Age vs End - What's the difference?

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Age is a related term of end.

As a proper noun age

is .

As a noun end is

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age

English

Noun

(en noun)

The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime.

(uncountable) That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time; specifically the size of that part.

(uncountable) The latter part of life; an advanced period of life, eld; seniority; state of being old.

(countable) One of the stages of life; as, the age of infancy, of youth, etc.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)

, volume=189, issue=6, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Finland spreads word on schools , passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age' seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the ' age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.}}

(uncountable) Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities.

(countable) The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested.

(countable) A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Yesterday’s fuel , passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices). It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber.}}

(countable) A great period in the history of the Earth.

(countable) A century; the period of one hundred years.

The people who live at a particular period.

(countable) A generation.

(countable, hyperbole) A long time.

Synonyms

* (latter part of life) dotage, old age, eld

Derived terms

* act one's age * age before beauty * aged * ageism * age discrimination * age distribution * age group * ageist * ageless * age limit * agelong * Age of Aquarius * age of consent * Age of Enlightenment * age of majority * Age of Reason * age-old * age rating * age-reversal * ages * age spot * ageing, aging * all ages * atomic age/Atomic Age * bone age * Bronze Age * come of age/coming of age * coon's age * dark age/Dark Ages * day and age/in this day and age * drinking age * emotional age * for the ages * full age * golden age * heroic age * ice age * Industrial Age * Iron Age * jazz age * legal age * mental age * Middle Ages * New Age * new-age * nuclear age * of age * old-age * prehistoric age * school age * silver age * space age/space-age * Stone Age * teenage, teenager * under age/underage * voting age * youth-on-age

Verb

To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to.

(figuratively) To postpone an action that would extinguish something, as a debt.

(accounting) To categorize by age.

To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age.

* Holland

They live one hundred and thirty years, and never age for all that.

* Landor

I am aging ; that is, I have a whitish, or rather a light-coloured, hair here and there.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Stephen P. Lownie], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/david-m-pelz David M. Pelz

, title= Stents to Prevent Stroke, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=As we age , the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels. The reason plaque forms isn’t entirely known, but it seems to be related to high levels of cholesterol inducing an inflammatory response, which can also attract and trap more cellular debris over time.}}

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end

English

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.

Usage notes

* Adjectives often used with "end": final, ultimate, deep, happy, etc.

Synonyms

* (final point in space or time) conclusion, limit, terminus, termination * See also

Antonyms

* (final point of something) beginning, start

Derived terms

* at the end of the day * big end * bitter end * dead-end * East End * -ended * endless * endlike * endly * End of Days * end of the line * end of the road * endpaper * end piece, endpiece * end product * endsay * end times * end-to-end * endward * endways, endwise * high-end * know which end is up * living end * loose end * low-end * make ends meet * off the deep end * on end * rear end * short end of the stick * split end * The End * tight end * to this end * up-end * West End * week-end, weekend * without end

Verb

(en verb)

(ergative) To finish, terminate.

* Bible, (w) ii. 2

On the seventh day God ended his work.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

I shall end this strife.

* 1896 , , (A Shropshire Lad), XLV, lines 7-8:

But play the man, stand up and end you

When your sickness is your soul.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-11-09, volume=409, issue=8861, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= How to stop the fighting, sometimes , passage=Ending civil wars is hard. Hatreds within countries often run far deeper than between them. The fighting rarely sticks to battlefields, as it can do between states. Civilians are rarely spared. And there are no borders to fall back behind.}}