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Finishing   /fˈɪnɪʃɪŋ/   Listen
Finishing

noun
1.
A decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance).  Synonyms: coating, finish.  "He applied a coat of a clear finish" , "When the finish is too thin it is difficult to apply evenly"
2.
The act of finishing.  Synonym: finish.  "The speaker's finishing was greeted with applause"  Antonym: start.


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"  Antonym: begin.
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.



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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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