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verb

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

1.

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."

2.

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.

1.

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

2.

To end; to die. (R.)

noun

Finish n.

1.

That which finishes.

2.

(Arch.) The joiner work and other finer work required for the completion of a building, especially of the interior. See Inside finish, and Outside finish.

3.

(Fine Arts)

(a)

The labor required to give final completion to any work; hence, minute detail, careful elaboration, or the like.

(b)

See Finishing coat, under Finishing.

4.

The result of completed labor, as on the surface of an object; manner or style of finishing; as, a rough, dead, or glossy finish given to cloth, stone, metal, etc.

5.

Completion; opposed to start, or beginning.

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Etymology of 'Finish'

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"Finish" Quotes from Famous Books

... and here is a good chance to prove it. He apprehended, by a natural instinct, the meaning of the young woman's phrase, and it gratified him to think that she was so honest. Beauty, talent, virtue; she combined everything! "But you must finish it," he said. "FINISH, you know;" and he pointed to the unpainted hand ...

— The American • Henry James

... phrase of the critics," said Nan; "they merely change the title of the book from year to year. But it's been fun doing a book that way and putting it out anonymously. Judge Walters spoke to me of it yesterday; said he had stayed up all night to finish it." ...

— Otherwise Phyllis • Meredith Nicholson

... To finish with the mammalia, there are two interesting opossums, both of the genus Didelphys, but in habits as wide apart as cat from otter. One of these marsupials appears so much at home on the plains that I almost regret having said that the vizcacha alone gives us the idea of being in its habits the ...

— The Naturalist in La Plata • W. H. Hudson

... animals, cupids, swags of fruit and draperies; fantastic compositions of a free Renaissance character constituted the panels; to which bold scrolls in ormolu formed fitting frames; while handsome mouldings of the same material gave a finish to the extremities. These ormolu mountings were gilt by an old-fashioned process,[14] which left upon the metal a thick deposit of gold, and were cunningly chiselled by the skilful hands of Caffieri ...

— Illustrated History of Furniture - From the Earliest to the Present Time • Frederick Litchfield

... reckoned apart;- seeing then a day is completed by the motion of the sun and by his circuit from east to east again, I ask, does the motion alone make the day, or the stay in which that motion is completed, or both? For if the first be the day; then should we have a day, although the sun should finish that course in so small a space of time, as one hour comes to. If the second, then should not that make a day, if between one sun-rise and another there were but so short a stay, as one hour comes to; but the sun must go four and twenty times about, to complete ...

— The Confessions of Saint Augustine • Saint Augustine

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