either extremity of something that has length; "the end of the pier"; "she knotted the end of the thread"; "they rode to the end of the line"; "the terminals of the anterior arches of the fornix"
the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object; "one end of the box was marked `This side up'"
bring to an end or halt; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I"
one of two places from which people are communicating to each other; "the phone rang at the other end"; "both ends wrote at the same time"
put an end to; "The terrible news ended our hopes that he had survived"
(football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage; "the end managed to hold onto the pass"
have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical;