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单词 end of story
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end /end/

noun
  1. The last point or portion
  2. Termination or close
  3. Death
  4. Consequence
  5. An object aimed at
  6. A fragment or odd piece
  7. Half a unit length of cloth
  8. A warp thread
  9. A waxed thread ending in a bristle (shoemaker's end)
  10. One of the two sides of a field, court, pitch, etc defended by a team, player, etc (sport)
  11. Part of a game played from one end (of the bowling green, archery-ground, etc)
  12. A player positioned at the extremity of the line of scrimmage (American football)
  13. The part of an undertaking for which one is responsible
  14. An outer district
  15. A region
  16. A cottage room (Scot)
transitive verb
  1. To bring to an end
  2. To destroy
intransitive verb
  1. To come to an end
  2. To cease
  3. To be at the end
ORIGIN: OE ende; cf Ger Ende, Dan ende, Gothic andeis; Sans anta

endˈed adjective

  1. Brought to an end
  2. Having ends

endˈing noun

  1. A termination
  2. A conclusion
  3. Death
  4. Extremity
  5. Something that is at the end
  6. The final syllable or portion of a word, esp an inflection (grammar)
adjective
  1. Concluding
  2. Finishing
  3. Completing
  4. Dying

endˈless adjective

  1. Having or seeming to have no end
  2. Returning upon itself
  3. Everlasting
  4. Incessant
  5. Objectless

endˈlessly adverb

endˈlessness noun

endˈlong (Scot endˈlang) adverb

  1. From end to end (archaic)
  2. Continuously (archaic)
  3. Straight on (archaic)
preposition (obsolete)

Along

adjective (rare)

Set on end

endˈmost adjective

Farthest

endˈways or endˈwise adverb

  1. On end
  2. With the end forward

endˈ-all noun

Something that ends everything (see also be-all and end-all under be)

endˈgame noun

  1. The final stage of a game of chess or certain other games
  2. A person's manner of playing the endgame

endˈgate noun (N American)

A tailboard

endless chain noun

A chain whose ends are joined

endless gearing, endless screw or endless worm noun

An arrangement for producing slow motion in machinery, consisting of a screw whose thread gears into a wheel with skew teeth

end man noun

The man at the end of a row of performers, etc

endˈnote noun

An explanatory note at the end of a chapter or volume

end-of-the-pier' adjective

Impudent, frivolous and bawdy (in the style of variety shows traditionally performed at seaside piers)

endˈ-onˈ adverb and adjective

In the direction in which the end points

end organ noun

A specialized sensory or motor structure at a nerve-end

endˈpaper noun

A paper at the beginning or end of a book, pasted to the binding and leaving an additional flyleaf

endˈplay transitive verb (bridge)

To place (an opponent) in a situation where no lead can be made which does not cost a trick (also noun)

endˈ-product noun

The final product of a series of operations

endˈ-reader noun

One who peeps at the end of a novel to see the outcome

end result noun

The final result or outcome

end run noun (US)

  1. In American football, an attempt to run wide of the end of a defensive line rather than try to break through it
  2. An act of circumventing a problem rather than confronting it

endˈship noun (obsolete)

A village

endˈ-stopped adjective (poetry)

Having a pause at the end of each line (of verse)

end use noun

The final use to which anything, esp a manufactured article, is put

endˈ-user noun

  1. The person, company, etc who will be the recipient of a product being sold
  2. (usu end-user certificate) in international trade, documentation naming the end-user of a product being sold, required eg in the exporting of arms

endˈzone noun (American football)

One of the areas at either end of the field of play into which the offensive team attempts to take the ball

all ends up

  1. Completely
  2. Convincingly

at a loose end or at loose ends

  1. With nothing to do
  2. In a state of uncertainty or confusion as to one's course of action

at an end

  1. Terminated
  2. Discontinued
  3. Exhausted

at one's wit's end see under wit1

at the end of one's tether see under tether

be the end of

To cause the death of (often an informal exaggeration)

end for end

With the position of the ends reversed

end it all

To commit suicide

end of story

See under story1

end up

  1. To arrive or find oneself eventually or finally
  2. To finish (with with or by)
  3. To become in the end

get hold of the wrong end of the stick

To misunderstand

get or have one's end away (slang)

To have sexual intercourse

in the end

  1. After all
  2. At last

keep one's end up

  1. To maintain one's part, position, appearance, etc
  2. To be content to keep one's wicket standing without trying to score (cricket)

loose end

(often in pl) an unfinished, unsettled or unexplained matter

make (both) ends meet

To live within one's income (both ends meaning both ends of the year)

no end (informal)

Very much

no end of (informal)

A great deal of

on end

  1. Erect
  2. At a stretch

the end

  1. The last straw
  2. The limit

the end of the road (or line)

The point beyond which one can no longer continue or survive

story1 /stōˈri or stöˈ/

noun
  1. A narrative of incidents in their sequence
  2. A fictitious narrative
  3. A tale
  4. An anecdote
  5. The plot of a novel or drama
  6. A theme
  7. An account, report, statement, allegation
  8. A news article
  9. A lie, fib (informal)
  10. A legend
  11. History (obsolete)
transitive verb
  1. To tell or describe historically, to relate (rare)
  2. To adorn (a pot, etc) with scenes from history
intransitive verb (rare)

To relate

ORIGIN: Anglo-Fr estorie, from L historia

stoˈriated adjective

Decorated with elaborate ornamental designs (also historiated)

stoˈried adjective

  1. Told or celebrated in a story
  2. Having a history
  3. Adorned with scenes from history

storietteˈ or storyetteˈ noun

A short tale

storiolˈogist noun

storiolˈogy noun

The scientific study of folk tales

stoˈrying noun and adjective

stoˈryboard noun

(a board on which is mounted) a series of rough sketches showing the sequence of film images to be used in an advertisement, cinema film, television programme, etc

stoˈrybook noun

A book of tales true or fictitious, esp one for children

adjective

  1. Unreal, fantastic
  2. Rather luckier or happier than in real life

stoˈryline noun

The main plot of a novel, film, television series, etc, or line along which the plot is to develop

stoˈryteller noun

  1. A person who relates tales
  2. A liar (informal)

stoˈrytelling noun

cut a long story short

To come quickly to the point without lingering over details

end of story (informal)

The matter or discussion is closed

the same old story

An often-repeated event or situation

the story goes

It is generally said
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