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finishing::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | coating, finish |
| Type of | decorativeness |
| Has types | shoeshine, glaze |
| Derivation | finish |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | finish |
| Type of | culmination, closing, completion, mop up, windup |
| Has types | finale, closing curtain, close, finis |
| Derivation | finish |
the speaker's finishing was greeted with applause.
Examples of finishing
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Kate is finishing post-master's classes and hopes one day to become a principal.
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St. John's was finishing a stretch of eight straight games against ranked teams.
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In those early seasons, it was twice 17th, regularly finishing in the mid-teens.
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Tom Degler puts the finishing touches to one of his squirrel-proof bird feeders.
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Finding the finishing touches has been a problem for Stratford some this season.
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Confidence may be an issue for the Lancers, who've had trouble finishing drives.
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He's been outstanding and his movement, passing and finishing is second to none.
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As a finishing touch the dessert is served with champagne and strawberry caviar.
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We should have had that game wrapped up but we didn't due to our poor finishing.
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- Coating: 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"
- Complete: 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"
- Finish up: finally be or do something; "He ended up marrying his high school sweetheart"; "he wound up being unemployed and living at home again"
- Stopping point: the temporal end; the concluding time; "the stopping point of each round was signaled by a bell"; "the market was up at the finish"; "they were playing better at the close of the season"
- End: 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"
- Polish: a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality; "they performed with great polish"; "I admired the exquisite refinement of his prose"; "almost an inspiration which gives to all work that finish which is almost art"--Joseph Conrad
- The use of wine tasting descriptors allow the taster an opportunity to put into words the aromas and flavors that they experience and can be used in assessing the overall quality of wine. ...
- Carpenter's Coffee House (later known as "The Finish", "The Queen's Head" and "Jack's") was a coffee house in Covent Garden, London, established by George Carpenter some time around 1762.
- (Finished (story)) "Finished" is a science fiction short story written by L. Sprague de Camp, a story in his Viagens Interplanetarias series. It was first published in the magazine Astounding Science Fiction in the issue for November, 1949. ...
