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end is a noun and verb meaning "either extremity of something that has length". It is pronounced /ˈɛnd/ — end. It carries 18 recorded senses.
the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence
“the end was exciting”
“I had to miss the last of the movie”
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”
a final state
“he came to a bad end”
“the so-called glorious experiment came to an inglorious end”
the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object
“one end of the box was marked `This side up'”
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”
the last section of a communication
“in conclusion I want to say...”
a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
(American football) a position on the line of scrimmage
“no one wanted to play end”
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for end come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.