Fine (superl.) Finished |
Fine (superl.) Aiming at show or effect |
Fine (superl.) Nice |
Fine (superl.) Not coarse, gross, or heavy |
Fine (superl.) Not gross |
Fine (superl.) Not coarse |
Fine (superl.) Not thick or heavy |
Fine (superl.) Thin |
Fine (superl.) Made of fine materials |
Fine (superl.) Having (such) a proportion of pure metal in its composition |
Fine (superl.) (Used ironically.) |
Fine (a.) To make fine |
Fine (a.) To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc. |
Fine (a.) To change by fine gradations |
Fine (n.) End |
Fine (n.) A sum of money paid as the settlement of a claim, or by way of terminating a matter in dispute |
Fine (n.) A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal. |
Fine (n.) 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. |
Fine (n.) To impose a pecuniary penalty upon for an offense or breach of law |
Fine (v. i.) To pay a fine. See Fine, n., 3 (b). |
Fine (v. t.) To finish |
Grain (v. & n.) See Groan. |
Grain (n.) A single small hard seed |
Grain (n.) The fruit of certain grasses which furnish the chief food of man, as corn, wheat, rye, oats, etc., or the plants themselves |
Grain (n.) Any small, hard particle, as of sand, sugar, salt, etc. |
Grain (n.) The unit of the English system of weights |
Grain (n.) A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes |
Grain (n.) The composite particles of any substance |
Grain (n.) The direction, arrangement, or appearance of the fibers in wood, or of the strata in stone, slate, etc. |
Grain (n.) The fiber which forms the substance of wood or of any fibrous material. |
Grain (n.) The hair side of a piece of leather, or the marking on that side. |
Grain (n.) The remains of grain, etc., after brewing or distillation |
Grain (n.) A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock. See Grained, a., 4. |
Grain (a.) Temper |
Grain (a.) A sort of spice, the grain of paradise. |
Grain (v. t.) To paint in imitation of the grain of wood, marble, etc. |
Grain (v. t.) To form (powder, sugar, etc.) into grains. |
Grain (v. t.) To take the hair off (skins) |
Grain (n.) To yield fruit. |
Grain (n.) To form grains, or to assume a granular ferm, as the result of crystallization |
Grain (n.) A branch of a tree |
Grain (n.) A tine, prong, or fork. |
Grain (n.) One the branches of a valley or of a river. |
Grain (n.) An iron first speak or harpoon, having four or more barbed points. |
Grain (n.) A blade of a sword, knife, etc. |
Grain (n.) A thin piece of metal, used in a mold to steady a core. |
Post-fine (n.) A duty paid to the king by the cognizee in a fine of lands, when the same was fully passed |
fine-tooth comb fine-toothed comb | a method of examining in minute detail, he went over the contract with a fine-tooth comb looking for loopholes |
grain moth | moth whose larvae feed on grain |
angoumois moth angoumois grain moth Sitotroga cerealella | small moth whose larvae feed on kernels of stored grains |
art fine art | the products of human creativity, works of art collectively, an art exhibition, a fine collection of art |
fine-tooth comb fine-toothed comb | a comb with teeth set close together |
texture grain | the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance), breadfruit has the same texture as bread, sand of a fine grain, fish with a delicate flavor and texture, a stone of coarse grain |
grain | the direction, texture, or pattern of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric, saw the board across the grain |
wood grain woodgrain woodiness | texture produced by the fibers in wood |
grain | the smallest possible unit of anything, there was a grain of truth in what he said, he does not have a grain of sense |
fine arts beaux arts | the study and creation of visual works of art |
small print fine print | material printed in small type, he needed his glasses in order to read the fine print |
Master of Fine Arts MFA | a master's degree in fine arts |
Doctor of Fine Arts | an honorary degree in fine arts |
fine print small print | the part of a contract that contains reservations and qualifications that are often printed in small type, don't sign a contract without reading the fine print |
feed grain | grain grown for cattle feed |
grain food grain cereal | foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses |
grainfield grain field | a field where grain is grown |
grain | a relatively small granular particle of a substance, a grain of sand, a grain of sugar |
grain merchant | a merchant who deals in food grains |
fine spray | precipitation in very small drops |
fine structure | the presence of groups of closely spaced spectrum lines observed in the atomic spectrum of certain elements, the fine structure results from slightly different energy levels |
leather flower vase-fine vase vine Clematis viorna | scandent subshrub of southeastern United States having large red-purple bell-shaped flowers with leathery recurved sepals |
grain sorghum | any of several sorghums cultivated primarily for grain |
grain | a cereal grass, wheat is a grain that is grown in Kansas |
emmer starch wheat two-grain spelt Triticum dicoccum | hard red wheat grown especially in Russia and Germany, in United States as stock feed |
grain caryopsis | dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn |
bell heather heather bell fine-leaved heath Erica cinerea | common low European shrub with purpleed flowers |
mission bells rice-grain fritillary Fritillaria affinis Fritillaria lanceolata Fritillaria mutica | herb of northwestern America having green-and-purple bell-shaped flowers |
horse gram horse grain poor man's pulse Macrotyloma uniflorum Dolichos biflorus | twining herb of Old World tropics cultivated in India for food and fodder, sometimes placed in genus Dolichos |
fine mulct amercement | money extracted as a penalty |
library fine | fine imposed by a library on books that overdue when returned |
seed corn seed grain | good quality seeds (as kernels of corn) that are reserved for planting |
grain | pound, equals a troy grain or . milligrams |
grain | dram, equals an avoirdupois grain or . milligrams |
grain metric grain | a weight unit used for pearls or diamonds:mg or carat |
ethyl alcohol ethanol fermentation alcohol grain alcohol | the intoxicating agent in fermented and distilled liquors, used pure or denatured as a solvent or in medicines and colognes and cleaning solutions and rocket fuel, proposed as a renewable clean-burning additive to gasoline |
grain | the side of leather from which the hair has been removed |
granulate grain | become granular |
granulate grain | form into grains |
calibrate graduate fine-tune | make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring, calibrate an instrument, graduate a cylinder |
fine-tune tweak | adjust finely, fine-tune the engine |
polish refine fine-tune down | improve or perfect by pruning or polishing, refine one's style of writing |
grain | paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood |
ingrain grain | thoroughly work in, His hands were grained with dirt |
ticket 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! |
fine-looking good-looking better-looking handsome well-favored well-favoured | pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion, a fine-looking woman, a good-looking man, better-looking than her sister, very pretty but not so extraordinarily handsome- Thackeray, our southern women are well-favored- Lillian Hellman |
fine | characterized by elegance or refinement or accomplishment, fine wine, looking fine in her Easter suit, a fine gentleman, fine china and crystal, a fine violinist, the fine hand of a master |
fine-leaved fine-leafed | having fine leaves |
fine | minutely precise especially in differences in meaning, a fine distinction |
fine | free from impurities, having a high or specified degree of purity, gold carats fine |