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finishing
| finishing coat
| finishing line
| finishing school
| finishing touch
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finishing
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun finishing has 2 senses
- finishing(n = noun.attribute) coating, finish - 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" is a kind of decorativeness
- finishing(n = noun.act) finish - the act of finishing; "his best finish in a major tournament was third"; "the speaker's finishing was greeted with applause" has particulars: close, closing curtain, finale, finis
has particulars: glaze, shoeshine
Derived form verb finish4
is a kind of closing, completion, culmination, mop up, windup
Derived form verb finish1
CIDE DICTIONARY
finishing, n.
The act or process of completing or perfecting; the final work upon or ornamentation of a thing. [1913 Webster]
finishing, a.
Tending to complete or to render fit for the market or for use. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
finishing
ablation, absorption, assimilation, attrition, burning up, capping, close, closing, completing, completion, completive, completory, concluding, conclusion, conclusive, consummative, consummatory, consumption, crowning, culminating, culmination, culminative, depletion, digestion, drain, eating up, end, ending, erosion, exhaustion, expending, expenditure, final, finalizing, finish, fulfilling, full development, impoverishment, ingestion, last, maturation, maturity, perfecting, perfection, perfective, ripeness, rounding off, rounding out, spending, squandering, terminal, terminating, termination, terminative, terminus, topping off, ultimate, using up, wastage, waste, wastefulness, wasting away, wearing away, wearing down, windup
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