'Finish' definitions:
Definition of 'finish'
(from WordNet)
noun
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" [syn: coating, finish, finishing]
noun
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" [syn: stopping point, finale, finis, finish, last, conclusion, close]
noun
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 [syn: polish, refinement, culture, cultivation, finish]
noun
The place designated as the end (as of a race or journey); "a crowd assembled at the finish"; "he was nearly exhausted as their destination came into view" [syn: finish, destination, goal]
noun
Designated event that concludes a contest (especially a race); "excitement grew as the finish neared"; "my horse was several lengths behind at the finish"; "the winner is the team with the most points at the finish"
noun
The downfall of someone (as of persons on one side of a conflict); "booze will be the finish of him"; "it was a fight to the finish"
noun
Event whose occurrence ends something; "his death marked the ending of an era"; "when these final episodes are broadcast it will be the finish of the show" [syn: ending, conclusion, finish] [ant: beginning]
noun
(wine tasting) the taste of a wine on the back of the tongue (as it is swallowed); "the wine has a nutty flavor and a pleasant finish"
noun
The act of finishing; "his best finish in a major tournament was third"; "the speaker's finishing was greeted with applause" [syn: finish, finishing] [ant: beginning, commencement, start]
verb
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" [syn: complete, finish]
verb
Finally be or do something; "He ended up marrying his high school sweetheart"; "he wound up being unemployed and living at home again" [syn: finish up, land up, fetch up, end up, wind up, finish]
verb
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" [syn: end, stop, finish, terminate, cease] [ant: begin, start]
verb
Provide with a finish; "The carpenter finished the table beautifully"; "this shirt is not finished properly"
verb
Finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table; "She polished off the remaining potatoes" [syn: eat up, finish, polish off]
verb
Cause to finish a relationship with somebody; "That finished me with Mary"
Definition of 'Finish'
From: GCIDE
- Finish \Fin"ish\, v. i.
- 1. To come to an end; to terminate. [1913 Webster]
- His days may finish ere that hapless time. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To end; to die. [R.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Finish'
From: GCIDE
- Finish \Fin"ish\, n.
- 1. That which finishes, puts an end to? or perfects. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Completion; -- opposed to start, or beginning. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Finish'
From: GCIDE
- Finish \Fin"ish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Finished; p. pr. & vb. n. Finishing.] [F. finir (with a stem finiss- in several forms, whence E. -ish: see -ish.),fr. L. finire to limit, finish, end, fr. finis boundary, limit, end; perh. for fidnis, and akin findere to cleave, E. fissure.]
- 1. To arrive at the end of; to bring to an end; to put an end to; to make an end of; to terminate. [1913 Webster]
- And heroically hath finished A life heroic. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To bestow the last required labor upon; to complete; to bestow the utmost possible labor upon; to perfect; to accomplish; to polish.
- Syn: To end; terminate; close; conclude; complete; accomplish; perfect. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'finish'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ablate,
- abort,
- absoluteness,
- absorb,
- accomplish,
- accomplishment,
- achieve,
- achievement,
- acquirement,
- acquisition,
- annihilate,
- annihilation,
- answer,
- answer conclusively,
- apodosis,
- appropriateness,
- argue down,
- assassinate,
- assimilate,
- attainment,
- Atticism,
- balance,
- beat,
- beautify,
- bereave of life,
- best,
- bilateral symmetry,
- bleed white,
- border line,
- bound,
- boundary,
- boundary condition,
- boundary line,
- bourn,
- break boundary,
- breakoff point,
- bring down,
- buff,
- bump off,
- burn up,
- burnish,
- button up,
- call off,
- cancel,
- cap,
- carry away,
- carry off,
- carry out,
- carry to completion,
- catastrophe,
- cease,
- ceasing,
- ceiling,
- cessation,
- chasteness,
- chastity,
- chloroform,
- circumscription,
- clarity,
- classicalism,
- classicism,
- clean up,
- clearness,
- climax,
- clinch,
- close,
- close out,
- close up,
- closing,
- coda,
- comeliness,
- compass,
- complete,
- completing,
- completion,
- conclude,
- conclusion,
- confine,
- conformity,
- confound,
- confute,
- congruity,
- conquer,
- consistency,
- consume,
- consummate,
- consummation,
- contradict,
- controvert,
- cool,
- correctness,
- correspondence,
- crack of doom,
- crown,
- crush,
- culminate,
- culmination,
- cultivate,
- cultivation,
- curtain,
- curtains,
- cut down,
- cut off,
- cut short,
- cutoff,
- cutoff point,
- deadline,
- death,
- decease,
- defeat,
- defectlessness,
- delete,
- delimitation,
- demolish,
- denouement,
- deny,
- deplete,
- deprive of life,
- desistance,
- destination,
- destiny,
- destroy,
- destruction,
- determinant,
- determine,
- develop,
- devour,
- digest,
- dignity,
- directness,
- discrimination,
- dismiss,
- dispatch,
- dispose of,
- distinction,
- division line,
- do away with,
- do for,
- do in,
- do to death,
- doom,
- down,
- downfall,
- drain,
- drain of resources,
- drink up,
- drop the curtain,
- dust off,
- dynamic symmetry,
- ease,
- eat,
- eat up,
- effect,
- elaborate,
- elegance,
- elegancy,
- embellish,
- end,
- end off,
- end point,
- ending,
- envoi,
- epilogue,
- equality,
- equilibrium,
- erode,
- eschatology,
- eurythmics,
- eurythmy,
- evenness,
- evolve,
- execute,
- exhaust,
- expend,
- expiration,
- expunge,
- exterminate,
- extermination,
- extinguish,
- extremity,
- fate,
- faultlessness,
- feel,
- felicitousness,
- felicity,
- final solution,
- final twitch,
- final words,
- finale,
- finality,
- finalize,
- finis,
- finish off,
- finish up,
- finishing,
- fittingness,
- flawlessness,
- floor,
- flow,
- flowing periods,
- fluency,
- fold up,
- frontier,
- fulfill,
- full development,
- furbish,
- get done,
- get it over,
- get over with,
- get rid of,
- get through,
- get through with,
- give the quietus,
- glance,
- glaze,
- gloss,
- go,
- goal,
- gobble,
- gobble up,
- good taste,
- grace,
- gracefulness,
- gracility,
- grain,
- granular texture,
- halt,
- harmony,
- have done with,
- hedge,
- high-water mark,
- ice,
- immaculateness,
- immolate,
- impeccability,
- impoverish,
- indentation,
- infallibility,
- ingest,
- interface,
- izzard,
- kayo,
- keeping,
- kibosh,
- kill,
- killing,
- knock off,
- knock out,
- knub,
- KO,
- last,
- last breath,
- last gasp,
- last things,
- last trumpet,
- last words,
- latter end,
- launch into eternity,
- let go,
- let loose,
- limen,
- limit,
- limitation,
- limiting factor,
- limpidity,
- line,
- line of demarcation,
- liquidate,
- low-water mark,
- lower limit,
- lucidity,
- luster,
- lynch,
- make away with,
- march,
- mark,
- martyr,
- martyrize,
- maturation,
- mature,
- maturity,
- mete,
- mop up,
- multilateral symmetry,
- murder,
- nap,
- naturalness,
- neatness,
- nip,
- nonplus,
- nub,
- omega,
- overcome,
- overthrow,
- overturn,
- overwhelm,
- parallelism,
- parry,
- patina,
- payoff,
- pellucidity,
- perfect,
- perfection,
- period,
- perorate,
- peroration,
- perspicuity,
- pile,
- pit,
- plainness,
- pock,
- poison,
- polarity,
- polish,
- polish off,
- proportion,
- proportionality,
- propriety,
- protuberance,
- purge,
- purity,
- put away,
- put down,
- put paid to,
- put to death,
- put to silence,
- put to sleep,
- quietus,
- rebut,
- reduce to silence,
- refine,
- refinement,
- refute,
- regularity,
- release,
- remove from life,
- resolution,
- resolve,
- resting place,
- restraint,
- ripen,
- ripeness,
- round out,
- rounding off,
- rounding out,
- rub,
- rub out,
- run through,
- sacrifice,
- scour,
- scrag,
- scrap,
- scratch,
- season,
- seemliness,
- set free,
- settle,
- shag,
- shapeliness,
- shine,
- shoot down,
- shut up,
- silence,
- simplicity,
- sinlessness,
- slaughter,
- slay,
- sleek,
- slick,
- slick down,
- smash all opposition,
- smoothness,
- spend,
- spotlessness,
- squander,
- squash,
- squelch,
- stainlessness,
- start,
- starting line,
- starting point,
- starve,
- stop,
- stoppage,
- stopping place,
- straightforwardness,
- structure,
- subvert,
- suck dry,
- surface,
- surface texture,
- swallow,
- swallow up,
- swan song,
- symmetricalness,
- symmetry,
- taintlessness,
- take life,
- take off,
- target date,
- taste,
- tastefulness,
- term,
- terminal,
- terminal date,
- terminate,
- termination,
- terminus,
- terseness,
- texture,
- threshold,
- time allotment,
- to,
- top off,
- top out,
- topping off,
- trilateral symmetry,
- ultimate,
- unaffectedness,
- undermine,
- uniformity,
- upper limit,
- upset,
- use up,
- varnish,
- wale,
- wash up,
- waste,
- waste away,
- wax,
- wear away,
- weave,
- wind up,
- windup,
- wipe out,
- woof,
- worst,
- wrap up,
- Z,
- zap
Words containing 'Finish'
- Finished,
- Finisher,
- Finishing,
- finish off,
- finish out,
- finish up,
- Finished work,
- Finishing coat,
- Finishing press,
- Finishing rolls,
- Hard finish,
- Inside finish,
- Standing finish,
- finish coat,
- finish line,
- finishing line,
- finishing school,
- finishing touch,
- from start to finish,
- photo finish,
- High-finished,
- To put the finishing hand to,
- runner-up finish,
- first-place finish,
- second-place finish,
- third-place finish