different between later vs end
later
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?le?t?/
- (US) enPR: l??t?r, IPA(key): /?le?t?/, [?le????]
- Rhymes: -e?t?(?)
Etymology
- Adverb: From Middle English later, latere, from Old English lator, equivalent to late +? -er.
- Adjective: From Middle English later, latere, from Old English lætra, equivalent to late +? -er.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian leeter (“later”), West Frisian letter (“later”), Dutch later (“later”), German Low German later (“later”).
Adverb
later
- comparative form of late: more late
- Afterward in time (used with than when comparing with another time).
- At some unspecified time in the future.
Synonyms
- (afterward in time): afterwards, hereafter; see also Thesaurus:subsequently
- (at some unspecified time in the future): later on, someday; see also Thesaurus:one day
Antonyms
- earlier
Derived terms
- smell ya later, smell you later
Translations
Adjective
later
- comparative form of late: more late
- Jim was later than John.
- Coming afterward in time (used with than when comparing with another time).
- The Victorian era is a later period of English history than the Elizabethan era.
- Coming afterward in distance (following an antecedent distance as embedded within an adverbial phrase)
- I felt some leg pain during the first mile of my run and I strained my calf two miles later .
- At some time in the future.
- The meeting was adjourned to a later date.
Antonyms
- earlier
Translations
Interjection
later
- (slang) See you later; goodbye.
- Later, dude.
Translations
Derived terms
Anagrams
- Alert, alert, alter, alter-, altre, artel, ratel, taler, telar
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?la?.t?r/
- Rhymes: -a?t?r
Adjective
later
- Comparative form of laat
- Having to do with or occurring in the future.
Inflection
Antonyms
- eerder
- vroeger
Adverb
later
- later
- in the future
Antonyms
- eerder
Anagrams
- alert, ratel
Latin
Etymology
Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *pleth?- (“flat”), or from *stelh?- (“broad”) (in which case latus would be its neuter form).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?la.ter/, [???ät??r]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?la.ter/, [?l??t??r]
Noun
later m (genitive lateris); third declension
- brick, tile
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
- later?cius
- laterculus
References
- later in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- later in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- later in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- later in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- later in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag
Mauritian Creole
Etymology
From French terre
Noun
later
- land, earth, soil
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
later
- present of late
Old Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse latr, from Proto-Germanic *lataz.
Adjective
later
- lazy, sluggish
Declension
Descendants
- Swedish: lat
Seychellois Creole
Etymology
From French terre
Noun
later
- land, earth, soil
Swedish
Noun
later
- indefinite plural of lat
Anagrams
- alert, artel, letar, realt
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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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