Sekirov Dictionary

fine

/ˈfaɪ̯n/

adjective 16
verb 10
adverb 3
noun 8
exclamation 2
/ˈfiːneɪ/ noun 2
forms 7
phrases 5

adjective16

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Of superior quality.
- The tree frog that they encountered was truly a fine specimen.
- Only a really fine wine could fully complement Lucía's hand-made pasta.
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good enough, or well and with no problems
- How are you today? – Fine.
- Will this one do? It's got a dent in it. – Yeah, it'll be fine, I guess.
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An answer often used to cover an unnecessary explanation, rather to avoid conflict or an argument. Saying "I'm fine" can be used to avoid inquiry when the speaker is not really okay.
- Do you want to talk about what happened? – [sharply, with annoyance or discomfort] I'm fine!
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Consisting of especially minute particulates; made up of particularly small pieces.
- Grind it into a fine powder.
- When she touched the artifact, it collapsed into a heap of fine dust.
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Particularly slender; especially thin, narrow, or of small girth.
- The threads were so fine that you had to look through a magnifying glass to see them.
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Made of slender or thin filaments.
- They protected themselves from the small parasites with a fine wire mesh.
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Sunny and not raining.
- If the afternoon was fine they strolled together in the park, very slowly, and with pauses to draw breath wherever the ground sloped upward. The slightest effort made the patient cough. — 1918
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Subtle, delicately balanced or discriminated.
- In any case, Feinsilver’s nomenclatural suggestions and fine distinctions did not enjoy widespread adoption. — 2018
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Delicate; subtle; exquisite; artful; dexterous.
- Thou hast spoken all alreadie, vnlesse thou canst say they are married, but thou art too fine in thy euidence, therefore stand aside. — 1604
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Impressively bad, inappropriate, or unsatisfactory.
- You're a fine one to talk about laziness.
- Here's another fine mess you've gotten us into.
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(informal) Good-looking, attractive.
- That man is so fine that I'd jump into his pants without a moment's hesitation.
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Having a (specified) proportion of pure metal in its composition.
- Coins nine tenths fine.
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Of a particular grade of quality, usually between very good and very fine, and below mint.
- The small scratch meant that his copy of “X-Men #2” was merely fine when it otherwise would have been “near mint”.
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Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets.
- […]to nudge it through the covers (or tickle it down to fine leg) for a four[…]
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(no longer used) Showy; overdecorated.
- They will permit the poet to select any action he pleases, and to suffer that action to go as it will, provided he gratifies them with occasional bursts of fine writing — 1853
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(no longer used) Subtle; thin; tenuous.
- The eye standeth in the finer medium and the object in the grosser. — 1627

verb10

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To issue a fine as punishment to (someone).
- She was fined a thousand dollars for littering, but she appealed.
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To change by fine gradations.
- to fine down a ship's lines, i.e. to diminish her lines gradually
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(old-fashioned) To become gradually fine; to diminish; to dwindle (with away, down, or off).
- I watched her [the ship] […] gradually fining down in the westward until I lost sight of her hull. — 1882
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To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify.
- It hath been fined and refined by […] learned men. — 1666
To become finer, purer, or cleaner.
To clarify (wine and beer) by filtration.
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To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.
- The tools to be used for this surface tillage are those that comminute or fine the soil most completely without compacting it or leaving it in ridges or in furrows — 1913
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To pay a fine.
- Men fined for the king's good will; or that he would remit his anger; women fined for leave to marry. — 1818
(no longer used) To finish; to cease.
(no longer used) To cause to cease; to stop.

adverb3

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Well, nicely, in a positive, agreeable way.
- Everything worked out fine.
(informal, old-fashioned) Finely; elegantly; delicately.
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.

noun8

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A fee levied as punishment for breaking the law.
- The fine for jay-walking has gone from two dollars to thirty in the last fifteen years.
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A drink that must be taken during a meal or as part of a drinking game, following an announcement that anyone who has done some (usually outrageous) deed is to be fined; similar to I have never; commonly associated with swaps; very similar to a sconce at Oxford University, though a fine is the penalty itself rather than the act of issuing it.
- Fine if you've…
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[usually plural] Something that is fine; fine particles.
- They filtered silt and fines out of the soil.
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Fine champagne; French brandy.
- We had dined at l'Avenue's, and afterward went to the Café de Versailles for coffee. We had several fines after the coffee, and I said I must be going. — 1926
(UK) 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.
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A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal.
- To cause them to pay more rent or a gretter fyne than they haue ben acustomed to do in tyme past. — 1523
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(no longer used) End; conclusion; termination; extinction.
- Is this the fine of his fines? — 1599
(no longer used) Money paid by a tenant on the commencement of a tenancy so that their rent may be small or nominal.

exclamation2

Expression of (typically) reluctant or agreement.
Expression of (typically) reluctant acceptance, without further argument or discussion, of another person's viewpoint.

fine

/ˈfiːneɪ/

noun2

The end of a musical composition.
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.

forms

fined · fining · fines · finer · more fine · finest · most fine

Phrases with fine

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