0 to complete something or come to the end of an activity: --
The meeting should finish around four o'clock.
They've already run out of money and the building isn't even half-finished (= half of it has not been completed).
[ + -ing verb ] Have you finished reading that magazine?
She finished (the concert) with a song from her first album.
Please place your questionnaire in the box when you're finished.
1 If you finish something made of wood, you give it a last covering of paint, polish, or varnish so that it is ready to be used. --
3 the condition of the surface of a material such as wood: --
4 to come to an end: --
5 the end of a race, or the last part of something: --
a glossy finish
Both candidates are predicting a close finish in this election.
From the start to the finish of an operatic project, librettists adjusted and readjusted their texts around the traditional imperatives of vocal and theatrical types.
The interviewer finished by administering a closed questionnaire about the text.
He finds that candidates who previously finished as the top loser tend to increase their support if they run again.
And what we have begun, we will finish.
When the bootstrapping process finished, we had a ranked list of hypothesized words for each of the eleven semantic classes.
This included the rebuilding of the shire hall which, when finished, would 'be a most magnificent edifice'.
And families who were ready for the relief of death, but were still caring for parents who hadn't yet finished saying good-bye.
When the researcher finished reading the story to the child, she stopped the music, and proposed a game.
