Definition of "end" in English

noun

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

   • At the end of the garden there was a beautiful fountain.
   • At the end of the story, the main characters fall in love.

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

   • Is there no end to this madness?

3. (by extension, often with "the") Death.

   • He met a terrible end in the jungle.
   • I hope the end comes quickly.
   • A safe companion and an easy friend / Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end.

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.

5. Result.

   • 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.

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

   • The Pavillion End

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

9. (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.

10. (mathematics) 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

12. One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.

13. (in the plural, slang, African-American Vernacular) Money.

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

verb

1. (intransitive, ergative) 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.