The difference between End and Limit
When used as nouns, end means the terminal point of something in space or time, whereas limit means a restriction.
When used as verbs, end means to finish, terminate, whereas limit means to restrict.
Limit is also adjective with the meaning: being a fixed limit game.
check bellow for the other definitions of End and Limit
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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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Limit as a noun:
A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
Examples:
"There are several existing limits to executive power."
"Two drinks is my limit tonight."
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Limit as a noun (mathematics):
A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge).
Examples:
"The sequence of reciprocals has zero as its limit."
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Limit as a noun (mathematics):
Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
Examples:
"Category theory defines a very general concept of limit."
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Limit as a noun (category theory):
The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
Examples:
"hyponyms terminal object categorical product pullback equalizer"
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Limit as a noun (poker):
Short for fixed limit.
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Limit as a noun:
The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
Examples:
"the limit of a walk, of a town, or of a country"
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Limit as a noun (obsolete):
The space or thing defined by limits.
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Limit as a noun (obsolete):
That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
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Limit as a noun (obsolete):
A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
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Limit as a noun (logic, metaphysics):
A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
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Limit as a noun (cycling):
The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
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Limit as an adjective (poker):
Being a fixed limit game.
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Limit as a verb (transitive):
To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries.
Examples:
"We need to limit the power of the executive."
"I'm limiting myself to two drinks tonight."
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Limit as a verb (mathematics, intransitive):
To have a limit in a particular set.
Examples:
"The sequence limits on the point ''a''."
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Limit as a verb (obsolete):
To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.
Examples:
"a limiting friar"