The difference between Ending and Suffix
When used as nouns, ending means a termination or conclusion, whereas suffix means a morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning.
Suffix is also verb with the meaning: to append (something) to the end of something else.
check bellow for the other definitions of Ending and Suffix
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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").
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Suffix as a noun (grammar, linguistic morphology):
A morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning.
Examples:
"The suffix "-able" changes "sing" into "singable"."
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Suffix as a noun (mathematics):
A subscript.
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Suffix as a noun (computing):
A final segment of a string of characters.
Examples:
"The string "<tt>''abra''</tt>" is both a prefix and a suffix of the string "<tt>''abracadabra''</tt>"."
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Suffix as a verb (transitive):
To append (something) to the end of something else.