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单词 end
释义

end

See also: End, -end, and end-

English

Alternative forms

  • ende (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English ende, from Old English ende, from Proto-West Germanic *andī, from Proto-Germanic *andijaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂entíos, from *h₂entíos (“front, forehead”).

See also Dutch einde, German Ende, Norwegian ende, Swedish ände; also Old Irish ét (“end, point”), Latin antiae (“forelock”), Albanian anë (“side”), Ancient Greek ἀντίος (antíos, “opposite”), Sanskrit अन्त्य (antya, “last”). More at and and anti-.

The verb is from Middle English enden, endien, from Old English endian (“to end, to make an end of, complete, finish, abolish, destroy, come to an end, die”), from Proto-Germanic *andijōną (“to finish, end”), denominative from *andijaz.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: ĕnd, IPA(key): /ɛnd/
  • (dialectal, obsolete) enPR: ēnd, IPA(key): /iːnd/[1]
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  • Rhymes: -ɛnd

Noun

end (plural ends)

  1. The terminal point of something in space or time.
    • 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, OCLC 305520:
      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.
    • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 4, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
      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.
    At the end of the road, turn left.
    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) Death.
    He met a terrible end in the jungle.
    I hope the end comes quickly.
    • c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i]:
      Confound your hidden falsehood, and award / Either of you to be the other's end.
    • 1732, Alexander Pope, (epitaph) On Mr. Gay, in Westminster Abbey:
      A safe companion and and 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.
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Psalms 22:27:
      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.
    • 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:
      O that a man might know / The end of this day's business ere it come!
    • 1876, Great Britain. Public Record Office, John Sherren Brewer, Robert Henry Brodie, James Gairdner, Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII (volume 4, issue 3, part 2, page 3154)
      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.
    Synonym: purpose
    • 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, OCLC 228724395, Act III:
      But, losing her, the End of Living lose.
    • 1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character, Aphorism VI, page 146:
      When every man is his own end, all things will come to a bad end.
    • 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.21:
      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. (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.
    • 1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, OCLC 884653065; republished New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1953, →ISBN:
      Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven […] .
  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
    • c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene iii]:
      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. 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!

Synonyms

  • (final point in space or time): conclusion, limit, terminus, termination
  • See also Thesaurus:goal

Antonyms

  • (final point of something): beginning, start

Hyponyms

  • Audley End
  • big end
  • bitter end
  • Bourne End
  • Bridge End, Bridgend
  • Cliffsend, Cliffs End
  • Crouch End
  • East End
  • Elmers End
  • Four Lane Ends
  • Hatch End
  • Hedge End
  • Hulme End
  • Hundred End
  • Knott End, Knott End-on-Sea
  • Land's End
  • Lane End
  • living end
  • loose end
  • Mile End
  • North End
  • Park End, Parkend
  • Ponders End
  • Princes End
  • rear end
  • Rood End
  • split end
  • Streetly End
  • The End
  • tight end
  • Town End, Townend
  • Wallsend
  • weekend
  • Well End
  • West End
  • Whitlock's End
  • world's end, World's End

Derived terms

  • 3′ end
  • 5′ end
  • all good things come to an end
  • all good things must come to an end
  • arse end
  • Arse-end Charlie
  • arse end of nowhere
  • at a loose end
  • at the end of one's tether
  • at the receiving end
  • back end
  • back-end
  • baulk end
  • begin at the wrong end
  • beginning of the end
  • bell end
  • bell-end
  • big end of town
  • blank end
  • bottom-end
  • bring an end to
  • bring to an end
  • business end
  • by-end
  • candle-end
  • closed-end fund
  • cod end
  • come to an end
  • come to a sticky end
  • dead-end
  • dead end
  • deep end
  • dog-end
  • double-end
  • end artery
  • end board
  • end-button
  • end button
  • end cap
  • end-consumer
  • end consumer
  • end-Cretaceous
  • -ended
  • end-effector
  • end-feel
  • end feel
  • end-feet
  • end-foot
  • end for end
  • end game
  • end-game
  • end grain
  • endism
  • end item
  • end lap
  • end-leaf
  • endless
  • endlike
  • end line
  • end lockdown
  • endly
  • end mark
  • end matter
  • end member
  • end-member
  • endmember
  • end of
  • end of day
  • end-of-history illusion
  • end of life
  • end-of-life
  • end of quote
  • end of story
  • end of terrace
  • end of the day
  • end-of-the-pier
  • end of the rainbow
  • end of the world
  • end-of-train
  • end of watch
  • end-on
  • end-on-end
  • end organ
  • end-organ
  • endpaper
  • endpiece
  • end point, endpoint
  • end quote
  • end result
  • end rhyme
  • end run
  • endsay
  • end-scraper
  • endsome
  • end state
  • end table
  • end-to-end
  • end-Triassic mass extinction
  • end user
  • end user license agreement
  • endward
  • endways
  • endwise
  • end zone
  • fag end
  • fag-end
  • fore-end
  • front end
  • front-end
  • front end loader
  • front-end loader
  • front-end processor
  • fuzzy end of the lollipop
  • gable end
  • genetic dead end
  • get one's end away
  • get one's end in
  • get on the end of
  • have a face like the back end of a bus
  • hear the end of it
  • high end
  • high-end
  • hold up one's end
  • hot end
  • idiot end
  • in at the deep end
  • in the end
  • keep one's end up
  • knob-end
  • knob end
  • latter end
  • light at the end of the tunnel
  • like the back end of a bus
  • live end dead end
  • look beyond the end of one's nose
  • look past the end of one's nose
  • low-end
  • make someone's hair stand on end
  • meet a sticky end
  • meet one's end
  • middle-end
  • most an end
  • nob end
  • nob-end
  • no end
  • not know which end is up
  • not the end of the world
  • on the receiving end
  • open-end fund
  • other end
  • other end of the ball
  • paired-end tag
  • pointier end
  • pointiest end
  • pointy end
  • put an end to
  • rear-end
  • rear-end collision
  • rope's end
  • rope's-end
  • scrag-end
  • scrag end
  • see beyond the end of one's nose
  • shallow end
  • sharp end
  • sharp end of one's tongue
  • shoemaker's end
  • short end
  • show end
  • small end of the wedge
  • snitches get stitches and end up in ditches
  • standing end
  • stand on end
  • sticky end
  • stub end
  • tag end
  • tail end
  • tail-end
  • the end justifies the means
  • the end of one's rope
  • thin end of the wedge
  • think no end of oneself
  • thrombo-end-arterectomy
  • through the wrong end of the telescope
  • throw in at the deep end
  • to no end
  • top-end
  • top end of town
  • to that end
  • to the end of the chapter
  • to the end of time
  • to what end
  • up-end
  • warp end
  • war to end all war
  • war to end all wars
  • waxed end
  • wax end
  • wax-end
  • week-end, weekend
  • well end
  • wet end
  • wit's end
  • wits' end
  • working end
  • world without end
  • wrong end of the stick
  • year-end
  • all ends up
  • at loose ends
  • at one's fingers' ends
  • at the end of the day
  • beam-ends
  • burn one's candle at both ends
  • burnt ends
  • burn the candle at both ends
  • end in itself
  • End of Days
  • end of the line
  • end of the road
  • end piece
  • end product
  • ends of the earth
  • ends of the world
  • end times
  • every stick has two ends
  • extra ends
  • follow someone to the ends of the earth
  • follow someone to the ends of the world
  • go to the ends of the earth
  • go to the ends of the world
  • know which end is up
  • loose ends
  • make both ends meet
  • make ends meet
  • means to an end
  • odds and ends
  • off the deep end
  • on end
  • on one's beam ends
  • play both ends against the middle
  • see past the end of one's nose
  • short end of the stick
  • the ends justify the means
  • tie up loose ends
  • to this end
  • without end
  • work both ends against the middle

Collocations

Adjectives often used with "end"

final, ultimate, deep, happy, etc.

Descendants

  • → Japanese: エンド

Translations

Verb

end (third-person singular simple present ends, present participle ending, simple past and past participle ended)

  1. (intransitive, ergative) to come to an end
    Is this movie never going to end?
    The lesson will end when the bell rings.
  2. (transitive) To finish, terminate.
    The referee blew the whistle to end the game.
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Genesis 2:2:
      And on the seventh day God ended his worke […]
    • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene iii]:
      If thou keep promise, I shall end this strife
    • 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XLV, lines 7-8:
      But play the man, stand up and end you, / When your sickness is your soul.
    • 2013 November 9, “How to stop the fighting, sometimes”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8861:
      Ending civil wars is hard. Hatreds within countries often run far deeper than between them. The fighting rarely sticks to battlefields, as it can do between states. Civilians are rarely spared. And there are no borders to fall back behind.

Conjugation

Conjugation of end
infinitive(to) end
present tensepast tense
1st-person singular end ended
2nd-person singular
3rd-person singular ends
plural end
subjunctive end ended
imperative end —
participles ending ended

Derived terms

  • all's well that ends well
  • be-all and end-all
  • be-all end-all
  • end-all and be-all
  • end-all be-all
  • end in
  • ending
  • end in smoke
  • end in tears
  • end it all
  • end off
  • end one's days
  • end one's life
  • end up
  • Father Charles goes down and ends battle
  • never-ending
  • unending

Translations

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References

  1. Bingham, Caleb (1808), “Improprieties in Pronunciation, common among the people of New-England”, in The Child's Companion; Being a Conciſe Spelling-book […] ‎, 12th edition, Boston: Manning & Loring, OCLC 671561968, page 75.

Anagrams

  • DEN, DNE, Den, Den., NDE, NED, Ned, den, edn., ned

Albanian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Albanian *antis/t, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂n̥t-jes/t (“to plait, weave”).[1]

Verb

end (first-person singular past tense enda, participle endur)

  1. (transitive) to weave
    Synonyms: vej, vegjoj
Derived terms
  • endem

Etymology 2

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂endʰ-.

Verb

end (first-person singular past tense enda, participle endur)

  1. (intransitive) to bloom, blossom
  2. (transitive) to flyblow
Derived terms
  • endëc
  • endë

References

  1. Demiraj, Bardhyl (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: Investigations into the Albanian Inherited Lexicon] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎ (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 166

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse enn, probably from Proto-Germanic *þan (“then”), like English than, German denn (“than, for”). For the loss of þ-, compare Old Norse at (“that”) from Proto-Germanic *þat (“that”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛn/

Conjunction

end

  1. than (in comparisons)
    Han er venligere end hende.
    He is friendlier than her.
    Han er venligere end hun er.
    He is friendlier than she is.

Etymology 2

From Old Norse enn, from Proto-Germanic *andi, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂entí.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛn/

Adverb

end

  1. still (archaic)
    Thi end bestandig gælder de gamle, gyldne ord.
    For the old, golden words are still continually valid.
  2. (with interrogatives) no matter, ever
    Hvor man end er, kan man føle sig alene.
    Wherever you are, you may feel alone.
  3. even (in the modern language only in the combination end ikke "not even")
    End ikke statsministeren kan nå alt.
    Not even the primeminister can get everything done.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛnˀ/

Verb

end

  1. imperative of ende

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch ende (“end”) with apocope of the final -e.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛnt/
  • audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: end
  • Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun

end n (plural enden, diminutive endje n)

  1. end
  2. travel distance
    • 1955, Remco Campert, “Vijfhonderd zilverlingen”, in Alle dagen feest, De Bezige Bij:
      De enige bij wie ik nog niet geweest ben, is Alain en die woont in het Quartier Latin en dat is een heel end weg.
      The only one I haven't visited yet is Alain as he lives in the Latin Quarter which is a long way off.
  3. a short length of something (such as a stick or a rope)

Usage notes

The form end is more informal than both einde and eind and is mainly used colloquially.

Synonyms

  • einde
  • eind

Anagrams

  • den

Estonian

Pronoun

end

  1. partitive singular of ise

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English ende.

Noun

end

  1. Alternative form of ende

Etymology 2

From Old English endian.

Verb

end

  1. Alternative form of enden

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛnd/, /ɛn/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛnd, -ɛn
  • Hyphenation: end
  • Homophone: enn

Verb

end

  1. imperative of ende

Anagrams

  • den, ned

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

end

  1. imperative of enda

Vilamovian

Etymology

From Middle High German ende, from Old High German enti.

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

end n

  1. end

Antonyms

  • ofaong
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