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 |
Pitch
(n.) A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships |
Pitch
(n.) See Pitchstone. |
Pitch
(n.) To cover over or smear with pitch. |
Pitch
(n.) Fig.: To darken |
Pitch
(v. t.) To throw, generally with a definite aim or purpose |
Pitch
(v. t.) To thrust or plant in the ground, as stakes or poles |
Pitch
(v. t.) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones, as an embankment or a roadway. |
Pitch
(v. t.) To fix or set the tone of |
Pitch
(v. t.) To set or fix, as a price or value. |
Pitch
(v. i.) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation |
Pitch
(v. i.) To light |
Pitch
(v. i.) To fix one's choise |
Pitch
(v. i.) To plunge or fall |
Pitch
(n.) A throw |
Pitch
(n.) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled. |
Pitch
(n.) A point or peak |
Pitch
(n.) Height |
Pitch
(n.) A descent |
Pitch
(n.) The point where a declivity begins |
Pitch
(n.) The relative acuteness or gravity of a tone, determined by the number of vibrations which produce it |
Pitch
(n.) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out. |
Pitch
(n.) The distance from center to center of any two adjacent teeth of gearing, measured on the pitch line |
Pitch
(n.) The length, measured along the axis, of a complete turn of the thread of a screw, or of the helical lines of the blades of a screw propeller. |
Pitch
(n.) The distance between the centers of holes, as of rivet holes in boiler plates. |
Pitch-black
(a.) Black as pitch or tar. |
Pitch-dark
(a.) Dark as a pitch |
Pitch-faced
(a.) Having the arris defined by a line beyond which the rock is cut away, so as to give nearly true edges |
Pitch-ore
(n.) Pitchblende. |
Post-fine
(n.) A duty paid to the king by the cognizee in a fine of lands, when the same was fully passed |
| pitch | the action or manner of throwing something, his pitch fell short and his hat landed on the floor |
| pitch delivery | (baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter |
change-up
change-of-pace
change-of-pace ball
off-speed pitch | a baseball thrown with little velocity when the batter is expecting a fastball |
| overhand pitch | a baseball pitch in which the hand moves above the shoulder |
submarine ball
submarine pitch | a pitch thrown sidearm instead of overhead |
| wild pitch | an errant pitch that the catcher cannot be expected to catch and that allows a base runner to advance a base |
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 |
| lurch pitch pitching | abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance), the pitching and tossing was quite exciting |
| pitch auction pitch | an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump |
| pitch pitch shot | a high approach shot in golf |
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 |
| pitch pipe | a small pipe sounding a tone of standard frequency, used to establish the starting pitch for unaccompanied singing |
| variable-pitch propeller | propeller for which the angle of the blades is adjustable |
coal black
ebony
jet black
pitch black
sable
soot black | a very dark black |
| pitch | the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration |
concert pitch
philharmonic pitch
international pitch | the pitch used to tune instruments for concert performances, usually assignsHz to the A above middle C |
high pitch
high frequency | a pitch that is perceived as above other pitches |
low pitch
low frequency | a pitch that is perceived as below other pitches |
pitch rake
slant | degree of deviation from a horizontal plane, the roof had a steep pitch |
absolute pitch
perfect pitch | the ability to identify the pitch of a tone |
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 |
intonation
modulation pitch contour | rise and fall of the voice pitch |
tonic accent
pitch accent | emphasis that results from pitch rather than loudness |
sales talk
sales pitch
pitch | promotion by means of an argument and demonstration |
| pitch | a vendor's position (especially on the sidewalk), he was employed to see that his paper's news pitches were not trespassed upon by rival vendors |
| 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 |
pitch pine northern pitch pine
Pinus rigida | large three-needled pine of the eastern United States and southeastern Canada, closely related to the pond pine |
longleaf pine
pitch pine southern yellow pine
Georgia pine
Pinus palustris | large three-needled pine of southeastern United States having very long needles and gnarled twisted limbs, bark is red-brown deeply ridged, an important timber tree |
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 |
pitch apple
strangler fig Clusia rosea
Clusia major | a common tropical American clusia having solitary white or rose flowers |
fine
mulct
amercement | money extracted as a penalty |
| library fine | fine imposed by a library on books that overdue when returned |
total darkness
lightlessness
blackness
pitch blackness
black | total absence of light, they fumbled around in total darkness, in the black of night |
| fever pitch | a state of extreme excitement, the crowd was at fever pitch |
| asphalt mineral pitch | a dark bituminous substance found in natural beds and as residue from petroleum distillation, consists mainly of hydrocarbons |
pitch
tar | any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue |
calibrate
graduate
fine-tune | make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring, calibrate an instrument, graduate a cylinder |
gear
pitch | set the level or character of, She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience |
| pitch | set to a certain pitch, He pitched his voice very low |
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 |
| pitch | lead (a card) and establish the trump suit |
pitch in
dig in | eat heartily, The food was placed on the table and the children pitched in |