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end
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)
- 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.
- 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows:
- (by extension) The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
- Is there no end to this madness?
- (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.
- 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.
- 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!
- c. 1599, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Act V, scene i:
- 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.
- 1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe, Act III, scene i:
- (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
- (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 [...].
- 1926, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Penguin 2000, page 11:
- (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
- (mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex.
- 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.
- One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
- (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)
- (intransitive, ergative) to come to an end
- (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)
- (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)
- (intransitive) to bloom, blossom
- (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
- 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
- still (archaic)
- (with interrogatives) no matter, ever
- even (in the modern language only in the combination end ikke "not even")
Etymology 3
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??n?/
Verb
end
- 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)
- end
- travel distance
- 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
- partitive singular of ise
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English ende.
Noun
end
- Alternative form of ende
Etymology 2
From Old English endian.
Verb
end
- Alternative form of enden
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
end
- imperative of ende
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
end
- imperative of enda and ende
Vilamovian
Etymology
From Middle High German ende, from Old High German enti.
Pronunciation
Noun
end n
- end
Antonyms
- ofaong
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objective
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French objectif, from Latin obiect?vus.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?b?d???k.t?v/, /?b?d???k.t?v/
- (US) IPA(key): /?b?d???k.t?v/
- Rhymes: -?kt?v
Adjective
objective (comparative more objective, superlative most objective)
- Of or relating to a material object, actual existence or reality.
- Not influenced by the emotions or prejudices.
- Based on observed facts; without subjective assessment.
- (grammar) Of, or relating to a noun or pronoun used as the object of a verb.
- (linguistics, grammar) Of, or relating to verbal conjugation that indicates the object (patient) of an action. (In linguistic descriptions of Tundra Nenets, among others.)
- 2014, Irina Nikolaeva, A Grammar of Tundra Nenets, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, ?ISBN
- The general finite stem is the verbal stem which serves as the basis of inflection in the indicative present and past in the subjective conjugation and the objective conjugation with the singular and dual object.
- 2014, Irina Nikolaeva, A Grammar of Tundra Nenets, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, ?ISBN
Usage notes
- Said of account, judgment, criteria, person, existence, or observation.
Antonyms
- subjective
Derived terms
- nonobjective
- objective correlative
- objectivity
Translations
Noun
objective (plural objectives)
- A material object that physically exists.
- A goal that is striven for.
- Objectives are the stepping stones which guide you to achieving your goals. They must be verifiable in some way, whether that?s statistically – ‘the more I do this, the better I get at it? – or by some other achievable concept such as getting the job or relationship that you want. It?s crucial that your objectives lead you logically towards your goal and are quantifiable.
- (grammar) The objective case.
- Synonyms: object case, objective case
- (grammar) a noun or pronoun in the objective case.
- The lens or lenses of a camera, microscope, or other optical device closest to the object being examined.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:goal
Translations
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b.??k.tiv/
- Homophone: objectives
Adjective
objective
- feminine singular of objectif
Latin
Adjective
object?ve
- vocative masculine singular of object?vus
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