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end
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Noun
  • (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage
    • no one wanted to play end
  • a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
  • the last section of a communication
    • in conclusion I want to say...
  • the part you are expected to play
    • he held up his 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
  • a boundary marking the extremities of something
    • the end of town
  • (football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage
    • the end managed to hold onto the pass
  • the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object
    • one end of the box was marked `This side up'
  • a final state
    • he came to a bad end
    • the so-called glorious experiment came to an inglorious 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
  • 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
  • the concluding parts of an event or occurrence
    • the end was exciting
    • I had to miss the last of the movie
  • the point in time at which something ends
    • the end of the year
    • the ending of warranty period
  • 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
Verb
  • put an end to
    • The terrible news ended our hopes that he had survived
  • be the end of; be the last or concluding part of
    • This sad scene ended the movie
  • 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
  • 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
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