Finish

Noun

 * 1) An end: the end of anything.
 * 2) A protective coating given to wood or metal and other surfaces.
 * The car's finish was so shiny and new.
 * 1) The result of any process changing the physical or chemical properties of cloth.

Verb

 * 1)  To complete (something).
 * Please finish your homework!
 * 1)  To apply a treatment to (a surface or similar).
 * The furniture was finished in teak veneer.
 * 1)  To change an animal's food supply in the months before it is due for slaughter, with the intention of fattening the animal.
 * Due to BSE, cows in the United Kingdom must be finished and slaughtered before 30 months of age.
 * 1)  To come to an end.
 * The song has finished.

Adjectives for Finish
admirable; artistic; attractive; elaborate; high; literary; permanent; pictorial; sleek; glace; gleaming; harmonious; sprint; lustrous; meticulous; smooth; ill-conceived; mellow; oratorical; scholarly; surface; exquisite; interior; rare; delicate; subtle; warm.

Verbs for Finish
acquire—; adorn with—; anticipate—; await—; design—; destroy—; exhibit—; lay—; mar—; obtain—; plan—; polish to—; prepare—; produce—; provide—; restore—; select—; —perfects.

Adverbs for Finish
uniformly; leisurely; deliberately; neatly; minutely; solemnly; abstractedly; hurriedly; elaborately; lustrously; meticulously; exquisitely; delicately; subtly,

Synonyms for Finish
end, completion, conclusion, close, termination, terminus.

Antonyms for Finish
beginning, start, origin, source, initiation.

Thesaurus
Atticism, KO, Z, ablate, abort, absoluteness, absorb, accomplish, accomplishment, achieve, achievement, acquirement, acquisition, annihilate, annihilation, answer, answer conclusively, apodosis, appropriateness, argue down, assassinate, assimilate, attainment, balance, beat, beautify, bereave of life, best, bilateral symmetry, bleed white, border line, bound, boundary, boundary condition, boundary line, bourn, break boundary, breakoff point, bring down, buff, bump off, burn up, burnish, button up, call off, cancel, cap, carry away, carry off, carry out, carry to completion, catastrophe, cease, ceasing, ceiling, cessation, chasteness, chastity, chloroform, circumscription, clarity, classicalism, classicism, clean up, clearness, climax, clinch, close, close out, close up, closing, coda, comeliness, compass, complete, completing, completion, conclude, conclusion, confine, conformity, confound, confute, congruity, conquer, consistency, consume, consummate, consummation, contradict, controvert, cool, correctness, correspondence, crack of doom, crown, crush, culminate, culmination, cultivate, cultivation, curtain, curtains, cut down, cut off, cut short, cutoff, cutoff point, deadline, death, decease, defeat, defectlessness, delete, delimitation, demolish, denouement, deny, deplete, deprive of life, desistance, destination, destiny, destroy, destruction, determinant, determine, develop, devour, digest, dignity, directness, discrimination, dismiss, dispatch, dispose of, distinction, division line, do away with, do for, do in, do to death, doom, down, downfall, drain, drain of resources, drink up, drop the curtain, dust off, dynamic symmetry, ease, eat, eat up, effect, elaborate, elegance, elegancy, embellish, end, end off, end point, ending, envoi, epilogue, equality, equilibrium, erode, eschatology, eurythmics, eurythmy, evenness, evolve, execute, exhaust, expend, expiration, expunge, exterminate, extermination, extinguish, extremity, fate, faultlessness, feel, felicitousness, felicity, final solution, final twitch, final words, finale, finality, finalize, finis, finish off, finish up, finishing, fittingness, flawlessness, floor, flow, flowing periods, fluency, fold up, frontier, fulfill, full development, furbish, get done, get it over, get over with, get rid of, get through, get through with, give the quietus, glance, glaze, gloss, go, goal, gobble, gobble up, good taste, grace, gracefulness, gracility, grain, granular texture, halt, harmony, have done with, hedge, high-water mark, ice, immaculateness, immolate, impeccability, impoverish, indentation, infallibility, ingest, interface, izzard, kayo, keeping, kibosh, kill, killing, knock off, knock out, knub, last, last breath, last gasp, last things, last trumpet, last words, latter end, launch into eternity, let go, let loose, limen, limit, limitation, limiting factor, limpidity, line, line of demarcation, liquidate, low-water mark, lower limit, lucidity, luster, lynch, make away with, march, mark, martyr, martyrize, maturation, mature, maturity, mete, mop up, multilateral symmetry, murder, nap, naturalness, neatness, nip, nonplus, nub, omega, overcome, overthrow, overturn, overwhelm, parallelism, parry, patina, payoff, pellucidity, perfect, perfection, period, perorate, peroration, perspicuity, pile, pit, plainness, pock, poison, polarity, polish, polish off, proportion, proportionality, propriety, protuberance, purge, purity, put away, put down, put paid to, put to death, put to silence, put to sleep, quietus, rebut, reduce to silence, refine, refinement, refute, regularity, release, remove from life, resolution, resolve, resting place, restraint, ripen, ripeness, round out, rounding off, rounding out, rub, rub out, run through, sacrifice, scour, scrag, scrap, scratch, season, seemliness, set free, settle, shag, shapeliness, shine, shoot down, shut up, silence, simplicity, sinlessness, slaughter, slay, sleek, slick, slick down, smash all opposition, smoothness, spend, spotlessness, squander, squash, squelch, stainlessness, start, starting line, starting point, starve, stop, stoppage, stopping place, straightforwardness, structure, subvert, suck dry, surface, surface texture, swallow, swallow up, swan song, symmetricalness, symmetry, taintlessness, take life, take off, target date, taste, tastefulness, term, terminal, terminal date, terminate, termination, terminus, terseness, texture, threshold, time allotment, to, top off, top out, topping off, trilateral symmetry, ultimate, unaffectedness, undermine, uniformity, upper limit, upset, use up, varnish, wale, wash up, waste, waste away, wax, wear away, weave, wind up, windup, wipe out, woof, worst, wrap up, zap

Etymology
From undefined:, stem of some of the conjugated forms of finir:.

Noun

 * Armenian:, ավարտ,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese: 終結
 * Croatian:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Indonesian: tamat, selesai


 * Interlingua: ,
 * Italian:
 * Latin: finis, terminus
 * Latvian: beigas
 * Norwegian: avslutning, slutt
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: sfârșit, final
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: mål
 * Volapük: fin, finük


 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:


 * Norwegian: toppstrøk,
 * Romanian: lac
 * Swedish: yta, finish

Verb

 * Arabic: فرغ, أنهى
 * Catalan: acabar, finir, terminar
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: fini
 * Finnish: tehdä loppuun
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hiligaynon:
 * Hindi: ख़त्म करना, अंत करना
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Interlingua: ,
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: ,
 * Latin: finio
 * Latvian: beigt, pabeigt
 * Norwegian: fullføre,
 * Persian: تمام کردن
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:,  ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: slutföra, fullfölja, gå i mål, avsluta
 * Telugu: ముగించు (mugimchu) పూర్తిచేయు (poorthicheyu)
 * Thai:
 * Urdu: ختم کرنا
 * Vietnamese:, ,  làm xong
 * Volapük: fimekön, finükön, lemekön
 * !Xóõ: ǁkxʻāã
 * !Xóõ: ǁkxʻāã


 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Italian:
 * Latin: finio


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 結束, 结束
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, , gedaan zijn
 * Esperanto: finiĝi
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hiligaynon:
 * Hindi: ख़त्म होना


 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Latin: finio, finem habeo, terminor, finior
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: تمام شدن
 * Polish:
 * Russian: окончиться, закончиться , заканчиваться
 * Swedish: avsluta
 * Telugu: అంతమవు (antamavu), పూర్తవు (poortavu)
 * Urdu: ختم ہونا

Related terms

 * finish line
 * finishing school

Noun

 * 1) (the appearance after) fine-tuning, finishing touch
 * 2)  a spectacular end in a race or a competition

Noun

 * 1) ; end