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 |
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 |
apology excuse | a poor example, it was an apology for a meal, a poor excuse for an automobile |
fine arts beaux arts | the study and creation of visual works of art |
excuse | a note explaining an absence, he had to get his mother to write an excuse for him |
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 |
excuse alibi exculpation self-justification | a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc., he kept finding excuses to stay, every day he had a new alibi for not getting a job, his transparent self-justification was unacceptable |
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 |
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 |
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 |
excuse condone | excuse, overlook, or make allowances for, be lenient with, excuse someone's behavior, She condoned her husband's occasional infidelities |
excuse explain | serve as a reason or cause or justification of, Your need to sleep late does not excuse your late arrival at work, Her recent divorce may explain her reluctance to date again |
excuse relieve let off exempt | grant exemption or release to, Please excuse me from this class |
excuse beg off | ask for permission to be released from an engagement |
apologize apologise excuse justify rationalize rationalise | defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning, rationalize the child's seemingly crazy behavior, he rationalized his lack of success |
excuse pardon | accept an excuse for, Please excuse my dirty hands |
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 |
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 |
fine-toothed(a) fine-tooth(a) | having fine teeth set close together, a fine-toothed comb |
very well fine alright all right OK | an expression of agreement normally occurring at the beginning of a sentence |
finely fine delicately exquisitely | in a delicate manner, finely shaped features, her fine drawn body |