fine
money extracted as a penalty
• Syn:
mulct, amercement
• Derivationally related forms:
amerce (for: amercement), mulct (for: mulct)
• Hypernyms:
penalty
• Hyponyms:
library fine
issue a ticket or a fine to as a penalty
- I was fined for parking on the wrong side of the street
- Move your car or else you will be ticketed!
• Syn:
ticket
• Derivationally related forms:
ticket (for: ticket)
• Hypernyms:
book
• Hyponyms:
amerce
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
1. being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition (Freq. 4)
- 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 been fine
• Syn:
all right, o.k., ok, okay, hunky-dory
• Similar to:
satisfactory
• Usage Domain:
colloquialism
2. minutely precise especially in differences in meaning (Freq. 4)
- a fine distinction
• Similar to:
precise
3. thin in thickness or diameter (Freq. 2)
- a fine film of oil
- fine hairs
- read the fine print
• Similar to:
thin
• Derivationally related forms:
fineness
4. characterized by elegance or refinement or accomplishment (Freq. 2)
- fine wine
- looking fine in her Easter suit
- a fine gentleman
- fine china and crystal
- a fine violinist
- the fine hand of a master
• Similar to:
elegant
5. of textures that are smooth to the touch or substances consisting of relatively small particles (Freq. 1)
- 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
• Ant:
coarse
• Similar to:
close, tight, close-grained, fine-grained, dustlike,
floury, nongranular, powdered, powdery, pulverized, pulverised,
small-grained, small, superfine
• See Also:
smooth
• Derivationally related forms:
fineness
• Attrubites:
texture
6. free from impurities;
having a high or specified degree of purity
- gold 21 carats fine
• Similar to:
pure
• Topics:
metallurgy
1. an expression of agreement normally occurring at the beginning of a sentence (Freq. 3)
• Syn:
very well, alright, all right, OK
2. in a delicate manner (Freq. 1)
- finely shaped features
- her fine drawn body
• Syn:
finely, delicately, exquisitely
• Derived from adjective:
exquisite (for: exquisitely), delicate (for: delicately)
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