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end

Pronunciation: /ɛnd/

The English word “end” has 17 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. The terminal point of something in space or time.
  2. Share of joint responsibility.
  3. The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
  4. Death.
  5. The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide.
  6. Result.
  7. A purpose, goal, or aim.
  8. One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
  9. The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.
  10. A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
  11. An ideal point of a graph or other complex. See End (graph theory)
  12. That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
  13. A single warp thread.
  14. Money.

verb

  1. To come to an end.
  2. To conclude; to bring something to an end.
  3. To finish, terminate.

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…

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