单词 | finisher |
释义 | finishern. 1. One who or that which finishes (in the different senses of the verb). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > completing > [noun] > one who completes an action or process enderc1384 perfecterc1425 fulfillerc1434 finisher1526 sealer1615 crownera1625 perficient1641 completer1701 perfector1836 the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > [noun] > coming or bringing to an end > bringing to an end > that which or one who enderc1405 finisher1526 concluder1601 coup de grâce1699 settler1744 closer1961 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > [noun] > racer > types of dead-heater1868 distance runner1868 pacemaker1884 tail-ender1885 pacer1893 distancer1911 finisher1963 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Heb. xii. 2 Jesus the auctor and fynnyssher of oure fayth. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. Ep. Ded. sig. *2v God the very founder furtherer and finisher of trueth. 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. xlii. 85 The other a finisher of all his troubles. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 375 O Prophet of glad tidings, finisher Of utmost hope! View more context for this quotation 1786 J. Reynolds Disc. Royal Acad. (1876) xiii. 69 A portrait by Denner, or any other high finisher. 1827 Sporting Mag. 20 267 By way of a finisher, washing..the flax in the rivers kills hundreds of fish. 1875 J. R. Lowell Spenser in Prose Wks. (1890) IV. 297 (note) With all his abundance, he was evidently a laborious finisher. 1963 P. Drackett Motor Rallying 90 To be classed as a finisher a car must arrive at the final control..within half an hour or such other period of time as may be specified. 2. spec. a. In various trades: The workman, or machine, that performs the final operation in manufacture. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > [noun] > maker or manufacturer > doing specific part of process finisher1691 rougher1874 maker1892 society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > other specific machines > [noun] reeler1598 driver1659 rubber1747 heading machine1795 bruiser1809 finisher1835 stripper1835 physionotype1836 rotary1836 tetraspaston1842 netting-machine1846 speeder1847 dresser1855 spacer1857 starcher1862 bronzing liquid, machine1865 finishing machine1869 grader1869 brain machine1872 peanut roaster1872 bending machine1874 screw-machine1876 tire-upsetting-machine1877 buncher?1881 flax-breaker1889 oscillator1889 fluoroscope1893 fluorometer1897 mucker1916 spray dryer1921 paver1926 teabagger1940 burster1950 icemaker1953 laminator1958 slipform (concrete) paver1958 extruder1959 Zamboni1965 manipulator1968 wave machine1968 pipelayer1969 walking machine1971 1691 T. Southerne Sir Anthony Love iii. i I am poor Courtant your Taylor's finisher. 1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 169 This finisher carding-engine is furnished with finer teeth than the scribbler. 1869 T. Leicester in Eng. Mech. 3 Dec. 282/1 It is then passed on to the finisher or workman. 1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) I. 425 The ‘forwarder’ then passes the book on to the ‘finisher’, whose duty it is to add the required lettering and ornament. 1884 Standard 14 Apr. 3/7 A strike..has commenced among the ‘lasters and finishers’ of the boot trade. b. finisher of the law: jocularly, the hangman, executioner. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > [noun] > hangman boiec1320 hangman1393 hangerc1430 lockman1488 burrioc1540 bourreauc1550 burriourc1550 derrickc1600 passport-maker1602 topman1607 derrick-jastro?1609 verdugo1616 windpipe-stretcher1617 Gregorya1658 locksman1682 Ketch1685 Jack Ketch1696 finisher of the law1708 topsman1825 scrag-boy1843 scragger1897 1708 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) v. 57 The Finisher of the Law. 1734 Grub St. Jrnl. 2 May 1/1 I imagine..that in point of order..the finisher of the law ought to draw up the conclusion. 1833 Fraser's Mag. 8 30 Thistlewood was suspended by the finisher of the law. 1835 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 2 168 It [the Newspaper Press] is the grand inquistor—the expositor—the flagellator—the finisher! c. colloquial. Something that finishes, discomfits, or ‘does for’ any one; ‘a settler’. In Pugilism, one who gives a blow that ends a fight; the blow so given. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [noun] > misfortune or ill-luck > instance of misfortune or ill-luck > severe or sudden > very or completely finisher1771 body blow1901 the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > one who or that which destroys > that which ruins a person finisher1817 cooker1845 1771 C. Burney Present State Music France & Italy 27 But the last chorus was a finisher with a vengeance! it surpassed, in clamour, all the noises I had ever heard in my life. 1817 Sporting Mag. 50 54 As a finisher, there is a great analogy between Randall and the late Dutch Sam. 1827 Sporting Mag. 20 60 He gave him..four or five such finishers, as [etc.]. 1832 F. Marryat Newton Forster III. vii. 114 This conversazione was a finisher to Dr. Feasible. 1876 W. Besant & J. Rice Golden Butterfly III. vi. 106 When I saw her marriage..I thought it was a finisher. 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