Fine
[faɪn]
Definition
(noun.) money extracted as a penalty.
(adj.) characterized by elegance or refinement or accomplishment; 'fine wine'; 'looking fine in her Easter suit'; 'a fine gentleman'; 'fine china and crystal'; 'a fine violinist'; 'the fine hand of a master' .
(adj.) minutely precise especially in differences in meaning; 'a fine distinction' .
(adj.) free from impurities; having a high or specified degree of purity; 'gold 21 carats fine' .
(adj.) of textures that are smooth to the touch or substances consisting of relatively small particles; 'wood with a fine grain'; 'fine powdery snow'; 'fine rain'; 'batiste is a cotton fabric with a fine weave'; 'covered with a fine film of dust' .
(adj.) thin in thickness or diameter; 'a fine film of oil'; 'fine hairs'; 'read the fine print' .
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Definition
(superl.) Finished; brought to perfection; refined; hence, free from impurity; excellent; superior; elegant; worthy of admiration; accomplished; beautiful.
(superl.) Aiming at show or effect; loaded with ornament; overdressed or overdecorated; showy.
(superl.) Nice; delicate; subtle; exquisite; artful; skillful; dexterous.
(superl.) Not coarse, gross, or heavy
(superl.) Not gross; subtile; thin; tenous.
(superl.) Not coarse; comminuted; in small particles; as, fine sand or flour.
(superl.) Not thick or heavy; slender; filmy; as, a fine thread.
(superl.) Thin; attenuate; keen; as, a fine edge.
(superl.) Made of fine materials; light; delicate; as, fine linen or silk.
(superl.) Having (such) a proportion of pure metal in its composition; as, coins nine tenths fine.
(superl.) (Used ironically.)
(a.) To make fine; to refine; to purify, to clarify; as, to fine gold.
(a.) To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.; as. to fine the soil.
(a.) To change by fine gradations; as (Naut.), to fine down a ship's lines, to diminish her lines gradually.
(n.) End; conclusion; termination; extinction.
(n.) A sum of money paid as the settlement of a claim, or by way of terminating a matter in dispute; especially, a payment of money imposed upon a party as a punishment for an offense; a mulct.
(n.) A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal.
(n.) 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.
(n.) To impose a pecuniary penalty upon for an offense or breach of law; to set a fine on by judgment of a court; to punish by fine; to mulct; as, the trespassers were fined ten dollars.
(v. i.) To pay a fine. See Fine, n., 3 (b).
(v. t.) To finish; to cease; or to cause to cease.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Minute, small, little, comminuted.[2]. Slender, delicate, CAPILLARY, not coarse.[3]. Light, of delicate material, of fine texture.[4]. Keen, sharp.[5]. Thin, subtile, tenuous, not gross.[6]. Exquisite, nice, refined.[7]. Excellent, superior, very good.[8]. Brilliant, accomplished.[9]. Beautiful, handsome, splendid, elegant.[10]. Clear, pure, unadulterated.[11]. [As a term of slight contempt.] Showy, gairish, gay, flashy, airy, sparkish.
n. Mulct, amercement, forfeit, forfeiture, pecuniary penalty.
v. a. [1]. Defecate, purify, refine.[2]. Amerce, mulct, impose a fine upon, punish by a fine.
Checker: Luther
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Thin, minute, slender, delicate, pure, smooth, filmy, gauzy, keen, artistic,choice, finished, high, Grand, noble, sensitive, refined, generous, honorable,excellent, superior, pretty, beautiful, showy, elegant, ostentatious,presumptuous, nice, casuistical, subtle
ANT:Coarse, large, rough, blunt, rude, unfinished, mean, petty, illiberal,unimposing, paltry, modest, unaffected, affable, categorical, plain-spoken,unanalytical, unreflective, indissective
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Definition
adj. excellent: beautiful: not coarse or heavy: subtle: thin: slender: exquisite: nice: delicate: overdone: showy: splendid: striking or remarkable (often ironically): pure refined: consisting of small particles; sharp keen.—v.t. to make fine: to refine: to purify: to change by imperceptible degrees.—adv. (Scot.) for finely well.—v.t. Fine′-draw to draw or sew up a rent so finely that it is not seen.—p.adj. Fine′-drawn drawn out too finely.—adj. Fine′ish somewhat fine.—adv. Fine′ly.—ns. Fine′ness; Fin′er (same as Refiner); Fin′ery splendour fine or showy things: a place where anything is fined or refined: a furnace for making iron malleable.—adjs. Fine′-spok′en using fine phrases; Fine′-spun finely spun out: artfully contrived.—Fine arts as painting sculpture music those chiefly concerned with the beautiful—opp. to the Useful or Industrial arts.
n. a composition: a sum of money imposed as a punishment.—v.t. to impose a fine on: to punish by fine: (Shak.) to pledge or pawn.—adj. Fine′less (Shak.) endless.—In fine in conclusion.
Checker: Rita
Examples
- What a fine town but how the _buena gente_, the good people of that town, have suffered in this war. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The fine crisp morning made her mother feel particularly well and happy at breakfast-time. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- There was a fine gentle wind, and Mr. Pickwick's hat rolled sportively before it. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He was the enemy, fine as a diamond, and as hard and jewel-like, the quintessence of all that was inimical. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was twice--twenty times as fine; not one quarter as comfortable. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I hinted that the climate-- The finest climate in the world! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- My mother was the most beautiful woman, and possessed the finest and most benevolent countenance, I have ever seen in my whole life. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The finest and palest oil is made from fresh and carefully cleaned liver, the oil being extracted either in the cold or by a gentle heat. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Four fine mornings successively were spent in this manner, in shewing the Crawfords the country, and doing the honours of its finest spots. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- He loves your daughter very much; he feels her finest qualities, and they influence him worthily. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Con-fined, as the lady said. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- They were not savage men either of them, though it appeared both were rigid, for they fined a delinquent who came considerably too late. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I' some places them's fined who speaks to him. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- At any rate, I should have waited to be informed against and fined, and given all the trouble in yielding that I legally could. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- They ought to be prosecuted and fined, them Mails. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- These consisted in increasing the fines, and, in some cases, substituting death for fines. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- But all laws which depend for their enforcement upon informers and fines, become inert from the odiousness of the machinery. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- He'll work his fines well out on 'em, I'll warrant. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- What fines we have, we keep pretty sharply. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- When it becomes too persistent to be ignored a taboo is erected and threats of fines and condign punishment are made if it doesn't cease to appear. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an Inquisition. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- All these things do I now think over, adding, He had his faults, yet scarce ever was a finer nature; liberal, suave, impressible. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It was finer, more fertile, altogether richer. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Dress had become richer, finer, and more beautiful. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The soft isolation of the falling day enveloped them: they seemed lifted into a finer air. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- They meet the evils of dance halls by barricading them; they go forth to battle against vice by raiding brothels and fining prostitutes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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