Pronunciations (4)
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/ɛnd/
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/iːnd/
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/ɪnd/
Pronunciation notes
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ɛnd
Noun
The terminal point of something in space or time.
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Wait at the end of the street.
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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.
I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.
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).
At the end of the garden there was a beautiful fountain.
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At the end of the story, the main characters fall in love.
As it was a great play, the audience applauded at the end.
Share of joint responsibility.
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Are you sure they'll honor their end of the deal?
The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
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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.
Death.
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He met a terrible end in the jungle.
I hope the end comes quickly.
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Confound your hidden falsehood, and award / Either of you to be the other's end.
A safe companion and an easy friend / Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end.
Regulators and developers should consider the privacy risks. But more than anything, Sparrow thinks we should all reflect on how we prepare for the end. “My mother has late-stage cancer, she’s clearly thinking about her own death, and so she is going through a process of throwing out all the things she doesn’t want the kids to deal with and prepping her house,” he says.
The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide.
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Hold the string at both ends.
My father always sat at the end of the table nearest the kitchen.
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All the ends of the woꝛld ſhall remember, and turne vnto the Lord: and all the kinreds of the nations ſhall woꝛſhip befoꝛe thee.
Result.
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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.
A purpose, goal, or aim.
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They worked together to that end.
For what end should I toil?
The end of our club is to advance conversation and friendship.
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But, losing her, the End of Living lose.
When every man is his own end, all things will come to a bad end.
There is a long argument to prove that foreign conquest is not the end of the State, showing that many people took the imperialist view.
One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
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The Pavillion End
The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.
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Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven […].
A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
An ideal point of a graph or other complex. See End (graph theory)
That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
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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.
A single warp thread.
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Wind a warp of 459 ends 3¾ yd long, following the warp color order in Figure 1.
Money.
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Don't give them your ends. You jack that shit!
Verb
To come to an end.
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The lesson ends at noon.
Is this movie never going to end?
The lesson will end when the bell rings.
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The canyon ends abruptly on the east side of Roraima, and here a waterfall pours over an outcropping of crystal.
To conclude; to bring something to an end.
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The orchestra ended with a performance of Dvořák.
To finish, terminate.
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Let us end the meeting here.
The referee blew the whistle to end the game.
And on the seventh day God ended his worke[…]
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If thou keep promise, I shall end this strife
But play the man, stand up and end you, / When your sickness is your soul.
So, subject to the salvaging of serviceable parts, all five were withdrawn for breaking up in 1936-7, and thus ended one of the shortest histories of an important locomotive class on record.
Ending civil wars is hard. Hatreds within countries often run far deeper than between them. The fighting rarely sticks to battlefields, as it can do between states. Civilians are rarely spared. And there are no borders to fall back behind.
Noun
either extremity of something that has length
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the end of the pier
she knotted the end of the thread
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they rode to the end of the line
the terminals of the anterior arches of the fornix
the point in time at which something ends
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the end of the year
the ending of warranty period
the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence
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the end was exciting
I had to miss the last of the movie
the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it
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the ends justify the means
a final part or section
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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
a final state
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he came to a bad end
the so-called glorious experiment came to an inglorious end
the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object
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one end of the box was marked ‘This side up’
(football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage
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the end managed to hold onto the pass
a boundary marking the extremities of something
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the end of town
one of two places from which people are communicating to each other
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the phone rang at the other end
both ends wrote at the same time
the part you are expected to play
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he held up his end
the last section of a communication
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in conclusion I want to say …
a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
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(American football) a position on the line of scrimmage, designating players at each end of the defensive line
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no one wanted to play end
Verb
have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
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the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed
Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other
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My property ends by the bushes
The symphony ends in a pianissimo
bring to an end or halt
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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
be the end of; be the last or concluding part of
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This sad scene ended the movie
put an end to
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The terrible news ended our hopes that he had survived