fine : Idioms & Phrases

• noun an honorary degree in fine arts
  

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• (Glass Making), the smaller fritting furnace of a glasshouse. Knight.

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• noun the products of human creativity; works of art collectively
  art; fine art.
  
  • an art exhibition
  • a fine collection of art

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• noun the study and creation of visual works of art
  beaux arts.
  
• noun the products of human creativity; works of art collectively
  art; fine art.
  
  • an art exhibition
  • a fine collection of art

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• . See the Note under Art.

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• fine cut tobacco; a kind of chewing tobacco cut up into shreds.

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• (Feudal Law), a sum of money paid to the lord by a tenant whenever he had occasion to make over his land to another. Burrill.

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• woven fabrics of fine texture and quality. McElrath.

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• a species of conveyance in the form of a fictitious suit compromised or terminated by the acknowledgment of the previous owner that such land was the right of the other party. Burrill. See Concord, n., 4.

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• noun the part of a contract that contains reservations and qualifications that are often printed in small type
  small print.
  
  • don't sign a contract without reading the fine print
• noun material printed in small type
  small print.
  
  • he needed his glasses in order to read the fine print

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• noun precipitation in very small drops
  

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• noun 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

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• lime, or a mixture of lime, plaster, etc., used as material for the finishing coat in plastering.

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• adjective satellite consisting of fine particles
  powdery; pulverised; small-grained; pulverized; powdered.
  
  • powdered cellulose
  • powdery snow
  • pulverized sugar is prepared from granulated sugar by grinding
• adjective satellite dense or compact in structure or texture, as a wood composed of small-diameter cells
  close-grained.
  
  • close-grained birch
  • fine-grained rock

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• adjective satellite having fine leaves
  fine-leafed.
  

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• adjective satellite having fine leaves
  fine-leafed.
  

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• noun common low European shrub with purple-red flowers
  heather bell; bell heather; Erica cinerea.
  

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• adjective satellite pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion
  well-favoured; better-looking; well-favored; good-looking; handsome.
  
  • 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

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• adjective satellite having a smooth, fine-grained structure
  smooth-textured.
  

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• adjective satellite having fine teeth set close together
  fine-tooth.
  
  • a fine-toothed comb

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• noun a comb with teeth set close together
  fine-tooth comb.
  
• noun a method of examining in minute detail
  fine-tooth comb.
  
  • he went over the contract with a fine-tooth comb looking for loopholes

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• adjective satellite having fine teeth set close together
  fine-tooth.
  
  • a fine-toothed comb

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• noun a comb with teeth set close together
  fine-tooth comb.
  
• noun a method of examining in minute detail
  fine-tooth comb.
  
  • he went over the contract with a fine-tooth comb looking for loopholes

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• verb improve or perfect by pruning or polishing
  down; polish; refine.
  
  • refine one's style of writing
• verb adjust finely
  tweak.
  
  • fine-tune the engine
• verb make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring
  calibrate; graduate.
  
  • calibrate an instrument
  • graduate a cylinder

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• (Law), the concluding portion of an acknowledgment in court by which, formerly, the title of land was conveyed. See Fine of land, under Fine, n.; also Chirograph. (b).

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• a sum paid on entry to incorporations of trades.

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• in conclusion; by way of termination or summing up.

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• in good spirits.

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• noun fine imposed by a library on books that overdue when returned
  

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• noun a master's degree in fine arts
  MFA.
  

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Post"-fine` noun

Etymology

Pref. post- + fine.

Definitions

1. (O. Eng. Law) A duty paid to the king by the cognizee in a fine of lands, when the same was fully passed; -- called also the king's silver.

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• (O. Eng. Law), a fine due to the king on the writ or commencement of a suit by fine. Blackstone.

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• to commence and carry on a suit for assuring the title to lands or tenements. Blackstone.

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• (Naut.), to sail as close to the wind as possible.

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• noun scandent subshrub of southeastern United States having large red-purple bell-shaped flowers with leathery recurved sepals
  leather flower; Clematis viorna; vase vine.
  

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