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FINELY

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a delicate manner

Example:

her fine drawn body

Synonyms:

delicately; exquisitely; fine; finely

Classified under:

Adverbs

Sense 2

Meaning:

In an elegant manner

Example:

finely costumed actors

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

fine (characterized by elegance or refinement or accomplishment)

Sense 3

Meaning:

In tiny pieces

Example:

the surfaces were finely granular

Classified under:

Adverbs

Antonym:

coarsely (in coarse pieces)

Pertainym:

fine (of textures that are smooth to the touch or substances consisting of relatively small particles)

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 Context examples: 

A semi-solid composed of a large proportion of solids and finely dispersed active and/or inert ingredient(s) in a fat-based vehicle.

(Paste Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

A wind-deposited sediment consisting mostly of silt, the silt commonly derived from finely ground rock washed out of continental glaciers.

(Loess, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

The expedition in July 2018 provided a unique opportunity to see first-hand how a massive input of external nutrients alters marine ecosystems that are finely attuned to low-nutrient conditions.

(Scientists report skyrocketing phyotplankton population in aftermath of Kīlauea eruption, Wikinews)

For that matter, high-strung and finely sensitive, the ill treatment had flung him into a fever, which was fed by the inflammation of his parched and swollen throat and tongue.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

One of these ears is a woman’s, small, finely formed, and pierced for an earring.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But for the trained reasoner to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental results.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She read to him much from "The Princess," and often he saw her eyes swimming with tears, so finely was her aesthetic nature strung.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Finely cut tobacco encased in a wrapper of thin paper and rolled for smoking.

(Cigarette, NCI Thesaurus)

Her happiness on this occasion was very much a la mortal, finely chequered.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The length (and possibly sequence) of the acidic tail may be the dominant factor in mediating the differences in properties among themselves and finely tunes the DNA-binding properties of the tandem HMG boxes, to fulfill different cellular roles.

(HMGB Family Protein, NCI Thesaurus)