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More at and and anti-.\nThe 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 *andijōną (“to finish, end”), denominative from *andijaz." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "The terminal point of something in space or time.\n1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC: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.\n1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 4, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.\nAt the end of the road, turn left.\nAt the end of the story, the main characters fall in love." }, { "mean": "(by extension) The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.\nIs there no end to this madness?" }, { "mean": "(by extension) Death.\nHe met a terrible end in the jungle.\nI hope the end comes quickly.\nc. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Confound your hidden falsehood, and award / Either of you to be the other's end.\n1732, Alexander Pope, (epitaph) On Mr. Gay, in Westminster Abbey:\nA safe companion and and easy friend / Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end." }, { "mean": "The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide.\nHold the string at both ends.\nMy father always sat at the end of the table nearest the kitchen.\n1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Psalms 22:27:All the ends of the woꝛld ſhall remember, and turne vnto the Lord: and all the kinreds of the nations ſhall woꝛſhip befoꝛe thee." }, { "mean": "Result.\n1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :O that a man might know / The end of this day's business ere it come!\n1876, Great Britain. Public Record Office, John Sherren Brewer, Robert Henry Brodie, James Gairdner, Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII (volume 4, issue 3, part 2, page 3154)\nThe end was that he was thought an archfool." }, { "mean": "A purpose, goal, or aim.\nFor what end should I toil?\nThe end of our club is to advance conversation and friendship.\nSynonym: purpose\n1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. , London: T N for Henry Herringman, , published 1676, →OCLC, Act III:But, losing her, the End of Living lose.\n1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character, Aphorism VI, page 146:\nWhen every man is his own end, all things will come to a bad end.\n1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.21:\nThere is a long argument to prove that foreign conquest is not the end of the State, showing that many people took the imperialist view." }, { "mean": "(cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.\nThe Pavillion End" }, { "mean": "(American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.\n1925, F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1953, →ISBN:Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven ." }, { "mean": "(curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion." }, { "mean": "(mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex. See End (graph theory)" }, { "mean": "That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.\nodds and ends\nc. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :I clothe my naked villainy / With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ, / And seem a saint, when most I play the devil." }, { "mean": "One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet." }, { "mean": "(in the plural, slang, African-American Vernacular) Money.\nDon't give them your ends. You jack that shit!" } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(intransitive, ergative) to come to an end\nIs this movie never going to end?\nThe lesson will end when the bell rings." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To finish, terminate.\nThe referee blew the whistle to end the game.\n1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Genesis 2:2:And on the seventh day God ended his worke \nc. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :If thou keep promise, I shall end this strife\n1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XLV, lines 7-8:\nBut play the man, stand up and end you, / When your sickness is your soul.\n2013 November 9, “How to stop the fighting, sometimes”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8861:Ending civil wars is hard. Hatreds within countries often run far deeper than between them. The fighting rarely sticks to battlefields, as it can do between states. Civilians are rarely spared. And there are no borders to fall back behind." } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }