Definition of ends

"ends" in the noun sense

1. end, terminal

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"

2. end, ending

the point in time at which something ends

"the end of the year"

"the ending of warranty period"

3. end, last

the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence

"the end was exciting"

"I had to miss the last of the movie"

4. goal, 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"

5. end

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"

6. end, destruction, death

a final state

"he came to a bad end"

"the so-called glorious experiment came to an inglorious end"

7. end

the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object

"one end of the box was marked `This side up'"

8. end

football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage

"the end managed to hold onto the pass"

9. end

a boundary marking the extremities of something

"the end of town"

10. end

one of two places from which people are communicating to each other

"the phone rang at the other end"

"both ends wrote at the same time"

11. end

the part you are expected to play

"he held up his end"

12. conclusion, end, close, closing, ending

the last section of a communication

"in conclusion I want to say..."

13. end, remainder, remnant, oddment

a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold

14. end

American football) a position on the line of scrimmage

"no one wanted to play end"

"ends" in the verb sense

1. end, stop, finish, terminate, cease

have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense either spatial or metaphorical

"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"

2. end, terminate

bring to an end or halt

"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"

3. end, terminate

be the end of be the last or concluding part of

"This sad scene ended the movie"

4. end

put an end to

"The terrible news ended our hopes that he had survived"

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Quotations for ends

I am the last of my race.
My name ends with me. [ Schiller ]

All's well that ends well. [ William Shakespeare ]

Whatever begins, also ends. [ Seneca ]

Nothing is ill that ends well. [ Proverb ]

Frost and fraud have foul ends. [ Proverb ]

Nothing begins, and nothing ends.
That is not paid with moan;
For we are born in others' pain,
And perish in our own. [ Francis Thompson ]

Earth's highest station ends in -
Here he lies. [ Young ]

Great is song used to great ends. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

He lights his candle at both ends. [ Proverb ]

Light not your candle at both ends. [ Proverb ]

Where law ends, there tyranny begins. [ Earl of Chatham ]

Folly ends where genuine hope begins. [ Cowper ]

Sorrow ends not when it seemeth done. [ Shakespeare ]

Love which hath ends will have an end. [ John Dryden ]

Like the hand which ends a dream,
Death, with the might of his sunbeam,
Touches the flesh and the soul awakes. [ Browning ]

So ends the bloody business of the day. [ Homer ]

A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism. [ Victor Hugo ]

There's a Divinity that shapes our ends.
Rough-hew them as we will. [ William Shakespeare ]

My pen is at the bottom of a page,
Which being finished, here the story ends;
'Tis to be wish'd it had been sooner done,
But stories somehow lengthen when begun. [ Byron ]

Small are the seeds fate does unheeded sow
Of slight beginnings to important ends. [ Davenant ]

Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends. [ William Shakespeare ]

I sucked not this out of my finger's ends. [ Proverb ]

Where boasting ends, there dignity begins. [ Young ]

To have greatly dreamed precludes low ends. [ Lowell ]

Though death be poor, it ends a mortal woe. [ William Shakespeare ]

Him only pleasure leads and peace attends,
Him, only him, the shield of Jove defends,
Whose means are fair and spotless as his ends. [ Wordsworth ]

Books should to one of these four ends conduce,
For wisdom, piety, delight, or use. [ Sir John Denham ]

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends. [ Coleridge ]

With women, friendship ends when rivalry begins.

Love ends with hope: the sinking statesman's door
Pours in the morning worshipper no more. [ Johnson ]

Words are like sea-shells on the shore; they show
Where the mind ends, and not how far it has been. [ Bailey ]

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance. [ Proverb ]

Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own. [ William Shakespeare ]

Love and pease will make a man speak at both ends. [ Proverb ]

As well as his nails and fingers; at his fingers' ends. [ Proverb ]

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly. [ Coleridge ]

Every man for himself, his own ends, the devil for all. [ Burton ]

Whoever may
Discern true ends will grow pure enough
To love them, brave enough to strive for them,
And strong enough to reach them, though the road be rough. [ E. B. Browning ]

The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends. [ William Penn ]

A wise man begins in the end; a fool ends in the beginning. [ Proverb ]

By the same means we do not always arrive at the same ends. [ St. Real ]

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never. [ Colton ]

Disputations leave truth in the middle, and party at both ends. [ Proverb ]

Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene. [ Dryden ]

If you light the fire at both ends, the middle will shift for itself. [ Proverb ]

There is a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will. [ William Shakespeare ]

Scratching is bad, because it begins with pleasure and ends with pain. [ Proverb ]

Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs, and ends in iron chains. [ Sir Matthew Hale ]

It is true that friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship never. [ Colton ]

Feeling should be stirred only when it can be sent to labour for worthy ends. [ Brooke ]

Mind is the great lever. Thought is the process by which human ends are answered. [ Webster ]

Wit and wisdom differ; wit is upon the sudden turn, wisdom is bringing about ends. [ Selden ]

The history of all the world tells us that immoral means will ever intercept good ends. [ Coleridge ]

Optimism begins in a broad grin, and Pessimism ends with blue spectacles. Both are merely poses. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

To attain their ends most people are more capable of a great effort than of continued perseverance. [ La Bruyère ]

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to His own power, and to work out His ends within these limits. [ Paley ]

Violent delights have violent ends, and in their triumph die; like fire and powder, which as they kiss consume. [ William Shakespeare ]

Mind is the great lever of all things: human thought is the process by which human ends are alternately answered. [ Daniel Webster ]

Love without end hath no end, says the Spaniard; meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Mind is the great leveller of all things; human thought is the process by which human ends are alternately answered. [ Daniel Webster ]

In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. [ Mrs. Jameson ]

When one is in love one begins by deceiving oneself, one ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls romance. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

All's well that ends well, still the finis is the crown.(Latin finis coronat opus, to crown, to finish or mahe perfect.) [ William Shakespeare, King Henry VI. Part 2. Act V ]

In the opinion of the world marriage ends all, as it does in a comedy. The truth is precisely the reverse; it begins all. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

Order in a house ought to be like the machinery in opera, whose effect produces great pleasure, but whose ends must be hid. [ Mme. Necker ]

No good work whatever can be perfect; and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art. [ John Ruskin ]

Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins. [ Isaac Disraeli ]

Success resembles a generous wine which begins by exciting the intellectual faculties, and ends by plunging us into a stupid intoxication. [ Alfred Bougeart ]

When one is five-and-twenty, one has not chalkstones at one's finger-ends that the touch of a handsome girl should be entirely indifferent. [ George Eliot ]

Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck only at one end of a room, it will soon fall to the floor. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends. [ Johnson ]

Last scene of all, that ends this strange, eventful history, is second childishness, and mere oblivion; sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. [ William Shakespeare ]

There is no employment in the world so laborious as that of making to one's self a great name; life ends before one has scarcely made the first rough draught of his work. [ Bruyere ]

Nature knows how to convert evil to good; Nature utilises misers, fanatics, showmen, egotists to accomplish her ends; but we must not think better of the foible for that. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy, and sometimes asquint. [ Emerson ]

Love is - I know not what; which comes - I know not whence; which is formed - I know not how; which enchants - I know not by what; and which ends - I know not when or why. [ Mlle. de Scuderi ]

Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives the two ends of an idea almost at the same moment. [ Amiel ]

Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs, and ends in iron chains. The more business a man has to do, the more he is able to accomplish, for he learns to economize his time. [ Judge Hale ]

A great man, I take it, is a man so inspired and permeated with the ideas of God and the Christly spirit as to be too magnanimous for vengeance, and too unselfish to seek his own ends. [ David Thomas ]

Aspiration, worthy ambition, desires for higher good for good ends, - all these indicate a soul that recognizes the beckoning hand of the good Father, who would call us homeward toward Himself. [ J. G. Holland ]

He who allows his happiness to depend too much on reason, who submits his pleasures to examination, and desires enjoyments only of the most refined nature, too often ends by not having any at all. [ Chamfort ]

That constant desire of pleasing, which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this, that it scarcely ever fails of attaining its ends, when not disgraced by affectation. [ Fielding ]

Real beauty ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself an exaggeration and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think one becomes all nose or all forehead, or something horrid. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

The awakening of our best sympathies, the cultivation of our best and purest tastes, strengthening the desire to be useful and good, and directing youthful ambition to unselfish ends, - such are the objects of true education. [ J. T. Headley ]

It is only the intellect that can be thoroughly and hideously wicked. It can forget everything in the attainment of its ends. The heart recoils; in its retired places some drops of childhood's dew still linger, defying manhood's fiery noon. [ Lowell ]

It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable. Let us begin where she begins, go her pace, and close always where she ends, and we cannot miss of being good naturalists. [ William Penn ]

The first wealth is health. Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve any one; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities. [ Emerson ]

Young women, the glory of your life is to do something, and to be something. You may have formed the idea that ease and personal enjoyment are the ends of your life. This is a terrible mistake. Development, in the broadest sense and in the highest direction, is the end of your life. [ J. G. Holland, Pseudonym: Timothy Titcomb ]

ends in Scrabble®

The word ends is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 5

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ends in Words With Friends™

The word ends is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 6

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