account vs end

account

noun
  • A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake. 

  • A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done. 

  • Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system. 

  • A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review. 

  • An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment. 

  • A bank account. 

  • Profit; advantage. 

  • A record of events; a relation or narrative. 

  • Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement. 

verb
  • To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc. 

  • To consider that. 

  • To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for. 

  • To estimate, consider (something to be as described). 

  • To establish the location for someone. 

  • To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ for). 

  • To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain. 

end

noun
  • A purpose, goal, or aim. 

  • A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion. 

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

  • The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide. 

  • Result. 

  • The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion. 

  • The terminal point of something in space or time. 

  • One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet. 

  • Money. 

  • One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground. 

  • That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap. 

  • Death. 

  • The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end. 

verb
  • to come to an end 

  • To finish, terminate. 

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