'In the end' definitions:
Definition of 'in the end'
From: WordNet
adverb
After a very lengthy period of time; "she will succeed in the long run" [syn: in the long run, in the end]
adverb
As the end result of a succession or process; "ultimately he had to give in"; "at long last the winter was over" [syn: ultimately, finally, in the end, at last, at long last]
Definition of 'In the end'
From: GCIDE
- End \End\ ([e^]nd), n. [OE. & AS. ende; akin to OS. endi, D. einde, eind, OHG. enti, G. ende, Icel. endir, endi, Sw. [aum]nde, Dan. ende, Goth. andeis, Skr. anta. [root]208. Cf. Ante-, Anti-, Answer.]
- 1. The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; the concluding part; termination; close; limit; as, the end of a field, line, pole, road; the end of a year, of a discourse; put an end to pain; -- opposed to beginning, when used of anything having a first part. [1913 Webster]
- Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof. --Eccl. vii. 8. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Point beyond which no procession can be made; conclusion; issue; result, whether successful or otherwise; conclusive event; consequence. [1913 Webster]
- My guilt be on my head, and there an end. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- O that a man might know The end of this day's business ere it come! --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Termination of being; death; destruction; extermination; also, cause of death or destruction. [1913 Webster]
- Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- Confound your hidden falsehood, and award Either of you to be the other's end. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- I shall see an end of him. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. The object aimed at in any effort considered as the close and effect of exertion; ppurpose; intention; aim; as, to labor for private or public ends. [1913 Webster]
- Losing her, the end of living lose. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- When every man is his own end, all things will come to a bad end. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster]
- 5. That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap; as, odds and ends. [1913 Webster]
- I clothe my naked villainy With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ, And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 6. (Carpet Manuf.) One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet. [1913 Webster]
- An end. (a) On end; upright; erect; endways. --Spenser (b) To the end; continuously. [Obs.] --Richardson.
- End bulb (Anat.), one of the bulblike bodies in which some sensory nerve fibers end in certain parts of the skin and mucous membranes; -- also called end corpuscles.
- End fly, a bobfly.
- End for end, one end for the other; in reversed order.
- End man, the last man in a row; one of the two men at the extremities of a line of minstrels.
- End on (Naut.), bow foremost.
- End organ (Anat.), the structure in which a nerve fiber ends, either peripherally or centrally.
- End plate (Anat.), one of the flat expansions in which motor nerve fibers terminate on muscular fibers.
- End play (Mach.), movement endwise, or room for such movement.
- End stone (Horol.), one of the two plates of a jewel in a timepiece; the part that limits the pivot's end play.
- Ends of the earth, the remotest regions of the earth.
- In the end, finally. --Shak.
- On end, upright; erect.
- To the end, in order. --Bacon.
- To make both ends meet, to live within one's income. --Fuller.
- To put an end to, to destroy. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'In the end'
- An end,
- But end,
- End,
- End for end,
- End on,
- End-,
- Ended,
- Ending,
- Most an end,
- On end,
- To end up,
- To the end,
- be all and end all,
- end all,
- end up,
- no end,
- end-to-end,
- At loose ends,
- Bitter end,
- Butt end,
- By-end,
- Chump end,
- East End,
- End bulb,
- End fly,
- End man,
- End organ,
- End plate,
- End play,
- End stone,
- End-all,
- Ending day,
- Ends of the earth,
- Fore end,
- Gold end,
- Hearth ends,
- Hooding end,
- Rope's end,
- Stub end,
- Tail end,
- To be on her beam ends,
- To end in smoke,
- To put an end to,
- To the bitter end,
- Wax end,
- Waxed end,
- West End,
- World's end,
- back end,
- dead end,
- end corpuscles,
- end game,
- end matter,
- end of the world,
- end point,
- end product,
- end result,
- end run,
- end user,
- fag end,
- front end,
- gable end,
- hind end,
- inflectional ending,
- loose end,
- loose ends,
- means to an end,
- nerve end,
- nerve ending,
- never ending,
- odds and ends,
- rear end,
- scrag end,
- split end,
- sticky end,
- tag end,
- tight end,
- tone ending,
- East End, AR,
- Fag-end,
- Rope's-end,
- To have at one's fingers' ends,
- To make both ends meet,
- Week-end,
- West End, AL,
- West End, NY,
- World without end,
- be-all and end-all,
- beam-ends,
- box end wrench,
- bye-end,
- dead-end,
- end-plate,
- end-rhymed,
- end-stopped,
- end-user,
- free nerve ending,
- make ends meet,
- motor end plate,
- never-ending,
- open-ended,
- rear-end,
- war to end war,
- year-end,
- Gold-end man,
- closed-end fund,
- dead-end street,
- open-end credit,
- open-end fund,
- open-end wrench,
- West End-Cobb Town,
- closed-end investment company,
- open-end investment company,
- West End-Cobb Town, AL