The difference between End and Ending
When used as nouns, end means the terminal point of something in space or time, whereas ending means a termination or conclusion.
End is also verb with the meaning: to finish, terminate.
check bellow for the other definitions of End and Ending
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End as a noun:
The terminal point of something in space or time.
Examples:
"At the end of the road, turn left."
"At the end of the story, the main characters fall in love."
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End as a noun (by extension):
The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
Examples:
"Is there no end to this madness?"
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End as a noun (by extension):
Death.
Examples:
"He met a terrible end in the jungle."
"I hope the end comes quickly."
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End as a noun:
The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide.
Examples:
"Hold the string at both ends."
"My father always sat at the end of the table."
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End as a noun:
Result.
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End as a noun:
A purpose, goal, or aim.
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End as a noun (cricket):
One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.
Examples:
"The Pavillion End'"
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End as a noun (American football):
The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.
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End as a noun (curling):
A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.
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End as a noun (mathematics):
An ideal point of a graph or other complex.
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End as a noun:
That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.
Examples:
"odds and ends"
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End as a noun:
One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
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End as a verb (ergative):
To finish, terminate.
Examples:
"Is this movie never going to end?"
"The lesson will end when the bell rings."
"The referee blew the whistle to end the game."
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Ending as a verb:
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Ending as a noun:
A termination or conclusion.
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Ending as a noun:
The last part of something.
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Ending as a noun (grammar):
The last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form (such as -ing in "ending").