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Finish   /fˈɪnɪʃ/   Listen
Finish

verb
(past & past part. finished; pres. part. finishing)
1.
Come or bring to a finish or an end.  Synonym: complete.  "She completed the requirements for her Master's Degree" , "The fastest runner finished the race in just over 2 hours; others finished in over 4 hours"
2.
Finally be or do something.  Synonyms: end up, fetch up, finish up, land up, wind up.  "He wound up being unemployed and living at home again"
3.
Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical.  Synonyms: cease, end, stop, terminate.  "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other" , "My property ends by the bushes" , "The symphony ends in a pianissimo"
4.
Provide with a finish.  "This shirt is not finished properly"
5.
Finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table.  Synonyms: eat up, polish off.
6.
Cause to finish a relationship with somebody.
noun
1.
A decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance).  Synonyms: coating, finishing.  "He applied a coat of a clear finish" , "When the finish is too thin it is difficult to apply evenly"
2.
The temporal end; the concluding time.  Synonyms: close, conclusion, finale, finis, last, stopping point.  "The market was up at the finish" , "They were playing better at the close of the season"
3.
A highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality.  Synonyms: cultivation, culture, polish, refinement.  "I admired the exquisite refinement of his prose" , "Almost an inspiration which gives to all work that finish which is almost art"
4.
The place designated as the end (as of a race or journey).  Synonyms: destination, goal.  "He was nearly exhausted as their destination came into view"
5.
Designated event that concludes a contest (especially a race).  "My horse was several lengths behind at the finish" , "The winner is the team with the most points at the finish"
6.
The downfall of someone (as of persons on one side of a conflict).  "It was a fight to the finish"
7.
Event whose occurrence ends something.  Synonyms: conclusion, ending.  "When these final episodes are broadcast it will be the finish of the show"
8.
(wine tasting) the taste of a wine on the back of the tongue (as it is swallowed).
9.
The act of finishing.  Synonym: finishing.  "The speaker's finishing was greeted with applause"



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"Finish" Quotes from Famous Books



... and here is a good chance to prove it. He apprehended, by a natural instinct, the meaning of the young woman's phrase, and it gratified him to think that she was so honest. Beauty, talent, virtue; she combined everything! "But you must finish it," he said. "FINISH, you know;" and he pointed to the unpainted hand ...
— The American • Henry James
... phrase of the critics," said Nan; "they merely change the title of the book from year to year. But it's been fun doing a book that way and putting it out anonymously. Judge Walters spoke to me of it yesterday; said he had stayed up all night to finish it." ...
— Otherwise Phyllis • Meredith Nicholson
... To finish with the mammalia, there are two interesting opossums, both of the genus Didelphys, but in habits as wide apart as cat from otter. One of these marsupials appears so much at home on the plains that I almost regret having said that the vizcacha alone gives us the idea of being in its habits the ...
— The Naturalist in La Plata • W. H. Hudson
... animals, cupids, swags of fruit and draperies; fantastic compositions of a free Renaissance character constituted the panels; to which bold scrolls in ormolu formed fitting frames; while handsome mouldings of the same material gave a finish to the extremities. These ormolu mountings were gilt by an old-fashioned process,[14] which left upon the metal a thick deposit of gold, and were cunningly chiselled by the skilful hands of Caffieri ...
— Illustrated History of Furniture - From the Earliest to the Present Time • Frederick Litchfield
... reckoned apart;- seeing then a day is completed by the motion of the sun and by his circuit from east to east again, I ask, does the motion alone make the day, or the stay in which that motion is completed, or both? For if the first be the day; then should we have a day, although the sun should finish that course in so small a space of time, as one hour comes to. If the second, then should not that make a day, if between one sun-rise and another there were but so short a stay, as one hour comes to; but the sun must go four and twenty times about, to complete ...
— The Confessions of Saint Augustine • Saint Augustine


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