different between age vs end

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e?d??/
• Rhymes: -e?d?

Etymology

From Middle English age, borrowed from Anglo-Norman age, from Old French aage, eage (Modern French âge), from assumed unattested Vulgar Latin *aet?ticum, from Latin aet?tem, accusative form of aet?s, from aevum (“lifetime”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?eyu- (“vital force”). Displaced native Middle English elde (“age”) (modern eld; from Old English ieldu, eldo, ieldo (“age”)).

Noun

age (countable and uncountable, plural ages)

1. (countable) The whole duration of a being, whether animal, plant, or other kind, being alive.
2. (countable) The number of full years, months, days, hours, etc., that someone, or something, has been alive.
3. (countable) One of the stages of life.

4. (countable) The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested.

5. (countable) A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.
6. (countable) A great period in the history of the Earth.

7. (countable) A period of one hundred years; a century.
8. (countable) The people who live during a particular period.
9. (countable) A generation.

10. (countable, hyperbolic) A long time.

12. (countable, geology) A unit of geologic time subdividing an epoch into smaller parts.
13. (countable, poker) The right of the player to the left of the dealer to pass the first round in betting, and then to come in last or stay out; also, the player holding this position; the eldest hand.
14. (uncountable) That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time; specifically the size of that part.

15. (uncountable) Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities.

16. (uncountable) An advanced period of life; the latter part of life; the state of being old; eld, seniority.

Synonyms

• (duration of a life): lifespan, lifetime
• (period (in years or otherwise) something has been alive): eld
• (particular period of time): epoch, time; see also Thesaurus:era
• (period of one hundred years): centennium, yearhundred
• (long time): eternity, yonks; see also Thesaurus:eon
• (latter part of life): dotage, old age, eld; see also Thesaurus:old age

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

age (third-person singular simple present ages, present participle ageing or (US) aging, simple past and past participle aged)

1. (transitive) To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.

2. (transitive, figuratively) To postpone an action that would extinguish something, as a debt.

3. (transitive, accounting) To categorize by age.

4. (intransitive) To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age.

Synonyms

• (cause to grow old): mature; see also Thesaurus:make older
• (grow aged): elden; see also Thesaurus:to age

Derived terms

• age up

Translations

See also

• age on Wikiquote.Wikiquote
• Appendix:Age by decade

Further reading

• age in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• age in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• EGA, Ega, G. E. A.

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse aka (“to drive”), from Proto-Germanic *akan?, cognate with Swedish åka. The verb goes back to Proto-Indo-European *h?é?eti, which is also the source of Latin ag?, Ancient Greek ??? (ág?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a???/, [?æ?j?], [?æ?æ]
• Homophone: ae

Verb

age (past tense agede, past participle aget)

1. (intransitive, dated) to drive (in a vehicle)
2. (transitive, obsolete) to drive (a vehicle), transport

Inflection

Further reading

• “age” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

From a dialectal variant of haie, ultimately from Latin haga, borrowed from Frankish *haggju. More at English hedge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Noun

age m (plural ages)

1. beam (central bar of a plough)
2. shaft

Further reading

• “age” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Irish

Alternative forms

• aige

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /????/

Preposition

age

1. Munster form of ag (used before a possessive determiner)
   • 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, printed in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry, Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études 270. Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, p. 193:

Japanese

Romanization

age

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Kott

Etymology

From Proto-Yeniseian *?aqV (“to make sour, to rot”). Compare Assan bar-ak (“rotten”) and Arin bar-oje (“rotten”).

Adjective

age

1. rotten

Related terms

• b-?ge-ja?
• d??geja?

Latin

Etymology

Imperative form of ag?

Interjection

age

1. well now, well then, come now (transition)
2. very well, good, right (sign of affirmation)

Verb

age

1. second-person singular present active imperative of ag?

Mapudungun

Noun

age (using Raguileo Alphabet)

1. (anatomy) face

References

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old Norse agi.

Noun

age

1. Alternative form of awe

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old French aage, eage, from Vulgar Latin *aet?ticum, from Latin aet?s.

Alternative forms

• aage, ayge (both rare)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?d?(?)/

Noun

age (plural ages)

1. The age of someone (or rarely, something); the amount of time which someone has existed for.
2. The correct or traditional age for doing something (especially the age of maturity)
3. The state of being old, elderly, or aged; senescence or old age.
4. The life of something or someone; the length of time where a person or thing exists.
5. A period or portion of time; an age, epoch, or era.
6. Time (as an abstract concept); the passing of time.
7. (rare, in every age) A person or individual who is of a given or certain age.

Related terms

• agen

Descendants

• English: age
• Scots: age

References

• “??e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-01-19.

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

• ?g

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *aug?, from Proto-Germanic *augô, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ek?- (“eye, to see”). Cognates include Old English ?age, Old Saxon ?ga and Old Dutch ?ga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a??e/

Noun

?ge n

1. (anatomy) eye

Inflection

Descendants

• North Frisian:

  Most dialects: uug

  Goesharde: uug, uuch

  Halligen: uuch

  Heligoland: Oog

  Sylt: Oog

• Saterland Frisian: Ooge
• West Frisian: each

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ?ISBN

Portuguese

Verb

age

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of agir
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of agir

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English age

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ed?/

Noun

age (plural ages)

1. age

Verb

age (third-person singular present ages, present participle agin, past aged, past participle aged)

1. to age

References

• Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.

English

Alternative forms

• ende (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English ende, from Old English ende, from Proto-Germanic *andijaz (compare Dutch einde, German Ende, Norwegian ende, Swedish ände), from Proto-Indo-European *h?entíos (compare Old Irish ét (“end, point”), Latin antiae (“forelock”), Albanian anë (“side”), Ancient Greek ?????? (antíos, “opposite”), Sanskrit ?????? (antya, “last”)), from *h?entíos (“front, forehead”). 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 *andij?n? (“to finish, end”), denominative from *andijaz.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?nd, IPA^(key): /?nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd

Noun

end (plural ends)

1. The terminal point of something in space or time.
   • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows:

     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.

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. 1592, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Richard the Third, 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.

5. Result.
   • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Act V, scene i:

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

6. A purpose, goal, or aim.
   • 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe, Act III, scene i:

     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.

8. (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.
   • 1926, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Penguin 2000, page 11:

     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.
11. That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.

    odds and ends

    • c. 1592, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Richard the Third, 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!

Usage notes

• Adjectives often used with "end": final, ultimate, deep, happy, etc.

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

• (final point of something): beginning, start

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ???

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

2. (transitive) To finish, terminate.

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

   • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, 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.

Conjugation

Translations

Derived terms

• ending
• end up
• never-ending
• unending

Anagrams

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

Albanian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Albanian *antis/t, from Proto-Indo-European *h?n?t-jes/t (“to plait, weave”).

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 *h?end?-.

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) to bloom, blossom
2. (transitive) to flyblow

Derived terms

• endëc

Related terms

• endë

References

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-, cf. Old Norse at (“that”) from Proto-Germanic *þat (“that”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n/

Conjunction

end

1. than (in comparisons)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse enn, from Proto-Germanic *andi, from Proto-Indo-European *h?entí.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n/

Adverb

end

1. still (archaic)

2. (with interrogatives) no matter, ever

3. even (in the modern language only in the combination end ikke "not even")

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n?/

Verb

end

1. imperative of ende

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?nt/
• Hyphenation: end
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

end n (plural enden, diminutive endje n)

1. end
2. travel distance
3. a short length of something (such as a stick or a rope)

Synonyms

• einde
• eind

Usage notes

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

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

Verb

end

1. imperative of ende

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

end

1. imperative of enda and ende

Vilamovian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

end n

1. end

Antonyms

• ofaong