fine

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[edit] English

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[edit] Etymology 1

From Middle English fin, from Old French fin (“fine, minute, exact”), probably, from Latin finitus (“literally finished (used as an adjective by Cicero, of words, well rounded)”), past participle of finere (“to limit, bound, define, terminate, finish”), from finis (“a limit, end”).

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fine (comparative finer, superlative finest)

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. (of weather) Sunny and not raining.
  4. (informal) Being acceptable, adequate, passable, or satisfactory.
    • "How are you today?" "Fine."
    • "Will this one do? It's got a dent in it" "Yeah, it'll be fine, I guess."
    • "It's fine with me if you stay out late, so long as you're back by three."
  5. (informal) Good-looking, attractive.
    • "That man is so fine that I'd jump into his pants without a moment's hesitation."
  6. Consisting of especially minute particulate; 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.
  7. 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.
  8. Made of slender or thin filaments.
    • They protected themselves from the small parasites with a fine wire mesh.
  9. Subtle, delicately balanced.
    • The fine distinction between lender of last resort and a bail-out ... (The Independent).
  10. (cricket) 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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  • (made up of particularly small pieces): coarse
  • (made of slender or thin filaments): coarse
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of superior quality
of a particular grade of quality, usually between "very good" and "very fine", and below "mint"
of weather: sunny and not raining
being acceptable, adequate, passable, or satisfactory
good-looking, attractive
made up of particularly small pieces
particularly slender; especially thin, narrow, or of small girth
made of slender or thin filaments
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fine (comparative more fine, superlative most fine)

  1. expression of agreement
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expression of agreement

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fine (plural fines)

  1. Fine champagne; French brandy.
    • 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber 2007, p. 18:
      He refilled his glass. ‘The fine is very good,’ he said.
  2. (usually plural) something that is fine; fine particles
    • They filtered silt and fines out of the soil.
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Particularly used in plural as fines of ground coffee beans in espresso making.

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fine (third-person singular simple present fines, present participle fining, simple past and past participle fined)

  1. (transitive) to make finer, purer, or cleaner
  2. (intransitive) to become finer, purer, or cleaner
  3. (transitive) to clarify (wine and beer) by filtration
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to make finer, purer, or cleaner
to become finer, purer, or cleaner
clarify by filtration
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Terms derived from "fine" - etymology 1

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[edit] Etymology 2

Old French fin (“end”), from Medieval Latin finis (“a payment in settlement or tax”)

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  1. A payment or fee issued 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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payment for breaking the law

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fine (third-person singular simple present fines, present participle fining, simple past and past participle fined)

  1. (transitive) To issue a fine as punishment to (someone).
    • She was fined a thousand dollars for littering, but she appealed.
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to issue a fine as punishment

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From Italian fine ("end").

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fine (plural fines)

  1. (music) The end of a musical composition.
  2. (music) 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.
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This word is virtually never used in speech and thereby essentially confined to musical notation.

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fine

  1. finally, at last
  2. in the final analysis, when all's said and done

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fine f.

  1. feminine singular of fin

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fine

  1. finally

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From Old Irish fine, from Proto-Celtic *weniyā (“family”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“desire”); compare Old English wine (“friend”).

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  • IPA: [ˈfʲɪnʲɪ]

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fine f.

  1. family group

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Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fine finte
Vocative a fhine a fhinte
Genitive fine finte
Dative fine finte

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an fhine na finte
Genitive na fine na bhfinte
Dative leis an bhfine

don fhine

 leis na finte

[edit] Italian

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From Latin finis.

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fine m. and f. (m and f plural fini)

  1. thin
  2. fine
  3. refined

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fine f.

  1. Feminine plural form of fino

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fine f. (plural fini)

  1. end

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fine m. (plural fini)

  1. aim, purpose, end
    il fine giustifica i mezzi - the ends justifies the means

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fīne

  1. ablative singular of fīnis

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From Old Irish faigen (“sheath, scabbard”), from Latin vāgīna.

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fine f.

  1. quiver
  2. sheath, scabbard
  3. vagina

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fine

  1. Plural of fin.

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fine (infinitive finir)

  1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of finir.
  2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of finir.
  3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of finir.

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fine

  1. absolute definite natural masculine form of fin.
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