finishingn.

Brit.

/ˈfɪnᵻʃɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈfɪnᵻʃɪŋ/

Etymology: < finish v. + -ing suffix¹.

1. The action of finish v. Also with off.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > completing > [noun]

enda1300

chevisancec1330

applyinga1382

perfectiona1382

pointc1385

finishmentc1400

accomplishingc1405

complement1419

consummationa1425

effecta1425

performinga1425

accomplishment1425

fining?1448

complishing1449

complishment1454

achevisauncec1475

achievement1477

perfectinga1513

cheving?1518

furniture1529

achievance1531

exploiture1531

exploiting1538

perimplishment1554

consummating1555

finishing?1563

chevance1570

coronation1582

crowning1586

adimpletion1624

fulfilment1624

complusmenta1628

completure1642

completement1652

transaction1655

patration1656

perfunction1656

completion1657

completing1727

ultimation1791

finality1833

perfectuation1859

fruition1885

the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > perfection > [noun]

fullfremednesseOE

perfectionc1350

perfectnessa1387

meurte1474

thummim1539

flourish1597

finishing1757

reproachlessness1803

perfectibility1809

sublimification1868

?1563 Visct. Montagu tr. J. Fisher Godlie Treat. Prayer sig. E3 The Smyth..vseth the hammer..towardes the finisshyng of his worke.

1614 T. Jackson Third Bk. Comm. Apostles Creede 216 The accomplishment or finishing of his glory.

1672 C. Manners in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 24 I haesten on Mr. Cooper all I can to the finishing of my Lady Exesters picture.

1757 S. Foote Author i. 8 A Sketch can never convey him. His Peculiarities require infinite Labour and high Finishing.

1886 Athenæum 18 Dec. 832/1 The cuts are..as good as photography, delicate finishing, and choice modern cutting can make them.

1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 167/2 Cleaning-up, the operation of preparing the finished surface of joinery work. Also called finishing-off.

1942 W. S. Churchill Secret Session Speeches 23 Apr. (1946) 74 The defeat of Hitler left the finishing-off of Japan merely a matter of time and trouble.

2. concrete. That which completes or gives a finished appearance to any kind of work. In Building and Carpentry, decoration, ornamental work. In Bookbinding, the lettering and ornamental work on the covers.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > [noun]

crafteOE

workOE

working1536

finishing1663

fancy work1842

ornamentation1851

arts and crafts1888

society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > ornament or lettering on binding > [noun]

finishing1663

1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 15 If the Builder..will have the Building to have no other finishing.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 285. ¶3 Give the last finishing to every Circumstance in so long a Work.

1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 287 The wainscot and finishing very neat.

1785 J. Phillips Treat. Inland Navigation 25 To have a lawn terminated by water..is a finishing, of all others the most desirable.

1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 118 Finishings, the carved ornaments of the quarter~galleries.

1884 H. P. Spofford in Harper's Mag. Jan. 181/1 The house is..of a pale cream-color, with white finishings.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

finishing governess n.

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society > education > teaching > teacher > [noun] > professional teacher > governess

mistressc1330

schoolmistress1335

governoressc1422

tutrice1490

tutrix1515

gouvernante1579

tutress1599

tutoress1614

directrice1631

duenna1641

under-governess1669

governess1673

conductress1760

Mam'sellec1794

directress1801

nursery governess1814

mademoiselle1861

finishing governess1862

fräulein1883

govy1899

miss1924

1862 Times 2 Jan. A finishing daily governess wishes to devote three or four hours every afternoon to the instruction of pupils.

finishing machine n.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > other specific machines > [noun]

reeler1598

driver1659

rubber1747

heading machine1795

bruiser1809

finisher1835

stripper1835

physionotype1836

rotary1836

tetraspaston1842

netting-machine1846

speeder1847

dresser1855

spacer1857

starcher1862

bronzing liquid, machine1865

finishing machine1869

grader1869

brain machine1872

peanut roaster1872

bending machine1874

screw-machine1876

tire-upsetting-machine1877

buncher?1881

flax-breaker1889

oscillator1889

fluoroscope1893

fluorometer1897

mucker1916

spray dryer1921

paver1926

teabagger1940

burster1950

icemaker1953

laminator1958

slipform (concrete) paver1958

extruder1959

Zamboni1965

manipulator1968

wave machine1968

pipelayer1969

walking machine1971

1869 Daily News 10 Dec. Double~blast thrashing and finishing machines.

finishing master n.

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society > education > teaching > teacher > [noun] > professional teacher > teacher of young people

youth-master1550

finishing master1799

paedonoma1871

1799 H. More Strict. Mod. Syst. Fem. Educ. (ed. 4) I. 79 All..have the honour to co~operate with a finishing master.

finishing mortar n.

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1662 B. Gerbier Brief Disc. Princ. Building 19 Bricks to be daubed over with finishing Morter.

1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 13 The finishing Morter to represent Stone, should be made of the strongest Lime.

finishing wood n.

ΚΠ

1887 West Shore 427 The white..cedar, a splendid finishing wood.

C2.

finishing-card n. (see quot.).

ΚΠ

1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 848/2 Finishing-card, a machine in which the process of carding is repeated.

finishing cloth n. calico prepared for ‘finishing’.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > cotton > [noun] > calico > types of

calico-lawn?1592

shamiana1609

dungaree1613

percaulah1614

muslin calico1705

Wigan1875

limbo1891

finishing cloth1892

1892 Daily News 19 Mar. 5/5 Printers' and finishing cloths slow.

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finishing-coat n. in Building, the last coating of plaster.

finishing goods n. (see finishing cloth n.).

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society > occupation and work > industry > manufacture or production > [noun] > manufactured article or product > finishing goods

finishing goods1892

1892 Daily News 6 Aug. 6/4 Printing and finishing goods slow.

finishing-hammer n. the last hammer used by the gold-beater.

finishing linens n. (see finishing cloth n.).

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from flax, hemp, or jute > [noun] > linen > types of > with reference to stage or process of production

finishing linens1892

1892 Daily News 5 Mar. 2/7 Cross Channel demand for..finishing linens.

finishing-post n. the post or place which marks the finishing point of a race.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > [noun] > starting or finishing mark > finishing mark

marklOE

glovec1380

goal1531

winning-post1759

ending-post1760

goalpost1834

tape1867

the line1892

finishing-post1895

finish line1899

1895 Daily Tel. 26 Sept. 3 The referee was sent on ahead to the Bricklayers' Arms, the finishing-post.

1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Jan. 83/3 Unable to make out exactly where the finishing-posts are.

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finishing-press n. Bookbinding a small press used in the process of ‘finishing’.

finishing-rolls n. a second set of rolls in a rolling-mill.

ΚΠ

1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 132 Finishing-rolls, the rolls of a train which receive the bar from the roughing-rolls, and reduce it to its finished shape.

finishing-school n. a school where a pupil's (usually young lady's) education is ‘finished’.

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society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > other types of school

writing schoola1475

rectory1536

spelling school1704

greycoat1706

rural school1734

Charter School1763

home school1770

Philanthropine1797

British school1819

side school1826

prep school1829

trade school1829

Progymnasium1833

finishing-school1836

field schoola1840

field school1846

prairie school1851

graded school1852

model school1854

Philanthropinum1856

stagiary school1861

grade school1869

middle school1870

language school1878

correspondence school1889

day continuation school1889

prep1891

Sunday school1901

farm school1903

weekend school1907

Charter School1912

folk high school1914

pre-kindergarten1922

Rabfak1924

cram-shop1926

free school1926

crammer1931

composite school1943

outward-bound1943

blackboard jungle1954

pathshala1956

Vo-Tech1956

St. Trinian's1958

juku1962

cadre school1966

telecentre1967

academy2000

academy school2000

1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 341 I'll bring in a bill for the abolition of finishing-schools.

1863 M. E. Braddon Eleanor's Victory iii He sent his daughters to the most expensive finishing-school in Paris.

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finishing line n. a real or notional line marking the end of a race, across which competitors must pass to complete the race; also figurative and in extended use.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > [noun] > starting or finishing mark > finishing mark

marklOE

glovec1380

goal1531

winning-post1759

ending-post1760

goalpost1834

tape1867

the line1892

finishing-post1895

finish line1899

1873 N.Y. Herald 19 July 10/3 The score, or finishing line, instead of being located at the right angles with the river banks..was..placed diagonally.

1914 Flight 6 368/1 Perhaps on finishing a race every pilot will be required to loop on crossing the finishing line.

1961 Times 4 Jan. 11/4 There was no further excitement, however..and Simpson slowly took Australia over the finishing line.

1984 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 19 Nov. The federation's manpower and money were important in helping put Mr. Mondale over the finishing line in the primaries.

2015 A. J. Andrews Falling Forward (e-book, accessed 30 June 2022) i. 5 I hadn't run a 10k since high school, and even then I was one of the last people to cross the finishing line.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2022).

单词	finishing
释义	finishingn. Brit. /ˈfɪnᵻʃɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈfɪnᵻʃɪŋ/ Etymology: < finish v. + -ing suffix¹. 1. The action of finish v. Also with off. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > completing > [noun] enda1300 chevisancec1330 applyinga1382 perfectiona1382 pointc1385 finishmentc1400 accomplishingc1405 complement1419 consummationa1425 effecta1425 performinga1425 accomplishment1425 fining?1448 complishing1449 complishment1454 achevisauncec1475 achievement1477 perfectinga1513 cheving?1518 furniture1529 achievance1531 exploiture1531 exploiting1538 perimplishment1554 consummating1555 finishing?1563 chevance1570 coronation1582 crowning1586 adimpletion1624 fulfilment1624 complusmenta1628 completure1642 completement1652 transaction1655 patration1656 perfunction1656 completion1657 completing1727 ultimation1791 finality1833 perfectuation1859 fruition1885 the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > perfection > [noun] fullfremednesseOE perfectionc1350 perfectnessa1387 meurte1474 thummim1539 flourish1597 finishing1757 reproachlessness1803 perfectibility1809 sublimification1868 ?1563 Visct. Montagu tr. J. Fisher Godlie Treat. Prayer sig. E3 The Smyth..vseth the hammer..towardes the finisshyng of his worke. 1614 T. Jackson Third Bk. Comm. Apostles Creede 216 The accomplishment or finishing of his glory. 1672 C. Manners in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 24 I haesten on Mr. Cooper all I can to the finishing of my Lady Exesters picture. 1757 S. Foote Author i. 8 A Sketch can never convey him. His Peculiarities require infinite Labour and high Finishing. 1886 Athenæum 18 Dec. 832/1 The cuts are..as good as photography, delicate finishing, and choice modern cutting can make them. 1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 167/2 Cleaning-up, the operation of preparing the finished surface of joinery work. Also called finishing-off. 1942 W. S. Churchill Secret Session Speeches 23 Apr. (1946) 74 The defeat of Hitler left the finishing-off of Japan merely a matter of time and trouble. 2. concrete. That which completes or gives a finished appearance to any kind of work. In Building and Carpentry, decoration, ornamental work. In Bookbinding, the lettering and ornamental work on the covers. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > [noun] crafteOE workOE working1536 finishing1663 fancy work1842 ornamentation1851 arts and crafts1888 society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > ornament or lettering on binding > [noun] finishing1663 1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 15 If the Builder..will have the Building to have no other finishing. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 285. ¶3 Give the last finishing to every Circumstance in so long a Work. 1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 287 The wainscot and finishing very neat. 1785 J. Phillips Treat. Inland Navigation 25 To have a lawn terminated by water..is a finishing, of all others the most desirable. 1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 118 Finishings, the carved ornaments of the quarter~galleries. 1884 H. P. Spofford in Harper's Mag. Jan. 181/1 The house is..of a pale cream-color, with white finishings. Compounds C1. General attributive. finishing governess n. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > teacher > [noun] > professional teacher > governess mistressc1330 schoolmistress1335 governoressc1422 tutrice1490 tutrix1515 gouvernante1579 tutress1599 tutoress1614 directrice1631 duenna1641 under-governess1669 governess1673 conductress1760 Mam'sellec1794 directress1801 nursery governess1814 mademoiselle1861 finishing governess1862 fräulein1883 govy1899 miss1924 1862 Times 2 Jan. A finishing daily governess wishes to devote three or four hours every afternoon to the instruction of pupils. finishing machine n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > other specific machines > [noun] reeler1598 driver1659 rubber1747 heading machine1795 bruiser1809 finisher1835 stripper1835 physionotype1836 rotary1836 tetraspaston1842 netting-machine1846 speeder1847 dresser1855 spacer1857 starcher1862 bronzing liquid, machine1865 finishing machine1869 grader1869 brain machine1872 peanut roaster1872 bending machine1874 screw-machine1876 tire-upsetting-machine1877 buncher?1881 flax-breaker1889 oscillator1889 fluoroscope1893 fluorometer1897 mucker1916 spray dryer1921 paver1926 teabagger1940 burster1950 icemaker1953 laminator1958 slipform (concrete) paver1958 extruder1959 Zamboni1965 manipulator1968 wave machine1968 pipelayer1969 walking machine1971 1869 Daily News 10 Dec. Double~blast thrashing and finishing machines. finishing master n. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > teacher > [noun] > professional teacher > teacher of young people youth-master1550 finishing master1799 paedonoma1871 1799 H. More Strict. Mod. Syst. Fem. Educ. (ed. 4) I. 79 All..have the honour to co~operate with a finishing master. finishing mortar n. ΚΠ 1662 B. Gerbier Brief Disc. Princ. Building 19 Bricks to be daubed over with finishing Morter. 1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 13 The finishing Morter to represent Stone, should be made of the strongest Lime. finishing wood n. ΚΠ 1887 West Shore 427 The white..cedar, a splendid finishing wood. C2. finishing-card n. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 848/2 Finishing-card, a machine in which the process of carding is repeated. finishing cloth n. calico prepared for ‘finishing’. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > cotton > [noun] > calico > types of calico-lawn?1592 shamiana1609 dungaree1613 percaulah1614 muslin calico1705 Wigan1875 limbo1891 finishing cloth1892 1892 Daily News 19 Mar. 5/5 Printers' and finishing cloths slow. Categories » finishing-coat n. in Building, the last coating of plaster. finishing goods n. (see finishing cloth n.). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > manufacture or production > [noun] > manufactured article or product > finishing goods finishing goods1892 1892 Daily News 6 Aug. 6/4 Printing and finishing goods slow. finishing-hammer n. the last hammer used by the gold-beater. finishing linens n. (see finishing cloth n.). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from flax, hemp, or jute > [noun] > linen > types of > with reference to stage or process of production finishing linens1892 1892 Daily News 5 Mar. 2/7 Cross Channel demand for..finishing linens. finishing-post n. the post or place which marks the finishing point of a race. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > [noun] > starting or finishing mark > finishing mark marklOE glovec1380 goal1531 winning-post1759 ending-post1760 goalpost1834 tape1867 the line1892 finishing-post1895 finish line1899 1895 Daily Tel. 26 Sept. 3 The referee was sent on ahead to the Bricklayers' Arms, the finishing-post. 1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Jan. 83/3 Unable to make out exactly where the finishing-posts are. Categories » finishing-press n. Bookbinding a small press used in the process of ‘finishing’. finishing-rolls n. a second set of rolls in a rolling-mill. ΚΠ 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 132 Finishing-rolls, the rolls of a train which receive the bar from the roughing-rolls, and reduce it to its finished shape. finishing-school n. a school where a pupil's (usually young lady's) education is ‘finished’. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > other types of school writing schoola1475 rectory1536 spelling school1704 greycoat1706 rural school1734 Charter School1763 home school1770 Philanthropine1797 British school1819 side school1826 prep school1829 trade school1829 Progymnasium1833 finishing-school1836 field schoola1840 field school1846 prairie school1851 graded school1852 model school1854 Philanthropinum1856 stagiary school1861 grade school1869 middle school1870 language school1878 correspondence school1889 day continuation school1889 prep1891 Sunday school1901 farm school1903 weekend school1907 Charter School1912 folk high school1914 pre-kindergarten1922 Rabfak1924 cram-shop1926 free school1926 crammer1931 composite school1943 outward-bound1943 blackboard jungle1954 pathshala1956 Vo-Tech1956 St. Trinian's1958 juku1962 cadre school1966 telecentre1967 academy2000 academy school2000 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. II. 341 I'll bring in a bill for the abolition of finishing-schools. 1863 M. E. Braddon Eleanor's Victory iii He sent his daughters to the most expensive finishing-school in Paris. Draft additions December 2022 finishing line n. a real or notional line marking the end of a race, across which competitors must pass to complete the race; also figurative and in extended use. ΘΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > [noun] > starting or finishing mark > finishing mark marklOE glovec1380 goal1531 winning-post1759 ending-post1760 goalpost1834 tape1867 the line1892 finishing-post1895 finish line1899 1873 N.Y. Herald 19 July 10/3 The score, or finishing line, instead of being located at the right angles with the river banks..was..placed diagonally. 1914 Flight 6 368/1 Perhaps on finishing a race every pilot will be required to loop on crossing the finishing line. 1961 Times 4 Jan. 11/4 There was no further excitement, however..and Simpson slowly took Australia over the finishing line. 1984 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 19 Nov. The federation's manpower and money were important in helping put Mr. Mondale over the finishing line in the primaries. 2015 A. J. Andrews Falling Forward (e-book, accessed 30 June 2022) i. 5 I hadn't run a 10k since high school, and even then I was one of the last people to cross the finishing line. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2022). finishingadj. Etymology: < finish v. + -ing suffix². That finishes; esp. in (to put, give, receive) the finishing (†hand,) stroke or touch. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > completing > [adjective] consummating1582 teleiotical1601 complemental1602 crowning1604 consummative1614 consummatory1623 completing1656 completory1659 telesiurgic1662 completive1677 finishing1705 teleiotic1705 accompletive1826 finial1888 the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > [adjective] finalc1365 endinga1400 finial?a1400 endly1436 conclusional1471 terminalc1475 parting?1570 supreme1570 terminant1589 desinent1608 terminative1613 conclusive1639 graciousa1701 finishing1705 ultimate1755 concluding1795 closing1796 wind-up1843 net1844 conclusory1846 terminational1874 summative1877 wrap-up1968 1705 G. Stanhope Paraphr. Epist. & Gospels II. 296 The finishing, or the First, act of Repentance. 1706 tr. J. B. Morvan de Bellegarde Refl. upon Ridicule 338 A Mind well turn'd receives the finishing stroke and polishing from Science. 1754 A. Murphy Gray's Inn Jrnl. No. 71. ⁋4 In each Species of Writing I have given the finishing Hand to some Pieces. 1780 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 2) IV. viii. 145 We tire of all the painter's art when it wants these finishing touches. 1831 J. Keble Serm. (1848) v. 106 With the finishing touch..he completes his picture of that intense depravity. 1858 R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma lxxxi. 354 To enable them to put the finishing stroke to their respective arrangements. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.?1563adj.1705
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finishingn.

Compounds

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finishingadj.