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TO END UP

Definition: TO END UP

TO END UP

1. To lift or tilt, so as to set on end; as, to end up a hogshead.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: TO END UP

English words defined with "TO END UP": limitlessunlimited. (references)
Specialty definitions using "TO END UP": A Portrait of J. Random Hackerself-cleaning tail pulley. (references)

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Modern Usage: TO END UP

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Either way, we were destined to end up like this. (Cowboy Bebop; writing credit: Akihiko Inari)

And you, Seor Don Quixote, your head is going to end up a stranger to your neck! (Man of La Mancha; writing credit: Dale Wasserman)

'Cause, I don't want you to end up in the electric chair. (A Goofy Movie; writing credit: Jymn Magon; Chris Matheson)

They named a brandy after Napoleon, they made a herring out of Bismarck, and the Fuhrer is going to end up as a piece of cheese! (To Be or Not to Be; writing credit: Melchior Lengyel; Edwin Justus Mayer)

I'll tell ya one thing, if I find out my life had to end up being in the mountains, it'd be alright, but it has to be in your mind. (The Deer Hunter; writing credit: Michael Cimino; Deric Washburn)

Lyrics

Me and my boys went out just to end up in misery (The Call; performing artist: Backstreet Boys)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: TO END UP

AuthorQuotation

Arthur Miller

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

Stephane Mallarme

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: TO END UP

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Last year, my doctor told me hormones would help prevent heart disease, but now you're not so sure. And I certainly don't want to end up in a bed in a nursing home after a hip fracture like my mom's mother. (references)

Economic History

Japan

Distribution mark-ups in Japan often cause imported products to end up being priced at levels higher than comparable Japanese products. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Modern Translation: TO END UP

Language Translations for "TO END UP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

végez (end up, make, practise, to end up with, to finish, to finish off, to mend invisibly, to pass out, to pioneer, to slubber, to slubber over a job, to traverse), bevégez (end, to end, to end up with, to finish, to perfect). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

行き着く (to arrive at). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

いきつく (to arrive at), ゆきつく (to arrive at). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otay enday upay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TO END UP

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-n-o-p-t-u"

-1 letter: pouted, punted.

-2 letters: depot, donut, netop, noted, opted, outed, pound, punto, puton, toned, toped, tuned, upend.

-3 letters: dent, done, dope, dote, duet, dune, dunt, dupe, node, nope, note, nude, oped, open, pend, pent, peon, poet, pond, pone, pout, punt, tend, toed, tone, tope, tune, unde, undo, unto, updo, upon.

-4 letters: den, doe, don, dot.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-n-o-p-t-u"
 

+1 letter: outspend, unposted, unpotted.

 

+2 letters: outspends, underplot, unspotted, unstopped.

 

+3 letters: deputation, importuned, outpainted, outplanned, outpointed, outpreened, outpunched, outspanned, stupendous, tenpounder, underplots, unpolluted, unprompted, unreported.

 

+4 letters: deputations, deuteranope, impoundment, incorrupted, openmouthed, outspeeding, outspending, outsprinted, profoundest, repudiation, tenpounders, typefounder, unadoptable, uncaptioned, uncompleted, underreport, unexploited, unprotected, unstoppered, unsupported.

 

+5 letters: conduplicate, counterposed, depopulating, depopulation, deputization, deuteranopes, deuteranopia, deuteranopic, impoundments, multipronged, neuropeptide, outspreading, photoinduced, precautioned, preinduction, profundities, pseudonymity, reproduction, repudiations, stupendously, superconduct, typefounders, typefounding, underreports, unproductive, uprootedness.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: TO END UP


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F      45 4E 44      55 50

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01000101 01001110 01000100 00100000 01010101 01010000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#69 &#78 &#68 &#32 &#85 &#80

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      0045 004E 0044      0055 0050

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5449239483825550

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Quotations: Familiar
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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