end

How to sign: have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
"the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony end;

Similiar / Same: terminate, cease, finish, stop

Within this category: adjourn, break, conclude, culminate, cut out, discontinue, go out, lapse, pass away, run low, run out, turn out, vanish, vanish

end

How to sign: the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it
"the ends justify the means";

Similiar / Same: goal

Categories: cognitive content, content, mental object

Within this category: aim, bourn, destination, end-all, intention, no-goal, purpose

end

How to sign: bring to an end or halt
"She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WWI";

Similiar / Same: terminate

Categories: alter, change, modify

Within this category: abort, ax, break, close, close, close out, closure, complete, conclude, culminate, decide, dissolve, dissolve, finalize, finish, interrupt, lift, phase out, stamp out, stub out

end

How to sign: either extremity of something that has length
"the end of the pier"; "she knotted the end of the thread"; "they rode to the end of the line";

Categories: extremity

Within this category: bitter end, bitthead, end point, finish, heel, heel, nerve ending, point, pole, railhead, telomere, terminus, tip, yardarm