(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.
Wrap
Definition:
(v. t.) To snatch up; transport; -- chiefly used in the p. p. wrapt.
(v. t.) To wind or fold together; to arrange in folds.
(v. t.) To cover by winding or folding; to envelop completely; to involve; to infold; -- often with up.
(v. t.) To conceal by enveloping or infolding; to hide; hence, to involve, as an effect or consequence; to be followed by.
(n.) A wrapper; -- often used in the plural for blankets, furs, shawls, etc., used in riding or traveling.
Example Sentences:
(1) The popularly used procedure in Great Britain is that in which a sheet of Ivalon sponge is sutured to the sacrum and wrapped around the rectum thus anchoring it in place.
(2) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
(3) Gastric reservoir reduction, wrapping the stomach with an inert fabric, is one such procedure.
(4) His wrists were shown wrapped in tape with “MIKE BROWN” and “MY KIDS MATTER” written on them.
(5) By sharing insights and best practice expertise through [the Electrical and Electronic Equipment Sustainability Action Plan] esap and other platforms, Wrap believes business models such as trade-in services will be a reality in the next three to five years.” The actions of the 51 signatories to esap include: implementing new business models such as take-back and resale; extending product durability; and gaining greater value from reuse and recycling.
(6) This is such a difficult area for prosecutors to wrap their hands around.
(7) 8.25am BST As the day draws to a close it is time to bid the readers adieu and wrap up the live-blog for the day.
(8) Thought I'd relax and watch the final quarter of this game having wrapped that up.
(9) The stamps, which were similar in paper and size to Japanese 10-yen postage stamps, were wrapped around the penis before sleep and the stamp ring was checked for breakage the next morning.
(10) Epithelioid-cell tumors contained multinucleated cells and areas of cell wrapping more frequently than did spindle-cell tumors.
(11) Perhaps Silver and company would have been a bit more methodical if this embarrassing story had sprung up during the offseason or in early fall, when casual fans are wrapped up in football.
(12) For prophylactics of the commissural process the area of connection of main vessels of the artificial circulation apparatus (ACA) in 56 patients was wrapped up by teflon in order to ease reoperation.
(13) Once considered his nation's political tour de force, Anwar Ibrahim has spent the greater part of the past two decades in jail, wrapped up in court proceedings and enduring what he calls a long-standing smear campaign – from being labelled a chauvinist and Zionist to facing accusations that he is homosexual, guilty of sodomy and anti-Muslim.
(14) They wrapped the heads of these 41 infants with a dry linen cloth.
(15) Resection of malignant lesion and wrapping of aneurysm were carried out in all three patients simultaneously.
(16) Isner wrapped up the first set in 49 minutes and then cruised through the second two untroubled in the hot conditions in front of almost 7,000 fans.
(17) This region of the DNA helix is fully protected, indicating that the RNA polymerase wraps around the DNA between base positions -13 and +20.
(18) We have recently demonstrated that the application of a pedicled intercostal muscle graft or peritracheal membrane adipose tissue wrap on the bronchial anastomosis improved bronchial healing by restoring a vascular flow across the anastomosis within 7 days after left lung allotransplantation.
(19) Over 70 days of age, the combined presence of viral infection and wrapping in excess of 10 togs produced an odds ratio of SUD of 51.5 (95% CI 5.64 to 471.48) compared with wrapping of less than 6 togs.
(20) We have a high number of A&E attendances over this time that are due to issues that could have been avoided had people sought advice at the first sign of illness.” The Stay Well This Winter campaign will use TV, radio and social media to encourage people to wrap up warm and consult a pharmacist as soon as they feel unwell rather than waiting.