different between end vs pith
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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pith
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English pith, pithe, from Old English piþa, from Proto-Germanic *piþô (compare West Frisian piid (“pulp, kernel”), Dutch peen (“carrot”), Low German Peddik (“pulp, core”)), from earlier *piþ? (oblique *pittan). Doublet of pit. The verb meaning "to kill by cutting or piercing the spinal cord" is attested 1805.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p??/
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
pith (usually uncountable, plural piths)
- (botany) The soft, spongy substance in the center of the stems of many plants and trees.
- The spongy interior substance of a feather or horn.
- (anatomy) The spinal cord; the marrow.
- (botany) The albedo of a citrus fruit.
- (figuratively) The essential or vital part; force; energy; importance.
- 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 144]:
- The clothesline surrendered the pith of its soul, and Kathleen's stockings, hung at the wide end, now suggested lust.
- 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 144]:
- (figuratively) Power, strength, might.
Synonyms
- (essential or necessary part): core, essence, general tenor, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, quintessence, soul, spirit, stuff, substance; See also Thesaurus:gist
Related terms
- pith helmet
- pithy
- pith and substance
Translations
Verb
pith (third-person singular simple present piths, present participle pithing, simple past and past participle pithed)
- (transitive) To extract the pith from (a plant stem or tree).
- (transitive) To kill (especially cattle or laboratory animals) by cutting or piercing the spinal cord.
Etymology 2
From pi (“number 3.14159...”) +? -th.
Alternative forms
- pi-th
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pa??/
Adjective
pith (not comparable)
- The ordinal form of the number pi.
Translations
Noun
pith (plural piths)
- One divided by pi.
Translations
Anagrams
- phit
Middle English
Alternative forms
- pithe, piþ, piþþe, pyþe, peþe, pyth, pythe
Etymology
From Old English piþa, from Proto-Germanic *piþô.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pi?(?)/, /?pið(?)/, /?pe??(?)/
Noun
pith (uncountable)
- The soft interior portion of something, especially:
- (botany) pith (soft substance in the center of a plant's stem)
- The pulp (soft innards) of a fruit.
- (figuratively) The essential or vital part; importance.
- (figuratively) Power, strength, might.
Descendants
- English: pith
- Scots: pith
References
- “pith(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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