end

Noun

• (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage
  • no one wanted to play end
    

• a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold

• the last section of a communication
  • in conclusion I want to say...
    

• the part you are expected to play
  • he held up his end
    

• one of two places from which people are communicating to each other
  • the phone rang at the other end
    
  • both ends wrote at the same time
    

• a boundary marking the extremities of something
  • the end of town
    

• (football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage
  • the end managed to hold onto the pass
    

• the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object
  • one end of the box was marked `This side up'
    

• a final state
  • he came to a bad end
    
  • the so-called glorious experiment came to an inglorious end
    

• a final part or section
  • we have given it at the end of the section since it involves the calculus
    
  • Start at the beginning and go on until you come to the end
    

• the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it
  • the ends justify the means
    

• the concluding parts of an event or occurrence
  • the end was exciting
    
  • I had to miss the last of the movie
    

• the point in time at which something ends
  • the end of the year
    
  • the ending of warranty period
    

• either extremity of something that has length
  • the end of the pier
    
  • she knotted the end of the thread
    
  • they rode to the end of the line
    
  • the terminals of the anterior arches of the fornix
    

Verb

• put an end to
  • The terrible news ended our hopes that he had survived
    

• be the end of; be the last or concluding part of
  • This sad scene ended the movie
    

• bring to an end or halt
  • She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime
    
  • The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I
    

• have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
  • the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed
    
  • Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other
    
  • My property ends by the bushes
    
  • The symphony ends in a pianissimo
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  remainder , remnant , oddment , conclusion , close , closing , ending , destruction , death , goal , last , final stage , terminal , terminate , stop , finish , cease
• Antonyms: 
  beginning , middle , begin , lead off , start , commence , get down , get , start out , set about , set out