Arrive vs Finish - What's the difference?
arrive | finish |
(copulative) To reach; to get to a certain place.
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To obtain a level of success or fame.
* 2002 , Donald Cole, Immigrant City: Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1845-1921 (page 58)
To come; said of time.
To happen or occur.
* Waller
(archaic) To reach; to come to.
* Milton
* Shakespeare
* Tennyson
(obsolete) To bring to shore.
* Chapman
an end: the end of anything
a protective coating given to wood or metal and other surfaces
the result of any process changing the physical or chemical properties of cloth
(label) a shot on goal, especially one that ends in a goal
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=September 2
, author=Phil McNulty
, title=Bulgaria 0-3 England
, work=BBC
(label) to complete (something)
(label) to apply a treatment to (a surface or similar)
*
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, passage=Mr. Cooke had had a sloop?yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin, which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush, and accommodations for keeping things cold.}}
(label) to change an animal's food supply in the months before it is due for slaughter, with the intention of fattening the animal
(label) to come to an end
As verbs the difference between arrive and finish
is that arrive is while finish is (label) to complete (something).As a noun finish is
an end: the end of anything.arrive
English
Verb
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- Evidence that the Irish had arrived socially was the abrupt decline in the number of newspaper articles accusing them of brawling and other crimes.
- The time has arrived for us to depart.
- Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives .
- Ere he arrive the happy isle.
- Ere we could arrive the point proposed.
- Arrive at last the blessed goal.
- and made the sea-trod ship arrive them
Usage notes
* Additional, nonstandard, and uncommon past tense and past participle are, respectively, arrove and arriven, likely formed by analogy to verbs like drove and driven.Antonyms
* departfinish
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Noun
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