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adjective

Endless adj.

Without end; having no end or conclusion; perpetual; interminable; applied to length, and to duration; as, an endless line; endless time; endless bliss; endless praise; endless clamor.

Infinite; excessive; unlimited.

Without profitable end; fruitless; unsatisfying. (R.) "All loves are endless."

Void of design; objectless; as, an endless pursuit.

Having a linear or ribbonlike form with the two ends connected together, such as in a circle, ellipse, torus, or any other closed loop. Belts or chains used in drive mechanisms are considered endless in this sense. See endless chain.

Endless chain, a chain which is made continuous by uniting its two ends.

Endless screw. (Mech.) See under Screw.

Synonyms: Eternal; everlasting; interminable; infinite; unlimited; incessant; perpetual; uninterrupted; continual; unceasing; unending; boundless; undying; imperishable.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Endless" Quotes from Famous Books

... the store in despair. He found himself engaged in what appeared to be an endless chase after a phantom Considine, and the difficulties in his way semed insuperable. Yet how could he go back and tell them all at home that he had failed? What would they think of him? The thought made him miserable; and he determined, ...

— An Outback Marriage • Andrew Barton Paterson

... make a broad statement of a nonsensical kind, which, in its particular applications may be said to be endless. A throne won by treachery, violence, and ...

— The Pirate City - An Algerine Tale • R.M. Ballantyne

... canvas being transferred from love to religion, it gains a little in freshness and directness of purpose, but hardly in general readableness. Thus, for instance, two whole pages of the Miroir, or some forty or fifty lines, are taken up with endless playings on the words mort and vie and their derivatives, such as mortifiez, and mort fiez, mort vivifiee and vie mourante. The sacred comedies or mysteries have the tediousness and lack of action of the older pieces of the same kind without ...

— The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. I. (of V.) • Margaret, Queen Of Navarre

... steady employment when the place was open, for the young ladies of the family kept her flat-irons busy with their endless tucks and ruffles. She found a good market, too, for all the eggs she could induce her buff cochins to lay, and all the berries that she ...

— Ole Mammy's Torment • Annie Fellows Johnston

... tenor voice, which, however, I had never practised, but now I began to cultivate it assiduously. I frequently sang with Lauretta one of those tender Italian duets of which there exists such an endless number. We were just singing one of these pieces, the hour of departure was close at hand—'Senza di te ben mio, vivere non poss' io' ('Without thee, my own, I cannot live!') Who could resist that? I threw myself at her feet—I was in despair. She raised ...

— Weird Tales. Vol. I • E. T. A. Hoffmann

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