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 |
| amendment | the act of amending or correcting |
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 |
sum
total
totality
aggregate | the whole amount |
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 |
| amendment | a statement that is added to or revises or improves a proposal or document (a bill or constitution etc.) |
| First Amendment | an amendment to the Constitution of the United States guaranteeing the right of free expression, includes freedom of assembly and freedom of the press and freedom of religion and freedom of speech |
| Fifth Amendment | an amendment to the Constitution of the United States that imposes restrictions on the government's prosecution of persons accused of crimes, mandates due process of law and prohibits self-incrimination and double jeopardy, requires just compensation if private property is taken for public use |
| Fourteenth Amendment | an amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in , extends the guarantees of the Bill of Rights to the states as well as to the federal government |
| Eighteenth Amendment | an amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in , prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages, repealed in |
| Nineteenth Amendment | an amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in , guarantees that no state can deny the right to vote on the basis of sex |
| 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 |
aggregate
congeries
conglomeration | a sum total of many heterogenous things taken together |
| 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 |
bell heather heather bell
fine-leaved heath
Erica cinerea | common low European shrub with purpleed flowers |
aggregate fruit
multiple fruit
syncarp | fruit consisting of many individual small fruits or drupes derived from separate ovaries within a common receptacle: e.g. blackberry, raspberry, pineapple |
fine
mulct
amercement | money extracted as a penalty |
| library fine | fine imposed by a library on books that overdue when returned |
| aggregate | material such as sand or gravel used with cement and water to make concrete, mortar, or plaster |
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 |
take the Fifth
take the Fifth Amendment | refuse to testify by invoking the Fifth Amendment, which states that nobody may be forced to testify as a witness against himself or herself |
aggregate
combine | gather in a mass, sum, or whole |
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! |
| aggregate | amount in the aggregate to |
coarse-haired
coarse-furred | having coarse hair or fur |
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 |
aggregate aggregated
aggregative
mass | formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole, aggregate expenses include expenses of all divisions combined for the entire year, the aggregated amount of indebtedness |
| 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 |
coarse
common
rough-cut
uncouth
vulgar | lacking refinement or cultivation or taste, he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind, behavior that branded him as common, an untutored and uncouth human being, an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy, appealing to the vulgar taste for violence, the vulgar display of the newly rich |
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 |
| aggregate | composed of a dense cluster of separate units such as carpels or florets or drupelets, raspberries are aggregate fruits |
coarse
harsh | of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles, coarse meal, coarse sand, a coarse weave |
| coarse-grained large-grained | not having a fine texture, coarse-grained wood, large-grained sand |
farinaceous
coarse-grained grainy
granular
granulose
gritty
mealy | composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency, granular sugar, the photographs were grainy and indistinct, it left a mealy residue |
| 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 |
textured
rough-textured
coarse-textured | having surface roughness, a textured wall of stucco, a rough-textured tweed |