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say it: FIN-i-shing
finishing is a noun meaning "a decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance)". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance)
“the boat had a metallic finish”
“he applied a coat of a clear finish”
“when the finish is too thin it is difficult to apply evenly”
the act of finishing
“his best finish in a major tournament was third”
“the speaker's finishing was greeted with applause”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for finishing come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.