0 present participle of finish
1 to complete something or come to the end of an activity:
Please place your questionnaire in the box when you're finished.
She finished (the concert) with a song from her first album.
[ + -ing verb ] Have you finished reading that magazine?
They've already run out of money and the building isn't even half-finished (= half of it has not been completed).
The meeting should finish around four o'clock.
2 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.
We've got two clear weeks in which to finish the decorating.
School starts at 9 a.m. and finishes at 3.30 p.m.
Such employments were corduroy finishing, knitting and laundering and were assigned to women living nearby to be undertaken at home.
The small differences in starting and finishing dates which exist in all cases are not very significant.
Robotization of finishing operations is impossible without developing compact and mobile designs of special-purpose robots permitting the movement of the equipment between rooms.
