ending

Meaning

1. A termination or conclusion.
2. The last part of something.
3. The last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form (such as -s in "dogs").

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɛndɪŋ/

Etymology

From Middle English endyng, endinge, endunge, from Old English endung, ġeendung (“ending”), equivalent to end + -ing. Cognate with Dutch ending (“ending”), German Endung (“ending”).

Cognate with German

Endung

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end

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.