fine
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Tính từ
adjective- 1.
Senses referring to subjective quality.
- 2.
Senses referring to objective quality.
- 3.
(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[…]
- 4.
(obsolete)Subtle; thin; tenuous.
Trạng từ
adverb- 1.
Well, nicely, in a positive, agreeable way.
Everything worked out fine.
Đồng nghĩa: all right, alright, OK, very well
- 2.
(colloquial, dated, dialectal)(dated, dialect, colloquial) Finely; elegantly; delicately.
- 3.
(pool, billiards) 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.
interjection
interjection- 1.
Expression of (typically) reluctant or agreement.
- 2.
Expression of (typically) reluctant acceptance, without further argument or discussion, of another person's viewpoint.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
Fine champagne; French brandy.
- 2.
(plural normally)(usually in the plural) Something that is fine; fine particles.
They filtered silt and fines out of the soil.
- 3.
A fee levied as punishment for breaking the law.
The fine for jay-walking has gone from two dollars to thirty in the last fifteen years.
- 4.
(obsolete)Money paid by a tenant on the commencement of a tenancy so that their rent may be small or nominal.
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(Cambridge University slang) 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.
Fine if you've…
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(music) The end of a musical composition.
- 7.
(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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(obsolete)End; conclusion; termination; extinction.
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(feudal law) A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal.
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(UK)(UK, law) 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.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify.
to fine gold
1666 (written), 1681 (published), Thomas Hobbes, A Dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England It hath been fined and refined by […] learned men.
- 2.
(intransitive)To become finer, purer, or cleaner.
- 3.
To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.
- 4.
To change by fine gradations.
to fine down a ship's lines, i.e. to diminish her lines gradually
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(transitive)To clarify (wine and beer) by filtration.
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(dated, intransitive)To become gradually fine; to diminish; to dwindle (with away, down, or off).
- 7.
(transitive)To issue a fine as punishment to (someone).
She was fined a thousand dollars for littering, but she appealed.
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(intransitive)To pay a fine.
- 9.
(intransitive, obsolete)To finish; to cease.
- 10.
(obsolete, transitive)To cause to cease; to stop.
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From Middle English fin, fyn, from Old French fin (fine, minute, exact), of obscure origin, but probably derived from Latin fīnīre (to finish) or fīnis (boundary, limit, end), with an abstract sense of fine or thin also arising in many Romance languages (compare fino). fino.