Done vs End - What's the difference?

done | end |

As verbs the difference between done and end

is that done is past participle of lang=en while end is to finish, terminate.

As an adjective done

is ready, fully cooked.

As a noun end is

the final point of something in space or time.

done

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

(of food) Ready, fully cooked.

As soon as the potatoes are done we can sit down and eat.

In a state of having completed or finished an activity.

He pushed his empty plate away, sighed and pronounced "I am done ."

They were done playing and were picking up the toys when he arrived.

Being exhausted or fully spent.

When the water is done we will only be able to go on for a few days.

Without hope or prospect of completion or success.

He is done , after three falls there is no chance he will be able to finish.

Fashionable, socially acceptable, tasteful.

I can't believe he just walked up and spoke to her like that, those kind of things just aren't done !

What is the done thing these days? I can't keep up!

Derived terms

* be done for * be done with it * done deal * get done for * overdone * well done

Verb

(head)

I have ''done'' my work.

(African American Vernacular English, Southern American English, auxiliary verb, taking a past tense) Used in forming the perfective aspect.

I done did my best to raise y'all.

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* * English irregular past participles ----

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.}}