Noun

(en noun)

The act of achieving or performing; a successful performance; accomplishment

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement .}}

* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April

, author= , title=Well-connected Brains , volume=100, issue=2, page=171 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work. The achievement will transform neuroscience and serve as the starting point for asking questions we could not otherwise have answered, […].}}

A great or heroic deed or feat; something accomplished by valor or boldness

* [The exploits] of the ancient saints do far surpass the most famous achievements of pagan heroes. - (Isaac Barrow)

* The highest achievements of the human intellect. - (Thomas Babington Macaulay)

(heraldry) An escutcheon or ensign armorial; now generally applied to the funeral shield commonly called hatchment.

(video games) An award for completing a particular task or meeting an objective in a video game.

Noun

(en noun)

(rfc-sense) The final point of something in space or time.

* 1908: (Kenneth Grahame), (The Wind in the Willows)

they followed him... into a sort of a central hall; out of which they could dimly see other long tunnel-like passages branching, passages mysterious and without apparent end .

* , chapter=4

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.}}

The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.

Is there no end to this madness?

Death, especially miserable.

He met a terrible end in the jungle.

I hope the end comes quickly.

* (rfdate) Shakespeare

Confound your hidden falsehood, and award / Either of you to be the other's end .

* (rfdate) Alexander Pope

unblamed through life, lamented in thy end

Result.

* (rfdate) Shakespeare

O that a man might know / The end of this day's business ere it come!

A purpose, goal, or aim.

* (rfdate) Dryden

Losing her, the end of living lose.

* (rfdate) Coleridge

When every man is his own end , all things will come to a bad end.

* 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.21:

There is a long argument to prove that foreign conquest is not the end of the State, showing that many people took the imperialist view.

(cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.

(American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.

* 1926 , , (The Great Gatsby) , Penguin 2000, p. 11:

Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven [...].

(curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion.

(mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex.

That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap.

odds and ends

* (rfdate) Shakespeare

I clothe my naked villainy / With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ, / And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.