Definition of End-to-end

1. Adverb. From first to last. "The play was excellent end-to-end"

Exact synonyms: Throughout

2. Adjective. With the end of one object in contact lengthwise with the end of another object.
Similar to: Lengthways, Lengthwise

Definition of End-to-end

1. Adjective. (context: of a collection of items) Arranged such that each end of a given item is adjacent to one end of a different item. ¹

2. Adjective. From one end to the other. ¹

3. Adjective. (context: soccer) Smoothly alternating between attacking and defensive plays. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of End-to-end

end-of-life
end-on-end
end-on mattress suture
end-plate
end-point measurement
end-point nystagmus
end-rhymed
end-stopped
end-systolic volume
end-tidal
end-tidal sample
end-to-end (current term)
end-to-end bite
end-to-end occlusion
end artery
end board
end boards
end bud
end bulb
end cap
end caps
end cell
end game
end games
end lap
end laps

Literary usage of End-to-end

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1920)
"In 29 cases of end- to-end anastomosis, leakage was recorded ia 9 cases, while in 25 of the transverse end-in- end anastomosis, there were only 5 cases of ..."

2. Steam, Its Generation and Use by Babcock & Wilcox Company, Steven C. Stultz, John B. Litto (1913)
"... should be closed and interior portion perforated with not less than twenty one-eighth inch holes equally distributed from end to end and preferably ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)
"At present the opposite is true, and even in the large bowel the end-to-end or axial union is becoming popular. Cannon and Murphy, after roentgen ..."

4. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"... t But in thy triumph triumphs all thy land, ' Which, sad from end to end for loss of thee, Of civic heroes counts no life more grand. ..."

5. A New and Complete System of Arithmetick: Composed for the Use of the by Nicolas Pike, Chester Dewey (1822)
"If the diameter of a round stick of timber be 24 inches from end to end, and its length 20 feet: ..."

6. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1891)
"A ring (similar to the one used in the end-to-end invagination) is placed in the free (distal) end of the ileum and is fastened there in the same manner as ..."

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