End

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.

Point beyond which no procession can be made; conclusion; issue; result, whether successful or otherwise; conclusive event; consequence.

Termination of being; death; destruction; extermination; also, cause of death or destruction.

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.

That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap; as, odds and ends.

One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.

To bring to an end or conclusion; to finish; to close; to terminate; as, to end a speech.

To form or be at the end of; as, the letter k ends the word back.

To destroy; to put to death.

To come to the ultimate point; to be finished; to come to a close; to cease; to terminate; as, a voyage ends; life ends; winter ends.

a final part or section; "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"

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"

either extremity of something that has length; "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"