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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. Related Definitions: Accomplished, Admiration, Admission, Agreement, Aiming, Ale, An, And, Any, Artful, As, At, Attenuate, Ball, Be, Beautiful, Become, Being, Benefit, Between, Breach, Brought, Bulk, But, By, Cause, Cease, Change, Claim, Clarify, Coarse, Comminuted, Composition, Concerning, Conclusion, Copyhold, Court, Deflected, Delicate, Delicately, Dexterous, Diminish, Dispute, Down, Driven, Edge, Effect, Elegant, Elegantly, End, Especially, Excellent, Exquisite, Extinction, Far, Favor, Filmy, Final, Fine, Fined, Finely, Finer, Finish, Finished, Flour, For, Free, From, Fully, Gold, Gradually, Gross, Having, Heavy, Hence, Her, His, Impose, Imposed, Impurity, In, Judgment, Keen, Law, Lease, Less, Linen, Little, Loaded, Lord, Light, Made, Make, Manner, Matter, Metal, Mincingly, Mulct, Money, Nice, Nine, Not, Object, Obtaining, Of, Offense, On, One, Or, Ornament, Paid, Party, Pay, Payment, Pecuniary, Penalty, Perfection, Price, Privilege, Proportion, Punish, Punishment, Pure, Purify, Refine, Refined, Renewing, Sand, See, Set, Settlement, Ship, Show, Showy, Side, Silk, Skillful, Slender, Small, So, Soil, Subtile, Subtle, Such, Sum, Superior, Ten, Terminating, Termination, Texture, That, The, Thick, Thin, Thread, To, Upon, Used, Various, Vassal, Way, Weather, Well, Were, Will, With, Worthy

Fine Quotations I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor. Edward Albee If people like what I do, fine. If they don't, fine. Robert Goulet All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. Henry Ellis Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. Pete Seeger My soul is fine, thanks. Juliana Hatfield

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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