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Signification

1. The terminal point of something in space or time.
2. The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
3. Death.
4. The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide.
5. Result.
6. A purpose, goal, or aim.
7. One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
8. The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.
9. A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
10. An ideal point of a graph or other complex. See End (graph theory)
11. That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
12. One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
13. (slang) Money.

Fréquence

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ɛnd/

Étymologie

From Middle English ende, from Old English ende, from Proto-West Germanic *andī, from Proto-Germanic *andijaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂entíos, from *h₂ent- (“front, forehead”). See also Dutch einde, German Ende, Norwegian ende, Swedish ände; also Old Irish ét (“end, point”), Latin antiae (“forelock”), Albanian anë (“side”), Ancient Greek ἀντίος (antíos, “opposite”), Sanskrit अन्त्य (antya, “last”). More at and and anti-. The verb is from Middle English enden, endien, from Old English endian (“to end, to make an end of, complete, finish, abolish, destroy, come to an end, die”), from Proto-Germanic *andijōną (“to finish, end”), denominative from *andijaz.