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[ verb ] have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense
Examples : "My property ends by the bushes" "The symphony ends in a pianissimo" Used in print ("Editorials"...)The escalation must end sometime , and probably quite soon . (Mr. America, 4:6...)Before your first training experiment has ended there will be a big improvement and almost before you know it you 'll be raising and lowering yourself just like a veteran ! (Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)All Southerners agree that slavery had to go ; but many historians maintain that except for Northern meddling it would have ended in states like Virginia years before it did . (Clifford H. Pope, The Giant Snakes....)There seems to be a rough correlation between the initial and ultimate lengths , starting with the smallest ( boa_constrictor ) and ending with the largest ( anaconda ) . (Leon Uris, Mila 8....)Beyond the forest all our paths merge into a single great highway which ends in the barren , eroded hills of Judea . |
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[ verb ] have end in a certain location; either spatial or metaphorical
Examples "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed" "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other" |
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[ noun ] either extremity of something that has length
Examples : "the end of the pier" "she knotted the end of the thread" "they rode to the end of the line" Used in print (The New York Times,...)`` We 'll have the problem of baseball at one end and weather at the other '' . (Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)The physical film is cut with a knife at the end of one complete sequence , and the cut edge is joined physically , by cement , to the cut edge of the beginning of the next sequence . (Howard Nemerov, "Themes and Methods: The Early...)The first sentence , with its platitudinous irony , announces an emblematic intent : `` The way to the churchyard ran_along beside the highroad , ran beside it all_the_way to the end ; that_is_to_say , to the churchyard '' . (Harry H. Hull, "The Normal Forces and Their Ther...)In normal use weights are hung_on the end of the tape and allowed to pull the tape and the material to be tested between the blocks . If a is the major_axis of an ellipsoid and b and c are the other two axes , the radius_of_curvature in the ab plane at the end of the axis is * * f , and the difference in pressure along the a and b axes is * * f . |
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[ noun ] the point in time at which something ends
Synonyms Examples "the end of the year" "the ending of warranty period" Used in print (The Atlanta Constitution...)The jury further said in term end presentments that the City_Executive_Committee , which had over-all charge of the election , `` deserves the praise and thanks of the City_of_Atlanta '' for the manner in which the election was conducted . (The Dallas Morning News,...)Daniel termed `` extremely conservative '' his estimate that it would produce 17 million dollars to help erase an anticipated deficit of 63 million dollars at the end of the current fiscal_year next Aug. 31 . (The New York Times,...)He succeeds Buck_Shaw , who retired at the end of last season . (William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)As the play opens the audience is introduced to the community of Salem in Puritan America at the end of the eighteenth century . (Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)The material of the Porter film is simplicity itself ; much of_it has continued to be used over the years and the heart of_it - good_guys and bad_guys in the old West - pretty well dominated television toward the end of the 1950's . |
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[ verb ] bring to an end
Synonyms Examples "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime" Used in print (The Sun, [Baltimore],...)Indications as_late_as the top of the sixth were that the Birds were to end their victory drought as they coasted along with a 3 - to-o advantage . John_Powell , batting for Adair , fanned after fouling off two 2 - and 2 pitches , and Buddy_Barker , up for Stepanovich , bounced_out sharply to Jerry_Lumpe at second to end the 2 - hour and - 27 - minute contest . (The New York Times,...)Philadelphia permitted him to seek a better connection after he had refused to reconsider his decision to end his career as a player . (St. Louis Post-Dispatch,...)Manager_Hemus , eager to end a pitching slump that has brought four losses in the five games on the current home stand , moved Gibson to the Wednesday night starting assignment . On last May 1 , the Cardinals stood at 7 - 6 , ending a two season fall-off on that milestone . |
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[ noun ] the concluding parts of an event or occurrence
Synonyms Examples : "the end was exciting" "I had to miss the last of the movie" Used in print (Rocky Mountains News, [Denver, Colorado],...)This dissatisfaction led to Howsam 's request that the video not be terminated before the end of the game . (The Providence Journal...)By the end of the third act , the artist is dead but the body lingers on , a shell among other shells . (Jaroslav Pelikan, The Shape of Death: life, death and...)As Origen interprets the end of history on the basis of its beginning , so Irenaeus portrays the story of Adam on the basis of the story of Christ . His interpretation of the beginning on the basis of the end prompts him to draw these parallels between the Virgin Eve and the Virgin Mary . But He set a bound to his [ state of ] sin , by interposing death , and thus causing sin to cease , putting an end to it by the dissolution of the flesh , which should take_place in the earth , so_that man , ceasing at_length to live in sin , and dying to it , might live to God '' . |
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[ noun ] the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it
Synonyms Examples "the ends justify the means" Used in print (The Rev. John A. O'Brien, "Let's Take Birth Control...)The Roman_Catholic natural-law tradition regards as self-evident that the primary objective purpose of the conjugal act is procreation and that the fostering of the mutual love of the spouses is the secondary and subjective end . Thus , man can readily deduce that the primary objective end of the conjugal act is procreation , the propagation of the race . Denouncing the view that the sexual_union is an end in itself , the Conference declared : `` We steadfastly uphold what must always be regarded_as the governing considerations of Christian marriage . (John Harnsberger and Robert P. Wilkins,...)Having achieved this end , he was able to buy 116000 square_miles in the valleys of the Red and Assiniboine rivers . (Barry Goldwater, "A Foreign Policy for America"...)Proximate in the sense that there are more distant , more `` positive '' ends we seek , to which victory over Communism is but a means . Related terms content purpose aim intention destination no-goal end-all bourn plan_of_action |
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[ noun ] a final part or section
Examples : "we have given it at the end of the section since it involves the calculus" "Start at the beginning and go on until you come to the end" Used in print ("Editorials"...)U_Thant of_course , will hold office until the spring of 1963 , when Mr._Hammarskjold 's term would have come to an end . (Edward Austin Walton, "On Education for the Interior...)At the end of its letter was the information that applicants for this position `` must also be prepared to teach costume design and advertising art '' . (Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)In a series of fairy_tales and fantasies , Melies demonstrated that the film is superbly equipped to tell a straightforward story , with beginning , middle and end , complications , resolutions , climaxes , and conclusions . Now time is also the concern of the fictional narrative , which is , at its simplest , the story of an action with , usually , a beginning , a middle , and an end - elements which demand time as the first condition for their existence . (Kenneth Hoffman and Ray Kunze, Linear Al...)We have chosen to give it at the end of the section since it deals with differential_equations and thus is not purely linear_algebra . |
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[ verb ] be the end of; be the last of concluding part of
Synonyms Examples "This sad scene ended the movie" Used in print (The Dallas Morning News,...)When the shouting ended , the bill passed , 114 to 4 , sending it to the Senate , where a similar proposal is being sponsored by Sen._George_Parkhouse of Dallas . (St. Louis Post-Dispatch,...)The '52 Cards were 6 - 7 on May 1 but ended with 88 triumphs , the club 's top since 1949 . (Chester G. Starr, The Origins of Greek Civili...)The Dipylon_Geometric pottery of Athens and the Iliad are amazing manifestations of the inherent potentialities of Greek civilization ; but both were among the last products of a phase which was ending . (Ross E. McKinney and Howard Edde, "Aerated...)Shortly after this study ended septic conditions resulted which required the addition of sodium_nitrate . (W. E. B. DuBois, Worlds of Color....)It sometimes ended in death-like trances with many lying exhausted and panting on chair and floor . Related terms |
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[ noun ] a final state
Synonyms Examples "he came to a bad end" "the so-called glorious experiment came to an inglorious end" Used in print (Howard Nemerov, "Themes and Methods: The Early...)Piepsam is grotesque , a disturbing parody ; his end is ridiculous and trivial . (Chester G. Starr, The Origins of Greek Civili...)To interpret , indeed , the era from 1000 to 800 as a period mainly of consolidation may be a necessary but unfortunate defect born of our lack of detailed information ; if we could see more deeply , we probably would find many side issues and wrong turnings which came to an end within the period . (Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)Analytical_Cubism came to an end in the collage , but not conclusively ; nor did Synthetic_Cubism fully begin there . |
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[ noun ] the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object
Examples : "one end of the box was marked `This side up'" Used in print (Jay C. Harris and John R. Van Wazer, "Detergent...)( 3 ) For anionics , these micelles appear to be roughly spherical assemblages in which the hydrocarbon tails come together so that the polar groups ( the ionized ends ) face outward towards the aqueous continuous phase . Related_to micelle formation is the technologically important ability of detergent actives to congregate at oil_water_interfaces in such a manner that the polar ( or ionized ) end of the molecule is directed towards the aqueous phase and the hydrocarbon chain towards the oily phase . (William S. Haymond, "Is Distance an Original...)And so the authors conclude : `` The conduct of the patient in his every-day life and in his work , even more_than the foregoing facts [ mentioned above under 1 ] , leave positively no room for doubt that the sense_of_touch , in the ordinary sense of the word , was unaffected ; or , to put the same thing in physiological terms , that the performance capacity of the tactual apparatus , from the periphery up to the tactual centers in the brain , - that_is , from one end to the other - was unimpaired '' . (Robert Penn Warren, Wilderness....)The chimney of the hut across from him was surmounted by a beef barrel with ends knocked_out . |
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[ noun ] (football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage
Examples "the end managed to hold onto the pass" Used in print (The Dallas Morning News,...)Meek expressed particular gratification at the defensive performances of end Happy_Nelson and halfback Billy_Gannon . End Gene_Raesz , who broke a hand in the Owl 's game with LSU , was back working_out with Rice_Monday , and John_Nichols , sophomore guard , moved_back into action after a week 's idleness with an ankle injury . (The New York Times,...)Gauer works with the ends . |
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[ noun ] a boundary marking the extremities of something
Examples : "the end of town" Used in print (John R. Sargent, "Where To Aim Your Planning for Bigger...)We have already witnessed great changes through mergers and acquisitions in the food industry - at both the manufacturing and retail ends . (Jim Thompson, The Transgressors....)Here in the God-forsaken place , the westerly end of nowhere , Tom_Lord looked almost insignificant , almost contemptible . |
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[ noun ] one of two places from which people are communicating to each other
Examples "the phone rang at the other end" or "both ends wrote at the same time" Used in print (Robert L. Duncan, The Voice of Strangers....)He was surprised to find Kayabashi 's secretary on the other end of the line . Related terms |
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[ verb ] put an end to
Examples "The terrible news ended our hopes that he had survived" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (fine art,writing) the last section of a communication
Synonyms Examples "in conclusion I want to say..." Related terms section finale epilogue peroration anticlimax epilogue narration address terminate |
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[ verb ] bring to a conclusion or cause to come to an end
Examples "We terminated our relation with the company" "It is unclear whether the bombing of Hiroshima ended the war" "Cease doing what you are doing!" |
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[ noun ] (sport,american football) a position on the line of scrimmage
Examples "no one wanted to play end" Related terms |
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