end

English

/ɛnd/

noun
Definitions
  • The terminal point of something in space or time.
  • (by extension) The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
  • (by extension) Death.
  • The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide.
  • Result.
  • A purpose, goal, or aim.
  • (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
  • (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.
  • (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
  • (mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex.
  • That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
  • One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
  • (in the plural) Money.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English ende (duck, end) inherited from Old English ende inherited from Proto-Germanic *andijaz (end) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *h₂entíos (end) derived from Middle English enden derived from Old English endian (make an end of, end, die, finish, destroy, come to an end, abolish, complete) derived from Proto-Germanic *andijōną (end, finish).

Origin

Proto-Germanic

*andijōną

Gloss

end, finish

Concept
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Ontological Category

Person/Thing

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