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# A [[fee]] levied as [[punishment]] for breaking the law.
# A [[fee]] levied as [[punishment]] for breaking the law <font size=-1>([[w:Fine (penalty)|Wikipedia]])</font>.
#: ''The '''fine''' for jay-walking has gone from two dollars to thirty in the last fifteen years.''
#* The '''fine''' for jay-walking has gone from two dollars to thirty in the last fifteen years.
#: ''Just pay the '''fine'''.''
#* Just pay the '''fine'''.
#*{{quote-book|year=2006|author=[[w:Edwin Black|Edwin Black]]
|title=Internal Combustion
|chapter=2|url=http://openlibrary.org/works/OL4103950W
|passage=The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged '''fines''' for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.}}


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Revision as of 06:50, 4 January 2013

English

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Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English (deprecated template usage) fin, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French (deprecated template usage) fin, probably, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) finitus, past participle of (deprecated template usage) finere, from (deprecated template usage) finis.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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  1. Of superior quality.
    • The tree frog that they encountered was truly a fine specimen.
    • Only a really fine wine could fully complement Lucía's hand-made pasta.
  2. Of a particular grade of quality, usually between very good and very fine, and below mint.
    • The small scratch meant that his copy of X-Men #2 was merely fine when it otherwise would have been near mint.
  3. (deprecated template usage) Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "of weather" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. Sunny and not raining.
  4. (informal) Being acceptable, adequate, passable, or satisfactory.
    • "How are you today?" "Fine."
    • "Will this one do? It's got a dent in it" "Yeah, it'll be fine, I guess."
    • "It's fine with me if you stay out late, so long as you're back by three."
  5. (informal) Good-looking, attractive.
    • "That man is so fine that I'd jump into his pants without a moment's hesitation."
  6. Consisting of especially minute particulate; made up of particularly small pieces.
    • Grind it into a fine powder.
    • When she touched the artifact, it collapsed into a heap of fine dust.
  7. Particularly slender; especially thin, narrow, or of small girth.
    • The threads were so fine that you had to look through a magnifying glass to see them.
  8. Made of slender or thin filaments.
    • They protected themselves from the small parasites with a fine wire mesh.
  9. Subtle, delicately balanced.
    • The fine distinction between lender of last resort and a bail-out ... (The Independent).
  10. Template: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 ...
Synonyms
Antonyms
  • (made up of particularly small pieces): coarse
  • (made of slender or thin filaments): coarse
Translations
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Adverb

fine (comparative more fine, superlative most fine)

  1. expression of agreement
Synonyms
Translations

Noun

fine (plural fines)

  1. Fine champagne; French brandy.
    • 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber 2007, p. 18:
      He refilled his glass. ‘The fine is very good,’ he said.
  2. Template:usually something that is fine; fine particles
    • They filtered silt and fines out of the soil.
Usage notes

Particularly used in plural as fines of ground coffee beans in espresso making.

See also

Verb

fine (third-person singular simple present fin, present participle ing, simple past and past participle fined)

  1. Template:transitive to make finer, purer, or cleaner
  2. Template:intransitive to become finer, purer, or cleaner
  3. Template:transitive to clarify (wine and beer) by filtration
Synonyms
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Derived terms

Terms derived from "fine" - etymology 1

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Etymology 2

Template:rft (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French (deprecated template usage) fin, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin (deprecated template usage) finis

Pronunciation

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Noun

English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

fine (plural fines)

  1. A fee levied as punishment for breaking the law (Wikipedia).
    • The fine for jay-walking has gone from two dollars to thirty in the last fifteen years.
    • Just pay the fine.
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Synonyms
Translations

Verb

fine (third-person singular simple present fines, present participle fining, simple past and past participle fined)

  1. Template:transitive To issue a fine as punishment to (someone).
    • She was fined a thousand dollars for littering, but she appealed.
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Etymology 3

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian fine ("end").

Pronunciation

Noun

fine (plural fines)

  1. Template:music The end of a musical composition.
  2. Template: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.
Usage notes

This word is virtually never used in speech and therefore essentially confined to musical notation.

Derived terms

Etymology 4

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French (deprecated template usage) finer, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French (deprecated template usage) finir. See (deprecated template usage) finish (transitive verb).

Verb

fine (third-person singular simple present fin, present participle ed, simple past and past participle fined)

  1. Template:obsolete To finish; to cease.
  2. Template:obsolete To cause to cease; to stop.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “fine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Asturian

Verb

(deprecated template usage) fine

  1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) first-person singular present subjunctive of finar
  2. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) third-person singular present subjunctive of finar

Esperanto

Adverb

fine

  1. finally, at last
  2. in the final analysis, when all's said and done

French

Adjective

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  1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) feminine singular of fin

Ido

Adverb

fine

  1. finally

Irish

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Irish (deprecated template usage) fine, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Celtic Template:recons, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European Template:recons; compare Old English (deprecated template usage) wine.

Pronunciation

Noun

fine f

  1. family group

Declension

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Italian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) finis.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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  1. thin
  2. fine
  3. refined

Synonyms

Adjective

fine Template:f

  1. Feminine plural form of fino

Noun

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  1. end

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Antonyms

Noun

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  1. aim, purpose, end
    il fine giustifica i mezzi - the ends justifies the means

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Latin

Noun

(deprecated template usage) fīne

  1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) ablative singular of fīnis

Manx

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Irish (deprecated template usage) faigen, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) vāgīna.

Noun

fine f

  1. quiver
  2. sheath, scabbard
  3. vagina

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Norwegian

Adjective

fine

  1. Plural of fin.

Spanish

Verb

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  1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of finir.
  2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of finir.
  3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of finir.

Swedish

Adjective

fine

  1. (deprecated template usage) definite natural masculine singular of fin
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