Definition of Fine

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Definition of Fine

Fine

Finished; brought to perfection; refined; hence, free from impurity; excellent; superior; elegant; worthy of admiration; accomplished; beautiful.

Aiming at show or effect; loaded with ornament; overdressed or overdecorated; showy.

Nice; delicate; subtle; exquisite; artful; skillful; dexterous.

Not coarse, gross, or heavy

Not gross; subtile; thin; tenous.

Not coarse; comminuted; in small particles; as, fine sand or flour.

Not thick or heavy; slender; filmy; as, a fine thread.

Thin; attenuate; keen; as, a fine edge.

Made of fine materials; light; delicate; as, fine linen or silk.

Having (such) a proportion of pure metal in its composition; as, coins nine tenths fine.

(Used ironically.)

To make fine; to refine; to purify, to clarify; as, to fine gold.

To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.; as. to fine the soil.

To change by fine gradations; as (Naut.), to fine down a ship's lines, to diminish her lines gradually.

End; conclusion; termination; extinction.

A sum of money paid as the settlement of a claim, or by way of terminating a matter in dispute; especially, a payment of money imposed upon a party as a punishment for an offense; a mulct.

A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal.

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.

To impose a pecuniary penalty upon for an offense or breach of law; to set a fine on by judgment of a court; to punish by fine; to mulct; as, the trespassers were fined ten dollars.

To pay a fine. See Fine, n., 3 (b).

To finish; to cease; or to cause to cease.

Finely; well; elegantly; fully; delicately; mincingly.

In a manner so that the driven ball strikes the object ball so far to one side as to be deflected but little, the object ball being driven to one side.

To become fine (in any one of various senses); as, the ale will fine; the weather fined.

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Fine Quotations

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
Maya Angelou

The fact that you are willing to say, "I do not understand, and it is fine," is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.
Wayne Dyer

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
Winston Churchill

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
Mark Twain

She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.
Benjamin Franklin

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
Benjamin Franklin

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service."
Friedrich Nietzsche

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
Steven Wright

What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Henry David Thoreau

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Bill Gates

Fine Translations

fine in Afrikaans is deftig, teer, uitstekend, boete, puik, delikaat
fine in Dutch is net, mooi, schoon, fijn, fraai
fine in Finnish is kaunis
fine in German is fein, gut
fine in Italian is multa, elegante, contravvenzione
fine in Latin is exquisitus, eximius, teres, muto
fine in Portuguese is belo, excelente, formoso, multa, muito bem
fine in Spanish is fino, multa, bonito, excelente, delgado

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