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final part of a distance, final effort needed to finish (US: homestretch) a success (from baseball) (also homer) a four-base hit in baseball (slang) sexual intercourse; more s.v. base: homely (of a house) comfortable, cozy, rustic (US: homey) (of a person) home-loving, domesticated, house-proud (only used of a person) plain, ugly hood
"Finish" is a synonym. [4] Alcoholic: a wine that has an unbalanced presence of too much alcohol. [4] Aroma: the smell of a wine. The term is generally applied to younger wines, while bouquet is reserved for more aged wines. [5] Astringent: an overly tannic white wine. [6]
Synonym for kaolin: a raw material for many types of clay body, and is the main clay for porcelain. [6] China stone A pottery stone that was formerly mined in Cornwall in the UK. Traditionally was used at around 25% in bone china bodies. Also known as Cornish stone. [7] Clay A group of hydrous aluminium phyllosilicate minerals.
The first known use in media appeared in the Dallas Morning News on March 10, 1976: [4]. Despite his obvious allegiance to the Red Raiders, Texas Tech sports information director Ralph Carpenter was the picture of professional objectivity when the Aggies rallied for a 72–72 tie late in the SWC tournament finals.
Also audible finish. A match finish which occurs sooner (and often differently) than planned. It is used when a wrestler is legitimately injured and cannot continue as planned, when the match is approaching its time limit (or a television segment is running long), or after a botch significantly changes the plot of the match.
The current edition is the 14th; it was published on 31 August 2023, with more than 732,000 words, meanings, and phrases (not 730,000 headwords) and 9,500 place names and 7,300 biographies. [2]
Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...
Finish may refer to: Finishing (whisky), in the distillation of Scotch; The aftertaste of an alcoholic beverage, particularly for: wine; Finished good, a good that is completed as to manufacturing but not yet sold or distributed to the end-user; Surface finishing, various industrial processes for modifying a workpiece's surface