Final
['faɪn(ə)l] or ['faɪnl]
Definition
(noun.) the final match between the winners of all previous matches in an elimination tournament.
(adj.) not to be altered or undone; 'the judge's decision is final'; 'the arbiter will have the last say' .
(adj.) conclusive in a process or progression; 'the final answer'; 'a last resort'; 'the net result' .
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Definition
(a.) Pertaining to the end or conclusion; last; terminating; ultimate; as, the final day of a school term.
(a.) Conclusive; decisive; as, a final judgment; the battle of Waterloo brought the contest to a final issue.
(a.) Respecting an end or object to be gained; respecting the purpose or ultimate end in view.
Checker: Wilbur
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Last, latest, ultimate, eventual.[2]. Decisive, conclusive, definitive.
Typist: Rex
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Terminal, last, latest, conclusive, definite, developed, ultimate, decisive
ANT:Initiative, open, unconcluded, progressive, continuous, current, incipient,inaugural, inchoate, rudimental, nascent
Typed by Ethan
Definition
adj. last: decisive conclusive: respecting the end or motive: of a judgment ready for execution.—ns. Fī′nalism; Fī′nalist; Final′ity state of being final: completeness or conclusiveness.—adv. Fī′nally.—Final cause (see Cause).
Editor: Lorna
Examples
- The red ball is dyed after seasoning, and at the time of final turning called finishing. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In the story of this passion, too, the development varies: sometimes it is the glorious marriage, sometimes frustration and final parting. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- When the mass of men emerged from slavish obedience and made democracy inevitable, the taboo entered upon its final illness. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- This change took from us the fear of an immediate catastrophe, although we were still anxious as to the final result. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- A final word before I go. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The interview here ended, I agreeing, however, to send a letter giving final terms by ten o'clock that night. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In following the final assembly line from the point where the chain conveyor engages the frame and axles, the visitor is impressed with the dispatch with which every movement is executed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- But it is not to be supposed, because the new thing succumbs to the old infections, that is the final condemnation of the new thing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Here Johnston made a stand until the 17th, when Sherman's old tactics prevailed again and the final movement toward Atlanta began. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- There is no need, therefore, to generate dialectical disputes about the final goal of politics. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- At least, it was time for her now to pass over to the other, the creature, the final craftsman. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- There was no such settling down behind a final frontier on the part of the Chinese as we see in the case of the Romans at the Rhine and Danube. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Obviously, at each step the percentage of felspar and phosphorus is less and less until in the final concentrates the percentage of iron oxide is 91 to 93 per cent. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Must you ever go on down the ages to your final extinction but little above the plane of the dumb brutes that serve you! Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- To follow conventional methods, the final chapter of a book should be an In conclusion with a finis and a dismantled torch, but the history of invention will ever be a continued story. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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