end : Idioms & Phrases

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An end

  • . (a) On end; upright; erect; endways. Spenser (b) To the end; continuously. Obs. Richardson.
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Arm's end

  • the end of the arm; a good distance off. Dryden.
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At loose ends

  • not in order; in confusion; carelessly managed.
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back end

  • noun the side of an object that is opposite its front
    backside; rear.
    • his room was toward the rear of the hotel
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be all and end all

  • noun the essential factor; the all-important element; the supreme aim
    be all and end all.
    • profit is the be-all and end-all of business
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be-all and end-all

  • noun the essential factor; the all-important element; the supreme aim
    be all and end all.
    • profit is the be-all and end-all of business
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beam-ends

  • noun (nautical) at the ends of the transverse deck beams of a vessel
    • on her beam-ends" means heeled over on the side so that the deck is almost vertical
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Bitter end

  • noun the final extremity (however unpleasant it may be)
    • he was determined to fight to the bitter end
  • noun (nautical) the inboard end of a line or cable especially the end that is wound around a bitt
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  • that part of a cable which is abaft the bitts, and so within board, when the ship rides at anchor.
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box end wrench

  • noun a wrench with a closed loop (a socket) that fits over a nut or bolt head
    box wrench.
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But end

  • the larger or thicker end; as, the but end of a log; the but end of a musket. See Butt, n.
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Butt end

  • noun thick end of the handle
    butt.
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  • . The thicker end of anything. See But end, under 2d But.
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by-end

By"-end` noun
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  1. Private end or interest; secret purpose; selfish advantage. Written also bye-end.
    "Profit or some other by-end." L'Estrange.
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Chump end

  • the thick end; as, the chump end of a joint of meat.
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closed-end fund

  • noun a regulated investment company that issues a fixed number of shares which are listed on a stock market
    closed-end fund.
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closed-end investment company

  • noun a regulated investment company that issues a fixed number of shares which are listed on a stock market
    closed-end fund.
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dead end

  • noun a passage with access only at one end
    cul; cul de sac.
  • noun a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible
    impasse; deadlock; standstill; stalemate.
    • reached an impasse on the negotiations
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dead-end

  • adjective satellite lacking opportunities for development or advancement
    • stuck in a dead-end job
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dead-end street

  • noun a street with only one way in or out
    blind alley; impasse; cul de sac.
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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.
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End fly

  • a bobfly.
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End for end

  • one end for the other; in reversed order.
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end game

  • noun the final stages of an extended process of negotiation
    endgame.
    • the diplomatic endgame
  • noun the final stages of a chess game after most of the pieces have been removed from the board
    endgame.
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End man

  • noun a man at one end of line of performers in a minstrel show; carries on humorous dialogue with the interlocutor
    corner man.
  • noun a man at one end of a row of people
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  • the last man in a row; one of the two men at the extremities of a line of minstrels.
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end matter

  • noun written matter following the main text of a book
    back matter.
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end of the world

  • noun (New Testament) day at the end of time following Armageddon when God will decree the fates of all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives
    Day of Judgment; Day of Judgement; Judgment Day; Last Judgment; Judgement Day; doomsday; eschaton; crack of doom; day of reckoning; Last Day; Last Judgement.
  • noun an unpleasant or disastrous destiny
    doomsday; day of reckoning; doom.
    • everyone was aware of the approaching doom but was helpless to avoid it
    • that's unfortunate but it isn't the end of the world
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End on

  • adverb with the end forward or toward the observer
    endways; endwise.
    • houses built endways
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  • (Naut.), bow foremost.
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End organ

  • noun a specialized structure at the peripheral end of some motor or sensory nerve fibers
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  • (Anat.), the structure in which a nerve fiber ends, either peripherally or centrally.
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End plate

  • (Anat.), one of the flat expansions in which motor nerve fibers terminate on muscular fibers.
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End play

  • (Mach.), movement endwise, or room for such movement.
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end point

  • noun a place where something ends or is complete
    endpoint; terminus; termination.
  • noun the final point in a process
    resultant.
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end product

  • noun final product; the things produced
    output.
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end run

  • noun (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running around the end of the line
    sweep.
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End stone

  • (Horol.), one of the two plates of a jewel in a timepiece; the part that limits the pivot's end play.
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end up

  • verb finally be or do something
    finish; wind up; fetch up; land up; finish up.
    • He ended up marrying his high school sweetheart
    • he wound up being unemployed and living at home again
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end user

  • noun the ultimate user for which something is intended
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end-all

  • noun the ultimate goal
    • human beings are not the end-all of evolution
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end-plate

  • noun the flattened end of a motor neuron that transmits neural impulses to a muscle
    endplate; end-plate.
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end-rhymed

  • adjective satellite rhymed on the terminal syllables of the verses
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end-stopped

  • adjective (verse) having a rhetorical pause at the end of each line
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end-to-end

  • adjective satellite with the end of one object in contact lengthwise with the end of another object
  • adverb from first to last
    throughout.
    • the play was excellent end-to-end
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Ends of the earth

  • the remotest regions of the earth.
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fag end

  • noun the time of the last part of something
    tail; fag end.
    • the fag end of this crisis-ridden century
    • the tail of the storm
  • noun the frayed end of a length of cloth or rope
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Fore end

  • . (a) The end which precedes; the earlier, or the nearer, part; the beginning.
    I have . . . paid More pious debts to heaven, than in all The fore end of my time. Shak.
    (b) In firearms, the wooden stock under the barrel, forward of the trigger guard, or breech frame.
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free nerve ending

  • noun microscopic sensory nerve endings in the skin that are not connected to any specific sensory receptor
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front end

  • noun the side that is forward or prominent
    front; forepart.
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gable end

  • noun the vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof
    gable wall; gable.
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Gold end

  • a fragment of broken gold or jewelry.
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Gold-end man

  • . (a) A buyer of old gold or jewelry. (b) A goldsmith's apprentice. (c) An itinerant jeweler. "I know him not: he looks like a gold-end man." B. Jonson.
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Hearth ends

  • (Metal.), fragments of lead ore ejected from the furnace by the blast.
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hind end

  • noun the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
    bum; seat; stern; keister; prat; bottom; rear end; buns; tail; tush; rump; fanny; ass; behind; tooshie; hind end; posterior; hindquarters; butt; nates; rear; arse; buttocks; backside; derriere; can; fundament.
    • he deserves a good kick in the butt
    • are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?
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Hooding end

  • (Shipbuilding), the end of a hood where it enters the rabbet in the stem post or stern post.
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In the end

  • adverb after a very lengthy period of time
    in the long run.
    • she will succeed in the long run
  • adverb as the end result of a succession or process
    ultimately; at long last; finally; at last.
    • ultimately he had to give in
    • at long last the winter was over
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  • finally. Shak.
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inflectional ending

  • noun an inflection that is added at the end of a root word
    inflectional suffix.
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loose end

  • noun work that is left incomplete
    unfinished business.
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Most an end

  • generally. See An end, under End, n. Obs. "She sleeps most an end."
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motor end plate

  • noun the flattened end of a motor neuron that transmits neural impulses to a muscle
    endplate; end-plate.
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nerve end

  • noun the terminal structure of an axon that does not end at a synapse
    nerve end.
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nerve ending

  • noun the terminal structure of an axon that does not end at a synapse
    nerve end.
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never-ending

  • adjective satellite uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing
    ceaseless; constant; unceasing; perpetual; incessant; unremitting.
    • the ceaseless thunder of surf
    • in constant pain
    • night and day we live with the incessant noise of the city
    • the never-ending search for happiness
    • the perpetual struggle to maintain standards in a democracy
    • man's unceasing warfare with drought and isolation
    • unremitting demands of hunger
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no end

  • adverb on and on for a long time
    • the child cried no end
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Odds and ends

  • noun a motley assortment of things
    hotchpotch; farrago; ragbag; mingle-mangle; oddments; hodgepodge; omnium-gatherum; melange; gallimaufry; mishmash.
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  • that which is left; remnants; fragments; refuse; scraps; miscellaneous articles. "My brain is filled...with all kinds of odds and ends." W. Irving.
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On end

  • upright; erect.
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open-end credit

  • noun a consumer credit line that can be used up to a certain limit or paid down at any time
    charge account credit; revolving credit.
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open-end fund

  • noun a regulated investment company with a pool of assets that regularly sells and redeems its shares
    mutual fund company; open-end fund; mutual fund.
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open-end investment company

  • noun a regulated investment company with a pool of assets that regularly sells and redeems its shares
    mutual fund company; open-end fund; mutual fund.
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open-end wrench

  • noun a wrench having parallel jaws at fixed separation (often on both ends of the handle)
    tappet wrench.
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open-ended

  • adjective satellite without fixed limits or restrictions
    • an open-ended discussion
  • adjective satellite allowing for a spontaneous response
    • an open-ended question
  • adjective satellite allowing for future changes or revisions
    • open-ended agreements
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Ord and end

  • the beginning and end. Cf. Odds and ends, under Odds. Obs. or Prov. Eng.
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rear end

  • noun the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
    bum; seat; stern; keister; prat; bottom; rear end; buns; tail; tush; rump; fanny; ass; behind; tooshie; hind end; posterior; hindquarters; butt; nates; rear; arse; buttocks; backside; derriere; can; fundament.
    • he deserves a good kick in the butt
    • are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?
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rear-end

  • verb collide with the rear end of
    • The car rear-ended me
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Rope's end

  • a piece of rope; especially, one used as a lash in inflicting punishment.
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rope's-end

Rope's"-end` transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To punish with a rope's end.
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scrag end

  • noun the lean end of a neck of veal
    scrag.
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split end

  • noun (football) an offensive end who lines up at a distance from the other linemen
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sticky end

  • noun an end of DNA in which one strand of the double helix extends a few units beyond the other
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Stub end

  • (Mach.), the enlarged end of a connecting rod, to which the strap is fastened.
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tag end

  • noun a small piece of cloth or paper
    rag; tatter; shred; tag.
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Tail end

  • noun the time of the last part of something
    tail; fag end.
    • the fag end of this crisis-ridden century
    • the tail of the storm
  • noun any projection that resembles the tail of an animal
    tail.
  • noun the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
    bum; seat; stern; keister; prat; bottom; rear end; buns; tail; tush; rump; fanny; ass; behind; tooshie; hind end; posterior; hindquarters; butt; nates; rear; arse; buttocks; backside; derriere; can; fundament.
    • he deserves a good kick in the butt
    • are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?
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  • the latter end; the termination; as, the tail end of a contest. Colloq.
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tight end

  • noun (football) an offensive end who lines up close to the tackle
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To be on her beam ends

  • to incline, as a vessel, so much on one side that her beams approach a vertical position.
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To end in smoke

  • to burned; hence, to be destroyed or ruined; figuratively, to come to nothing. same as go up in smoke.
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To end up

  • to lift or tilt, so as to set on end; as, to end up a hogshead.
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To have at one's fingers' ends

  • to be thoroughly familiar with. Colloq.
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To make both ends meet

  • to live within one's income. Fuller.
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To put an end to

  • to destroy.
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To the bitter end

  • to the last extremity, however calamitous.
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To the end

  • in order. Bacon.
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tone ending

  • noun (music) the act or manner of terminating a musical phrase or tone
    release.
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war to end war

  • noun a war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from 1914 to 1918
    World War I; World War 1; Great War; First World War.
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Wax end

  • . See Waxed end, under Waxed.
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Waxed end

  • a thread pointed with a bristle and covered with shoemaker's wax, used in sewing leather, as for boots, shoes, and the like; called also wax end. Brockett.
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West end

  • noun the part of west central London containing the main entertainment and shopping areas
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  • the fashionable part of London, commencing from the east, at Charing Cross.
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World without end

  • eternally; forever; everlastingly; as if in a state of existence having no end.
    Throughout all ages, world without end. Eph. iii. 21.
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World's end

  • the end, or most distant part, of the world; the remotest regions.
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year-end

  • noun the end of a calendar year
    • he had to unload the merchandise before the year-end
  • adjective satellite taking place at the close of a fiscal year
    • year-end audit
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