ADJ
- bottom, lower
- top, upper
- back, rear, tail (figurative)
- I just caught the tail end of the movie
- front
- extreme, very
- far, opposite, other
- That's his wife sitting at the far end of the table
- round, square, etc.
- pointed, sharp
- cheap
- housebuyers at the cheap end of the market
- dear, expensive
- dead
- We tried cutting through a back road but it was a dead end
- (figurative)
- a dead-end job
- deep, shallow (of a swimming pool)
- (figurative) The company believes in throwing new employees in at the deep end with at the end of the movie
- by the ~
- He wants the reports by the end of the month
- in the ~
- In the end, they decided to spend the holiday at home
- to the ~
- He won't win, but he'll keep fighting to the end
- towards the ~
- I was getting bored towards the end of the talk
- till/until the ~
- I'm staying until the end of this week
- up to the ~
- It stayed hot right up to the end of September
- ~ to
- What the business community wants is an end to the recession
PHRASES
- the end of an era
- Her death marks the end of an era
- the end of the line/road (figurative)
- The loss of this no training
- free, knotted, loose
- Take the free end of the rope and pass it through the hole.contract could signal the end of
- (figurative)
- The author tied up all the loose ends of the story in the final chapter
- west, western, etc.
- the southern end of the lake
- end of the spectrum
- The two parties represent opposite ends of the political spectrum
- (from) end to end
- We walked along the whole promenade, from end to end. They arranged the tables end to end
VERB + END
- come to, get to, reach
- Continue until you reach the end of the road
- change
- The teams changed ends at half time
PREP
- at the ~
- Turn into Hope Street and our house is right at the end
- on ~
- Stand it on end (= upright)
ADJ
- abrupt, sudden
- dramatic
- early
- The injury brought her career to an early end
- fitting
- The award was a fitting end to a distinguished career
VERB + END
- come to, get to, reach
- The meeting finally came to an end at six. I'll never get to the end of this book!
- approach, draw to, near
- As the evening was drawing to an end, the firework display took place
- bring (sth to), put
- Talks were in progress to bring an end to the fighting
- call for
- call for an end to the violence
END + VERB
- be in sight
- There's no end in sight to the present crisis
END + NOUN
- product, result
- The film's backers were delighted with the end product
PREP
- at an ~
- The proceedings are expected to be at an end by 6 p.m
- at the ~
- They get married the line for the shipyard
- from beginning to end
- His story was one big lie from beginning to end
- to/until the bitter end
- We will fight this court case to the bitter end
ADJ
- beneficial, desirable, worthwhile, worthy
- destructive
- practical, pragmatic
- common
- Despite our differences, we were working to a common end
- selfish
- commercial, economic, educational, ideological, political, social, utilitarian
VERB + END
- achieve, further, pursue
- She was prepared to lie in order to achieve her ends
- work to
PREP
- to … ends
- The money might have been used to more beneficial ends
- to this ~
- She wished to have a house built, and to this end she engaged a local architect
PHRASES
- an end in itself
- For her, travelling had become an end in itself rather than a means of seeing new places
- a means to an end
- I don't enjoy studying computing?it's just a means to an end
- the end justifies the means
- He defended a morality in which the end justifies the means
- to/for your own ends
- She is exploiting the current situation for her own ends
- with this end in view
- (= in order to achieve this)
ADJ
- sad, tragic
- bad, sticky
- to come to a sticky (= unpleasant, but deserved) end
- untimely
VERB + END
- come to, meet (literary)
- He met his end at the Battle of Waterloo
END + VERB
- come
- The end came when he collapsed after playing golf