end

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage

   no one wanted to play end

2. 2
   noun

   the part you are expected to play

   They held up their end of the bargain.

3. 3
   noun

   a final part or section

   we have given it at the end of the section since it involves the calculus

4. 4
   noun

   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

5. 5
   noun

   the concluding parts of an event or occurrence

   the end was exciting

6. 6
   noun

   a boundary marking the extremities of something

   the end of town

7. 7
   noun

   either extremity of something that has length

   the end of the pier

8. 8
   noun

   the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object

   one end of the box was marked `This side up'

Etymology

From Middle English ende, from Old English ende, from Proto-West Germanic *andī, from Proto-Germanic *andijaz (“end”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂entíos (“forehead; front”), from *h₂ent- (“face; forehead; front”), from *h₂en- (“on, onto”). Cognates Cognate with Yola een, eene (“end”), Saterland Frisian Eend, Eende (“end”), West Frisian ein (“end”), Alemannic German End, Endi (“end”), Central Franconian Eng, Enk (“end”), Cimbrian énte (“end”), Dutch eind, einde, end (“end”), German Ende (“end”), Luxembourgish Enn (“end”), Vilamovian end, ent (“end”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nyn…