ending

ending
    n 1: the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final
         morpheme); "I don't like words that have -ism as an ending"
         [syn: {ending}, {termination}]
    2: the act of ending something; "the termination of the
       agreement" [syn: {termination}, {ending}, {conclusion}]
    3: the point in time at which something ends; "the end of the
       year"; "the ending of warranty period" [syn: {end}, {ending}]
       [ant: {beginning}, {commencement}, {first}, {get-go},
       {kickoff}, {middle}, {offset}, {outset}, {showtime}, {start},
       {starting time}]
    4: event whose occurrence ends something; "his death marked the
       ending of an era"; "when these final episodes are broadcast
       it will be the finish of the show" [syn: {ending},
       {conclusion}, {finish}] [ant: {beginning}]
    5: the last section of a communication; "in conclusion I want to
       say..." [syn: {conclusion}, {end}, {close}, {closing},
       {ending}]
    

End \End\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ended}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Ending}.]
   1. To bring to an end or conclusion; to finish; to close; to
      terminate; as, to end a speech. "I shall end this strife."
      --Shak.
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            On the seventh day God ended his work. --Gen. ii. 2.
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   2. To form or be at the end of; as, the letter k ends the
      word back.
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   3. To destroy; to put to death. "This sword hath ended him."
      --Shak.
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   {To end up}, to lift or tilt, so as to set on end; as, to end
      up a hogshead.
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Ending \End"ing\, n.
   1. Termination; concluding part; result; conclusion;
      destruction; death.
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   2. (Gram.) The final syllable or letter of a word; the part
      joined to the stem. See 3d {Case}, 5.
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   {Ending day}, day of death. --Chaucer.
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153 Moby Thesaurus words for "ending":
      Z, annihilation, apodosis, arrest, bane, bell, biological death,
      capping, catastrophe, ceasing, cessation, cessation of life, check,
      checkmate, clinical death, close, closing, coda, completing,
      completion, concluding, conclusion, consummation, consummative,
      consummatory, crack of doom, crossing the bar, crowning,
      culminating, culmination, culminative, curtain, curtains, cutoff,
      dead stop, deadlock, death, death knell, debt of nature, decease,
      demise, denouement, departure, desistance, destination, destiny,
      dissolution, doom, dying, ebb of life, effect, end, end of life,
      end point, endgame, envoi, epilogue, eschatology, eternal rest,
      exit, expiration, extinction, extinguishment, fate, final solution,
      final summons, final twitch, final whistle, final words, finale,
      finality, finger of death, finis, finish, finishing,
      full development, full stop, goal, going, going off, grave,
      grinding halt, gun, halt, hand of death, izzard, jaws of death,
      knell, last, last breath, last debt, last gasp, last muster,
      last rest, last roundup, last sleep, last things, last trumpet,
      last words, latter end, leaving life, lockout, loss of life,
      making an end, maturation, maturity, omega, parting, passing,
      passing away, passing over, payoff, perfecting, perfection,
      perfective, period, perishing, peroration, quietus, release,
      resolution, rest, resting place, reward, ripeness, rounding off,
      rounding out, sentence of death, shades of death, shadow of death,
      sit-down strike, sleep, somatic death, stalemate, stand, standoff,
      standstill, stay, stop, stoppage, stopping place, strike,
      summons of death, swan song, term, terminal, terminating,
      termination, terminus, topping off, walkout, windup,
      work stoppage