finishing

[Fin·ish*ing]

A decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance)

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The act or process of completing or perfecting; the final work upon or ornamentation of a thing.

Noun
the act of finishing; "his best finish in a major tournament was third"; "the speaker''s finishing was greeted with applause"

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"


p. pr. & vb. n.
of Finish

n.
The act or process of completing or perfecting; the final work upon or ornamentation of a thing.

a.
Tending to complete or to render fit for the market or for use.


Finishing

Fin"ish*ing, n. The act or process of completing or perfecting; the final work upon or ornamentation of a thing.

Finishing

Fin"ish*ing, a. Tending to complete or to render fit for the market or for use. Finishing coat. (a) (Plastering) the final coat of plastering applied to walls and ceilings, usually white and rubbed smooth. (b) (Painting) The final coat of paint, usually differently mixed applied from the others. -- Finishing press, a machine for pressing fabrics. -- Finishing rolls (Iron Working), the rolls of a train which receive the bar from roughing rolls, and reduce it to its finished shape. Raymond.

The act or process of completing or perfecting; the final work upon or ornamentation of a thing.

Tending to complete or to render fit for the market or for use.

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Usage Examples

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.

The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.

There are going to be little victories that we claim, even if it's finishing 15th and putting the car back in hauler without a scratch on it.

Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.

Most everything I do revolves around tae kwon do. That said, I like to be a typical girl and go shopping. I have three nieces and nephews that I like to hang out with. I'm also finishing my last semester at the University of Houston, where I'm majoring in childhood education.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

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Other Usage Examples

But you know, there's something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention - they go home, they're finished. They don't stall, they don't do their homework in front of the TV.

They make Spy Kids, they make Scream, they make A Scary Movie. This doesn't do that, so it could be a very bad marriage. I'm trying to keep this potential nightmare quiet because we're just finishing editing.

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job.

I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school.

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

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