end

noun

1. The terminal point of something in space or time.

   “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.”

   “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 the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.”

   “An epidemic of the disease started in Lü-shun at the end of 1927 and extended to April 1928, involving 271 cases with 14 deaths (Migai, 1928).”

   “At the end of the garden there was a beautiful fountain.”

   “At the end of the story, the main characters fall in love.”

2. (broadly)The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.

   “Is there no end to this madness?”

   “The new electronic switching system means expanded service and an end to irritances such as cross-talk, line-hum, and being cut off in mid-conversation.”

3. (broadly, often, with-definite-article)Death.

   “He met a terrible end in the jungle.”

   “I hope the end comes quickly.”

   “Confound your hidden falsehood, and award / Either of you to be the other's end.”

   “A safe companion and an easy friend / Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end.”

   “Regulators and developers should consider the privacy risks. But more than anything, Sparrow thinks we should all reflect on how we prepare for the 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 both ends.”

   “My father always sat at the end of the table nearest the kitchen.”

   “All the ends of the woꝛld ſhall remember, and turne vnto the Lord: and all the kinreds of the nations ſhall woꝛſhip befoꝛe thee.”

5. Result.

   “O that a man might know / The end of this day's business ere it come!”

   “The end was that he was thought an archfool.”

6. A purpose, goal, or aim.

   “For what end should I toil?”

   “The end of our club is to advance conversation and friendship.”

   “But, losing her, the End of Living lose.”

   “When every man is his own end, all things will come to a bad end.”

   “There is a long argument to prove that foreign conquest is not the end of the State, showing that many people took the imperialist view.”

7. One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.

   “The Pavillion End”

8. The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.

   “Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven […].”

9. A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
10. An ideal point of a graph or other complex. See End (graph theory)
11. That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.

    “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.”

12. A single warp thread.

    “Wind a warp of 459 ends 3¾ yd long, following the warp color order in Figure 1.”

13. (in-plural, slang)Money.

    “Don't give them your ends. You jack that shit!”

14. A key that when pressed causes the cursor to go to the last character of the current line.
15. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of equivalent narcotic depth.

verb

1. (ergative, intransitive)To come to an end.

   “Is this movie never going to end?”

   “The lesson will end when the bell rings.”

2. (intransitive)To conclude; to bring something to an end.

   “The orchestra ended with a performance of Dvořák.”

3. (transitive)To finish, terminate.

   “The referee blew the whistle to end the game.”

   “And on the seventh day God ended his worke[…]”

   “If thou keep promise, I shall end this strife”

   “But play the man, stand up and end you, / When your sickness is your soul.”

   “So, subject to the salvaging of serviceable parts, all five were withdrawn for breaking up in 1936-7, and thus ended one of the shortest histories of an important locomotive class on record.”