"finish line" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: finish lines [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} finish line (plural finish lines)
  1. (sports) A line marking the end of a race. Categories (topical): Sports Synonyms: finishing line
    Sense id: en-finish_line-en-noun-TeNFofLf Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 46 54 Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
  2. (figuratively, by extension) The end of a process. Tags: broadly, figuratively
    Sense id: en-finish_line-en-noun-6d8tnS1t Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 46 54
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (line marking end of a race): βαλβίς (balbís) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), վերջնագիծ (verǰnagic) (Armenian), 終點線 (Chinese Mandarin), 终点线 (zhōngdiǎnxiàn) (Chinese Mandarin), 終點 (Chinese Mandarin), 终点 (zhōngdiǎn) (Chinese Mandarin), mål [neuter] (Danish), mållinje [common-gender] (Danish), målstreg [common-gender] (Danish), eindstreep [feminine] (Dutch), eindmeet (english: Belgian Dutch expression) [feminine] (Dutch), cellinio (Esperanto), maali (Finnish), maaliviiva (Finnish), ligne d’arrivée [feminine] (French), ფინიში (piniši) (Georgian), Ziellinie [feminine] (German), γραμμή τερματισμού (grammí termatismoú) [feminine] (Greek), célvonal (Hungarian), mark (Icelandic), traguardo [masculine] (Italian), linea d'arrivo [feminine] (Italian), 決勝線 (kesshōsen) (alt: けっしょうせん) (Japanese), ゴール (gōru) (Japanese), (gol) (Korean), це́лна ли́нија (célna línija) [feminine] (Macedonian), meta [feminine] (Polish), linha de chegada [feminine] (Portuguese), linie de sosire [feminine] (Romanian), фи́ниш (fíniš) [masculine] (Russian), фи́нишная черта́ (fínišnaja čertá) [feminine] (Russian), фи́нишная ли́ния (fínišnaja línija) [feminine] (Russian), meta [feminine] (Spanish), mållinje [common-gender] (Swedish), hanggahang guhit (Tagalog), เส้นชัย (sên-chai) (Thai)
Disambiguation of 'line marking end of a race': 54 46

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      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "line marking end of a race",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "mållinje"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "line marking end of a race",
      "word": "hanggahang guhit"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "sên-chai",
      "sense": "line marking end of a race",
      "word": "เส้นชัย"
    }
  ],
  "word": "finish line"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.