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finish

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1. finish - Noun

2. finish - Verb

Meaning

To arrive at the end of; to bring to an end; to put an end to; to make an end of; to terminate.

To bestow the last required labor upon; to complete; to bestow the utmost possible labor upon; to perfect; to accomplish; to polish.

To come to an end; to terminate.

To end; to die.

That which finishes, puts an end to/ or perfects.

The joiner work and other finer work required for the completion of a building, especially of the interior. See Inside finish, and Outside finish.

The labor required to give final completion to any work; hence, minute detail, careful elaboration, or the like.

See Finishing coat, under Finishing.

The result of completed labor, as on the surface of an object; manner or style of finishing; as, a rough, dead, or glossy finish given to cloth, stone, metal, etc.

Completion; -- opposed to start, or beginning.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Before marriage, a man will lie awake thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it. Helen Rowland

If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world. Gabriel García Márquez

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head. Jean Cocteau

A borrowed fiddle does not finish a tune. Zimbabwe Proverb

No matter how many chores you finish in your house, there is always yet more to be done. Bambara Proverb

Who starts well will finish badly. Estonian Proverb

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