| fine | | |
| n. (possession) | 1. amercement, fine, mulct | money extracted as a penalty. |
| ~ penalty | a payment required for not fulfilling a contract. |
| ~ library fine | fine imposed by a library on books that overdue when returned. |
| v. (social) | 2. fine, ticket | issue a ticket or a fine to as a penalty.; "I was fined for parking on the wrong side of the street"; "Move your car or else you will be ticketed!" |
| ~ book | record a charge in a police register.; "The policeman booked her when she tried to solicit a man" |
| ~ amerce | punish by a fine imposed arbitrarily by the discretion of the court. |
| adj. | 3. all right, fine, hunky-dory, o.k., ok, okay | being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.; "an all-right movie"; "the passengers were shaken up but are all right"; "is everything all right?"; "everything's fine"; "things are okay"; "dinner and the movies had been fine"; "another minute I'd have been fine" |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
| ~ satisfactory | giving satisfaction.; "satisfactory living conditions"; "his grades were satisfactory" |
| adj. | 4. fine | minutely precise especially in differences in meaning.; "a fine distinction" |
| ~ precise | sharply exact or accurate or delimited.; "a precise mind"; "specified a precise amount"; "arrived at the precise moment" |
| adj. | 5. fine | thin in thickness or diameter.; "a fine film of oil"; "fine hairs"; "read the fine print" |
| ~ thin | of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section.; "thin wire"; "a thin chiffon blouse"; "a thin book"; "a thin layer of paint" |
| adj. | 6. fine | 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" |
| ~ elegant | refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style.; "elegant handwriting"; "an elegant dark suit"; "she was elegant to her fingertips"; "small churches with elegant white spires"; "an elegant mathematical solution--simple and precise and lucid" |
| adj. | 7. fine | 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" |
| ~ tight, close | of textiles.; "a close weave"; "smooth percale with a very tight weave" |
| ~ close-grained, fine-grained | dense or compact in structure or texture, as a wood composed of small-diameter cells.; "close-grained birch"; "fine-grained rock" |
| ~ dustlike | as fine and powdery as dust. |
| ~ floury | resembling flour in fine powdery texture.; "a floury clay" |
| ~ nongranular | not having granules.; "clear nongranular cytoplasm" |
| ~ fine-grained, powdered, powdery, pulverised, pulverized, small-grained | consisting of fine particles.; "powdered cellulose"; "powdery snow"; "pulverized sugar is prepared from granulated sugar by grinding" |
| ~ small | have fine or very small constituent particles.; "a small misty rain" |
| ~ superfine | of extremely fine size or texture.; "superfine sugar"; "a superfine file" |
| ~ smooth | having a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities.; "smooth skin"; "a smooth tabletop"; "smooth fabric"; "a smooth road"; "water as smooth as a mirror" |
| adj. | 8. fine | free from impurities; having a high or specified degree of purity.; "gold 21 carats fine" |
| ~ metallurgy | the science and technology of metals. |
| ~ pure | free of extraneous elements of any kind.; "pure air and water"; "pure gold"; "pure primary colors"; "the violin's pure and lovely song"; "pure tones"; "pure oxygen" |
| adv. | 9. all right, alright, fine, ok, very well | an expression of agreement normally occurring at the beginning of a sentence. |
| adv. | 10. delicately, exquisitely, fine, finely | in a delicate manner.; "finely shaped features"; "her fine drawn body" |
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