Word Finder - finals

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A final examination; a test or examination given at the end of a term or class; the test that concludes a class.

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The last round, game or match in a contest, after which the winner is determined.

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A contest that narrows a field of contestants (finalists) to ranked positions, usually in numbered places (1st place/prize, 2nd place/prize, etc.) or a winner and numbered runners-up (1st runner-up, etc.).

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The final part of a syllable, the combination of medial and rime in phonetics and phonology.

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The tonic or keynote of a Gregorian mode, and hence the final note of any conventional melody played in that mode.

But finals are coming up, and we're likely to be distracted...

Finals are week after next and I have to study.

Then, there would be the cost of the wedding - and what about finals?

I know you need to get back for your finals tomorrow.

Between finals and her job at the hospital, Adrienne rarely had time to think about it much, though.

I talked to the school and they let me take the finals, since I was so close to completing school.

The next change took place in the central provinces; the ra-tags were altered into cerebral dentals, and the ya-tags became c. Later on the superscribed letters and finals d and s disappeared, except in the east and west.

It was at this stage that the language spread in Lahul and Spiti, where the superscribed letters were silent, the d and g finals were hardly heard, and as, os, us were ai, oi, ui.

The vowel sounds ai, oi, ui have become e, o, u; and a, o, u before the finals d and n are now et, o, ii.

Morris, having passed his finals in the preceding term, was entered as a pupil at the office of George Edmund Street, the well-known architect; and on New Year's Day the first number of The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine appeared.

Look out for prodigious talent Mark Allen in the semi finals.

To date the former Portuguese colony has yet to reach the finals.

Bristol Shoguns will take on Gloucester on Saturday in what looks to be a juicy west Country Derby in the Powergen Cup quarter finals.

Our informal oenological academy has been going for five years with people dropping out for finals and medical electives, and jobs.

Later this year 3.5m football fans, including a million from overseas, will attend the World Cup finals in Germany.

Warwickshire had now achieved the first part of their aim to reach the finals.

Walthamstow Hall teams were successful in winning the regional finals of both Young Enterprise and the Schools General Knowledge competition.

Regional winners then go forward into judging for the national finals.

The three Gemmell sisters have proved their seeding and are all in the semi finals today, Girls U 13, 15, 17.

Sunday 19 March 2006 Today - quarter finals day - saw some great matches.

The trophy was won by Radcliffe-on-Trent A team who will now go on to represent Rushcliffe in the county finals in January.

It now sets up a thrilling finale for the women's team in their bid to clinch a berth at the finals.

Tom Richards also finished fourth in both his finals.

Taking into account the quarter finals first leg results could prove handy once again for football single backers.

A few hundred the finals of gaming enthusiast James in the main.

Earlier in the day the B finals featured the GB lightweight men's four and the lightweight double scull.

April 12 National Sports Hall Finals Emily Martin wins the standing long jump in assisting a winning Surrey U15 girls ' team.

Unfortunately in the semi finals we faced a very strong team from Loose, and in a very competitive match lost 2-0.

We have also had club representatives at the English Schools track and field finals for the past thirteen years including six medalists.

Its amazing story involves legendary teams and footballing minnows, classic finals and forgotten friendlies, and celebrated players and unsung heroes.

Juniors Two good quality physiques, both going through to the EFBB Finals.

In Sunday's racing, Britain's women's quad beat Russia to become the first British finals qualifiers.

Rugby union 2nd team are also through to the BUSA Plate finals.

In the bottom half of the draw Jamie Cope claimed two notable scalps to move through to the quarter finals.

Any sports event worth its salt is shown here, from American football to League Two play-off semi finals.

The Regional Finals shall be organized with four teams playing two semifinals, one Regional Final and a third/fourth place play-off.

Notes to Editors Dates of the quarter finals for the respect poetry slam 2005 are - April 20th at Arts Depot North Finchley.

Both failed to enter the second stage of the finals.

Brazil have made sure to maintain that supremacy in the last decade, having played in the last three World Cup finals.

The American tradition continues undaunted, with the finals of the National Spelling Bee held annually in Washington.

Okay, we failed to reach the quarter finals, but that was due to the opening game when we were extremely unlucky.

In the finals, no one read my work over to me, and in the preliminaries I offered subjects with some of which I was in a measure familiar before my work in the Cambridge school; for at the beginning of the year I had passed examinations in English, History, French and German, which Mr. Gilman gave me from previous Harvard papers.

In Sunday 's racing, Britain 's women 's quad beat Russia to become the first British finals qualifiers.

The men 's rugby union 2nd team are also through to the BUSA Plate finals.

The winners of the semi finals will move to the final where the losers will play in the third place play off.

Madeline Perry had reached the quarter finals of the squash tournament where she lost to the eventual winner Natalie Grinham.

Oliver scored Germany 's stoppage time winner against Poland in Dortmund in their second game of the 2006 World Cup finals.

Failure in the finals was too terrible to contemplate.

For Worcester Dream Team it 's their first appearance at the finals so they are very much the underdogs in this match.

Some schools will schedule senior prom prior to finals, while other schools will schedule them after finals, but still before graduation.