finish with someone

Examples of finishing

finishing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Such employments were corduroy finishing, knitting and laundering and were assigned to women living nearby to be undertaken at home.
The small differences in starting and finishing dates which exist in all cases are not very significant.
Robotization of finishing operations is impossible without developing compact and mobile designs of special-purpose robots permitting the movement of the equipment between rooms.
Effect of food intake on protein and energy metabolism in finishing beef steers.
For example, purebred lowland flocks produce rams, which are, in turn, demanded as terminal sires by lowland finishing flocks.
On finishing his course at the conservatoire, he did many auditions, but it was some time before these started to lead to freelance work.
The higher the digestive content at the end of finishing, the lower the empty body gain estimated for the observed animal.
The decrease in digestive content relative to breeding life accounts for the lower fill effect of high concentrate diets during finishing.
Importantly, these early societies served as finishing schools where young men of the upper working and lower middle classes could define and adopt "gentlemanly" behavior.
Is often in the middle of doing one thing and then goes off to do something else without finishing it.
The main challenge in the creation of finishing tools is the development of optimal kinematic structures.
This result confirms that the scheme that links a growth model to a finishing model is of interest.
Finishing diets are also very variable, with diets of contrasting energy concentration.
These authors also mentioned an increase in the proportion of lipid in body gain during finishing with age.
Can you imagine one executive finishing off another's sentences at a board meeting?
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