Definizione monolingua

end

end (third-person singular simple present ends, present participle ending, simple past and past participle ended)

1. (intransitive): To finish, terminate

   Is this movie ever going to end?

   The lesson will end when the bell rings.

   The meeting was so boring, I thought it would never end.

2. (transitive): To finish, terminate (something or someone)

   The referee blew the whistle to end the game.

   • 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XLV, lines 7-8:

     But play the man, stand up and end you

     When your sickness is your soul.

end (plural ends)

1. The final point of something in space or time

   Is there no end to this madness?

   At the end of the road, turn left.

   At the end of the story, the main characters fall in love.

   • 1908: Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

     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.

2. death
3. result
4. A purpose, goal, or aim
   • 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.21:

     There is a long argument to prove that foreign conquest is not the end of the State, showing that many people took the imperialist view.

5. (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground
   • The Pavillion End
6. (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end
7. (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion
8. (mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex

end

1. than (in comparisons):

   Han er venligere end hun. (He is friendlier than she.)

Definizione dizionario end

	fine
	extreme part
	Parte estrema.
	Extreme part.
	L'ultima parte o quella finale.
	The last or final part.

	finire
	intransitive: finish, terminate
	transitive: finish, terminate (something)
	Arrivare alla fine.
	To reach oneself's end.

	terminare
	Far finire qualche cosa.
	To make something end.
	To stop communications or a network connection.

	cessare
	Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical.

confine

frontiera

scopo

	chiudere
	To stop communications or a network connection.

	finere
	Arrivare alla fine.
	To reach oneself's end.

	smettere
	Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical.

accadere

al punto più estremo

arrestare

avanzo

capo

cessazione

chiusa

chiusura

compiere

completare

concludere

conclusione

end

esito

estremità

estremo

fare

fermare

finale

finalità

fino

fondo

intento

intenzione

interrompere

liberare

limite

mira

morire

morte

mozzicone

oggetto

proposito

punta

residuo

risultato

scadere

scorcio

succedere

termine

traguardo

ultimo

Altri significati:

point (e.g. pencil)

(to) the end

(intransitive): To finish, terminate.

limit(s)

period in curling

the limit(s)

end (e.g. of report, document, paragraph, etc.)

Result.

end (of a task)

the last days of any age

end (e.g. of street)

(cut) end

Extreme line.

end (of a performance)

set out (forth)

(curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.

end (of an entertainment or match)

Death.

(to) finish

The final point of something in space or time.

(place to) stop

(transitive): To finish, terminate (something or someone).

death

(American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.

end of a game of go

(mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex.

(cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.

A purpose, goal, or aim.