cause an eclipse of (a celestial body) by intervention; "The Sun eclipses the moon today"; "Planets and stars often are occulted by other celestial bodies"
cause an eclipse of; of celestial bodies; "The moon eclipsed the sun"
a position on the line of scrimmage; "no one wanted to play end"
the part you are expected to play; "he held up his end"
a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
a final part or section; "we have given it at the end of the section since it involves the calculus"; "Start at the beginning and go on until you come to the end"
the concluding parts of an event or occurrence; "the end was exciting"; "I had to miss the last of the movie"
a boundary marking the extremities of something; "the end of town"
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"
the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object; "one end of the box was marked `This side up'"
one of two places from which people are communicating to each other; "the phone rang at the other end"; "both ends wrote at the same time"
(football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage; "the end managed to hold onto the pass"
a final state; "he came to a bad end"; "the so-called glorious experiment came to an inglorious end"
the point in time at which something ends; "the end of the year"; "the ending of warranty period"
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 WW I"
put an end to; "The terrible news ended our hopes that he had survived"
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 ends in a pianissimo"
be the end of; be the last or concluding part of; "This sad scene ended the movie"
a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)
a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture); "the coin bears an effigy of Lincoln"; "the emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone"
having finished or arrived at completion; "certain to make history before he's done"; "it's a done deed"; "after the treatment, the patient is through except for follow-up"; "almost through with his studies"
(usually plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant
a popular programming language that is relatively easy to learn; an acronym for beginner's all-purpose symbolic instruction code; no longer in general use
of or denoting or of the nature of or containing a base
serving as a base or starting point; "a basic course in Russian"; "basic training for raw recruits"; "a set of basic tools"; "an introductory art course"
pertaining to or constituting a base or basis; "a basic fact"; "the basic ingredients"; "basic changes in public opinion occur because of changes in priorities"
reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality; "a basic story line"; "a canonical syllable pattern"
a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone); "he put flowers on his mother's grave"
death of a person; "he went to his grave without forgiving me"; "from cradle to grave"
of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought; "grave responsibilities"; "faced a grave decision in a time of crisis"; "a grievous fault"; "heavy matters of state"; "the weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference"
dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises; "a grave God-fearing man"; "a quiet sedate nature"; "as sober as a judge"; "a solemn promise"; "the judge was solemn as he pronounced sentence"