumed by a golfer in preparation for hitting a golf ball | ||
| anticlimax, bathos a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one | ||
| epilog, epilogue a short passage added at the end of a literary work; "the epilogue told what eventually happened to the main characters" | ||
| epilog, epilogue a short passage added at the end of a literary work; "the epilogue told what eventually happened to the main characters" | ||
| peroration (rhetoric) the concluding section of an oration; "he summarized his main points in his peroration" | ||
| end - 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" | ||
| goal | ||
| cognitive content, mental object, content the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned | ||
| plan of action a plan for actively doing something | ||
| objective, aim, object, target the lens or system of lenses in a telescope or microscope that is nearest the object being viewed | ||
| bourn, bourne an archaic term for a goal or destination | ||
| end-all the ultimate goal; "human beings are not the end-all of evolution" | ||
| destination, terminus the ultimate goal for which something is done | ||
| no-goal a nonexistent goal; "he lived without a reason progressing toward no-goal" | ||
| intent, intention, purpose, aim, design the intended meaning of a communication | ||
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| end - 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" | ||
| terminate | ||
| lead off, commence, begin, start teach immoral behavior to; "It was common practice to lead off the young ones, and teach them bad habits" | ||
| start out, commence, set about, set out, get down, begin, start, get begin to deal with; "approach a task"; "go about a difficult problem"; "approach a new project" | ||
| cease, end, terminate, finish, stop 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" | ||
| modify, alter, change make less severe or harsh or extreme; "please modify this letter to make it more polite"; "he modified his views on same-gender marriage" | ||
| close out terminate; "We closed out our account" | ||
| finish cause to finish a relationship with somebody; "That finished me with Mary" | ||
| abort terminate a pregnancy by undergoing an abortion | ||
| culminate rise to, or form, a summit; "The helmet culminated in a crest" | ||
| lift, raise remove from a surface; "the detective carefully lifted some fingerprints from the table" | ||
| ax, axe terminate; "The NSF axed the research program and stopped funding it" | ||
| stamp out, kill end or extinguish by forceful means; "Stamp out poverty!" | ||
| dissolve, break up declare void; "The President dissolved the parliament and called for new elections" | ||
| dissolve, break up declare void; "The President dissolved the parliament and called for new elections" | ||
| discontinue, break off, stop, break put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother" | ||
| interrupt, break terminate; "She interrupted her pregnancy"; "break a lucky streak"; "break the cycle of poverty" | ||
| crush out, stub out, press out, extinguish extinguish by crushing; "stub out your cigar" | ||
| finalise, finalize, nail down, settle make final; put the last touches on; put into final form; "let's finalize the proposal" | ||
| complete, finish bring to a whole, with all the necessary parts or elements; "A child would complete the family" | ||
| closure, cloture terminate debate by calling for a vote; "debate was closured"; "cloture the discussion" | ||
| adjudicate, decide, resolve, settle reach, make, or come to a decision about something; "We finally decided after lengthy deliberations" | ||
| conclude bring to a close; "The committee concluded the meeting" | ||
| close finish a game in baseball by protecting a lead; "The relief pitcher closed with two runs in the second inning" | ||
| phase out terminate gradually | ||
| close finish a game in baseball by protecting a lead; "The relief pitcher closed with two runs in the second inning" | ||
| end - 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" | ||
| stop, finish, terminate, cease | ||
| begin, start set in motion, cause to start; "The U.S. started a war in the Middle East"; "The Iraqis began hostilities"; "begin a new chapter in your life" | ||
| pass away go out of existence; "She hoped that the problem would eventually pass away" | ||
| lapse drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards | ||
| cut out cease operating; "The pump suddenly cut out" | ||
| go out become extinguished; "The lights suddenly went out and we were in the dark" | ||
| adjourn, recess, break up close at the end of a session; "The court adjourned" | ||
| disappear, vanish get lost, as without warning or explanation; "He disappeared without a trace" | ||
| climax, culminate rise to, or form, a summit; "The helmet culminated in a crest" | ||
| run out become used up; be exhausted; "Our supplies finally ran out" | ||
| run low, run short, go to be spent or finished; "The money had gone after a few days"; "Gas is running low at the gas stations in the Midwest" | ||
| disappear, go away, vanish get lost, as without warning or explanation; "He disappeared without a trace" | ||
| conclude, close bring to a close; "The committee concluded the meeting" | ||
| come out, turn out come off; "His hair and teeth fell out" | ||
| discontinue put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother" | ||
| break weaken or destroy in spirit or body; "His resistance was broken"; "a man broken by the terrible experience of near-death" | ||
| end - be the end of; be the last or concluding part of; "This sad scene ended the movie" | ||
| terminate | ||
| be spend or use time; "I may be an hour" | ||
| close finish a game in baseball by protecting a lead; "The relief pitcher closed with two runs in the second inning" | ||
| end - put an end to; "The terrible news ended our hopes that he had survived" | ||
| destruct, destroy destroy (one's own missile or rocket); "The engineers had to destruct the rocket for safety reasons" | ||
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Wiktionary
- end (Noun)
The final point of something in space or time. - end (Noun)
Death. - end (Noun)
Result. - end (Noun)
A purpose, goal, or aim. - end (Noun)
One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground. - end (Noun)
The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end , a split end , a defensive end . - end (Noun)
A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion. - end (Noun)
An ideal point of a graph or other complex. - end (Verb)
To finish, terminate.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- end (n.)
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. - end (n.)
Point beyond which no procession can be made; conclusion; issue; result, whether successful or otherwise; conclusive event; consequence. - end (n.)
Termination of being; death; destruction; extermination; also, cause of death or destruction. - end (n.)
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. - end (n.)
That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap; as, odds and ends. - end (n.)
One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet. - end (v. t.)
To bring to an end or conclusion; to finish; to close; to terminate; as, to end a speech. - end (v. t.)
To form or be at the end of; as, the letter k ends the word back. - end (v. t.)
To destroy; to put to death. - 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.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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To put an end to.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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end, n. the last point or portion: termination or close: death: consequence: object aimed at: a fragment.—v.t. to bring to an end: to destroy.—v.i. to come to an end: to cease.—n. End′-all, that which ends all.—adj. End′ed, brought to an end: having ends.—n. End′ing, termination: conclusion: that which is at the end: (gram.) the terminating syllable or letter of a word.—adj. End′less, without end: everlasting: objectless.—adv. End′lessly.—n. End′lessness.—adv. End′long, lengthwise: continuously: on end.—adj. End′most, farthest.—n. End′ship (obs.) a village.—advs. End′ways, End′wise, on the end: with the end forward.—End for end, with the position of the ends reversed; Endless screw, an arrangement for producing slow motion in machinery, consisting of a screw whose thread gears into a wheel with skew teeth; End on, having the end pointing directly to an object—(naut.) opp. to Broadside on: (min.) opp. to Face on.—A shoemaker's end, a waxed thread ending in a bristle.—At loose ends, in disorder; At one's wits' end, at the end of one's ability to decide or act.—Begin at the wrong end, to manage badly; Be the end of, to cause the death of.—Come to the end of one's tether, to go as far as one's powers permit.—Have at one's finger-ends, to be thoroughly acquainted, to have in perfect readiness.—In the end, after all: at last.—Latter end, the end of life.—Make both ends meet, to live within one's income (both ends meaning both ends of the year).—No end (coll.), very much, a great deal.—On end, erect.—Rope's end (see Rope). [A.S. ende; cf. Ger. and Dan. ende, Goth. andeis; Sans. ánta.]
Proverbs DictionaryProverbs Dictionary 📗
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Everything hath an end, and a pudding hath two.
