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FINE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Money extracted as a penalty
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("fine" is a kind of...):
penalty (a payment required for not fulfilling a contract)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fine"):
library fine (fine imposed by a library on books that overdue when returned)
Derivation:
fine (issue a ticket or a fine to as a penalty)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Characterized by elegance or refinement or accomplishment
Example:
the fine hand of a master
Classified under:
Similar:
elegant (refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Minutely precise especially in differences in meaning
Example:
a fine distinction
Classified under:
Similar:
precise (sharply exact or accurate or delimited)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Free from impurities; having a high or specified degree of purity
Example:
gold 21 carats fine
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
pure (free of extraneous elements of any kind)
Domain category:
metallurgy (the science and technology of metals)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition
Example:
another minute I'd have been fine
Synonyms:
all right; cool; fine; hunky-dory; o.k.; ok; okay
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
satisfactory (giving satisfaction)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Of textures that are smooth to the touch or substances consisting of relatively small particles
Example:
covered with a fine film of dust
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
close-grained; fine-grained (dense or compact in structure or texture, as a wood composed of small-diameter cells)
dustlike (as fine and powdery as dust)
floury (resembling flour in fine powdery texture)
nongranular (not having granules)
fine-grained; powdered; powdery; pulverised; pulverized; small-grained (consisting of fine particles)
small (have fine or very small constituent particles)
superfine (of extremely fine size or texture)
Also:
smooth (having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities)
Attribute:
texture (the feel of a surface or a fabric)
Antonym:
coarse (of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles)
Derivation:
fineness (having a very fine texture)
Sense 6
Meaning:
Thin in thickness or diameter
Example:
read the fine print
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
thin (of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section)
Derivation:
fineness (the property of being very narrow or thin)
III. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they fine ... he / she / it fines
Past simple: fined
Past participle: fined
-ing form: fining
Sense 1
Meaning:
Issue a ticket or a fine to as a penalty
Example:
Move your car or else you will be ticketed!
Synonyms:
fine; ticket
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "fine" is one way to...):
book (record a charge in a police register)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fine"):
amerce (punish by a fine imposed arbitrarily by the discretion of the court)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
fine (money extracted as a penalty)
IV. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An expression of agreement normally occurring at the beginning of a sentence
Synonyms:
all right; alright; fine; OK; very well
Classified under:
Sense 2
Meaning:
In a delicate manner
Example:
her fine drawn body
Synonyms:
delicately; exquisitely; fine; finely
Classified under:
Context examples:
Eh, man, it would be fine.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was all muscle, bone, and sinew-fighting flesh in the finest condition.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
“Let us say “good night”, my fine boy,” said the gentleman, when he had bent his head—I saw him!—over my mother's little glove.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It is all over. Arthur has gone back to Ring, and has taken Quincey Morris with him. What a fine fellow is Quincey!
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Considering that the price of dogs had been boomed skyward by the unwonted demand, it was not an unfair sum for so fine an animal.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
The house of the famous official was a fine villa with green lawns stretching down to the Thames.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
My master—here he looked round him and began to whisper—is a tall, fine build of a man, and this was more of a dwarf.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Ah, it's a fine dance—I'm with you there—and looks mighty like a hornpipe in a rope's end at Execution Dock by London town, it does.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“You have a fine trick of ear then,” said one.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) Does the patient rapidly change moods from one to another, being fine one minute and angry the next?
(NPI - Rapidly Change Moods From One to Another, NCI Thesaurus)
