Word Finder - finishing

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To complete (something).

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Be sure to finish your homework before you go to bed!

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To apply a treatment to (a surface or similar).

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The furniture was finished in teak veneer.

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To change an animal's food supply in the months before it is due for slaughter, with the intention of fattening the animal.

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Due to BSE, cows in the United Kingdom must be finished and slaughtered before 30 months of age.

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To come to an end.

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We had to leave before the concert had finished.

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To put an end to; to destroy.

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These rumours could finish your career.

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The act of completing something.

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Shooting ability.

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That guy's a slow and lazy player, but he's got excellent finishing

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The final work upon or ornamentation of a thing; finish.

The police arrived as they were finishing supper.

I am just finishing the design.

They were just finishing dressing when Dean heard a sound, the door closing directly above, in Fred's room.

I was just finishing up.

She got up without finishing her meal and escaped into the room where Talia was.

He entered Harvard in 1882 but left after three years without finishing his course.

On the sides of the cake, she drew the Toyota emblem, finishing up with some scrolls.

He turned on some music with weak intentions of continuing his sheriff reading but instead just sat there, finishing the last of the merlot.

Alex was finishing supper with his family when the telephone rang in his office.

She was finishing the gravy when Alex came home.

Plauen is now the chief place in Germany for the manufacture of embroidered white goods of all kinds, for the finishing of woven cotton fabrics, known as Plauen goods, and for the making of lace.

Dyeing and finishing, brewing and distilling, are also carried on.

Without finishing what he had begun to say he made a hopeless movement with his arm and went away.

There was no word on whether or not Amy Leigh Andrews was at the party, doubtful given that she's finishing her senior year at Kennesaw State University in Georgia.

Just as he was finishing, the doorbell chimed.

The whole universe, however, was incomplete, and did not receive its finishing stroke till man was formed, who is the acme of the creation and the microcosm.

The town has a modern school (Realschule), a commercial school, and technical schools for weaving and finishing.

They are divided into breaking-down and finishing rolls, the latter being of smaller diameter than the former.

By repeated passages through the rolls the bars are hardened, and to facilitate further reduction they are usually softened by annealing before being passed to the finishing rolls.

But the finishing touches to the new race were supplied by the great expulsion of Lao-Tai from south-west China by Kublai Khan in A.D.

He therefore issues the work to satisfy their desires, although, he states, it is manifest that it would have seen the light in a far more perfect state if his father could have put the finishing touches to it; and he mentions that, in the opinion of the best judges, his father possessed, among other most excellent gifts, in the highest degree the power of explaining the most difficult matters by a certain and easy method in the fewest possible words.

As compared with other states of the Union, New Hampshire in 1905 ranked fifth in the manufacture of factory-made boots and shoes, and in woollen goods, sixth in cotton goods, and seventh in paper and wood pulp, in hosiery and knit goods, and in the dyeing and finishing of textiles.

The country never recovered from these disasters, and under the Roman government fell into decay, to which the Social War, in which the Lucanians took part with the Samnites against Rome (90-88 B.C.) gave the finishing stroke.

The author's own carelessness may be to blame, or, as in the case of Virgil and Lucan, he may not have been allowed to put the finishing touches to his work.

The establishments include slaughtering and meat-packing houses, whose product is by far the most valuable in the city, bleacheries, finishing factories, glassworks, machine shops, tube works, jewelry factories, and a desk factory.

Engineers and other craftsmen make extensive use of abrasion, effected by the aid of such abrasives as emery and carborundum, in shaping, finishing and polishing their work.

Various cotton cloths are imitations of other textures and have modified names which indicate their superficial character, frequently produced by finishing processes.

Various finishing processes, and particularly the mercerizing of yarn and cloth, have increased the possibilities in cotton materials, and while staples still form the bulk of our foreign trade, it seems that as the stress of competition in these grows acute, more and more of our energy may be transferred to the production of goods which appeal to a growing taste or fancy.

He studied theology at Geneva, and after finishing his course was appointed minister to the French community at Berlin.

In addition to this work of purification, the furnace may be used for melting down the initial charge of cold metal, and for beginning the purification - in short not only for finishing but also for roughing.

The pelt after the German dressing is dry, soft and white, which is due to a finishing process where meal is used, thus they compare favourably with the moister and consequently heavier English finish.

Diamonds are now employed not only for faceting precious stones, but also for cutting and drilling glass, porcelain, &c,; for fine engraving such as scales; in dentistry for drilling; as a turning tool for electric-light carbons, hard rubber, &c.; and occasionally for finishing accurate turning work such as the axle of a transit instrument.

After finishing his studies in the Egyptian capital he set sail for Greece; but the ship was driven by contrary winds to Italy, and he seized the opportunity of paying a flying visit to Rome.

Beust's retirement in 1871 put the finishing touch on the new relations.

He was educated for the bar, but after finishing his studies adopted a literary career, ultimately devoting his chief attention to history.

Morris worked with feverish energy, and on finishing the portion assigned to him proceeded to decorate the roof.

They are also used for the finishing joinery of the ordinary class o f building.

Their initial expense and the high cost of working preclude their general use, and they are consequently reserved to a great extent for specially heavy constructional work and ornamental finishing joinery.

Meanwhile, however, Goethe had again taken up the novel of the theatre which he had begun years before, with a view to finishing it and including it in the edition of his Neue Schriften (1792-1800).

Before finishing, the molten mass must be kept at a quiet FIG.

Sometimes they are made, not from soda-ash, but from Leblanc soda-liquor before " finishing " the ash, or from the crude bicarbonate of the ammonia-soda process by prolonged boiling, until nearly half of the carbonic acid has been expelled.

Immediately after finishing his course at the Ecole Polytechnique he was appointed repetiteur there, an office which he had discharged as an amateur while still a pupil in the school; for it had been the custom of his comrades often to resort to his room after an unusually difficult lecture to hear him repeat and explain it.

The subsequent political history of India has been but the gradual development of this policy, which received its finishing touch when Queen Victoria was proclaimed empress of India in 1877.

About 750 species of wood are of commercial or local value, among them are woods well suited for structural purposes, inside finishing, cabinet work and carriage making.

Connected with this are subsidiary schools, notably one for dyeing and finishing.

Tobacco-growing was the one vocation of Virginia, and many of the planters were able to spend their winters in London or Glasgow and to send their sons and daughters to the finishing schools of the mother country.

When this preparation is completed, the whole is covered up by a somewhat stouter sheet, which forms a protection to the whole making-ready, but which can easily he lifted should it be necessary to give any finishing touches to it before beginning to run.

The preparing, combing, spinning, weaving and finishing of alpacas and mohairs are dealt with under WooL.

On finishing his course at the university he devoted himself to literature and philosophy, and showed so little individuality that during the reign of Nicholas I.

The annual Oxford and Cambridge boat-race starts from above Putney Bridge, finishing at Mortlake; and the club-houses of the principal rowing clubs of London are situated on the Putney shore.