0 present participle of finish --
1 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.
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. --
Can you imagine one executive finishing off another's sentences at a board meeting?
These authors also mentioned an increase in the proportion of lipid in body gain during finishing with age.
Finishing diets are also very variable, with diets of contrasting energy concentration.
This result confirms that the scheme that links a growth model to a finishing model is of interest.
The main challenge in the creation of finishing tools is the development of optimal kinematic structures.
Is often in the middle of doing one thing and then goes off to do something else without finishing it.
Importantly, these early societies served as finishing schools where young men of the upper working and lower middle classes could define and adopt "gentlemanly" behavior.
The decrease in digestive content relative to breeding life accounts for the lower fill effect of high concentrate diets during finishing.
