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finishing

 
Noun finishing has 2 senses
  1. coating, finish, finishing - a decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance); "the boat had a metallic finish"; "he applied a coat of a clear finish"; "when the finish is too thin it is difficult to apply evenly"
    --1 is a kind of decorativeness
    --1 has particulars: glaze; shoeshine
    Derived form: verb finish4
  2. finish, finishing - the act of finishing; "his best finish in a major tournament was third"; "the speaker's finishing was greeted with applause"
    --2 is a kind of completion, culmination, closing, windup, mop up
    --2 has particulars: finale, close, closing curtain, finis
    Derived form: verb finish1
Verb finish has 6 senses
  1. complete, finish - come or bring to a finish or an end; "He finished the dishes"; "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"
    --1 is one way to end, terminate
    Derived forms: noun finisher1, noun finish7, noun finish5, noun finish3, noun finishing2
    Sample sentence:
    They finish moving
  2. finish up, land up, fetch up, end up, wind up, finish - finally be or do something; "He ended up marrying his high school sweetheart"; "he wound up being unemployed and living at home again"
    --2 is one way to act, move
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s VERB-ing
  3. end, stop, finish, terminate, cease - have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo"
    Derived forms: noun finish7, noun finish5, noun finish3
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s
    Something is ----ing PP
  4. finish - provide with a finish; "The carpenter finished the table beautifully"
    --4 is one way to
    coat, surface
    Derived forms: noun finish1, noun finisher2, noun finisher3, noun finishing1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  5. eat up, finish, polish off - finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table; "She polished off the remaining potatoes"
    --5 is one way to eat
    Sample sentence:
    They finish more bread
  6. finish - cause to finish a relationship with somebody; "That finished me with Mary"
    --6 is one way to
    end, terminate
    Derived forms: noun finish7, noun finish5
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s somebody
finish line finish off finish oken finish out finish up finished finisher finishes finishing finishing coat finishing line finishing position finishing school finishing touch finist finite finite number

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