Senses referring to objective quality.
The small scratch meant that his copy of “X-Men #2” was merely fine when it otherwise would have been “near mint”.
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[…]
Expression of (typically) reluctant or agreement.
Expression of (typically) reluctant acceptance, without further argument or discussion, of another person's viewpoint.
Fine champagne; French brandy.
We had dined at l'Avenue's, and afterward went to the Café de Versailles for coffee. We had several fines after the coffee, and I said I must be going.
Something that is fine; fine particles.
They filtered silt and fines out of the soil.
To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify.
to fine gold
To issue a fine as punishment to (someone).
A surname.
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 s...
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Finely; elegantly; delicately.
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.
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.
Money paid by a tenant on the commencement of a tenancy so that their rent may be small or nominal.
The end of a musical composition.
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.
End; conclusion; termination; extinction.
And secret feare, to see their fatall fine
She was fined a thousand dollars for littering, but she appealed.
To finish; to cease.