end vs life

end

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

  • 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. 

  • A purpose, goal, or aim. 

  • 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. 

life

noun
  • The span of time during which an object operates. 

  • A life sentence; a period of imprisonment that lasts until the convict's death (or, sometimes, parole). 

  • An opportunity for existence. 

  • A worthwhile existence. 

  • The state of organisms preceding their death, characterized by biological processes such as metabolism and reproduction and distinguishing them from inanimate objects; the state of being alive and living. 

  • The most lively component or participant. 

  • A particular phase or period of existence. 

  • Nature, reality, and the forms that exist in it. 

  • The period of time during which an object is recognizable. 

  • Animation; spirit; vivacity. 

  • A biography. 

  • One of the player's chances to play, lost when the player's character dies or when certain mistakes are made. 

  • A chance for the batter (or batting team) to bat again, given as a result of an misplay by a member of the fielding team. 

  • Social life. 

  • Something which is inherently part of a person's existence, such as job, family, a loved one, etc. 

  • A particular aspect of existence. 

  • The status possessed by any of a number of entities, including animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, and sometimes viruses, which have the properties of replication and metabolism. 

  • The animating principle or force that keeps an inorganic thing or concept metaphorically alive (dynamic, relevant, etc) and makes it a "living document", "living constitution", etc. 

  • The period during which one (a person, an animal, a plant; a civilization, species; a star; etc) is alive. 

  • Lifeforms, generally or collectively. 

  • A period extending from a when a (positive or negative) office, punishment, etc is conferred on someone until that person dies (or, sometimes, reaches retirement age). 

  • One of a player's chances to play in various children's playground games, lost when a mistake is made, for example being struck by the ball in dodgeball. 

  • The life insurance industry. 

  • A life assured under a life assurance policy (equivalent to the policy itself for a single life contract). 

  • Existence. 

  • A living individual; the fact of a particular individual being alive. (Chiefly when indicating individuals were lost (died) or saved.) 

verb
  • To replace components whose operational lifetime has expired. 

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