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finish verb (COMPLETE/END)
finish something with something She finished the concert with a song from her first album.
She finished second (= in second place) in the finals.
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- finishDid you finish your homework?
- endWhat time does the concert end?
- completeHave you completed the questionnaire?
- concludeShe concluded her speech by thanking everyone who had helped her.
- polish offHe's just polished off two huge bowls of pasta.
- wind upIt's time to wind up the game now.
The meeting should finish around four o'clock.
finish with The play finishes with a wedding.
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- We've got two clear weeks in which to finish the decorating.
- Did you finish your essay in the allotted time?
- School starts at 9 a.m. and finishes at 3.30 p.m.
- I'll be with you directly I've finished this letter.
- When do you envisage finishing the project?
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finish verb (WOOD)
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finish noun [C] (COMPLETE/END)
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the end of a race, or the last part of something:
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- endThis mammal roamed the steppes during the end of the last Ice Age.
- closeStock prices were up 6 percent at the close of the trading day.
- culminationThis starring role in a West End musical is the culmination of her years of hard work in local theatres.
- completionAt the completion of the exam, please return the materials to the proctor's desk and exit the room quietly.
- endpointBoth parties agree that they have reached a suitable endpoint to the negotiations.
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- The runner collapsed just a few paces from the finish.
- I'm a realist - I knew there was no way I could win, so I swam for a good finish, for points.
- John left early, but we stayed until the finish.
- It was one of the most exciting finishes I've ever seen.
- There was a very close finish in the men's 100 metres.
finish noun [C] (WOOD)
(Definition of finish from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of finish
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Affective responses seem to occur when pupils have almost finished their work.
When the tracker is not sure that a sequence is being repeated, or when the tracked sequence finishes, it returns control to the neural network.
The rules at the university where he taught that student barred his giving her a grade before she had finished her paper.
We wanted to be finished one way or the other.
Behind them others are changing the set, and when they are finished they come and take their places in the dance.
We finish the section with a discussion of the main difficulties to set the -calculus in a dependent-type theory.
When we're finished with our work, then we have innumerable possibilities.
When the researcher finished reading the story to the child, she stopped the music, and proposed a game.
And families who were ready for the relief of death, but were still caring for parents who hadn't yet finished saying good-bye.
This included the rebuilding of the shire hall which, when finished, would 'be a most magnificent edifice'.
When the bootstrapping process finished, we had a ranked list of hypothesized words for each of the eleven semantic classes.
And what we have begun, we will finish.
He finds that candidates who previously finished as the top loser tend to increase their support if they run again.
The interviewer finished by administering a closed questionnaire about the text.
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.
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His best finish was 20th.
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The main use, however was as a worktop or to a lesser extent as a decorative finish for other domestic surfaces.
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In theory, all boats will arrive at the finish line at the same time, which can make for an exciting finish.
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