Main entry: end
Definition: (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage
Usage: no one wanted to play end
Main entry: end
Definition: the part you are expected to play
Usage: he held up his end
Main entry: end, oddment, remainder, remnant
Definition: a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
Main entry: end
Definition: a final part or section
Usage: 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
Definition: the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it
Usage: the ends justify the means
Main entry: close, closing, conclusion, end, ending
Definition: the last section of a communication
Usage: in conclusion I want to say...
Main entry: last, final stage, end
Definition: the concluding parts of an event or occurrence
Usage: the end was exciting; I had to miss the last of the movie
Main entry: end
Definition: a boundary marking the extremities of something
Usage: the end of town
Definition: either extremity of something that has length
Usage: 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
Main entry: end
Definition: the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object
Usage: one end of the box was marked `This side up'
Main entry: end
Definition: one of two places from which people are communicating to each other
Usage: the phone rang at the other end; both ends wrote at the same time
Main entry: end
Definition: (football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage
Usage: the end managed to hold onto the pass
Main entry: death, destruction, end
Definition: a final state
Usage: he came to a bad end; the so-called glorious experiment came to an inglorious end
Definition: the point in time at which something ends
Usage: the end of the year; the ending of warranty period
Definition: bring to an end or halt
Usage: 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
Main entry: end
Definition: put an end to
Usage: The terrible news ended our hopes that he had survived
Main entry: cease, stop, terminate, finish, end
Definition: have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
Usage: 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
Definition: be the end of; be the last or concluding part of
Usage: This sad scene ended the movie