fine
/fรฆหn/IPA: /F AY1 N/
- 1
Fine champagne; French brandy.
- 2
(usually in the plural) Something that is fine; fine particles.
โThey filtered silt and fines out of the soil.โ
- 1
To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify.
โto fine goldโ
- 2
To become finer, purer, or cleaner.
- 3
To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.
โto fine the soilโ
- 4
To change by fine gradations.
โto fine down a ship's lines, i.e. to diminish her lines graduallyโ
- 5
To clarify (wine and beer) by filtration.
- 6
To become gradually fine; to diminish; to dwindle (with away, down, or off).
- 1
Senses referring to subjective quality.
- 2
Senses referring to objective quality.
- 3
Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets.
โ[...] to nudge it through the covers (or tickle it down to fine leg) for a fourย [...]โ
- 4
Subtle; thin; tenuous.
- 1
Expression of (typically) reluctant agreement.
- 2
Well, nicely, in a positive way.
โEverything worked out fine.โ
- 3
Finely; elegantly; delicately.
- 4
In a manner so that the driven ball strikes the object ball so far to one side as to be barely deflected, the object ball being driven to one side.
- 1
A fee levied as punishment for breaking the law.
โThe fine for jay-walking has gone from two dollars to thirty in the last fifteen years.โ
Synonyms
- 1
To issue a fine as punishment to (someone).
โShe was fined a thousand dollars for littering, but she appealed.โ
- 2
To pay a fine.
Synonyms
- 1
The end of a musical composition.
- 2
The location in a musical score that indicates the end of the piece, particularly when the piece ends somewhere in the middle of the score due to a section of the music being repeated.
- 1
End; conclusion; termination; extinction.
- 2
A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal.
- 3
A sum of money or price paid for obtaining a benefit, favor, or privilege, as for admission to a copyhold, or for obtaining or renewing a lease.
- 1
To finish; to cease.
- 2
To cause to cease; to stop.
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