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 |
air filter air cleaner | a filter that removes dust from the air that passes through it |
art fine art | the products of human creativity, works of art collectively, an art exhibition, a fine collection of art |
coffee filter | filter (usually of paper) that passes the coffee and retains the coffee grounds |
filter | device that removes something from whatever passes through it |
filter | an electrical device that alters the frequency spectrum of signals passing through it |
filter bed | filter consisting of a layer of sand or gravel for filtering water |
filter tip | an air filter on the end of a cigarette, contains material that filters the smoke |
filter-tipped cigarette | a cigarette with a filter tip |
fine-tooth comb fine-toothed comb | a comb with teeth set close together |
fuel filter | a filter in the fuel line that screens out dirt and rust particles from the fuel |
high-pass filter | a filter that passes frequencies above a certain value and attenuates frequencies below that value |
light filter diffusing screen | a transparent filter that reduces the light (or some wavelengths of the light) passing through it |
low-pass filter | a filter that passes frequencies below a certain value and attenuates frequencies above that value |
oil filter | a filter that removes impurities from the oil used to lubricate an internalombustion engine |
water filter | a filter to remove impurities from the water supply |
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 |
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 |
corpuscular radiation particulate radiation | a stream of atomic or subatomic particles that may be charged positively (e.g. alpha particles) or negatively (e.g. beta particles) or not at all (e.g. neutrons) |
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 |
bell heather heather bell fine-leaved heath Erica cinerea | common low European shrub with purpleed flowers |
fine mulct amercement | money extracted as a penalty |
library fine | fine imposed by a library on books that overdue when returned |
particulate particulate matter | a small discrete mass of solid or liquid matter that remains individually dispersed in gas or liquid emissions (usually considered to be an atmospheric pollutant) |
filter paper | a porous unsized paper used for filtering |
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 |
percolate sink in permeate filter | pass through, Water permeates sand easily |
filter filtrate strain separate out filter out | remove by passing through a filter, filter out the impurities |
trickle dribble filter | run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream, water trickled onto the lawn from the broken hose, reports began to dribble in |
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 |
particulate | composed of distinct particles |
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 |
all right fine o.k. ok okay hunky-dory | being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition, 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 |
fine | of textures that are smooth to the touch or substances consisting of relatively small particles, 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 |
close-grained fine-grained | dense or compact in structure or texture, as a wood composed of small-diameter cells, close-grained birch, fine-grained rock |
powdered powdery pulverized pulverised small-grained fine-grained | consisting of fine particles, powdered cellulose, powdery snow, pulverized sugar is prepared from granulated sugar by grinding |
fine-textured smooth-textured | having a smooth, fine-grained structure |
fine | thin in thickness or diameter, a fine film of oil, fine hairs, read the fine print |
filter-tipped | of a cigar or cigarette, having a tip designed to filter the smoke, filter-tipped cigarettes |