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/fˈɪnɪʃɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Finish v. t. (past & past part. finished; pres. part. finishing)

To arrive at the end of; to bring to an end; to put an end to; to make an end of; to terminate. "And heroically hath finished A life heroic."

To bestow the last required labor upon; to complete; to bestow the utmost possible labor upon; to perfect; to accomplish; to polish.

Synonyms: To end; terminate; close; conclude; complete; accomplish; perfect.

Finish v. i.

To come to an end; to terminate. "His days may finish ere that hapless time."

To end; to die. (R.)

adjective

Finishing adj. Tending to complete or to render fit for the market or for use.

Finishing coat.

(a)

(Plastering) the final coat of plastering applied to walls and ceilings, usually white and rubbed smooth.

(b)

(Painting) The final coat of paint, usually differently mixed applied from the others.

Finishing press, a machine for pressing fabrics.

Finishing rolls (Iron Working), the rolls of a train which receive the bar from roughing rolls, and reduce it to its finished shape.

noun

Finishing n. The act or process of completing or perfecting; the final work upon or ornamentation of a thing.

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Etymology of 'Finishing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Finishing" Quotes from Famous Books

... memory and imagination for the rest. On one or two occasions he would ask Mrs. Hole, the wife of the Dean of Rochester, to sit for him in her riding-habit—but this was the nearest approach he ever made to the "model." He would make his first sketch and then trace it on to the block, finishing his rapid drawing with considerable deliberation, yet so quickly that he would often send off three drawings before dinner-time. He was extremely particular about the drawing, and the engraving, too, of his boots and feet, and expressed boundless admiration of Tenniel's power in ...

— The History of "Punch" • M. H. Spielmann

... had returned from the infant school which she had set going in the village, and was taking her usual place in the pretty sitting-room which divided the bedrooms of the sisters, bent on finishing a plan for some buildings (a kind of work which she delighted in), when Celia, who had been watching her with a hesitating desire ...

— Middlemarch • George Eliot

... Jack Bartlett!" cried Randy, running around to the kitchen, where his mother was busy finishing up the week's ironing. ...

— Randy of the River - The Adventures of a Young Deckhand • Horatio Alger Jr.

... the greater part on the same night after the finishing of his recitation of the Poem, in Thirteen Books, on the growth of ...

— The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Vol. III • William Wordsworth

... tent next morning finishing dressing when his servant brought him a piece of crumpled paper and said there was a messenger waiting to see him. The paper was the pass given the day before to Valetta Joe; its bearer was a nondescript-looking ...

— The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood • Arthur Griffiths

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