End

Noun

 * 1)  Extreme part.
 * 2) The final point of something in space or time.
 * Is there no end to this madness?
 * 1) * 1908: Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
 * 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.
 * 1)  Extreme line.
 * 2) Death.
 * 3) Result.
 * 4) A purpose, goal, or aim.
 * Certainly he could do so, but to what end?
 * For some people, knowledge is a means to an end; for others, it is an end in itself.
 * The end justifies the means.
 * 1)  One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
 * 2) * The Pavillion End
 * 3)  The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.
 * 4)  A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
 * 5)  An ideal point of a graph or other complex.

Synonyms

 * termination
 * See also Thesaurus:goal

Derived terms

 * at the end of the day
 * big end
 * bitter end
 * dead-end
 * East End
 * -ended
 * endless
 * endly
 * End of Days
 * end of the line
 * end of the road
 * endpaper
 * end piece, endpiece
 * end product
 * end times
 * end-to-end
 * endways, endwise


 * high-end
 * loose end
 * low-end
 * make ends meet
 * off the deep end
 * on end
 * rear end
 * split end
 * The End
 * tight end
 * to this end
 * up-end
 * West End
 * week-end, weekend
 * without end

Verb

 * : To finish, terminate.
 * Is this movie ever going to end?
 * : To finish, terminate (something or someone).
 * 1) * 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XLV, lines 7-8:
 * But play the man, stand up and end you
 * When your sickness is your soul.

Adjectives for End
dreary; practical; extreme; definite; private; lofty; selfish; ambitious; sordid; common; remote; swanlike; unsavory; equivocal; inexorable; surprising; personal; muchcoveted; teleological; adequate; ornamental; technical; ulterior; contingent; unpitied; desirable; special; worthier; appointed; hideous; latter; petty; sad; professed; untimely; abhorred; economical; wretched; radiant; conscious; tapering; immortal; futile; spiritual; individual; chief; shameful; ephemeral; extravagant; lifeless; blunt; preconceived; ultimate; gracious; disastrous.

Verbs for End
accomplish—; achieve—; attain—; bend to—; catch—; constitute—; continue until—; contrive—; discern—; draw to—; endure to—; fear—; fulfill—; further—; hasten—; indicate—; justify—; maintain till—; obtain—; pause at—; pray for—; progress toward—; pursue—; push to—; put to—; scorn—; serve—; sever—; sleep till—-; stave off—; subserve—; waste—; welcome——; work out—,

Adverbs for End
invariably; eloquently; feebly; amicably; mournfully; abruptly; fatally; badly; tragically; comically; sorrowfully; dramatically; coldly; virtually; intelligibly; disastrously; breathlessly; inevitably; miserably; ultimately; insignificantly; ominously; appropriately; abruptly; gradually; poetically; swiftly.

Thesaurus
Friday, Friday the thirteenth, abandon, abort, accomplishment, acme, afterglow, afterimage, aim, all, allotment, allowance, amateur athlete, annihilate, annihilation, answer, apogee, appointed lot, archer, arrest, astral influences, astrology, athlete, attend, balance, ballplayer, bane, baseballer, baseman, batter, battery, be done for, be no more, become of, belay, bell, bereave of life, big end, bigger half, biological death, bit, bite, bitter end, blocking back, book of fate, border line, borderline, bound, boundary, boundary condition, boundary line, bourn, bowman, break boundary, breakoff point, budget, butt, butt end, button up, by-end, by-purpose, cancel, candle ends, cap, carry away, carry off, carry to completion, catastrophe, catcher, cease, ceiling, center, cessation, cessation of life, chaff, check, checkmate, chip, chloroform, chunk, circumscription, clean up, clearing up, climax, clinical death, clip, clipping, close, close out, close up, closing, closure, coach, coda, collop, come about, come of, come out, come to naught, come to nothing, commission, compass, competitor, complete, completing, completion, conclude, conclusion, confine, confines, conk out, constellation, consummation, contingent, cracking, cricketer, crossing the bar, crown, crumb, culminate, culmination, cup, curtains, cut, cut down, cut it out, cut off, cut short, cutoff, cutoff point, cutting, dead stop, deadline, deadlock, deal, death, death knell, deathblow, debris, debt of nature, decease, decipherment, decoding, defensive lineman, delimitation, demise, denouement, departure, deprive of life, desist, desistance, destination, destiny, destroy, desuetude, determinant, determination, determine, detritus, develop, die, dies funestis, disappear, discontinuance, discontinuation, discontinue, disentanglement, dispatch, dispose of, dissolution, dividend, division line, do away with, do for, do to death, dole, dollop, doom, drop it, dying, ebb of life, end in view, end of life, end result, endgame, ending, ensue, equal share, eternal rest, eventuate, execute, exit, expiration, expire, explanation, exterminate, extinction, extinguishment, extreme, extremity, fade away, fag end, fall out, fare, fatality, fate, filings, final cause, final result, final summons, final whistle, finale, finality, finalize, finding, finding-out, finger of death, finis, finish, finish off, finish up, finishing, floor, follow, footballer, foredoom, fortune, fossil, fragment, frontier, full development, full stop, future, game, games-player, gamester, get done, get it over, get rid of, get through, get through with, give over, go, goal, gob, gobbet, going, going off, grave, grinding halt, guard, gun, half, halt, halver, hand of death, have done with, hedge, helping, high-water mark, highest degree, hold, holdover, hunk, husks, ides of March, immolate, inevitability, infielder, interest, interface, interpretation, issue, jaws of death, jock, jumper, kill, kismet, knell, knock it off, last act, last debt, last muster, last rest, last roundup, last sleep, launch into eternity, lay off, leave off, leaving, leaving life, leavings, leftovers, limen, limit, limitation, limiting factor, line, line of demarcation, lineman, liquidate, lockout, loss of life, lot, low-water mark, lower limit, lump, lynch, make away with, making an end, march, mark, martyr, martyrize, maturation, maturity, maximum, measure, meed, mess, mete, modicum, moiety, moira, mop up, morsel, ne plus ultra, nip, nth degree, object, object in mind, objective, odds and ends, offensive lineman, offscourings, orts, outcome, outfield, outfielder, pan out, paring, parings, part, particle, parting, pass, pass away, passing, passing away, passing over, payoff, peak, peg out, percentage, perfect, perfection, period, perish, perishing, perorate, piece, pinnacle, planets, player, poison, poloist, portion, prey, professional athlete, proportion, prove, prove to be, pugilist, purge, pursuit, put away, put down, put paid to, put to death, put to sleep, quantum, quarry, quarterback, quietus, quintain, quit, quota, racer, rags, rake-off, rasher, ration, reason, reason for being, refrain, refuse, release, relics, relinquish, remainder, remains, remnant, remove from life, renounce, residue, residuum, resolution, resolve, resolving, rest, result, reward, riddling, ripeness, roach, round out, rounding off, rounding out, rubbish, ruins, rump, run out, sacrifice, sawdust, scoop, scourings, scrap, scraps, scratch, scrub, segment, sentence of death, shades of death, shadow, shadow of death, shard, share, shaving, shavings, shiver, shred, sit-down strike, skater, slaughter, slay, sleep, slice, sliver, small share, smithereen, snack, snatch, snip, snippet, solution, solving, somatic death, sorting out, splinter, sport, sportsman, stake, stalemate, stand, standoff, standstill, stars, start, starting line, starting point, starve, stay, stitch, stock, stop, stoppage, straw, strike, stubble, stump, succumb, summit, summons of death, survival, sweepings, tackle, tailback, take life, take off, target, target date, tatter, teleology, term, terminal, terminal date, terminate, termination, terminus, the whole, threshold, time allotment, tip, to, top, top off, top out, topping off, toxophilite, trace, turn out, ultimate, ultimate aim, unfold, unlucky day, unraveling, unriddling, unscrambling, unspinning, untangling, untwisting, unweaving, upper limit, upshot, utmost, utmost extent, uttermost, vanish, vestige, walkout, waste, weird, wheel of fortune, will of Heaven, wind up, windup, wingback, work out, work stoppage, working, working-out, wrap up, wrestler

Etymology 1
From ende:, from  ende:, from  (compare Dutch einde:, German Ende:, Swedish ände:), from  (compare Old Irish ét: 'end, point', Latin antiæ: 'forelock', Albanian anë: 'side', Ancient Greek antíos: 'opposite', Sanskrit antyas: 'last'), from *anti 'opposite'. More at anti.

Etymology 2
endian

Noun

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: վերջ (verǰ), ծայր (çayr)
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: diwezh
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: fino
 * Estonian: lõpp
 * Ewe: nuwuwu
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, , extrémité
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: סוף (sof), קצה (q'tzeh) (literally edge)
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido: fino
 * Indonesian: akhir, ujung
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 終了 (しゅうりょう, shūryō), 終わり (おわり, owari), 端 (はし, hashi)
 * Korean: 끝 (kkeut)
 * Kurdish:, , , ,


 * Latgalian:, ,
 * Latin:, finis, terminus, exitus, extremum, extremus, peractio
 * Latvian: gals, beigas
 * Lithuanian: pabaigos
 * Maltese: tmiem, għeluq
 * Norwegian:, slutt
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: крај
 * Roman: kraj
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: slut, ände
 * Tagalog: katapusan, dulo
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:


 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Latgalian:
 * Latvian: gals
 * Norwegian: slutt
 * Polish: koniec


 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: smrt
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: slut, död
 * Tagalog: katapusan, wakas, kamatayan


 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: cieľ


 * Slovene:
 * Swahili:

Verb

 * Albanian: mbaron
 * Armenian: վերջանալ
 * Bosnian:
 * Catalan: acabar
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 完成, 完
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian: lõppema
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek: : τελειώνω (telióno)
 * Hebrew: נגמר
 * Hindi: ख़त्म होना
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido: finar
 * Indonesian: berakhirkan, berakhir, tamat, selesai, habis
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 終わる
 * Kurdish: qedîn, xilas bûn, temam bûn, kuta bûn, neman, bi dawî hatin
 * Meru:
 * Norwegian: slutte
 * Persian: تمام شدن
 * Polish: kończyć się
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: окончиться, закончиться
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: свршити
 * Latin: svršiti, finio, termino, finem habeo, finior, terminor
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish: sluta, ända
 * Tagalog: matapos
 * Turkish:
 * Urdu: ختم ہونا


 * Arabic: أنهى, فرغ
 * Armenian: վերջացնել
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton: echuiñ
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: lõpetama
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hindi: ख़त्म करना, अंत करना
 * Ido: finar
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 終了, 終える


 * Kurdish: qedandin, xilas kirin, temam kirin, kuta kirin, nehêlan, bi dawî anîn
 * Norwegian:, terminere
 * Persian: تمام کردن
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:,  ,
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: завршити
 * Latin: završiti, finio, termino
 * Slovak: skončiť, ukončiť
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: sluta
 * Tagalog: tapusin
 * Urdu: ختم کرنا

Derived terms

 * ending
 * end up
 * never-ending
 * unending

Anagrams

 * Den, den, DNE, NDE, NED, Ned, ned

Verb
end


 * 1) to weave

Conjunction

 * 1) than (in comparisons):
 * Han er venligere end hun. (He is friendlier than she.)