The Collaborative International Dictionary
End \End\ ([e^]nd), n. [OE. & AS. ende; akin to OS. endi, D. einde, eind, OHG. enti, G. ende, Icel. endir, endi, Sw. ["a]nde, Dan. ende, Goth. andeis, Skr. anta. [root]208. Cf. Ante-, Anti-, Answer.]
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The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; the concluding part; termination; close; limit; as, the end of a field, line, pole, road; the end of a year, of a discourse; put an end to pain; -- opposed to beginning, when used of anything having a first part.
Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof.
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Point beyond which no procession can be made; conclusion; issue; result, whether successful or otherwise; conclusive event; consequence.
My guilt be on my head, and there an end.
--Shak.O that a man might know The end of this day's business ere it come!
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Termination of being; death; destruction; extermination; also, cause of death or destruction.
Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end.
--Pope.Confound your hidden falsehood, and award Either of you to be the other's end.
--Shak.I shall see an end of him.
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The object aimed at in any effort considered as the close and effect of exertion; ppurpose; intention; aim; as, to labor for private or public ends.
Losing her, the end of living lose.
--Dryden.When every man is his own end, all things will come to a bad end.
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That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap; as, odds and ends.
I clothe my naked villainy With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ, And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
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(Carpet Manuf.) One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet. An end.
On end; upright; erect; endways.
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To the end; continuously. [Obs.]
--Richardson.End bulb (Anat.), one of the bulblike bodies in which some sensory nerve fibers end in certain parts of the skin and mucous membranes; -- also called end corpuscles.
End fly, a bobfly.
End for end, one end for the other; in reversed order.
End man, the last man in a row; one of the two men at the extremities of a line of minstrels.
End on (Naut.), bow foremost.
End organ (Anat.), the structure in which a nerve fiber ends, either peripherally or centrally.
End plate (Anat.), one of the flat expansions in which motor nerve fibers terminate on muscular fibers.
End play (Mach.), movement endwise, or room for such movement.
End stone (Horol.), one of the two plates of a jewel in a timepiece; the part that limits the pivot's end play.
Ends of the earth, the remotest regions of the earth.
In the end, finally.
--Shak.On end, upright; erect.
To the end, in order.
--Bacon.To make both ends meet, to live within one's income.
--Fuller.To put an end to, to destroy.
Wikipedia
Ends of the Earth may refer to:
- Extreme points of Earth
- Ends of the Earth (figurative), a figurative expression
- "Ends of the Earth" (DC Comics), a Wonder Woman story line
- "Ends of the Earth" (Marvel Comics), a Spider-Man story line
- The Ends of the Earth (novel), a novel by Valerio Massimo Manfredi
- The Ends of the Earth (short story collection), a story collection by Lucius Shepard
- The Ends of the Earth (play), by Morris Panych
- "Ends of the Earth," a song by Lord Huron from their 2012 album Lonesome Dreams
- "Ends of the Earth," a song by Dirty Three from their 1998 album Ocean Songs
"Ends of the Earth" is the name of a four-issue comic book story arc written by Gail Simone with art by Aaron Lopresti. Published in issues #20–23 of Wonder Woman vol. 3, it is the third story arc under Gail Simone's writing reigns, following The Circle and a two-parter found in issues #18–19. It also marks the return of DC Comics's version of the Beowulf character since his last appearance back in the 1970s.
"Ends of the Earth" is a comic book storyline in The Amazing Spider-Man published by Marvel Comics in 2012. The villains of the story are the Sinister Six. Unlike the prior event story " Spider-Island" there is only one tie-in issue (a one-shot) instead of the multitude of tie-in issues involved with that story; the story is completely contained within issues #682-687 of The Amazing Spider-Man.
The Ends of the Earth is a figurative expression based on the geographical reality of the most distant parts of the earth from whatever point may be treated as central.
In the Bible, Job stated that God 'looks to the ends of the earth and sees everything under the heavens. The Queen of the south (or the Queen of Sheba) was said by Jesus to have travelled from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon'
Pope Francis in accepting his election as Pope, referred to himself as having come from the 'end of the Earth', meaning Argentina:
"It seems my brother cardinals went almost to the end of the world" (to choose a pope)."The island of Palmerston in the Pacific Ocean has been described as 'the island at the end of the Earth'.
Usage examples of "ends of the earth".
In The Ends of the Earth, I have tried to see the present in terms of the future, on the whole an ominous one for a significant part of the third world.
He intended to run until Ba'alzamon could never find him again, to the ends of the earth if necessary.
Why is it that some men seek wars, traveling to the ends of the earth to find them?
He had been replaced by someone much better suited to the task at hand, a figure of legendary courage and valor who would pursue his quest to the ends of the earth.
There was a lust of wandering in his feet that burned to set out for the ends of the earth.
If he'd known Anheliaa had the power to throw him to the ends of the earth with the flick of a finger and a twist of the Rhomatum Rings, he'd never have let her provoke him in her damned tower.
I shall come from the ends of the earth, gladly, sir, to bear witness at your court martial.