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Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. The terminal point of something in space or time.
2. (broadly) The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
3. (broadly, often, with-definite-article) 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. (in-plural, slang) Money.

Verb

1. (ergative, intransitive) To come to an end.
2. (intransitive) To conclude; to bring something to an end.
3. (transitive) To finish, terminate.

Concepts

fin

🔚

finir

bout

🔚

terminer

🔚

cesser

achever

limite

extrémité

arrêter

frontière

conclure

conclusion

terme

bord

terminaison

🔚

but

décès

💀

mort

achèvement

terminus

se terminer

s’achever

issue

pointe

résultat

clore

dernier

accomplir

côté

borne

résilier

finition

prendre fin

solde

abattre

dessein

objectif

expiration

arrêt

final

fermeture

finaliser

convertir

contour

conséquence

acquitter

💸

confins

bec

effectuer

disparition

Synonymes

finish

conclusion

terminate

termination

close

stop

🛑

tip

conclude

limit

complete

cease

extremity

ending

completion

edge

come to an end

border

point

death

💀

purpose

boundary

last

final

tail

aim

goal

top

🔝

expire

quit

accomodate

butt

east

destruction

objective

finished

discontinue

object

result

expiration

be over

terminal

head

target

side

finale

halt

end up

frontier

finally

terminus

Traductions

Ende

🔚

terminar

finire

terminare

🔚

beenden

acabar

fine

einde

fin

🔚

Schluss

🔚

final

fim

🔚

terminar

enden

🔚

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ɛnd/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: ende

Hérité de ancien anglais: ende

Appartenant à néerlandais: einde

Appartenant à allemand: Ende

Appartenant à norvégien: ende

Appartenant à suédois: ände

Appartenant à ancien irlandais: ét

Appartenant à latin: antiae

Appartenant à albanais: anë

Appartenant à grec ancien: ἀντίος

Appartenant à sanskrit: अन्त्य

In summary

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.

Phrases

" The war is going to end someday ," the girl said .

Its lower end was still embedded .

Debate may also end if no senator wishes to make any further remarks .

Le débat peut également prendre fin si aucun sénateur ne souhaite faire d'autres remarques.

" You are almost at the end of your journey ," said the alchemist .

"Vous êtes presque à la fin de votre voyage", a déclaré l'alchimiste.

The legal dispute ended in the club folding at the end of the season .

Le différend juridique s'est terminé dans le club qui se replie à la fin de la saison.

The end of the cylinder was still as Ogilvy and Henderson had left it .

La fin du cylindre était toujours comme Ogilvy et Henderson l'avait quitté.