end

1. (by extension) The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.Examples: "Is there no end to this madness?"; "The new electronic switching system means expanded service and an end to irritances such as cross-talk, line-hum, and being cut off in mid-conversation."broadly

2. (by extension, often with "the") Death.Examples: "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."broadlyoftenwith-definite-article

3. (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.Examples: "The Pavillion End"

4. (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end.Examples: "Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven […]."

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

6. (mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex. See End (graph theory)