(n.) 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.
(n.) Point beyond which no procession can be made; conclusion; issue; result, whether successful or otherwise; conclusive event; consequence.
(n.) Termination of being; death; destruction; extermination; also, cause of death or destruction.
(n.) 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.
(n.) That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap; as, odds and ends.
(n.) One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
(v. t.) To bring to an end or conclusion; to finish; to close; to terminate; as, to end a speech.
(v. t.) To form or be at the end of; as, the letter k ends the word back.
(v. t.) To destroy; to put to death.
(v. i.) To come to the ultimate point; to be finished; to come to a close; to cease; to terminate; as, a voyage ends; life ends; winter ends.
Example Sentences:
(1) These included bringing in the A* grade, reducing the number of modules from six to four, and a greater attempt to assess the whole course at the end.
(2) The oral nerve endings of the palate, the buccal mucosa and the periodontal ligament of the cat canine were characterized by the presence of a cellular envelope which is the final form of the Henle sheath.
(3) A full-length cDNA encoding porcine heart aconitase was derived from lambda gt10 recombinant clones and by amplification of the 5' end of the mRNA.
(4) The present findings indicate that the deafferented [or isolated] hypothalamus remains neuronally isolated from the environment if the operation is carried out later than the end of the first week of life.
(5) In patients with coronary artery disease, electrocardiographic signs of left atrial enlargement (LAE-negative P wave deflection greater than or equal to 1 mm2 in lead V1) are associated with increased left ventricular end diastolic pressure (LVEDP).
(6) The distance between the end of fic and the start of pabA was 31 base pairs.
(7) Further, at the end of treatment fewer patients had depressive symptoms and the total daily number of hours of wellbeing and normal movement increased.
(8) DI James Faulkner of Great Manchester police said: “The men and women working in the factory have told us that they were subjected to physical and verbal assaults at the hands of their employers and forced to work more than 80-hours before ending up with around £25 for their week’s work.
(9) One rare case of blind-ending branch originating in the upper third of the ureter are described.
(10) Mapping of the cross-link position between U2 and U6 RNAs is consistent with base-pairing between the 5' domain of U2 and the 3' end of U6 RNA.
(11) Anthropometric and nutritional (serum albumin and transferrin) values were normal in both groups both at the beginning and at the end of the treatment period.
(12) The following conclusions emerge: (i) when the 3' or the 3' penultimate base of the oligonucleotide mismatched an allele, no amplification product could be detected; (ii) when the mismatches were 3 and 4 bases from the 3' end of the primer, differential amplification was still observed, but only at certain concentrations of magnesium chloride; (iii) the mismatched allele can be detected in the presence of a 40-fold excess of the matched allele; (iv) primers as short as 13 nucleotides were effective; and (v) the specificity of the amplification could be overwhelmed by greatly increasing the concentration of target DNA.
(13) Noradrenaline (NA) was released from sympathetic nerve endings in the tissue by electrical stimulation of the mesenteric nerves or by the indirect sympathomimetic agent tyramine.
(14) The B cell epitopes included regions of transition between the more hydropathic (including the N-terminal end of the F1 and F2 protein) and hydrophilic sequences.
(15) According to the national bank, four Russian banks were operating in Crimea as of the end of April, but only one of them, Rossiisky National Commercial Bank, was widely represented, with 116 branches in the region.
(16) This paper reports, principally, the caries results of the first three surveys of 5, 12 and 5-year-olds undertaken at the end of 1987, 1988 and 1989, respectively.
(17) For dental procedures requiring tracheal intubation, one could perhaps use non-depolarizing muscle relaxants, like pancuronium, with reversal at the end of the procedure.
(18) For retrospective action to be taken, and an FA charge to follow, the decision of the panel must be unanimous.” The match between the sides ended in acrimony and two City red cards.
(19) The number of peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) producing IgM (spontaneous and pokeweed mitogen (PWM) stimulated) at the end of a seven day culture period was similar in PBC patients and control subjects while the amount of IgM synthesized (spontaneous and PWM stimulated) during this period was significantly greater in the patient group, implying that the amount of IgM produced per B cell was increased in PBC.
(20) ACh released from the vesicular fraction was about 100-fold more than could be accounted for by miniature end-plate potentials; possible causes of this overestimate are discussed.
Twilight
Definition:
(n.) The light perceived before the rising, and after the setting, of the sun, or when the sun is less than 18¡ below the horizon, occasioned by the illumination of the earth's atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.
(n.) faint light; a dubious or uncertain medium through which anything is viewed.
(a.) Seen or done by twilight.
(a.) Imperfectly illuminated; shaded; obscure.
Example Sentences:
(1) Activity peaked during the period corresponding to evening twilight and was negligible during the morning twilight period; in contrast, death feigning peaked during the morning twilight period.
(2) "Around 2009, when Twilight was huge and Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart were wearing ripped jeans, that look was big, though it wasn't really from the catwalk," he said.
(3) Traumatic twilight state on the one and amnestic episode (transient global amnesia) on the other side are as a rule easy to differentiate from the patient's age, his behavior during the acute state of disease and the kind of its improving.
(4) The collective critical moo-ing that greets the arrival of each new screen instalment of the Twilight series says more about how out of touch the film-reviewing fraternity is with a certain section of the movie-going audience than it does about the films themselves.
(5) The last Behaviour Modification Twilight workshop was the tipping point for her.
(6) A skating star in the twilight of his storied career and another who could go on to be just as impressive combined to put in top performances at the Iceberg Skating Palace on Sunday night and win Russia their first gold medal, to the delight of the watching Vladimir Putin.
(7) The vertebrate retina contains two kinds of visual cells: rods, responsible for twilight (scotopic) vision (black and white discrimination); and cones, responsible for daylight (photopic) vision (color discrimination).
(8) Sharon became prime minister in his twilight years on a pledge to stifle the Palestinian rebellion that began in September 2000.
(9) That the Occupy movement fizzled out because it didn’t have a leader … I hope this film will in some way help generate a leader who will pull young people together in a way which they will understand.” The Hunger Games, adapted from Suzanne Collins’ bestselling series, had already staked out more politically conscious territory than Harry Potter and Twilight, the teenage franchises that preceded it.
(10) Lyudmila's confirmation that she and her husband have split is the rarest thing in Moscow's twilight informational world: a genuine fact.
(11) I planned for it to take ten years for that to dissipate, so to get into Cannes the year that [Twilight] is finishing was fairly ridiculous."
(12) The former Manchester United striker, now playing in midfield, is also in the twilight of his career and his game has changed accordingly with Chris Burchall, whose first-half free-kick was tapped in by Stern John, expected to do his running.
(13) An unusual case of recurrent attacks of peculiar twilight state persisting for 41 years is the subject of this clinicopathological report.
(14) "I hated the idea of sliding into the twilight zone, going through the motions," he says.
(15) Not Terry Francona (@NotCoachTito) You know that Twilight Zone where an astronaut returns to an alternate dimension?
(16) A high index of suspicion should prompt specific questioning about hemeralopia, or reduced visual function in brightly illuminated situations, and better vision in twilight or under dim illumination.
(17) Where, though, does a 37-year-old English winger in the twilight of his professional footballing career fit into this plan?
(18) Kristen Stewart has topped Forbes' annual list of the world's highest paid female film stars for the first time thanks to the financial success of the Twilight Saga.
(19) "We caught Twilight star Robert Pattinson's butt cleavage!!"
(20) "I've had a lot more fun watching and arguing about the Twilight movies than I ever had with the Star Wars saga, that lumbering, narratively hobbled space opera," he blasphemed recently .