| permanent |
| 1. adj. Without end, eternal. | |
| Nothing in this world is truly permanent. | |
| 2. adj. Lasting for an indefinitely long time. | |
| The countries are now locked in a permanent state of conflict. | |
| 3. n. A chemical hair treatment imparting or removing curliness, whose effects typically last for a period of weeks; a perm. | |
| 4. n. (linear algebra, combinatorics) Given ann \times n matrixa_ij \,, the sum over all permutations\pi \, of\prod_i=1^na_i\pi(i). | |
| 5. v. (transitive, dated) To perm (the hair). | |
| never |
| 1. adv. At no time; on no occasion; in no circumstance. | |
| I finally finished, and I never want to do that again. | |
| I repeated the test a hundred times, and never saw a positive result. | |
| I will never tell. | |
| 2. adv. Not at any other time; not on any other occasion; not previously. | |
| 3. adv. (colloquial) Negative particle (used to negate verbs in the simple past tense; also used absolutely). | |
| The police say I stole the car, but I never did it. | |
| You said you were going to mow the lawn today. – I never! | |
| ending |
| 1. v. present participle of end | |
| 2. n. A termination or conclusion. | |
| 3. n. The last part of something. | |
| 4. n. (grammar) The last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form (such as -ing in "ending"). | |
| 5. Phrases. bad ending | |
| 6. Phrases. good ending | |
| end |
| 1. n. The terminal point of something in space or time. | |
| At the end of the road, turn left. | |
| At the end of the story, the main characters fall in love. | |
| 2. n. (by extension) (euphemistic) The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion. | |
| Is there no end to this madness? | |
| 3. n. (by extension) Death, especially miserable. | |
| He met a terrible end in the jungle. | |
| I hope the end comes quickly. | |
| 4. n. The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide. | |
| Hold the string at both ends. | |
| My father always sat at the end of the table. | |
| 5. n. Result. | |
| 6. n. A purpose, goal, or aim. | |
| 7. n. (cricket) One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground. | |
| The Pavillion End | |
| 8. n. (American football) The position at the end of either the offensive or defensive line, a tight end, a split end, a defensive end. | |
| 9. n. (curling) A period of play in which each team throws eight rocks, two per player, in alternating fashion. | |
| 10. n. (mathematics) An ideal point of a graph or other complex. | |
| 11. n. That which is left; a remnant; a fragment; a scrap. | |
| odds and ends | |
| 12. n. One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet. | |
| 13. v. To finish, terminate. | |
| Is this movie never going to end? | |
| The lesson will end when the bell rings. | |
| The referee blew the whistle to end the game. | |
| infinite |
| 1. adj. Indefinably large, countlessly great; immense. | |
| 2. adj. Boundless, endless, without end or limits; innumerable. | |
| 3. adj. With plural noun: infinitely many. | |
| 4. adj. (mathematics) Greater than any positive quantity or magnitude; limitless. | |
| 5. adj. (set theory, of a set) Having infinitely many elements. | |
| 6. adj. (grammar) Not limited by person or number. | |
| 7. adj. (music) Capable of endless repetition; said of certain forms of the canon, also called perpetual fugues, constructed so that their ends lead to their beginnings. | |
| 8. num. Infinitely many. | |
