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See also:END,End,-end,end-,andэнд

Translingual

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Etymology

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Clipping ofEnglishEnde.

Symbol

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end

  1. (international standards)ISO 639-3language code forEnde.

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English

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EnglishWikipedia has an article on:
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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishende, fromOld Englishende, fromProto-West Germanic*andī, fromProto-Germanic*andijaz(“end”), fromProto-Indo-European*h₂entíos(“forehead; front”), from*h₂ent-(“face; forehead; front”), from*h₂en-(“on, onto”).

Cognates

Cognate withYolaeen,eene(“end”),Saterland FrisianEend,Eende(“end”),West Frisianein(“end”),Alemannic GermanEnd,Endi(“end”),Central FranconianEng,Enk(“end”),Cimbrianénte(“end”),Dutcheind,einde,end(“end”),GermanEnde(“end”),LuxembourgishEnn(“end”),Vilamovianend,ent(“end”),Danish,Norwegian Bokmål, andNorwegian Nynorskende(“end”),Faroeseendi(“end”),Icelandicendi,endir(“end”),Swedishända,ände(“end”),Gothic𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌴𐌹𐍃(andeis,“end”); alsoIrishéadan(“end; front”),Manxeddin(“face; front”),Scottish Gaelicaodann(“face; hillside”),Latinantiae(“forelock”),Ancient Greekἀντίος(antíos,“opposite”),Albaniananë(“brink; edge; facet; side”),Latvianno(“for; from”),Lithuaniannuo(“for; from”),Belarusian,Bulgarian,Macedonian,Russian, andUkrainianна(na,“on”),Czech,Kashubian,Lower Sorbian,Polish,Slovak, andSlovenena(“on”),Serbo-Croatianна,na(“on”),Old Armenianընդ(ənd,“in the place, instead of”),Old Persian𐎠𐎲𐎡𐎹(abiy,“against; towards; upon”),Tocharian Aānt(“in front”),Tocharian Bānte(“in front of”),Sanskritअन्त(anta,“boundary; border, edge; end, termination”). More atand andanti-.

The verb is fromMiddle Englishenden,endien, fromOld Englishendian(“to end, to make an end of, complete, finish, abolish, destroy, come to an end, die”), fromProto-Germanic*andijōną(“to finish, end”), denominative from*andijaz.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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end (pluralends)

  1. Theterminal point of something in space or time.
    • 1908 October,Kenneth Grahame,The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.:Charles Scribner’s Sons,→OCLC:
      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 apparentend.
    • 1913,Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter IV, inMr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London:D[aniel] Appleton and Company,→OCLC:
      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 theend he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.
    • 1946, Tsai-yu Hsiao,Epidemiology of the Diseases of Naval Importance in Manchuria‎[3],Bureau of Medicine and Surgery,→OCLC,page20:
      An epidemic of the disease started in Lü-shun at theend of 1927 and extended to April 1928, involving 271 cases with 14 deaths (Migai, 1928).
    At theend of the garden there was a beautiful fountain.
    At theend of the story, the main characters fall in love.
  2. (by extension) The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
    Is there noend to this madness?
    • 1986,The Army Communicator, volume11, number 2, page46:
      The new electronic switching system means expanded service and anend to irritances such as cross-talk, line-hum, and being cut off in mid-conversation.
  3. (by extension, often with "the")Death.
    He met a terribleend in the jungle.
    I hope theend comes quickly.
    • c.1593 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act II, scene i]:
      Confound your hidden falsehood, and award / Either of you to be the other'send.
    • 1732,Alexander Pope, (epitaph) On Mr. Gay, in Westminster Abbey:
      A safe companion and an easy friend / Unblamed through life, lamented in thyend.
    • 2025 May 3, Patricia Clarke, “You and me, we gonna live forever … as avatars, at least”, inThe Observer‎[4]:
      Regulators and developers should consider the privacy risks. But more than anything, Sparrow thinks we should all reflect on how we prepare forthe 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.
  4. The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide.
    Hold the string at bothends.
    My father always sat at theend of the table nearest the kitchen.
  5. Result.
    • 1599 (first performance),William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act V,(please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:
      O that a man might know / Theend of this day's business ere it come!
    • 1876, Great Britain. Public Record Office, John Sherren Brewer, Robert Henry Brodie, James Gairdner,Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII (volume 4, issue 3, part 2, page 3154)
      Theend was that he was thought an archfool.
  7. Apurpose,goal, oraim.
    Synonym:purpose
    For whatend should I toil?
    Theend of our club is to advance conversation and friendship.
    • 1675,John Dryden,Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] forHenry Herringman, […], published1676,→OCLC, Act III:
      But, losing her, theEnd of Living lose.
    • 1825,Samuel Taylor Coleridge,Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character, Aphorism VI, page 146:
      When every man is his ownend, all things will come to a bad end.
    • 1946,Bertrand Russell,History of Western Philosophy,I.21:
      There is a long argument to prove that foreign conquest is not theend of the State, showing that many people took the imperialist view.
  8. (cricket) One of the two parts of theground used as adescriptivename forhalf of the ground.
    The PavillionEnd
  9. (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensiveline, atight end, asplit end, adefensive end.
  10. (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
  11. (mathematics) Anidealpoint of agraph or othercomplex. SeeEnd (graph theory)
  12. That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
  13. One of theyarns of theworstedwarp in aBrussels carpet.
  14. (in theplural, slang, African-American Vernacular)Money.
    Don't give them yourends. You jack that shit!

Synonyms

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Antonyms

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Hyponyms

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A component in place names

Derived terms

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Collocations

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Adjectives often used with "end"
  • final, ultimate, deep, happy, etc.

Descendants

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Translations

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extreme part
death
result
purpose
period in curling
ideal point of a complex
  • Finnish:pää (fi)
  • Norwegian:
    Bokmål:please add this translation if you can
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Verb

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end (third-person singular simple presentends,present participleending,simple past and past participleended)

  1. (intransitive, ergative) To come to an end.
    Is this movie never going toend?
    The lesson willend when the bell rings.
  2. (intransitive) Toconclude; to bring something to an end.
    The orchestraended with a performance of Dvořák.
    • 2005, Xah Lee,Learn Lojban Fast‎[5]:
      cmene alwaysend with a consonant followed by a mandatory pause (a period). No other Lojban wordends with a consonant.
  3. (transitive) Tofinish,terminate.
    The referee blew the whistle toend the game.
    • 1611,The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […],→OCLC,Genesis2:2:
      And on the seventh day Godended his worke[…]
    • c.1596–1598 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act II, scene iii]:
      If thou keep promise, I shallend this strife
    • 1896,A. E. Housman,A Shropshire Lad, XLV, lines 7-8:
      But play the man, stand up andend you, / When your sickness is your soul.
    • 1949 May and June, R. A. H. Weight, “A Short-Lived Pacific Class”, inRailway Magazine, page196:
      So, subject to the salvaging of serviceable parts, all five were withdrawn for breaking up in 1936-7, and thusended one of the shortest histories of an important locomotive class on record.
    • 2013 November 9, “How to stop the fighting, sometimes”, inThe Economist, volume409, number8861:
      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.

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Translations

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intransitive: be finished, be terminated
intransitive—seeconclude
transitive: finish, terminate (something)
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References

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  1. ^Bingham, Caleb (1808), “Improprieties in Pronunciation, common among the people of New-England”, inThe Child's Companion; Being a Conciſe Spelling-book […] ‎[1], 12th edition,Boston: Manning & Loring,→OCLC,page75.

Anagrams

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Albanian

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Etymology 1

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FromProto-Albanian*antis/t, fromProto-Indo-European*h₂n̥t-jes/t(“to plait, weave”).[1]

Verb

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end (aoristenda,participleendur)

  1. (transitive) toweave
    Synonyms:vej,vegjoj
Conjugation
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Standard Albanian conjugation ofend (active voice)

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participleendur
gerundduke endur
infinitivepër të endur
singularplural
1st pers.2nd pers.3rd pers.1st pers.2nd pers.3rd pers.
indicativepresentendendendendimendniendin
imperfectendjaendjeendteendnimendnitendnin
aoristendaendeendiendëmendëtendën
perfectkam endurke endurka endurkemi endurkeni endurkanë endur
past perfectkisha endurkishe endurkishte endurkishim endurkishit endurkishin endur
aorist IIpata endurpate endurpati endurpatëm endurpatët endurpatën endur
future1do tëenddo tëendëshdo tëendëdo tëendimdo tëendnido tëendin
future perfect2do të kem endurdo të kesh endurdo të ketë endurdo të kemi endurdo të keni endurdo të kenë endur
subjunctivepresenttëendtëendështëendëtëendimtëendnitëendin
imperfecttëendjatëendjetëendtetëendnimtëendnittëendnin
perfecttë kem endurtë kesh endurtë ketë endurtë kemi endurtë keni endurtë kenë endur
past perfecttë kisha endurtë kishe endurtë kishte endurtë kishim endurtë kishit endurtë kishin endur
conditional1, 2imperfectdo tëendjado tëendjedo tëendtedo tëendnimdo tëendnitdo tëendnin
past perfectdo të kisha endurdo të kishe endurdo të kishte endurdo të kishim endurdo të kishit endurdo të kishin endur
optativepresentendshaendshendtëendshimendshiendshin
perfectpaça endurpaç endurpastë endurpaçim endurpaçit endurpaçin endur
admirativepresentendkamendkeendkaendkemiendkeniendkan
imperfectendkëshaendkësheendkëshendkëshimendkëshitendkëshin
perfectpaskam endurpaske endurpaska endurpaskemi endurpaskeni endurpaskan endur
past perfectpaskësha endurpaskëshe endurpaskësh endurpaskëshim endurpaskëshit endurpaskëshin endur
imperativepresent—end——endni—
1) indicative future identical with conditional present2) indicative future perfect identical with conditional perfect
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Etymology 2

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Ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*h₂endʰ-. probably fromAncient Greekἄνθος(ánthos), or fromProto-Albanian*anda[2]

Verb

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end (aoristenda,participleendur)

  1. (intransitive) tobloom,blossom
  2. (transitive) toflyblow
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References

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  1. ^Demiraj, Bardhyl (1997),Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: […]] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎[2] (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page166
  2. ^Orel, Vladimir. (1998). Albanian Etymological Dictionary.p 62

Danish

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Etymology 1

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FromOld Norseen, earlieran, probably fromProto-Germanic*þan(“then”), likeEnglishthan,Germandenn(“than, for”). For the loss of þ-, compareOld Norseat(“that”) fromProto-Germanic*þat(“that”).

Pronunciation

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Conjunction

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end

  1. than (in comparisons)
    Han er venligereend hende.
    He is friendlierthan her.
    Han er venligereend hun er.
    He is friendlierthan she is.

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FromOld Norseenn, fromProto-Germanic*andi, fromProto-Indo-European*h₂entí.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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end

  1. (archaic)still
    Thiend bestandig gælder de gamle, gyldne ord.
    For the old, golden words arestill continually valid.
  2. (with interrogatives) no matter, ever
    Hvor manend er, kan man føle sig alene.
    Wherever you are, you may feel alone.
  3. even (in the modern language only in the combinationend ikke "not even")
    End ikke statsministeren kan nå alt.
    Noteven the Prime Minister can get everything done.

Etymology 3

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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end

  1. imperative ofende

Dutch

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Dutchende(“end”) with apocope of the final-e.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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end n (pluralenden,diminutiveendje n)

  1. (colloquial)alternative form ofeind
    De winkel is daar aan 'tend van de weg. ―The shop is there at theend of the road.
    't Is nog een eenend vanaf hier. ―There is still aconsiderable distance to travel from here.

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Estonian

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Pronoun

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end

  1. partitivesingular ofise

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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end

  1. alternative form ofende

Etymology 2

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Verb

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end

  1. alternative form ofenden

Norwegian Bokmål

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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end

  1. imperative ofende

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Verb

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end

  1. imperative ofenda

Old English

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Pronunciation

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Conjunction

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end

  1. alternative form ofand

Vilamovian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromMiddle High Germanende, fromOld High Germanenti, fromProto-West Germanic*andī, fromProto-Germanic*andijaz(“end”), fromProto-Indo-European*h₂ent-(“face; forehead; front”).

Noun

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end n

  1. end

Antonyms

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