end vs objective

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. 

objective

noun
  • A goal that is striven for. 

  • a noun or pronoun in the objective case. 

  • The lens or lenses of a camera, microscope, or other optical device closest to the object being examined. 

  • A material object that physically exists. 

  • The objective case. 

adj
  • Of or relating to a material object, actual existence or reality. 

  • Of, or relating to verbal conjugation that indicates the object (patient) of an action. (In linguistic descriptions of Tundra Nenets, among others.) 

  • Not influenced by the emotions or prejudices. 

  • Based on observed facts; without subjective assessment. 

  • Of, or relating to a noun or pronoun used as the object of a verb. 

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