noun
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Fine champagne; French brandy.
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(usually in the plural) Something that is fine; fine particles.
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They filtered silt and fines out of the soil.
verb
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To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify.
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to fine gold
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To become finer, purer, or cleaner.
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To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.
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to fine the soil
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To change by fine gradations.
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to fine down a ship's lines, i.e. to diminish her lines gradually
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To clarify (wine and beer) by filtration.
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To become gradually fine; to diminish; to dwindle (with away, down, or off).
adjective
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Senses referring to subjective quality.
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Senses referring to objective quality.
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Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets.
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[...] to nudge it through the covers (or tickle it down to fine leg) for a four [...]
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Subtle; thin; tenuous.
adverb
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Expression of (typically) reluctant agreement.
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Well, nicely, in a positive way.
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Everything worked out fine.
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Finely; elegantly; delicately.
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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.
Examples of fine in a Sentence
This is a fine meal, do you think?
That would be fine with me.
You keep it all in such fine condition.
What you have on is fine, but if you want to freshen up and wear something else, go ahead.
There was a fine line between being frugal and being a miser.
It looks like a fine place to raise children.
A matching china cabinet held fine china, crystal and silverware.
It wasn't like he was such a fine catch, either.
Lucy is a fine young lady.
Fine, she could play too.
That was fine with Dean.
Think of what all the fine ladies would say.
Only his idea of tempting her with a fine house hadn't worked.
This was fine with Great Britain but not with Maine.
Wasn't it fine when those Germans gave us lifts!
The Emperor began to breathe heavily and rapidly, his lower lip trembled, and tears instantly appeared in his fine blue eyes.
Fine. Look, it's late.
You're a mighty fine cook, but it isn't safe out here for a woman.
If Miss Sullivan wrote fine English, the beauty of Helen Keller's style would, in part, be explicable at once.
There will be music and dancing, and many fine people will be there.
Mother has a great many fine roses.
We will avoid war because it is unprofitable; and while that is not a moral reason, any reason that brings peace is fine by me.
The morning had been fine, but it was growing warm and sultry when at last we turned our faces homeward.
It is proved by my fine points.
You said he was fine when you came back upstairs!
I thought of the big fire in the queen's kitchen, and knew that the cook would never allow a half-drowned child to be carried into that fine place.
He was big and strong and soon became a fine sailor.
I remembered the story of a conceited fellow, who, in fine clothes, was wont to lounge about the village once, giving advice to workmen.
Everything is fine now.
A fine supper was prepared, and the innkeeper himself waited upon his guest.
It is a fine broad leaf to look on.
It's fine to have high ideals about not going too far, but the reality of it is, it can happen before you realize what is happening.
Her fine hair tickled his chin.
And one would be fine with me.
Alex came through the surgery fine.
It is not necessary that one should be able to define every word and give it its principal parts and its grammatical position in the sentence in order to understand and appreciate a fine poem.
Then, too, there is in German literature a fine reserve which I like; but its chief glory is the recognition I find in it of the redeeming potency of woman's self-sacrificing love.
The weather is fine, and the air is full of the scent of strawberries.
No one can have read Miss Keller's autobiography without feeling that she writes unusually fine English.
A child of the muses cannot write fine English unless fine English has been its nourishment.
James Collins' shanty was considered an uncommonly fine one.
Early in the morning, while all things are crisp with frost, men come with fishing-reels and slender lunch, and let down their fine lines through the snowy field to take pickerel and perch; wild men, who instinctively follow other fashions and trust other authorities than their townsmen, and by their goings and comings stitch towns together in parts where else they would be ripped.
I do not wish to split hairs, to make fine distinctions, or set myself up as better than my neighbors.
Yes, he is a fine fellow and a very kind relation.
It's a fine place!
Behind Prince Bagration rode an officer of the suite, the prince's personal adjutant, Zherkov, an orderly officer, the staff officer on duty, riding a fine bobtailed horse, and a civilian--an accountant who had asked permission to be present at the battle out of curiosity.
Fine orders! was being repeated on different sides.
You'll make a fine thing of it, deploying in sight of the enemy!
I'm sorry, sorry for that fine fellow.
General Armfeldt has proposed a splendid position with an exposed rear, or why not this Italian gentleman's attack--very fine, or a retreat, also good!