English Dictionary: end | by the DICT Development Group |
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
End \End\, n. [OE. & AS. ende; akin to OS. endi, D. einde, eind, OHG. enti, G. ende, Icel. endir, endi, Sw. [84]nde, Dan. ende, Goth. andeis, Skr. anta. [?][?][?][?]. Cf. {Ante-}, {Anti-}, {Answer}.] 1. The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; the concluding part; termination; close; limit; as, the end of a field, line, pole, road; the end of a year, of a discourse; put an end to pain; -- opposed to {beginning}, when used of anything having a first part. Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof. --Eccl. vii. 8. 2. Point beyond which no procession can be made; conclusion; issue; result, whether successful or otherwise; conclusive event; consequence. My guilt be on my head, and there an end. --Shak. O that a man might know The end of this day's business ere it come! --Shak. 3. Termination of being; death; destruction; extermination; also, cause of death or destruction. Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end. --Pope. Confound your hidden falsehood, and award Either of you to be the other's end. --Shak. I shall see an end of him. --Shak. 4. The object aimed at in any effort considered as the close and effect of exertion; ppurpose; intention; aim; as, to labor for private or public ends. Losing her, the end of living lose. --Dryden. When every man is his own end, all things will come to a bad end. --Coleridge. 5. That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap; as, odds and ends. I clothe my naked villainy With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ, And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. --Shak. 6. (Carpet Manuf.) One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
End \End\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ended}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ending}.] 1. To bring to an end or conclusion; to finish; to close; to terminate; as, to end a speech. [bd]I shall end this strife.[b8] --Shak. On the seventh day God ended his work. --Gen. ii. 2. 2. To form or be at the end of; as, the letter k ends the word back. 3. To destroy; to put to death. [bd]This sword hath ended him.[b8] --Shak. {To end up}, to lift or tilt, so as to set on end; as, to end up a hogshead. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
End \End\, v. i. To come to the ultimate point; to be finished; to come to a close; to cease; to terminate; as, a voyage ends; life ends; winter ends. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Endo- \En"do-\, End- \End-\ [Gr. 'e`ndon within, fr. [?] in. See {In}.] A combining form signifying within; as, endocarp, endogen, endocuneiform, endaspidean. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
End in Heb. 13:7, is the rendering of the unusual Greek word _ekbasin_, meaning "outcome", i.e., death. It occurs only elsewhere in 1 Cor. 10:13, where it is rendered "escape." |