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Noun finishing has 2 senses
- coating, finish, finishing - 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"
--1 is a kind of decorativeness
--1 has particulars: glaze; shoeshine
- finish, finishing - the act of finishing; "his best finish in a major tournament was third"; "the speaker's finishing was greeted with applause"
--2 is a kind of completion, culmination, closing, windup, mop up
--2 has particulars: finale, close, closing curtain, finis
Verb finish has 6 senses
- complete, finish - 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"
--1 is one way to end, terminate
Sample sentence:
They finish moving
- finish up, land up, fetch up, end up, wind up, finish - finally be or do something; "He ended up marrying his high school sweetheart"; "he wound up being unemployed and living at home again"
--2 is one way to act, move
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s VERB-ing
- end, stop, finish, terminate, cease - 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"
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
- finish - provide with a finish; "The carpenter finished the table beautifully"
--4 is one way to coat, surface
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- eat up, finish, polish off - finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table; "She polished off the remaining potatoes"
--5 is one way to eat
Sample sentence:
They finish more bread
- finish - cause to finish a relationship with somebody; "That finished me with Mary"
--6 is one way to end, terminate
Sample sentence:
Something ----s somebody
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