finish line

English

Noun

finish line (plural finish lines)

1. (sports) A line marking the end of a race.

   The five exhausted runners crossed the finish line one after the other.

2. (figuratively, by extension) The end of a process.
   • 2017 January 21, Andy Hunter, “Gylfi Sigurdsson and Swansea stun Liverpool in five-goal thriller”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     The race to the finish line has started already according to Jürgen Klopp and by those punishing standards Liverpool have faltered badly.

   • 2021 June 22, Nicholas Fandos, “Republicans Block Voting Rights Bill, Dealing Blow to Biden and Democrats”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     “In the fight for voting rights, this vote was the starting gun, not the finish line,” said Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the majority leader. “We will not let it go. We will not let it die. This voter suppression cannot stand.”

Synonyms

• finishing line

Translations

line marking end of a race

• Armenian: վերջնագիծ (hy) (verǰnagic)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 終點線／终点线 (zh) (zhōngdiǎnxiàn), 終點／终点 (zh) (zhōngdiǎn)

• Danish: mål (da) n, mållinje c, målstreg c
• Dutch: eindstreep (nl) f, eindmeet (nl) f (Belgian Dutch expression)
• Esperanto: cellinio
• Finnish: maali (fi), maaliviiva (fi)
• French: ligne d’arrivée (fr) f
• Georgian: ფინიში (piniši)
• German: Ziellinie (de) f
• Greek: γραμμή τερματισμού f (grammí termatismoú)

  Ancient: βαλβίς f (balbís)

• Hungarian: célvonal (hu)
• Icelandic: mark (is)
• Italian: traguardo (it) m, linea d'arrivo f
• Japanese: 決勝線 (ja) (けっしょうせん, kesshōsen), ゴール (ja) (gōru)
• Korean: 골 (ko) (gol)
• Macedonian: це́лна ли́нија f (célna línija)
• Polish: meta (pl) f
• Portuguese: linha de chegada (pt) f
• Romanian: linie de sosire f
• Russian: фи́ниш (ru) m (fíniš), фи́нишная черта́ f (fínišnaja čertá), фи́нишная ли́ния f (fínišnaja línija)
• Spanish: meta (es) f
• Swedish: mållinje (sv) c
• Tagalog: hanggahang guhit
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Thai: เส้นชัย (th) (sên-chai)