Crossword clues for finisher
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Finisher \Fin"ish*er\, n.
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One who finishes, puts an end to, completes, or perfects; esp. used in the trades, as in hatting, weaving, etc., for the workman who gives a finishing touch to the work, or any part of it, and brings it to perfection.
O prophet of glad tidings, finisher Of utmost hope!
--Milton. Something that gives the finishing touch to, or settles, anything. [Colloq.]
Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who finishes or completes something. 2 A construction machine used to smooth a newly constructed road surface. 3 (context video games informal English) A finishing move. 4 (context soccer English) A player who shoots goals.
WordNet
n. (baseball) a relief pitcher who can protect a lead in the last inning or two of the game [syn: closer]
a painter who applies a finishing coat
a worker who performs the last step in a manufacturing process
Wikipedia
Finisher may refer to:
- In the field of genome sequencing, a finisher is one who analyzes an electropherogram, a graphical representation of data received from a sequencing machine and yields one read, in comparison to the consensus, a sequence that has been generated from the alignment of multiple reads, presented by the computer programs Phred and Phrap, to determine if the consensus accurately reflects the nucleotide sequence; when the data is incomplete or inadequate, the finisher calls more reactions with appropriate chemistry in order to gather more data.
- In computing, a printer finisher performs post-printing actions, such as stapling, hole-punching, folding, or collating.
- In cricket, the term finisher can also refer to the name given to the role played by a not out batsman that results in his/her team winning the match.
- Finisher (textiles), the processes after weaving such as bleaching, dyeing and printing
- Finisher (wrestling), a move in professional wrestling
- The Finishers, a 2013 French film
Usage examples of "finisher".
Half the East End now thinks a Jewish boot finisher killed her this morning.
The last of the finishers came in a few minutes after six, just in time to catch the sunset and a round of applause from the few rickshaw drivers still loitering in the park by the finish line.
Glenn suspected that Stanley Mann Wood Finishers proved to be a little too expensive, either that or they had gotten in too deep by then financially and were cutting corners.
No, he told them seriously over the finishers of dried fruit and confections, he didn't really think Zilia was mad.
This assertion generated immediate merriment among the restaurant owners and fur finishers assembled in our living room.
Or could it be the same group of people as the Plastic Container Manufacturers last week, and the Fabric Finishers Association on Tuesday-week?
There were ironworkers, once known as smithies, and ferrous engineers, and platers, and ironmasters whose hands sometimes turned black and scabby, and enginewrights and finishers with missing fingers, all tangled together through processes which the foremen and the managers, themselves members of other guilds, or higher branches of the same ones, strove to control and contain.
Or may the maledictions of Lousyfear fall like nettlerash on the white friar's father that converted from moonshine the fostermother of the first nancyfree that ran off after the trumpadour that mangled Moore's melodies and so upturned the tubshead of the stardaft journalwriter to inspire the prime finisher to fellhim the firtree out of which Cooper Funnymore planed the flat of the beerbarrel on which my grandydad's lustiest sat his seat of unwisdom with my tante's petted sister for the cause of his joy!