Ending
['endɪŋ] or ['ɛndɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme); 'I don't like words that have -ism as an ending'.
(noun.) 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'.
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Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of End
(n.) Termination; concluding part; result; conclusion; destruction; death.
(n.) The final syllable or letter of a word; the part joined to the stem. See 3d Case, 5.
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Examples
- To which he added, in a small complicated hand, ending with a long lean flourish, not unlike a lasso thrown at all the rest of the names: Blandois. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- It is of some comfort to know that this brutal use of the rope is being replaced by more humane methods of ending the lives of condemned criminals. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It seemed as if something like the reflection of a white sunlit wing had passed across her features, ending in one of her rare blushes. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Reference to these possible applications is necessary in order that the abstraction may be fruitful, instead of a barren formalism ending in itself. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Yes, I think that will be the better ending of the two, after all. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Everything pointed toward a splendid ending of my second journey to Barsoom. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Why yes, sir, that's all, says Mr. Snagsby, ending with a cough that plainly adds, and it's enough too--for me. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The traffic returns for the week ending the 25th of September, 1858, amounted to ￡502,720; and the gross receipts of the railways in 1857 were ￡24,174,610. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- For three years I looked forward very childishly to the war ending at Christmas. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I fear there is some dark ending to our quest, said he. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- And Mrs. Sedley tossed out of the room, hissing out the word poison once more, and so ending her charitable benediction. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It were better, Than Kosis, interrupted Dejah Thoris, that the proclamation wait the ending of this war. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The growth of the chewing gum industry is shown by the importation of nearly 5,500,000 pounds for the year ending with June 30, 1910. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I went down-stairs, feeling that this was rather a flat ending, after all our excitement about the Diamond earlier in the day. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- There was a great clamour for a swift ending of the war. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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