in the nick of time
just in time
until the last dog is hung
not a minute too soon
snatch
DFL
last-time
damn and blast
lattermost
ultimum remedium
pis aller
one's last
tail
tail end
fag end
eleventh hour
at long last
final
endly
last gasp
terminus
eleventh-hour
under the wire
ending
windup
endure
heartbreaker
in the bottom of the bag
ultimate
cut it fine
at last
pull someone's bacon out of the fire
age of judgment
back
Martini shot
last-minute
Big Dance
judgment
dal segno
continue
kingdom come
near
upcome
the curtain falls
rest
last-ditch
only
stop-tap
time
momentary
past
catchword
suck hind tit
end
shield fern
penultimate
drag out
last-named
pang seh
drag on
deathbed
next-to-last
at length
cellar
cuspated
lastminute.com
check out
after the fact
in articulo mortis
sunset
in
doom
buzzer-beater
late
about time
dying gasp
outask
just then
half
one's hour
agony
death
LILO
climax
full stop
destruction
at a push
bottom of the ninth
termination
supernaculum
last-time
lattermost
final
eleventh-hour
ultimate
last-minute
near
last-ditch
momentary
penultimate
last-named
next-to-last
cuspated
lastminute.com
late
LILO
in the nick of time
just in time
not a minute too soon
damn and blast
endly
dal segno
only
in articulo mortis
about time
just then
supernaculum
ultimum remedium
pis aller
tail
tail end
fag end
eleventh hour
last gasp
terminus
ending
windup
heartbreaker
ultimate
age of judgment
back
Martini shot
Big Dance
judgment
kingdom come
upcome
rest
stop-tap
time
catchword
end
shield fern
deathbed
cellar
sunset
doom
buzzer-beater
dying gasp
one's hour
agony
death
climax
full stop
destruction
bottom of the ninth
termination
snatch
DFL
endure
cut it fine
pull someone's bacon out of the fire
continue
suck hind tit
drag out
pang seh
drag on
check out
outask
prep_phrase
verb
- To take (a victory) at the last moment.
- To steal.
- To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony.
- To attempt to seize something suddenly.
- To do something quickly in the limited time available.
- To grasp and remove quickly.
noun
- A short period.
- A competitive weightlifting event in which a barbell is lifted from the platform to locked arms overhead in a smooth continuous movement.
- Rapid, uncommanded jerking or oscillation of the ailerons of some aircraft at high Mach numbers, resulting from shock wave formation at transonic speeds.
- A quick grab or catch.
- The vulva.
- A piece of some sound, usually music or conversation.
adj
noun
noun
phrase
noun
- the time of the last part of something
- the posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body
- any projection that resembles the tail of an animal
- the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements
- (usually plural) the reverse side of a coin that does not bear the representation of a person's head
- the rear part of an aircraft
- the rear part of a ship
verb
prep_phrase
adj
- Last; ultimate.
- Word-final; occurring at the end of a word.
- Respecting an end or object to be gained; respecting the purpose or ultimate end in view.
- Conclusive; decisive.
- Expressing purpose; as in the term final clause.
noun
- The last round, game or match in a contest, after which the winner is determined.
- A final examination; a test or examination given at the end of a term or class; the test that concludes a class.
- A final examination taken at the end of the final year of an undergraduate course, which contributes towards a student's degree classification.
- The tonic or keynote of a Gregorian mode, and hence the final note of any conventional melody played in that mode.
- The final part of a syllable, the combination of medial and rime in phonetics and phonology.
prep_phrase
noun
- The final or most distant point; the conclusion
- The greatest extremity; the maximum
- The most basic or fundamental of a set of things
adj
- Last in a word or other utterance.
- Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final.
- Being the most distant or extreme; farthest.
- That will happen at some time; eventual.
- Final; last in a series.
- Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme.
- Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental.
noun
- The part of something that goes last.
- Effort, usually physical.
- The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
- The keel and keelson of a ship.
- A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
- The spine and associated tissues.
- The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
- A ferryboat.
- The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
- Large and attractive buttocks.
- The inside margin of a page.
- The edge of a book which is bound.
- In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
- A support or resource in reserve.
- The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
- A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
- Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
- Area behind, such as the backyard of a house.
- The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
- The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
- That which is farthest away from the front.
- The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
- Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.
adj
- Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
- Not current.
- Situated away from the main or most frequented areas.
- At or near the rear.
- Returned or restored to a previous place or condition.
- Moving or operating backward.
- In arrears; overdue.
adv
- In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.
- So as to reverse direction and return.
- Away from someone or something; at a distance.
- Away from the front or from an edge.
- In a manner that impedes.
- In a reciprocal manner; in return.
- So as shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.
- To a later point in time. See also put back.
- Towards, into or in the past.
- To or in a previous condition or place.
- Earlier, ago.
- In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
verb
- To go in the reverse direction.
- To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
- To push or force backwards.
- To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
- To support.
- To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
- To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
- To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
- To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
- To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
- To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
- To draw from behind the back [+accusative = a knife etc.] (as also back out).
- To row backward with (oars).
- To carry an infant on one's back.
postp
noun
noun
- The final award; the last sentence.
- The act of determining, as in courts of law, what is conformable to law and justice; also, the determination, decision, or sentence of a court, or of a judge.
- The power or faculty of performing such operations; especially, when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely
- The act of judging.
- The conclusion or result of judging; an opinion; a decision.
verb
- To make last; to prolong.
- To make a continuation bet.
- To retain (someone or something) in a given state, position, etc.
- To proceed with (doing an activity); to prolong (an activity).
- To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.
- To resume.
- To adjourn, prorogue, put off.
noun
adj
- Close in time.
- Physically close.
- So as barely to avoid or pass injury or loss; close; narrow.
- Close to anything followed or imitated; not free, loose, or rambling.
- Within the currently selected segment in a segmented memory architecture.
- Closely connected or related.
- Close to one's interests, affection, etc.; intimate; dear.
- Approximate, almost.
- On the side nearest to the kerb (the left-hand side if one drives on the left).
prep
noun
adv
verb
noun
- A final position after death.
- A state of inactivity; a state of little or no motion; a state of completion.
- A projection from the right side of the cuirass of armour, serving to support the lance.
- Absence of motion.
- Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility.
- A stick with a U-, V- or X-shaped head used to support the tip of a cue when the cue ball is otherwise out of reach.
- A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the Bank of England, the balance of assets above liabilities.
- Any object designed to be used to support something else.
- Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.
- The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account. Often, specifically, the intervals after which compound interest is added to capital.
- A written symbol indicating such a pause in a musical score such as in sheet music.
- A short pause in reading poetry; a caesura.
- A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.
- A pause of a specified length in a piece of music.
- That which remains.
- Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.
- Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation.
verb
- To be free from that which harasses or disturbs; be quiet or still; be undisturbed.
- To rely or depend on.
- To be or to put into a state of rest.
- To lean, lie, or lay.
- To complete one's active advocacy in a trial or other proceeding, and thus to wait for the outcome (however, one is still generally available to answer questions, etc.)
- To continue to be, remain, be left in a certain way.
- To sleep; slumber.
- To come to a pause or an end; end.
- To be satisfied; to acquiesce.
- To sleep the final sleep; sleep in death; die; be dead.
- To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without motion.
- To lie dormant.
- To stay, remain, be situated.
noun
noun
- Closing time.
- The property of a system which allows it to have more than one distinct configuration.
- The inevitable progression into the future with the passing of present and past events.
- The end of someone's life, conceived by the speaker as having been predestined.
- The hour of childbirth.
- A numerical indication of a particular moment.
- A particular moment or hour; the appropriate moment or hour for something (especially with prepositional phrase or imperfect subjunctive).
- How much of a day has passed; the moment, as indicated by a clock or similar device.
- An instance or occurrence.
- A dimension of spacetime with the opposite metric signature to space dimensions; the fourth dimension.
- A quantity of availability of duration.
- The measurement under some system of region of day or moment.
- The serving of a prison sentence.
- An era; (with the, sometimes in plural) the current era, the current state of affairs.
- Ratio of comparison.
- The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division.
- Time out; temporary, limited suspension of play.
- A person's youth or young adulthood, as opposed to the present day.
- A measurement of a quantity of time; a numerical or general indication of a length of progression.
- An experience.
- Change associated with the second law of thermodynamics; the physical and psychological result of increasing entropy.
intj
- The umpire's call in prizefights, etc.
- Reminder by the umpire for the players to continue playing after their pause.
- A call by a bartender to warn patrons that the establishment is closing and no more drinks will be served.
verb
prep
- Any number of minutes after the last hour
- Beyond in place or quantity
- Having recovered or moved on from (a traumatic experience, etc.).
- No longer capable of.
- Passing by, especially without stopping or being delayed.
adv
noun
- The period of time that has already happened, in contrast to the present and the future.
- The past tense.
adj
noun
- the point in time at which something ends
- a final state
- either extremity of something that has length
- the final stage or concluding parts of an event or occurrence
- the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it
- a final part or section
- the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object
- (football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage
- a boundary marking the extremities of something
- one of two places from which people are communicating to each other
- the part you are expected to play
- the last section of a communication
- a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold
- (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage, designating players at each end of the defensive line
verb
prep_phrase
verb
- To visit the oche for the last time and clear one's remaining points to win the game.
- To die.
- To examine, inspect, look at closely, ogle; to investigate; to gather information so as to make a decision.
- To obtain (source code or other material) from a repository so that one can modify it and later check it back in.
- To prove (after an investigation) to be the case, or to be in order.
- To record (someone) as leaving the premises or as taking something therefrom, as from a library or shop.
- To become uninterested in an activity and cease to participate in more than a perfunctory manner; to become uncooperative.
- To withdraw (an item), as from a library, and have the withdrawal recorded.
- To leave in a hurry.
- To confirm and pay for goods and services at a facility (e.g.: supermarket, online store, hotel) when leaving.
- To become catatonic or otherwise nonresponsive.
prep
- At the end of (a period of time).
- Within the bounds or limits of.
- During (a period of time).
- Into.
- Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics.
- Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc.
- Characterized by.
- In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment.
- Surrounded by; among; amidst.
- Denoting a state of the subject.
- Less water gets in your boots this way.
- In the form of, in the denomination of.
- Indicating an order or arrangement.
- Contained by.
- Part of; a member of; out of; from among.
- Within (a certain elapsed time); by the end of.
- Wearing (an item of clothing).
- Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance.
- Pertaining to; with regard to.
adv
- After the beginning of something.
- The show still didn't become interesting 20 minutes in.
- Denotes a gathering of people assembled for the stated activity, sometimes, though not always, suggesting a protest.
- Towards the speaker or other reference point.
- At or towards the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room.
- So as to be enclosed or surrounded by something.
adj
- In fashion; popular.
- Falling or remaining within the bounds of the playing area.
- (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) Burning; ablaze.
- Having familiarity or involvement with somebody.
- Inserted or fitted into something.
- With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin
- Incoming.
- Located indoors, especially at home or at one's office or place of work.
- Having been collected or received.
- Of the tide, at or near its highest level.
- Currently batting.
- He is very in with the Joneses.
- Having a favourable position, such as a position of influence or expected gain, in relation to another person.
- Furled or stowed.
- Located inside something.
noun
adj
- Near the end of a period of time.
- Not having had an expected menstrual period.
- Associated with the end of a period.
- Levied as a surcharge on a payment received after a deadline.
- Deceased, dead: used particularly when speaking of the dead person's actions while alive. (Generally must be preceded by a possessive or an article, commonly "the"; see usage notes. Can itself only precede the person's name, never follow it.)
- Existing or holding some position not long ago, but not now; departed, or gone out of office.
- Specifically, near the end of the day.
- Recent — relative to the noun it modifies.
- Of a star or class of stars, cooler than the sun.
- Not arriving or occurring until after an expected time.
noun
adv
prep
adj
- Related through one common grandparent or ancestor rather than two.
- Consisting of a half (½, 50%).
- Having one parent (rather than two) in common.
- Consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half; approximately a half, whether more or less; partial; imperfect.
adv
- Partially; imperfectly.
- In some part approximating a half.
- In two equal parts or to an equal degree.
- Practically, nearly.
intj
noun
- abbreviated form for half marathon.
- Half of a standard measure, chiefly: (Britain) half a pint of beer or cider.
- One of two usually roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided, or considered as divided.
- One of the two opposite parts of the playing field of various sports, in which each starts the game.
- The fraction obtained by dividing 1 by 2.
- Any of the three terms at Eton College, for Michaelmas, Lent, and summer.
- A half sibling.
noun
- The final term of a rhetorical climax.
- A rhetorical device in which a series is arranged in ascending order.
- The culmination of sexual pleasure, an orgasm.
- A culmination or acme: the last term in an ascending series
- The culmination of a narrative's rising action, the turning point.
- The culmination of ecological development, whereby species are in equilibrium with their environment.
verb
prep_phrase
noun
- An end in time; a conclusion.
- The last part of a word; an ending, a desinence; a suffix.
- An induced abortion.
- The process of firing an employee; ending one's employment at a business for any reason.
- An end in space; an edge or limit.
- An outcome or result.
- The ending up of a polypeptid chain.
- The process of terminating or the state of being terminated.
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