Fin
[fɪn]
Definition
(noun.) organ of locomotion and balance in fishes and some other aquatic animals.
(noun.) a stabilizer on a ship that resembles the fin of a fish.
(verb.) show the fins above the water while swimming; 'The sharks were finning near the surface'.
(verb.) propel oneself through the water in a finning motion.
(verb.) equip (a car) with fins.
Checked by Leroy--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To carve or cut up, as a chub.
(n.) End; conclusion; object.
(n.) An organ of a fish, consisting of a membrane supported by rays, or little bony or cartilaginous ossicles, and serving to balance and propel it in the water.
(n.) A membranous, finlike, swimming organ, as in pteropod and heteropod mollusks.
(n.) A finlike organ or attachment; a part of an object or product which protrudes like a fin
(n.) The hand.
(n.) A blade of whalebone.
(n.) A mark or ridge left on a casting at the junction of the parts of a mold.
(n.) The thin sheet of metal squeezed out between the collars of the rolls in the process of rolling.
(n.) A feather; a spline.
(n.) A finlike appendage, as to submarine boats.
Editor: Vicky
Definition
n. the organ by which a fish balances itself and swims.—n. Fin′-back a finner or fin-whale.—adjs. Fin′-foot′ed having feet with toes connected by a membrane; Finned having fins; Fin′ny furnished with fins.—n. Fin′-ray one of the rods or rays supporting a fish's fin.—adj. Fin′-toed having feet with membranes connecting the toes as aquatic birds.
Typed by Carolyn
Examples
- Down with the dust, Bof-fin! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- But still,--Dr. John, you have what they call in this country 'un air fin,' that nobody can, mistake. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Bof-fin's mon-ey! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The door was hardly closed, when he again called through the keyhole: 'Bof--fin! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Mon beau voyage encore est si loin de sa fin! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Smauker, my lad, your fin,' said the gentleman with the cocked hat. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Get away, Polly, honey,--mammy'll give her baby some fin, by and by. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- They _are_ shaped like sharks, Robert Jordan thought, the wide-finned, sharp-nosed sharks of the Gulf Stream. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- But these, wide-finned in silver, roaring, the light mist of their propellers in the sun, these do not move like sharks. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
Checker: Roderick