what does fine mean?
FINE as NOUN
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- money extracted as a penalty
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Hypernyms(s) fine is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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FINE as VERB
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- issue a ticket or a fine to as a penalty
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- I was fined for parking on the wrong side of the street
- Move your car or else you will be ticketed!
Hypernyms(s) fine is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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FINE as ADJECTIVE
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- characterized by elegance or refinement or accomplishment
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- fine wine
- looking fine in her Easter suit
- a fine gentleman
- fine china and crystal
- a fine violinist
- the fine hand of a master
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- (of weather) pleasant
- not raining, perhaps with the sun shining
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- minutely precise especially in differences in meaning
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- free or impurities
- having a high or specified degree of purity
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- being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition
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- an all-right movie
- the passengers were shaken up but are all right
- is everything all right?
- everything’’s fine
- things are okay
- dinner and the movies had been fine
- another minute I”d have
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- of texture
- being small-grained or smooth to the touch or having fine particles
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- wood with a fine grain
- fine powdery snow
- fine rain
- batiste is a cotton fabric with a fine weave
- covered with a fine film of dust
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- in fine spirits
- a fine student
- made good grades
- morale was good
- had good weather for the parade
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- thin in thickness or diameter
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- a fine film of oil
- fine hairs
- read the fine print
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- he’’s feeling all right again
- I”m fine, how are you?
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FINE as ADVERB
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- sentence-initial expression of agreement
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- finely shaped features
- her fine drawn body
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- in a superior and skilled manner
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- the soldiers were fighting finely
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