Meaning of ENDING
| Pronunciation: | | 'ending
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- [n] the act of ending something; "the termination of the agreement"
- [n] the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme); "I don't like words that have -ism as an ending"
- [n] the last section of a communication; "in conclusion I want to say..."
- [n] 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"
- [n] the point in time at which something ends; "the end of the year"; "the ending of warranty period"
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| | Synonyms: | | close, closing, conclusion, conclusion, conclusion, end, end, finish, termination, termination |
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| | Antonyms: | | beginning, beginning, commencement, first, kickoff, middle, offset, outset, start, starting time | | |
| | See Also: | | abolishment, abolition, abortion, address, adjournment, anticlimax, bathos, breakup, cease, change of state, close, closedown, closing, closure, coda, completion, conclusion, culmination, deactivation, death, defeat, defusing, demise, demolition, demonetisation, demonetization, destruction, destruction, devastation, disappearance, discharge, discontinuance, discontinuation, dismissal, dismission, dissolution, drug withdrawal, dying, end, epilog, epilogue, expiration, expiry, extinction, extinguishing, fade, fag end, final result, final stage, finale, finale, finis, finish, firing, foregone conclusion, halt, happening, inflectional ending, inflectional suffix, kill, killing, last, last, liberation, licking, limit, liquidation, matter of course, mop up, morpheme, narration, natural event, occurrence, omega, outcome, overthrow, period, peroration, point, point in time, putting to death, quenching, recital, release, relinquishing, relinquishment, result, resultant, retirement, sack, sacking, section, settlement, shutdown, speech, stop, stopping point, subdivision, suffix, tail, tail end, terminal point, termination, termination, terminus ad quem, tone ending, triumph, victory, windup, withdrawal, yarn, year-end, Z | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \End"ing\, n.
1. Termination; concluding part; result; conclusion;
destruction; death.
2. (Gram.) The final syllable or letter of a word; the part
joined to the stem. See 3d {Case}, 5.
{Ending day}, day of death. --Chaucer.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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, Z |
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