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fin·ish·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. coating, finish, finishingnoun

    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"

  2. finish, finishingnoun

    the act of finishing

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

Wiktionary

  1. finishingnoun

    the act of completing something

  2. finishingnoun

    shooting ability

    That guy's a slow and lazy player, but he's got excellent finishing

ChatGPT

  1. finishing

    Finishing refers to the final stages or the completion of a task, process, or project. It involves ensuring that all necessary components, adjustments, details or polishing have been done satisfactorily. This can apply to a wide range of contexts such as painting, writing, construction, manufacturing, and more.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Finishing

    of Finish

  2. Finishingnoun

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

  3. Finishingadjective

    tending to complete or to render fit for the market or for use

Wikidata

  1. Finishing

    Finishing is the procedure that some single malt Scotch whisky undergoes whereby the spirit is matured in a cask of a particular origin and then spends time in a cask of different origin Typically, the first cask is an American oak cask formerly used to mature bourbon. The second cask is usually one that has been used to mature some sort of fortified wine, often sherry, though sometimes port, madeira, or even standard wines such as burgundy or chardonnay. Some of the more well-known finished whiskies include Balvenie "Doublewood", which is finished in sherry casks, Glenlivet "American Oak Finish" and "French Oak Finish", which are finished in brand-new casks of the respective woods, the Glenmorangie range of sherry, port, madeira, and burgundy finishes, and the Diageo line of "Distiller’s Editions", a "Double Matured" expression of each of their classics line of single malt scotch whiskies Diageo has others, such as their Maple finished Crown Royal expression.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of finishing in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of finishing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of finishing in a Sentence

  1. De Grasse:

    Felt like I didn't have a great start but somehow I ended up finishing the race well, i found De Grasse in the back( out of the blocks) and had to go to my next gear.

  2. Haji Kateb:

    There was the danger of the Taliban and also a lack of community cooperation. Now elders have committed to help, we are committed to finishing.

  3. Eunicio Oliveira:

    A majority of PMDB senators are in favor of the president finishing her term, what they want is for her to change her economic policies to get the country growing again.

  4. Guntram Wolff:

    But without finishing the banking union, the euro area will remain fragile.

  5. Theresa Winterhalter:

    When you try to string together 26.2 miles that you're not just running on a track ... it can get a bit challenging, i knew that once I got started there was nothing that was going to stop me from finishing that distance.

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