finishing meaning

• Noun: finishing  finishing
  1. A decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance)
     - coating, finish 
  2. The act of finishing
     "the speaker's finishing was greeted with applause"
     - finish
  Verb: finish  finish
  1. Come or bring to a finish or an end
     "He finished the dishes"; "The fastest runner finished the race in just over 2 hours; others finished in over 4 hours"
     - complete 
  2. Finally be or do something
     - finish up, land up, fetch up, end up, wind up 
  3. Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
     - end, stop, terminate, cease 
  4. Provide with a finish
     "The carpenter finished the table beautifully"; "this shirt is not finished properly" 
  5. Finish eating all the food on one's plate or on the table
     - eat up, polish off 
  6. Cause to finish a relationship with somebody
     "That finished me with Mary"

  Derived forms: finishings

  See also: finisher

  Type of: act, closing, coat, completion, culmination, decorativeness, eat, end, mop up, move, surface, terminate, windup

  Encyclopedia: Finish

  Finishing Finishing, Construction

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  [Architecture]
  

  Leveling, smoothing, compacting, and otherwise treating surfaces of fresh (or recently placed) concrete or mortar to produce desired appearance and texture.

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  [Electronics]
  The careful handwork and testing involved in bringing a crystal blank to a condition that is acceptable as finished, according to specifications.
  

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Examples

1. put the finishing touches to a piece of work.
2. please wait : i am just finishing a letter.
3. lewis plans on finishing his work on thursday.
4. lynn is now concentrating on finishing the term paper.
5. it had put the finishing touch of reality.