fine

Etymology 1
From, , from , of obscure origin, but probably derived from and/or , with an abstract sense of "fine" or "thin" also arising in many Romance languages (compare Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian ). .

Adjective

 * 1) Of superior quality.
 * 2)  Impressively bad, inappropriate, or unsatisfactory.
 * 3)  Being acceptable, adequate, passable, or satisfactory.
 * 4)  Good-looking, attractive.
 * 5) Subtle, delicately balanced or discriminated.
 * 6)  Showy; overdecorated.
 * 7) * 1853,, Preface to The Poems of Matthew Arnold
 * They will permit the poet to select any action he pleases, and to suffer that action to go as it will, provided he gratifies them with occasional bursts of fine writing
 * 1) Delicate; subtle; exquisite; artful; dexterous.
 * 2) Of a particular grade of quality, usually between very good and very fine, and below mint.
 * 3)  Sunny and not raining.
 * 4) Consisting of especially minute particulates; made up of particularly small pieces.
 * 5) Particularly slender; especially thin, narrow, or of small girth.
 * 6) Made of slender or thin filaments.
 * 7) Having a (specified) proportion of pure metal in its composition.
 * 8)  Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets.
 * 9)  Subtle; thin; tenuous.
 * 1)  Good-looking, attractive.
 * 2) Subtle, delicately balanced or discriminated.
 * 3)  Showy; overdecorated.
 * 4) * 1853,, Preface to The Poems of Matthew Arnold
 * They will permit the poet to select any action he pleases, and to suffer that action to go as it will, provided he gratifies them with occasional bursts of fine writing
 * 1) Delicate; subtle; exquisite; artful; dexterous.
 * 2) Of a particular grade of quality, usually between very good and very fine, and below mint.
 * 3)  Sunny and not raining.
 * 4) Consisting of especially minute particulates; made up of particularly small pieces.
 * 5) Particularly slender; especially thin, narrow, or of small girth.
 * 6) Made of slender or thin filaments.
 * 7) Having a (specified) proportion of pure metal in its composition.
 * 8)  Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets.
 * 9)  Subtle; thin; tenuous.
 * 1) Of a particular grade of quality, usually between very good and very fine, and below mint.
 * 2)  Sunny and not raining.
 * 3) Consisting of especially minute particulates; made up of particularly small pieces.
 * 4) Particularly slender; especially thin, narrow, or of small girth.
 * 5) Made of slender or thin filaments.
 * 6) Having a (specified) proportion of pure metal in its composition.
 * 7)  Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets.
 * 8)  Subtle; thin; tenuous.
 * 1) Consisting of especially minute particulates; made up of particularly small pieces.
 * 2) Particularly slender; especially thin, narrow, or of small girth.
 * 3) Made of slender or thin filaments.
 * 4) Having a (specified) proportion of pure metal in its composition.
 * 5)  Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets.
 * 6)  Subtle; thin; tenuous.
 * 1) Particularly slender; especially thin, narrow, or of small girth.
 * 2) Made of slender or thin filaments.
 * 3) Having a (specified) proportion of pure metal in its composition.
 * 4)  Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets.
 * 5)  Subtle; thin; tenuous.
 * 1) Having a (specified) proportion of pure metal in its composition.
 * 2)  Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets.
 * 3)  Subtle; thin; tenuous.
 * 1)  Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets.
 * 2)  Subtle; thin; tenuous.
 * 1)  Subtle; thin; tenuous.

Derived terms
See below.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: fyn
 * Armenian: ,
 * Aromanian: fin
 * Bulgarian:
 * Cherokee: ᎣᏍᏓ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: fajna
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: ნატიფი
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew: משובח
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: breá
 * Italian:
 * Latin: lautus, mundus
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan:
 * Old Javanese: wagus
 * Plautdietsch: fein
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: fin
 * Russian:, , , , ,
 * Slovene: kakovosten
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:, , , , , ,
 * Yiddish: פֿײַן


 * Afrikaans: fyn
 * Finnish: ,
 * Spanish: ,


 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: fin
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: αἴθριος
 * Irish: breá
 * Italian: ,
 * Latin: serēnus
 * Macedonian: ведро
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Welsh:


 * American Sign Language: 5@Sternum-FingerUp Contact
 * Arabic:
 * Hijazi Arabic: طيّب, كُوَيِّس
 * Azerbaijani:, yönlü, fərli
 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Egyptian Arabic: كويس
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:, , ,
 * Greek:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: breá
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Khmer:
 * Lao:
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scots: braw
 * Slovene: v redu
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:


 * Belarusian: фа́йны
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,
 * Irish: breá, dathúil, dóighiúil, slachtmhar
 * Korean:
 * Maori: tōrire, tōrirerire, ranginamu
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Scots: braw
 * Scottish Gaelic: brèagha
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:, , , ,
 * Ukrainian: фа́йний


 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:, narın
 * Bashkir: ваҡ
 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish: fin
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: წმინდა
 * Hebrew:
 * Iban: lanit
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: ورد
 * Malay: halus
 * Maori: matarehu
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovene: fin
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Welsh:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Chamicuro: mapesipili
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: თხელი, სიფრიფანა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: λεπτός
 * Hebrew:
 * Malay: halus
 * Maori: tarapī
 * Mongolian:
 * Plautdietsch: fien
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:, , , ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Irish: mín
 * Maori: angiangi, rauangi
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:, fintrådig


 * Irish:
 * Yiddish:

Adverb

 * 1) Well, nicely, in a positive, agreeable way.
 * 2)  Finely; elegantly; delicately.
 * 3)  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.
 * 1)  Finely; elegantly; delicately.
 * 2)  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.
 * 1)  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.

Translations

 * Belarusian: до́бра
 * Bulgarian:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: hyvä on
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Slovene: prav
 * Swedish: ,
 * Ukrainian:

Noun

 * 1) Fine champagne; French brandy.
 * 2)  Something that is fine; fine particles.
 * They filtered silt and fines out of the soil.
 * 1)  Something that is fine; fine particles.
 * They filtered silt and fines out of the soil.
 * They filtered silt and fines out of the soil.

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

Verb

 * 1)  To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify.
 * to fine gold
 * 1) * 1666 (written), 1681 (published),, A Dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England
 * It hath been fined and refined by learned men.
 * 1)  To become finer, purer, or cleaner.
 * 2) To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.
 * 3) To change by fine gradations.
 * to fine down a ship's lines, i.e. to diminish her lines gradually
 * 1)  To clarify (wine and beer) by filtration.
 * 2)  To become gradually fine; to diminish; to dwindle (with away, down, or off).
 * 1)  To clarify (wine and beer) by filtration.
 * 2)  To become gradually fine; to diminish; to dwindle (with away, down, or off).

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * Telugu:


 * Bulgarian: избистрям се, пречиствам се
 * Finnish:, , puhdistua, jalostua,
 * Telugu:


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Finnish:
 * German:, ,


 * Swedish:, , ,

Etymology 2
From, , from , from. .

Noun

 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  Money paid by a tenant on the commencement of a tenancy so that their rent may be small or nominal.
 * 2)  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, though a fine is the penalty itself rather than the act of issuing it.
 * Fine if you've…
 * Fine if you've…

Translations

 * Albanian: ,
 * Arabic: غَرَامَة
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: জৰিমনা, ডঁৰ, আদায়
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: штраф, пе́ня
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 罰金, 罰款
 * Mandarin:,  ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: bøde
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: monpuno
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ჯარიმა
 * German:,  , ,
 * Greek:, χρηματική ποινή
 * Ancient: ποινή, ζημία, θωή
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Irish:, fíneáil
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, 反則金
 * Kazakh: айыппұл
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:, , 범칙금(犯則金)
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:, ,
 * Kyrgyz:, жазапул,
 * Lao: ເບັ້ຽປັບ, ເບັ້ຽປັບ, ຄ່າປັບໄໝ, ປັບໃໝ
 * Latin:, poena
 * Latvian: naudassods, sods
 * Lithuanian: bauda
 * Luxembourgish: Bouss
 * Macedonian: глоба
 * Malay: denda
 * Maltese: multa
 * Maori: whaina
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠲᠣᠷᠭᠠᠭᠤᠯᠢ
 * Norman: amende
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Occitan:
 * Pashto: جرمانه
 * Persian:, جرمانه
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: càin, cìs
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ка̏зна, гло̀ба
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: pokuta
 * Slovene: ,
 * Somali: ganaax
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: multa
 * Tajik: ҷарима, ҷурмона
 * Tarifit: abruṣi
 * Thai: เบี้ยปรับ, คาปรับ
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen:
 * Ukrainian: штраф, пеня́
 * Urdu: جُرْمانَہ
 * Uyghur: جەرىمانە, شتراف
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese: tiền phạt, tiền bồi thường
 * Yiddish: קנס

Verb

 * 1)   To issue a fine as punishment to (someone).
 * 2)  To pay a fine.
 * 1)  To pay a fine.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: cərimələmək
 * Belarusian: штрафава́ць, аштрафава́ць
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 罰錢
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: monpuni
 * Finnish:
 * Galician: multar
 * Georgian:
 * German: mit einer Geldstrafe belegen
 * Greek: επιβάλλω πρόστιμο
 * Ancient: ζημιόω
 * Hebrew: לקנוס
 * Irish:, fíneáil
 * Italian:
 * Khmer: ,
 * Lao: ປັບ
 * Latin:
 * Maori: whaina, whaine
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:, ilegge bot
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovene: oglobiti,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Ukrainian: штрафува́ти, оштрафува́ти
 * Vietnamese: ,

Etymology 3
From. French . .

Noun

 * 1)  The end of a musical composition.
 * 2)  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

 * =D.C. al fine

Etymology 4
From, , from ,. See (transitive verb).

Verb

 * 1)  To finish; to cease.
 * 2)  To cause to cease; to stop.

Noun

 * 1)  End; conclusion; termination; extinction.
 * 2)  A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal.
 * 3)  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.
 * 1)  A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal.
 * 2)  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.
 * 1)  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.

Adverb

 * 1) finally, at last; at the end
 * 2) in the final analysis, when all's said and done

Noun

 * 1)  thin space, non-breakable space
 * 2) a number of high grade French brandies (usually AOC certified)

Noun

 * 1) woman, female

Adverb

 * 1) finally

Etymology
From, from , from ; compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) family group
 * 2) race
 * 3) territory of a family group

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) thin
 * 2) refined
 * 1) refined
 * 1) refined

Noun

 * 1) end

Noun

 * 1) aim, purpose, end

Etymology
From, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) quiver
 * 2) sheath, scabbard
 * 3)  vagina
 * 1)  vagina

Etymology
From, which derives from. Cognates include Föhr-Amrum 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  to find

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) family, kin, group of people of common descent
 * 2) clan, tribe, race

Etymology
, and partly.

Noun

 * 1)  end

Etymology
From, from.

Verb

 * 1) to find
 * 2) to decide that, to form the opinion that