fine

Meaning

Adj

1. Senses referring to subjective quality.
2. Senses referring to subjective quality.
3. (informal) Senses referring to subjective quality.
4. (informal) Senses referring to subjective quality.
5. Senses referring to subjective quality.
6. (obsolete) Senses referring to subjective quality.
7. Senses referring to subjective quality.
8. Senses referring to subjective quality.
9. Senses referring to objective quality.
10. Senses referring to objective quality.
11. Senses referring to objective quality.
12. Senses referring to objective quality.
13. Senses referring to objective quality.
14. Senses referring to objective quality.
15. Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets.
16. (obsolete) Subtle; thin; tenuous.

Adv

1. Expression of (typically) reluctant or agreement.
2. Well, nicely, in a positive, agreeable way.
3. (colloquial) Finely; elegantly; delicately.
4. 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.

Noun

1. Fine champagne; French brandy.
2. Something that is fine; fine particles.

Verb

1. To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify.
2. To become finer, purer, or cleaner.
3. To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.
4. To change by fine gradations.
5. To clarify (wine and beer) by filtration.
6. To become gradually fine; to diminish; to dwindle (with away, down, or off).

Noun

1. A fee levied as punishment for breaking the law.
2. (obsolete) Money paid by a tenant on the commencement of a tenancy so that their rent may be small or nominal.
3. 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.

Verb

1. To issue a fine as punishment to (someone).
2. To pay a fine.

Noun

1. The end of a musical composition.
2. 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.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To finish; to cease.
2. (obsolete) To cause to cease; to stop.

Noun

1. (obsolete) End; conclusion; termination; extinction.
2. A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal.
3. 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.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/faɪn/

Etymology

From Middle English fin, fyn, from Old French fin (“fine, minute, exact”), of obscure origin, but probably derived from Latin fīnīre (“to finish”) and/or fīnis (“boundary, limit, end”), with an abstract sense of "fine" or "thin" also arising in many Romance languages (compare Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian fino). Doublet of fino.