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finished

[ fin-isht ]

adjective

  1. ended or completed.
  2. completed or perfected in all details, as a product:

    to pack and ship finished items.

  3. polished to the highest degree of excellence:

    a dazzling and finished piece of writing.

  4. highly skilled or accomplished:

    a finished violinist.

  5. condemned, doomed, or in the process of extinction:

    The aristocracy was finished after the revolution.

  6. (of livestock) fattened and ready for market.


finished

/ ˈfɪnɪʃt /

adjective

  1. perfected
  2. predicative at the end of a task, activity, etc

    they were finished by four

  3. predicative without further hope of success or continuation

    she was finished as a prima ballerina



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Other Words From

  • half-finished adjective
  • well-finished adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of finished1

First recorded in 1575–85; finish + -ed 2

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Example Sentences

Epic says the software draws from an “ever-growing library of variants of human appearance and motion,” to give designers a robust starting point for their finished model.

Something to keep in mind is that in some ways, distance will have a greater impact on your finished dish than heat level.

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The materials are ground for six to 12 hours before pieces are individually hand-dipped in the finished liquid.

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It then showed that by swapping text for pixels, the same approach could be used to train an AI to complete half-finished images.

If you hit the focus and you get the exposure pretty close, you’re going to come away with a file that will look amazing as a finished image.

He finished second in 2008 behind John McCain, and maintains a reservoir of good will among Republican social conservatives.

Pat Robertson finished second in the 1988 Iowa caucus, and it was all downhill from there.

They finished out the tour without incident, while newspapers across the country picked up the story.

When I finished this talk, a government official approached me.

“Please,” he laughed, handing me the map after he was finished sketching.

When we'd finished, one of the hunters rounded up the horses and we caught our nags and saddled them.

And I finished all with a brief historical account of affairs and events in England for about a hundred years past.

Almost as soon as she had finished building her nest she had discovered a strange-looking egg there.

When I had finished, the other guests had all gone out, but daylight was coming in, and I began to feel more at home.

A few moments afterward he was seen dragging his own trunk ashore, while Mr. Hitchcock finished his story on the boiler deck.

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