Spur vs End - What's the difference?
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A rigid implement, often roughly y-shaped, that is fixed to one's heel for the purpose of prodding a horse. Often worn by, and emblematic of, the cowboy or the knight.
* 1598 , William Shakespeare, (Henry V) , Act IV, Scene VI, line 4:
* 1786 , Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page 22:
Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does to a horse.
* 1601 , (William Shakespeare), (Troilus and Cressida) , Act II, Scene II, line 198.
An appendage or spike pointing rearward, near the foot, for instance that of a rooster.
Any protruding part connected at one end, for instance a highway that extends from another highway into a city.
Roots, tree roots.
* 1609 , , Act IV, Scene II, line 57:
* 1610 , , act 5 scene 1
A mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.
A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale to strip off the blubber.
(carpentry) A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, such as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
(architecture) The short wooden buttress of a post.
(architecture) A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. It is generally carved in leafage.
Ergotized rye or other grain.
A wall in a fortification that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
(shipbuilding) A piece of timber fixed on the bilgeways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.
(shipbuilding) A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam cannot be placed.
To prod (especially a horse) in the side or flank, with the intent to urge motion or haste, to gig.
* 1592 , William Shakespeare, Richard III , Act V, Scene III, line 339:
To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object; to incite; to stimulate; to instigate; to impel; to drive.
* 1599 , William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night , Act III, Scene IV, line 4.
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To put spurs on; as, a spurred boot.
A spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath that signal.
(rfc-sense) The final point of something in space or time.
* 1908: (Kenneth Grahame), (The Wind in the Willows)
* , chapter=4
, title= The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.
Death, especially miserable.
* (rfdate) Shakespeare
* (rfdate) Alexander Pope
Result.
* (rfdate) Shakespeare
A purpose, goal, or aim.
* (rfdate) Dryden
* (rfdate) Coleridge
* 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.21:
(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:
(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.
* (rfdate) Shakespeare
One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.
(ergative) To finish, terminate.
* Bible, (w) ii. 2
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* 1896 , , (A Shropshire Lad), XLV, lines 7-8:
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Spur is a related term of end.
As nouns the difference between spur and end
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m).Noun
(en noun)- Lives he, good uncle? thrice within this hour I saw him down; thrice up again, and fighting; From helmet to the spur all blood he was.
- Two sorts of spurs seem to have been in use about the time of the Conquest, one called a pryck, having only a single point like the gaffle of a fighting cock; the other consisting of a number of points of considerable length, radiating from and revolving on a center, thence named the rouelle or wheel spur.
- But, worthy Hector, She is a theme of honour and renown, A spur to valiant and magnanimous deeds...
- I do note / That grief and patience, rooted in them both, / Mingle their spurs together.
- [...] the strong-bas'd promontory
- Have I made shake; and by the spurs pluck'd up
- The pine and cedar
Derived terms
* spur-of-the-momentVerb
(spurr)- Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head! Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood; Amaze the welkin with your broken staves!
- My desire / (More sharp than filed steel) did spur me forth...
Derived terms
* spur onEtymology 2
See sparrow.Etymology 3
Short for spurious.Noun
(en noun)end
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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 .
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.}}
- Is there no end to this madness?
- He met a terrible end in the jungle.
- I hope the end comes quickly.
- Confound your hidden falsehood, and award / Either of you to be the other's end .
- unblamed through life, lamented in thy end
- O that a man might know / The end of this day's business ere it come!
- Losing her, the end of living lose.
- When every man is his own end , all things will come to a bad end.
- 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.
- Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven [...].
- odds and ends
- I clothe my naked villainy / With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ, / And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
Usage notes
* Adjectives often used with "end": final, ultimate, deep, happy, etc.Synonyms
* (final point in space or time) conclusion, limit, terminus, termination * See alsoAntonyms
* (final point of something) beginning, startDerived 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 endVerb
(en verb)- On the seventh day God ended his work.
- I shall end this strife.
- But play the man, stand up and end you
- When your sickness is your soul.
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.}}