Final vs. End — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Final and End
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Final
Coming at the end of a series
The final version of the report was presented
End
Either extremity of something that has length
The end of the pier.
Final
The last game in a sports tournament or other competition, which will decide the winner of the tournament.
End
The outside or extreme edge or physical limit; a boundary
The end of town.
Final
A series of examinations at the end of a degree course
She was doing her history finals
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End
The point in time when an action, event, or phenomenon ceases or is completed; the conclusion
The end of the day.
Final
The principal note in a mode.
End
A result; an outcome.
Final
The final approach of an aircraft to the runway it will be landing on
The plane piloted by Richards was on finals
End
Something toward which one strives; a goal.
Final
Forming or occurring at the end; last
The final scene of a film.
End
The termination of life or existence; death
“A man awaits his end / Dreading and hoping all” (William Butler Yeats).
Final
Of or constituting the end result of a succession or process; ultimate
An act with both an immediate and a final purpose.
End
The ultimate extent; the very limit
The end of one's patience.
Final
A final examination; a test or examination given at the end of a term or class; the test that concludes a class.
End
(Slang) The very best; the ultimate
This pizza's the end.
Final
(Oxbridge slang) A final examination taken at the end of the final year of an undergraduate course, which contributes towards a student's degree classification.
End
A remainder; a remnant.
Final
(sports) The last round, game or match in a contest, after which the winner is determined.
End
A share of a responsibility or obligation
Your end of the bargain.
Final
(phonology) The final part of a syllable, the combination of medial and rime in phonetics and phonology.
End
A particular area of responsibility
In charge of the business end of the campaign.
Final
(music) The tonic or keynote of a Gregorian mode, and hence the final note of any conventional melody played in that mode.
End
A warp end.
Final
Last; ultimate.
Final solution;
The final day of a school term
End
(Football) Either of the players in the outermost position on the line of scrimmage. Offensive ends are eligible to catch passes.
Final
Conclusive; decisive.
A final judgment;
The battle of Waterloo brought the contest to a final issue
End
To bring to a conclusion
Let's end this discussion.
Final
Respecting an end or object to be gained; respecting the purpose or ultimate end in view.
End
To form the last or concluding part of
The song that ended the performance.
Final
(grammar) Expressing purpose; as in the term final clause.
End
To destroy
Ended our hopes.
Final
(linguistics) Word-final, occurring at the end of a word.
End
To come to a finish; cease
The rain ended.
Final
Pertaining to the end or conclusion; last; terminating; ultimate; as, the final day of a school term.
Yet despair not of his final pardon.
End
To arrive at a place, situation, or condition as a result of a course of action. Often used with up
He ended up as an adviser to the president. The painting ended up being sold for a million dollars.
Final
Conclusive; decisive; as, a final judgment; the battle of Waterloo brought the contest to a final issue.
End
To die.
Final
Respecting an end or object to be gained; respecting the purpose or ultimate end in view.
End
The terminal point of something in space or time.
At the end of the road, turn left.
At the end of the story, the main characters fall in love.
Final
The final match between the winners of all previous matches in an elimination tournament
End
(by extension) The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
Is there no end to this madness?
Final
An examination administered at the end of an academic term
End
(by extension) Death.
He met a terrible end in the jungle.
I hope the end comes quickly.
Final
Occurring at or forming an end or termination;
His concluding words came as a surprise
The final chapter
The last days of the dinosaurs
Terminal leave
End
The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide.
Hold the string at both ends.
My father always sat at the end of the table nearest the kitchen.
Final
Conclusive in a process or progression;
The final answer
A last resort
The net result
End
Result.
Final
Not to be altered or undone;
The judge's decision is final
The arbiter will have the last say
End
A purpose, goal, or aim.
For what end should I toil?
The end of our club is to advance conversation and friendship.
End
(cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
The Pavillion End
End
(American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.
End
(curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
End
(mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex. See End (graph theory)
End
That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
Odds and ends
End
One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
End
Money.
Don't give them your ends. You jack that shit!
End
To come to an end
Is this movie never going to end?
The lesson will end when the bell rings.
End
(transitive) To finish, terminate.
The referee blew the whistle to end the game.
End
The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; the concluding part; termination; close; limit; as, the end of a field, line, pole, road; the end of a year, of a discourse; put an end to pain; - opposed to beginning, when used of anything having a first part.
Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof.
End
Point beyond which no procession can be made; conclusion; issue; result, whether successful or otherwise; conclusive event; consequence.
My guilt be on my head, and there an end.
O that a man might knowThe end of this day's business ere it come!
End
Termination of being; death; destruction; extermination; also, cause of death or destruction.
Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end.
Confound your hidden falsehood, and awardEither of you to be the other's end.
I shall see an end of him.
End
The object aimed at in any effort considered as the close and effect of exertion; ppurpose; intention; aim; as, to labor for private or public ends.
Losing her, the end of living lose.
When every man is his own end, all things will come to a bad end.
End
That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap; as, odds and ends.
I clothe my naked villainyWith old odd ends stolen out of holy writ,And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
End
One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
End
To bring to an end or conclusion; to finish; to close; to terminate; as, to end a speech.
On the seventh day God ended his work.
End
To form or be at the end of; as, the letter k ends the word back.
End
To destroy; to put to death.
End
To come to the ultimate point; to be finished; to come to a close; to cease; to terminate; as, a voyage ends; life ends; winter ends.
End
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
End
The point in time at which something ends;
The end of the year
The ending of warranty period
The middle of the war
Rain during the middle of April
End
The concluding parts of an event or occurrence;
The end was exciting
I had to miss the last of the movie
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
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
A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end
End
A final state;
He came to a bad end
The so-called glorious experiment came to an inglorious end
End
The surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object;
One end of the box was marked `This side up'
End
(football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage;
The end managed to hold onto the pass
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
End
A boundary marking the extremities of something;
The end of town
End
The part you are expected to play;
He held up his end
End
The last section of a communication;
In conclusion I want to say...
End
A piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
End
A position on the line of scrimmage;
No one wanted to play end
End
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
End
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 WWI
The U.S. started a war in the Middle East
The Iraqis began hostilities
Begin a new chapter in your life
End
Be the end of; be the last or concluding part of;
This sad scene ended the movie
End
Put an end to;
The terrible news ended our hopes that he had survived
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