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Finial
- noun - an ornament at the top of a spire or gable; usually a foliated fleur-de-lis
Finify
- - To make fine; to dress finically.
Fining
- verb - issue a ticket or a fine to as a penalty; "I was fined for parking on the wrong side of the street"; "Move your car or else you will be ticketed!"
Finish
- noun - (wine tasting) the taste of a wine on the back of the tongue (as it is swallowed); "the wine has a nutty flavor and a pleasant finish"
- 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"
- a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality; "they performed with great polish"; "I admired the exquisite refinement of his prose"; "almost an inspiration which gives to all work that finish which is almost art"--Joseph Conrad
- cause to finish a relationship with somebody; "That finished me with Mary"
- come or bring to a finish or an end; "He finished the dishes"; "She completed the requirements for her Master's Degree"; "The fastest runner finished the race in just over 2 hours; others finished in over 4 hours"
- designated event that conclude
Finite
- adjective - bounded or limited in magnitude or spatial or temporal extent
- of verbs; relating to forms of the verb that are limited in time by a tense and (usually) show agreement with number and person
Firing
- verb - bake in a kiln so as to harden; "fire pottery"
- call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"
- cause to go off; "fire a gun"; "fire a bullet"
- destroy by fire; "They burned the house and his diaries"
- drive out or away by or as if by fire; "The soldiers were fired"; "Surrender fires the cold skepticism"
- go off or discharge; "The gun fired"
- provide with fuel; "Oil fires the furnace"
- start firing a weapon
- terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position;
- the act of discharging a gun
- the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy; "hold your fire until you can see the whites of their eyes"; "they retreated in the face of withering enemy fire"
- the act of setting something on fire
- the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
Fixing
- noun - (histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body
- restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place
- the act of putting something in working order again
- the sterilization of an animal; "they took him to the vet for neutering"
Fixity
- noun - the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment
- the quality of being incapable of mutation; "Darwin challenged the fixity of species"
Flails
- noun - an implement consisting of handle with a free swinging stick at the end; used in manual threshing
- give a thrashing to; beat hard
- move like a flail; thresh about; "Her arms were flailing"