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As nouns the difference between end and out

is that end is a key that when pressed causes the cursor to go to the last character of the current line while out is .

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.}}

    Derived terms

    * ending * end up * never-ending * unending

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    out

    English

    (wikipedia out)

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Away from home or one's usual place, or not indoors.
    • Let's eat out tonight
    Leave a message with my secretary if I'm out when you call.
  • Away from; at a distance.
    • Keep out !
  • Away from the inside or the centre.
    • The magician pulled the rabbit out of the hat.
  • Into a state of non-operation; into non-existence.
    • Switch the lights out .
    Put the fire out .
  • To the end; completely.
    • I hadn't finished. Hear me out.
  • * Bible, Psalms iv. 23
    • Deceitful men shall not live out half their days.
    • The place was all decked out for the holidays.
  • (cricket, baseball) Of a player, disqualified from playing further by some action of a member of the opposing team (such as being stumped in cricket).

    • Synonyms

    * (not at home) away

    Antonyms

    * (not at home) in

    Derived terms

    (terms derived from out) * all out * bottle out * bowl out * bug out * camp out * chicken out * chill out * churn out * coffeed out * come out of the closet * come out * coming out of one's ears * crank out * down and out * eat one's heart out * figure out * flesh out * foul out * freeze out * geek out * get out * go in one ear and out the other * hang out * hold out * inside out * iron out * kick out * kit out * knock out * lock out * one eighty out * opt out * out of fashion * out of it * out of joint * out of luck * out of one's mind * out of place * out of pocket * out of proportion * out of sorts * out of stock * out of the blue * out of the ordinary * out of the question * out of the way * out of the woods * out of tune * out of wedlock * out of work * out of * out there * out to lunch * out to, out to get someone * out-of-bounds * out-of-print * pig out * put out feelers * put out * rub out * suss out * turn out * wash out * way out * weed out * wipe out * zonk out * zoom out

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • Away from the inside.
    • He threw it out the door.
  • (colloquial) outside
    • It's raining out .
    It's cold out .

    Synonyms

    * (away from the inside) through

    Antonyms

    * (away from the inside) in

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A means of exit, escape, reprieve, etc.
    • They wrote the law to give those organizations an out .
  • (baseball) A state in which a member of the batting team is removed from play due to the application of various rules of the game such as striking out, hitting a fly ball which is caught by the fielding team before bouncing, etc.
  • (cricket) A dismissal; a state in which a member of the batting team finishes his turn at bat, due to the application of various rules of the game such as hit wicket, wherein the bowler has hit the batsman's wicket with the ball.
  • (poker) A card which can make a hand a winner.
  • (dated) A trip out; an outing.
  • * Charles Dickens, Bleak House
    • "Us London lawyers don't often get an out ; and when we do, we like to make the most of it, you know."
  • (mostly, in plural) One who, or that which, is out; especially, one who is out of office.
  • A place or space outside of something; a nook or corner; an angle projecting outward; an open space.
  • (printing, dated) A word or words omitted by the compositor in setting up copy; an omission.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To eject; to expel.
  • * Selden
    • a king outed from his country
  • * Heylin
    • The French have been outed of their holds.
  • To reveal (a person) to be secretly homosexual.
  • To reveal (a person or organization) as having a certain secret, such as a being a secret agent or undercover detective.
  • * 2009' March 16, Maurna Desmond, " AIG '''Outs Counterparties]" (online news article), ''[[w:Forbes, Forbes.com] .
  • To reveal (a secret).
    • A Brazilian company outed the new mobile phone design.
  • To come or go out; to get out or away; to become public.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Truth will out .

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Of a young lady, having entered society and available to be courted.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , title=(Mansfield Park) , last=Austen , first=Jane , authorlink=Jane Austen , year=1814 citation , volume=one, chapter V , publisher= }}
    "Pray, is she out', or is she not? I am puzzled. She dined at the Parsonage, with the rest of you, which seemed like being '''''out'' ; and yet she says so little, that I can hardly suppose she ''is ."
  • released, available for purchase, download or other use
    • Did you hear? Their newest CD is out !
  • (cricket, baseball) Of a batter or batsman, having caused an out called on himself while batting under various rules of the game.
  • Openly acknowledging one's homosexuality.
    • It's no big deal to be out in the entertainment business.

    Usage notes

    * In cricket, the specific cause or rule under which a batsman is out appears after the word "out", eg, "out hit the ball twice". * In baseball, the cause is expressed as a verb with adverbial "out", eg, "he grounded out".

    Synonyms

    * (sense, openly acknowledging one's homosexuality) openly gay

    Antonyms

    * (disqualified from playing) in, safe * (sense, openly acknowledging one's homosexuality) closeted

    Derived terms

    * all out * eat out * far out * go out * on the outs * out- * out of * outer * outback * outer * outing * outness * outside * outta * outward * outwards * outworn * put out * run out * way out

    Related terms

    * outen

    References

    * Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans, "Bounded landmarks", in The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning and Cognition , Cambridge University Press, 2003, 0-521-81430 8

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