Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Never-ending |
Never-endingAdjective1. Uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing; "the ceaseless thunder of surf"; "in constant pain"; "night and day we live with the incessant noise of the city"; "the never-ending search for happiness"; "the perpetual struggle to maintain standards in a democracy"; "man's unceasing warfare with drought and isolation"; "unremitting demands of hunger". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "never-ending" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| NEP | English | Never-Ending Program | Computing |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: Never-endingSynonyms: ceaseless (adj), constant (adj), incessant (adj), perpetual (adj), unceasing (adj), unremitting (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Never-ending |
| English words defined with "never-ending": ceaseless, constant ♦ Immortal flowers, incessant ♦ perpetual ♦ unceasing, unremitting. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "never-ending": connector conspiracy. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Even if you use the power of that manslayer for a self-sacrificing purpose such as protecting those you love or the weak, it's still only one tiny pebble in the never-ending river of time. (Rurouni Kenshin; writing credit: Johan Unenge; Mns Gahrton) I am the wild blue yonder, the front line in a never-ending battle between Good and Not-So-Good. (The Tick; writing credit: Larry Charles; Lon Diamond) I want ceaseless joy and never-ending passion like Romeo and Juliet. (3rd Rock from the Sun; writing credit: Leslie Danon; Austin Reid) The blue sky, the desert earth, stretching out into the eerie infinity. A beautiful never-ending nothing. (The Good Girl; writing credit: Mike White) | |
Clever | Success: It's a never-ending improvement in what you do. (references; author: unknown) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title | ||
Books |
| ||
Music |
| ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Maintaining the boats is a never-ending job - boat on the ways at Gloucester.Credit: Fisheries. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Edgar Allan Poe | Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | The never-ending task of self improvement. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Egypt | A newcomer's biggest and never-ending challenge is to learn, preferably in advance, what laws affect him/her and how to cope with them. (references) |
Kazakhstan | However, many foreign companies cite the need to protect their investments from a never-ending barrage of decrees and legislative changes. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Never-ending" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Never-ending" is used about 95 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 95 | 33,629 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "never-ending"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 休止. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | loppumaton (endless, interminable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | sisyphusarbeit (never-ending task, sisyphean task), eine arbeit ohne ende (never-ending job). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | véget nem érő (perpetual, unending), végeérhetetlen (interminable), szűntelen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 끝없은. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ever-endingnay непрекращающийся (incessant, never ending, never-ceasing, unceasing). (various references) ändlös (endless, everlasting, infinite, interminable, never ending, unending). (various references) ซึ่งไม่ยอมหม"สิ้น. (various references) không bao giờ hết, bất tận. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | perpes. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-g-i-n-n-n-r-v" | |
-2 letters: veneering. | |
-3 letters: engender, engineer, innerved, revenged. | |
-4 letters: denning, diverge, dreeing, energid, engined, evening, greened, greenie, grieved, grinned, innerve, needier, needing, nervine, nerving, reeding, reeving, regiven, reigned, rending, reneged, revenge, veering, vending. | |
-5 letters: degree, denier, derive, devein, dinger, dinner, driven, edgier, ending, endive, endrin, engine, engird, envied, envier, evened, evener, gender, ginned, ginner, girned, grieve, indene, needer, nereid, nerved, reding, reeved, regive, reined, reived, renege, rennin, ringed, veered, veined, veiner, vendee, vender, veneer, venged, venine, venire, verdin, verged. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 65 76 65 72 2D 65 6E 64 69 6E 67 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
|
Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01100101 01110110 01100101 01110010 00101101 01100101 01101110 01100100 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N e v e r - e n d i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0065 0076 0065 0072 002D 0065 006E 0064 0069 006E 0067 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)487188718415718070758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Translations: Modern 11. Translations: Ancient 12. Abbreviations | 13. Acronyms 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
