What's the difference between finale and finis?

Finale


Definition:

  • (n.) Close; termination
  • (n.) The last movement of a symphony, sonata, concerto, or any instrumental composition.
  • (n.) The last composition performed in any act of an opera.
  • (n.) The closing part, piece, or scene in any public performance or exhibition.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Yet the Tory promise of fiscal rectitude prevailed in England Alexander had been in charge of Labour’s election strategy, but he could not strategise a victory over a 20-year-old Scottish nationalist who has not yet taken her finals.
  • (2) The oral nerve endings of the palate, the buccal mucosa and the periodontal ligament of the cat canine were characterized by the presence of a cellular envelope which is the final form of the Henle sheath.
  • (3) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
  • (4) The final number of fibers--140,000-165,000--is reached by the sixth week after birth.
  • (5) The rate of accumulation of degraded LDL products was lower in collagen gel cultures, but the final levels achieved were the same in the two substrata.
  • (6) Finally the advanced automation of the equipment allowed weekly the evaluation of catecholamines and the whole range of their known metabolites in 36 urine samples.
  • (7) Phenotypic relationships were examined between final score and 13 type appraisal traits and first lactation milk yield from 2935 Ayrshire, 3154 Brown Swiss, 13,110 Guernsey, 50,422 Jersey, and 924 Milking Shorthorn records.
  • (8) The stages of mourning involve cognitive learning of the reality of the loss; behaviours associated with mourning, such as searching, embody unlearning by extinction; finally, physiological concomitants of grief may influence unlearning by direct effects on neurotransmitters or neurohormones, such as cortisol, ACTH, or norepinephrine.
  • (9) The amino-terminal region of a 70 kDa mitochondrial outer membrane protein of yeast and the presequence of cytochrome c1, an inner membrane protein exposed to the intermembrane space, are thought to be responsible for localizing the proteins in their final destinations after synthesis in the cytosol.
  • (10) Certainly, Saunders did not land a single blow that threatened to stop his opponent, although he took quite a few himself that threatened his titles in the final few rounds.
  • (11) Finally, the automatized measurement system cuts the time spent by a factor of more than five.
  • (12) Finally, it could be observed that elevated osmotic pressures reduced the lysis of isolated secretory granules when bicarbonate ions were present in the incubation medium.
  • (13) Finally, 10 patients had an intra- and extrasellar tumour (group III).
  • (14) The automatic half of both the motor which advances the trepan as well as the second motor which rotates the trepan is triggered by the sudden change in electrical resistance between the trepan and the patient's internal body fluid, at the final stage of penetration.
  • (15) After immunoadsorbent purification, the final step in a purification procedure similar to that adopted for colon cancer CEA, two main molecular species were identified: 1) Material identical with colon cancer CEA with respect to molecular size, PCA solubility, ability to bind to Con A, and most important the ability to bind to specific monkey anti-CEA serum.
  • (16) Achilles tendon overuse injuries exist as a spectrum of diseases ranging from inflammation of the paratendinous tissue (paratenonitis), to structural degeneration of the tendon (tendinosis), and finally tendon rupture.
  • (17) They insist this is the best way of ensuring the country does not descend into chaos before the final withdrawal of combat troops.
  • (18) GlaxoSmithKline was unusually critical of the decision by Nice, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, and also the Scottish Medicines Consortium, to reject its drug belimumab (brand name Benlysta) in final draft guidance.
  • (19) Symptoms consistent with major affective disorder were present in one half and depressive spectrum diagnoses were made in one fourth of the cases prior to final diagnosis.
  • (20) Children are about to start their final term before exams.

Finis


Definition:

  • (n.) An end; conclusion. It is often placed at the end of a book.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "The events of the last few months and his incomprehensible behaviour in the eyes of the world mean that the prime minister is no longer trusted," added Berlusconi's former ally, Gianfranco Fini.
  • (2) The Dutch daily newspaper De Telegraaf's front page asked: "Valérie c'est fini?"
  • (3) Finally, the AMPase activity of 5'-nucleotidase from human seminal plasma is not affected by dithiothreitol which, on the contrary, is a powerful inhibitor of the bovine enzyme causing the dissociation of its subunits which are held together by disulphide bridges (Fini, C., Minelli, A., Camici, M. and Floridi, A.
  • (4) Order a somehow-fantastic Capri C’est Fini (€12) – cherry tomatoes, rum, basil and balsamic vinegar – and admire a wall made from old leather belts.
  • (5) Meanwhile, in Italy former fascists such as Gianfranco Fini have only been allowed into the corridors of power because of their renunciation of Mussolini and antisemitism.
  • (6) Another, Gianfranco Fini, former national secretary of the neo-fascist MSI party and the then deputy prime minister, was - according to media reports at the time - in police headquarters.
  • (7) Berlusconi has been struggling to get legislation through the lower house ever since last year when his former lieutenant, Gianfranco Fini, walked out of his party, taking with him several other deputies previously loyal to the government.
  • (8) Gianfranco Fini, a former foreign minister whose party ran as part of outgoing prime minister Mario Monti's centrist alliance, said: "I think the worst is yet to come for Italy."
  • (9) His allies were, on the one hand, Umberto Bossi's Northern League and, on the other, the National Alliance, a party led by Gianfranco Fini and composed largely of self-styled post-fascists.
  • (10) Be it the post-fascism of the current president of the lower chamber, Gianfranco Fini, or the Golden Dawn-style ultra-fascism of the CasaPound group (a Rome-based militant faction that will run at the forthcoming elections), or the equally militant fascist past of the incumbent mayor of Rome, Gianni Alemanno, who is about to leave behind a capital city on its knees.
  • (11) To extract the water-soluble oxytocic polypeptides in Oldenlandia af finis DC, a plant used in African folk medicine as an oral oxytocic, dried above-ground parts were soaked in boiling water for 30 minutes, filtered, and the filtrate shaken for 15 minutes with a .1 M solution of sodium tetraphenylborate (NaTPB) in n-butanol.
  • (12) The purification of the enzyme was achieved by using the same affinity chromatography media (Con A-Sepharose and AMP-Agarose or ADP-Agarose) previously used for the purification of bull seminal plasma 5'-nucleotidase (Fini, C., Ipata, P.L., Palmerini, C.A.
  • (13) Berlusconi managed to coax back some MPs who defected along with his former ally Fini last year – with some receiving government posts – but new unruly factions have since emerged in his People of Freedom party.
  • (14) I took the side of the Kurdish forces in Iraq who had helped write "finis" to the Caligula regime of Saddam Hussein , while also beginning the work of autonomy for the region's largest and most oppressed minority.

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