What's the difference between finish and flatting?
Finish
Definition:
(v. t.) To arrive at the end of; to bring to an end; to put an end to; to make an end of; to terminate.
(v. t.) To bestow the last required labor upon; to complete; to bestow the utmost possible labor upon; to perfect; to accomplish; to polish.
(v. i.) To come to an end; to terminate.
(v. i.) To end; to die.
(n.) That which finishes, puts an end to/ or perfects.
(n.) The joiner work and other finer work required for the completion of a building, especially of the interior. See Inside finish, and Outside finish.
(n.) The labor required to give final completion to any work; hence, minute detail, careful elaboration, or the like.
(n.) See Finishing coat, under Finishing.
(n.) The result of completed labor, as on the surface of an object; manner or style of finishing; as, a rough, dead, or glossy finish given to cloth, stone, metal, etc.
(n.) Completion; -- opposed to start, or beginning.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, ticks, which failed to finish their feeding and represent a disproportionately great part of the whole parasite's population, die together with them and the parasitic system quickly restores its stability.
(2) Thirty of the 32 women of the calcitonin group and 27 of 28 women of the calcium group finished treatment.
(3) Mieko Nagaoka took just under an hour and 16 minutes to finish the race as the sole competitor in the 100 to 104-year-old category at a short course pool in Ehime, western Japan , on Saturday.
(4) We knew it would be a strange match because they had to come out and play to win to finish third,” Benitez said afterwards.
(5) Nor is this political fantasy: at the European elections in May, across 51 authorities in the north-west and north-east, Ukip finished ahead of Labour in 18 and as its main rival in 30.
(6) In the 55th minute Ivanovic dispossessed Bale and beat Ricketts before sliding the ball across to give Tadic a simple finish.
(7) Distance running performance is slower on hilly race courses than flat courses even when the start and finish are at the same elevation, resulting in equal amounts of uphill and downhill running.
(8) Both sides sought a decisive goal in a frenetic finish but ultimately the league leaders and the side fighting relegation shared the points and Mourinho wound up making dark allusions to the influence of officials .
(9) The Labor Department said its key index for finished goods was unchanged in July , because of a drop in energy costs.
(10) With Everton heading for a sixth-placed finish in the Premier League, the additional television revenue and prospect of further funds from Fellaini, the club are confident of appointing an "equally significant" successor to Moyes, according to the chairman, Bill Kenwright.
(11) Six Holstein (light-muscled type) and six Belgian Blue bulls (double-muscled type) were fed a finishing diet.
(12) The course of healing is finished during 3 weeks after coagulation and vaporaziation, and during 4 weeks after excision.
(13) Best friends since school, they sound like an old married couple, finishing each other's sentences, constantly referring to the other by name and making each other laugh; deep sonorous, belly laughs.
(14) Morrison and Operation Sovereign Borders commander Lieutenant General Angus Campbell continued to insist that their refusal to answer questions about “on water matters” was essential to meet the overriding goal of stopping asylum seeker boats, and said from now on such briefings on the policy would be held when needed, rather than every week because the “establishment phase” had finished.
(15) Agüero tried to retreive the situation – proof that City had more than enough finishers on hand to take advantage of momentary Burnley disarray – though, forced away from goal, he shot from a narrow angle and missed the target.
(16) Bojan Krkic had been snuffed out in his central role for Stoke and Hughes’s tweaks would have paid off if Diouf’s finishing had been more incisive.
(17) If I could get a shot, I was going to shoot it,” said Arcidiacono, who finished with 16 points and two assists, one more memorable than the other.
(18) For a start, why on earth was Platini being paid in February 2011 for work he did at Fifa, as Blatter’s special advisor, which finished nine years earlier?
(19) Everything on Tonight's the Night was recorded and mixed before On the Beach was started, but it was never finished or put into its complete order till later.
(20) "Richard only finished the music today," said Croall, who seemed deeply relieved that he'd made the deadline on Saturday.
Flatting
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flat
(n.) The process or operation of making flat, as a cylinder of glass by opening it out.
(n.) A mode of painting,in which the paint, being mixed with turpentine, leaves the work without gloss.
(n.) A method of preserving gilding unburnished, by touching with size.
(n.) The process of forming metal into sheets by passing it between rolls.
Example Sentences:
(1) Michael James, 52, from Tower Hamlets Three days after telling his landlord that the flat upstairs was a deathtrap, Michael James was handed an eviction notice.
(2) A tiny studio flat that has become a symbol of London's soaring property prices is to be investigated by planning, environmental health and fire safety authorities after the Guardian revealed details of its shoebox-like proportions.
(3) With the flat-fee system, drug charges are not recorded when the drug is dispensed by the pharmacy; data for charging doses are obtained directly from the MAR forms generated by the nursing staff.
(4) Taking into account the calculated volume and considering the triangular image as one face of the particle, it is suggested that eIF-3 has the shape of a flat triangular prism with a height of about 7 nm and the above-mentioned side-lengths.
(5) He gets Lyme disease , he dates indie girls and strippers; he lives in disused warehouses and crappy flats with weirded-out flatmates who want to set him on fire and buy the petrol to do so.
(6) The b-wave in the ERG was lacking and the EOG was flat.
(7) In north-west Copenhagen, among the quiet, graffiti-tagged streets of red-brick blocks and low-rise social housing bordering the multi-ethnic Nørrebro district, police continued to cordon off roads and search a flat near the spot where officers killed a man believed to be behind Denmark’s bloodiest attacks in over a decade.
(8) Distance running performance is slower on hilly race courses than flat courses even when the start and finish are at the same elevation, resulting in equal amounts of uphill and downhill running.
(9) In autumn, leaf-heaps composted themselves on sunken patios, and were shovelled up by irritated owners of basement flats.
(10) Here we present images of polydeoxyadenylate molecules aligned in parallel, with their bases lying flat on a surface of highly oriented pyrolytic graphite and with their charged phosphodiester backbones protruding upwards.
(11) All other broad-spectrum benzimidazole anthelmintics, regardless of substituent at the 2 position (methyl carbamate or thiazolyl group), are flat.
(12) We investigated the mechanism by which retinoic acid causes growth arrest and flat reversion of SSV-NRK, simian sarcoma virus-transformed normal rat kidney cells.
(13) When she speaks, it is in a quiet, clear voice that is middle-class but also flat and London-inflected enough to seem almost classless: it is the voice of the modern southern English professional.
(14) After about 3 weeks of culture, N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea-pretreated fetal rat brain cells showed focal proliferation of neural cells on an underlayer of flat, epithelioid cells.
(15) In order to determine an histological high-risk group, we chose cases with preneoplastic conditions (60 CAG, 10 biopsies of gastric remnants, 3 flat adenomas and 55 gastrectomies by cancer or ulcer).
(16) During inspiration, the velocity was greater and the shape of the flow profile throughout diastole tended to be flat.
(17) The following relationships were found: Round nuclei have higher rates of DNA synthesis than flat ones.
(18) The individual micelles are relatively flat, ring-shaped structures, the center offering space for one of the two bulky sugar chains of the saponins.
(19) Microinfusion of the selective 5-HT1A receptor agonist, 8-hydroxy-(di-N-propylamino)tetralin (8-OHDPAT), into the dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN) produced a marked behavioural hypoactivity and flat body posture.
(20) Don was racing the Dodge through the Bonneville Salt Flats , where Gary Gabelich had just (on 23 October) broken the land-speed record.