Fine vs Word - What's the difference?
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(lb) Of subjective quality.
#Of superior quality.
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#*:"A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. He is strengthening his forces now against Mr. Benton out there.."
#(lb) Being acceptable, adequate, passable, or satisfactory.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=3
, passage=Now all this was very fine , but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.}}
#(lb) Good-looking, attractive.
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, title= #Subtle, delicately balanced.
#*The Independent
#*:The fine distinction between lender of last resort and a bail-out
#(lb) Showy; overdecorated.
#*(Matthew Arnold) (1822-1888)
#*:He gratified them with occasionalfine writing.
#Delicate; subtle; exquisite; artful; dexterous.
#*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
#*:The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine !
#*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
#*:The nicest and most delicate touches of satire consist in fine raillery.
#*(Thomas Gray) (1716-1771)
#*:He has as fine a hand at picking a pocket as a woman.
(lb) Of objective quality.
#Of a particular grade of quality, usually between very good'' and ''very fine'', and below ''mint .
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#(lb) Sunny and not raining.
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, title= #Consisting of especially minute particulate; made up of particularly small pieces.
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#Particularly slender; especially thin, narrow, or of small girth.
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#Made of slender or thin filaments.
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#Having a (specified) proportion of pure metal in its composition.
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(lb) Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets.
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(lb) Subtle; thin; tenuous.
*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
*:The eye standeth in the finer medium and the object in the grosser.
expression of agreement
well, nicely, in a positive way
Fine champagne; French brandy.
* 1926 , Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises , Scribner 2003, p. 14:
* 1936 , Djuna Barnes, Nightwood , Faber & Faber 2007, p. 18:
(usually, in the plural) something that is fine; fine particles
* They filtered silt and fines out of the soil.
to make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify.
* Hobbes
to become finer, purer, or cleaner.
To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.
To change by fine gradations.
* Browning
to clarify (wine and beer) by filtration.
A fee levied as punishment for breaking the law.
* The fine for jay-walking has gone from two dollars to thirty in the last fifteen years.
* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
, title=Internal Combustion
, chapter=2 To issue a fine as punishment to (someone).
* She was fined a thousand dollars for littering, but she appealed.
To pay a fine.
* Hallam
(music) The end of a musical composition.
(music) The location in a musical score that indicates the end of the piece, particularly when the piece ends somewhere in the middle of the score due to a section of the music being repeated.
(obsolete) To finish; to cease.
(obsolete) To cause to cease; to stop.
(obsolete) End; conclusion; termination; extinction.
* Spenser
* Shakespeare
A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal.
(UK, legal) 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.
(Webster 1913)
The word island'' is six letters long; the ''s'' has never been pronounced but was added under the influence of ''isle .
The word me signed in American Sign Language. }} The smallest unit of language which has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language.
* 1986 , David Barrat, Media Sociology (ISBN 041505110X), page 112:
* 2009 , Jack Fitzgerald, Viva La Evolucin (ISBN 055719833X), page 233:
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# The smallest discrete unit of spoken language which has a particular meaning, composed of one or more phonemes and one or more morphemes.
#* 1894 , Alex. R. Mackwen, The Samaritan Passover'', in ''Littell's Living Age , series 6, volume 1:
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# The smallest discrete unit of written language which has a particular meaning, composed of one or more letters or symbols and one or more morphemes.
#* , act 2, scene 2:
#* 2003 , Jan Furman, Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon: A Casebook (ISBN 0195146352), page 194:
#* 2009 , Stanislas Dehaene, Reading in the Brain: The New Science of How We Read (ISBN 1101152400):
# A discrete, meaningful unit of language which is approved by some authority.
#* 1896 , (Israel Zangwill), Without Prejudice , page 21:
#* 1999 , Linda Greenlaw, The Hungry Ocean , Hyperion, page 11:
# A sequence of letters or characters, or sounds, which (does not necessarily belong to a language or have a meaning, but which) is considered as a discrete entity.
#* 1974 , Thinking Goes to School: Piaget's Theory in Practice (ISBN 0199839077), page 183:
#* 2003 , How To Do Everything with Your Tablet PC (ISBN 0072227710), page 278:
#* 2006 , Scribal Habits and Theological Influences in the Apocalypse (ISBN 3161491122), page 141:
#* 2013 , The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Language (ISBN 1317859979), page 91:
Something which is like such a unit of language:
# (telegraphy) A unit of text equivalent to five characters and one space.
# (computing) A fixed-size group of bits handled as a unit by a machine (on many machines, 16 bits or two bytes).
# (computer science) A finite string which is not a command or operator.
# (group theory) A group element, expressed as a product of group elements.
The fact or act of speaking, as opposed to taking action.
* 1811 , (Jane Austen), (Sense and Sensibility) :
* 2004 , Richard Williams, The Guardian , 8 Sep 2004:
* 1611 , Bible , Authorized Version, (w) XXVI.75:
* (1809-1892)
* (Charles Dickens) (1812-1870)
* 1945 April 1, Sebastian Haffner, in The Observer :
* 2011 , (David Bellos), Is That a Fish in Your Ear? , Penguin 2012, page 126:
A watchword or rallying cry, a verbal signal (even when consisting of multiple words).
* 1592 , William Shakespeare, :
* 1647 (published), John Fletcher and William Rowley, (The Maid in the Mill) (published in the first Beaumont and Fletcher folio), scene 3:
(lb) A proverb or motto.
* 1499 , (John Skelton), The Bowge of Court :
* 1599 , Ben Jonson, (Every Man out of His Humour) :
* 1646 , , The Balm of Gilead :
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An order; a request or instruction; an expression of will.
A promise; an oath or guarantee.
A brief discussion or conversation.
(in the plural) Angry debate or conversation; argument.
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , :
(lb) To say or write (something) using particular words; to phrase (something).
To flatter with words, to cajole.
* 1607 , William Shakespeare, Anthony and Cleopatra , act 5, scene 2:
(lb) To ply or overpower with words.
* 1621 November 30, James Howell, letter to Francis Bacon, from Turin:
* 1829 April, Webster's Dictionary'', in ''The North American Review , volume 28, page 438:
To conjure with a word.
* (Robert South), Sermon on Psalm XXXIX. 9 :
* 1994 , Liminal Postmodernisms''/''Postmodern Studies , volume 8, page 162:
* 2013 , Carla Mae Streeter, Foundations of Spirituality: The Human and the Holy (ISBN 0814680712), page 92:
To speak, to use words; to converse, to discourse.
* 1818 , John Keats, Hyperion :
(slang, AAVE) truth, indeed, to tell or speak the truth; the shortened form of the statement, "My word is my bond," an expression eventually shortened to "Word is bond," before it finally got cut to just "Word," which is its most commonly used form.
* "Yo, that movie was epic!" / "Word'?" ("You speak the truth?") / "' Word ." ("I speak the truth.")
(slang, emphatic, stereotypically, AAVE) An abbreviated form of word up; a statement of the acknowledgment of fact with a hint of nonchalant approval.
* 2004 , Shannon Holmes, Never Go Home Again: A Novel , page 218
* 2007 , Gabe Rotter, Duck Duck Wally: A Novel , page 105
* 2007 , Relentless Aaron The Last Kingpin , page 34
(to become).
As a verb fine
is .As a noun word is
scripture; the bible.fine
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) fin, from (etyl) .Adjective
(er)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.}}
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=If the afternoon was fine they strolled together in the park, very slowly, and with pauses to draw breath wherever the ground sloped upward. The slightest effort made the patient cough.}}
Synonyms
* (of superior quality) good, excellent * (informal) (being acceptable, adequate, passable, or satisfactory ): all right, ok, , okay, hunky-dory, kosher * (made up of particularly small pieces) fine-grained, powdered, powdery, pulverised, pulverized, small-grained * (made of slender or thin filaments) fine-threadedAntonyms
* (made up of particularly small pieces) coarse * (made of slender or thin filaments) coarseAdverb
(en adverb)- Everything worked out fine.
Synonyms
* (expression of agreement) all right, alright, OK, very wellNoun
(en noun)- We had dined at l'Avenue's, and afterward went to the Café de Versailles for coffee. We had several fines after the coffee, and I said I must be going.
- He refilled his glass. ‘The fine is very good,’ he said.
Usage notes
Particularly used in plural as fines of ground coffee beans in espresso making.See also
* filingVerb
(fin)- to fine gold
- It hath been fined and refined by learned men.
- to fine the soil
- to fine down a ship's lines, i.e. to diminish her lines gradually
- I often sate at home / On evenings, watching how they fined themselves / With gradual conscience to a perfect night.
Synonyms
* (to make or become finer, purer, or cleaner ): clarify, refine, purifyDerived terms
* chance'd be a fine thing * cut it fine * fine art * fine as frog hair * fine feathers make fine birds * fine-grained * fine leg * fine line * finely * fineness * fine print * fine-structure constant * fine-tooth comb * fine-tune * fine words butter no parsnips * * just fine * to a fine fare-thee-wellEtymology 2
(etyl)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.}}
Synonyms
* amercementVerb
- Men fined' for the king's good will; or that he would remit his anger; women ' fined for leave to marry.
Synonyms
* amerceEtymology 3
From (etyl) ("end").Noun
(en noun)Usage notes
This word is virtually never used in speech and therefore essentially confined to musical notation.Derived terms
* da capo al fine=Etymology 4
(etyl) finer, (etyl) finir. See (finish) (transitive verb).Verb
(fin)Noun
(en noun)- to see their fatal fine
- Is this the fine of his fines?
- (Spelman)
Statistics
*Anagrams
* * * English heteronyms English terms with multiple etymologies 1000 English basic words ----word
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) word, from (etyl) verb.Noun
(en noun) {{examples-right, The word inventory may be pronounced with four syllables (/??n.v?n.t?.?i/) or only three (/?n?v?n.t?i/).The word island'' is six letters long; the ''s'' has never been pronounced but was added under the influence of ''isle .
The word me signed in American Sign Language. }}
- The word , whether written or spoken, does not look like or sound like its meaning — it does not resemble its signified. We only connect the two because we have learnt the code — language. Without such knowledge, 'Maggie' would just be a meaningless pattern of shapes or sounds.
- Brian and Abby signed the word' ''clothing'', in which the thumbs brush down the chest as though something is hanging there. They both spoke the '''word''' ''clothing''. Brian then signed the '''word for ''change ,
- Then all was silent save the voice of the high priest, whose words grew louder and louder,
- Polonius: What do you read, my lord?
- Hamlet: Words', '''words''', ' words .
- The name was a confused gift of love from her father, who could not read the word but picked it out of the Bible for its visual shape,
- Well-meaning academics even introduced spelling absurdities such as the “s” in the word “island,” a misguided Renaissance attempt to restore the etymology of the [unrelated] Latin word insula .
- “Ain’t! How often am I to tell you ain’t ain’t a word ?”
- Fisherwoman isn’t even a word . It’s not in the dictionary.
- In still another variation, the nonsense word is presented and the teacher asks, "What sound was in the beginning of the word?" "In the middle?" and so on. The child should always respond with the phoneme; he should not use letter labels.
- I wrote a nonsense word , "umbalooie," in the Input Panel's Writing Pad. Input Panel converted it to "cembalos" and displayed it in the Text Preview pane.
- Here the scribe has dropped the ?? from ?????????, thereby creating the nonsense word ???????.
- If M. V. has sustained impairment to a phonological output process common to reading and repetition, we might anticipate that her mispronunciations will partially reflect the underlying phonemic form of the nonsense word .
- she believed them still so very much attached to each other, that they could not be too sedulously divided in word and deed on every occasion.
- As they fell apart against Austria, England badly needed someone capable of leading by word and example.
- And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.
- She said; but at the happy word "he lives", / My father stooped, re-fathered, o'er my wound.
- There is only one other point on which I offer a word of remark.
- "The Kaiser laid down his arms at a quarter to twelve. In me, however, they have an opponent who ceases fighting only at five minutes past twelve," said Hitler some time ago. He has never spoken a truer word .
- Despite appearances to the contrary [...] dragomans stuck rigidly to their brief, which was not to translate the Sultan's words, but his word .
- Our ancient word of courage, fair Saint George, inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons!
- I have the word : sentinel, do thou stand;
- mum's the word
- Among all other was wrytten in her trone / In golde letters, this worde , whiche I dyde rede: / Garder le fortune que est mauelz]] et [[bon, bone .
- Let the word be 'Not without mustard'. Your crest is very rare, sir.
- The old word is, 'What the eye views not, the heart rues not.'
- Word had gone round during the day that old Major, the prize Middle White boar, had had a strange dream on the previous night and wished to communicate it to the other animals.
- Don't fire till I give the word
- Their mother's word was law.
- And that worde' was made flesshe, and dwelt amonge vs, and we sawe the glory off yt, as the glory off the only begotten sonne off the father, which ' worde was full of grace, and verite.
Usage notes
* (distinct unit of language) In English and other space-delimited languages, it is customary to treat "word" as referring to any sequence of characters delimited by spaces. However, this is not applicable to languages such as Chinese and Japanese, which are normally written without spaces, or to languages such as Vietnamese, which are written with a space between each syllable. * (computing) The size (length) of a word, while being fixed in a particular machine or processor family design, can be different in different designs, for many reasons. See for a full explanation.Quotations
* 1897 , Ouida, The New Woman'', in ''An Altruist and Four Essays , page 239: *: But every word', whether written or spoken, which urges the woman to antagonism against the man, every ' word which is written or spoken to try and make of her a hybrid, self-contained opponent of men, makes a rift in the lute to which the world looks for its sweetest music. * 2011 , John Lehew (senior), The Encouragement of Peter (ISBN 1615074708), page 108: *: In what sense is God's Word living? No other word , whether written or spoken, has the power that the Bible has to change lives. *Synonyms
* (distinct unit of language) vocable * (something promised) promise * (God) God, Logos * (Bible) word of God, Bible * See alsoVerb
(en verb)- I’m not sure how to word this letter to the council.
- He words' me, girls, he ' words me, that I should not / be noble to myself.
- if one were to be worded to death, Italian is the fittest Language [for that task]
- if a man were to be worded to death, or stoned to death by words, the High-Dutch were the fittest [language for that task].
- Against him who could word' heaven and earth out of nothing, and can when he pleases ' word them into nothing again.
- "Postcolonialism" might well be another linguistic construct, desperately begging for a referent that will never show up, simply because it never existed on its own and was literally worded into existence by the very term that pretends to be born from it.
- The being of each person is worded into existence in the Word,
- Thus wording timidly among the fierce: / 'O Father, I am here the simplest voice, [...]'
Synonyms
* (say or write using particular words) express, phrase, put into words, stateInterjection
(en interjection)- " Know what I'm sayin'?" / "Word !" the other man strongly agreed. "Let's do this — "
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