Finicky vs Fin - What's the difference?
finicky | fin |
(informal) Fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details.
(informal) Demanding, requiring above-normal care.
(ichthyology) One of the appendages of a fish, used to propel itself and to manoeuvre/maneuver.
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, title= A similar appendage of a cetacean or other marine animal.
A thin, rigid component of an aircraft, extending from the fuselage and used to stabilise and steer the aircraft.
A similar structure on the tail of a bomb, used to help keep it on course.
A hairstyle, resembling the fin of a fish, in which the hair is combed and set into a vertical ridge along the top of the head from about the crown to the forehead.
A device worn by divers and swimmers on their feet.
An extending part on a surface of a radiator, engine, heatsink, etc., used to facilitate cooling.
A sharp raised edge (generally in concrete) capable of damaging a roof membrane or vapor retarder.
(senseid)To cut the fins from a fish, shark, etc.
To swim in the manner of a fish.
To provide (a motor vehicle etc) with fins.
As an adjective finicky
is fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details.As a noun fin is
one of the appendages of a fish, used to propel itself and to manoeuvre/maneuver.As a verb fin is
(cut fins) To cut the fins from a fish, shark, etc.As a proper noun Fin is
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English
Adjective
(en-adj)- ''The baby was finicky until her diaper was changed.
- The lawnmower is a bit finicky in cold weather.
Usage notes
* The forms (finickier) and (finickiest) also exist, but are quite rare, and perhaps nonstandard. The forms (term) and (term) are much more common, and certainly standard.Synonyms
* fastidious, fussy * SeeDerived terms
* finickiness * finickityfin
English
(wikipedia fin)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.}}
Synonyms
* (appendange of a fish) * (appendage of a cetacean or other marine animal) flipper (of mammals) * (aircraft component) * (of a bomb) vane * (hairstyle) Mohican * (device worn by divers) flipperDerived terms
* anal fin * caudal fin * dorsal fin * finning * paired fins * pectoral fin * pelvic fin * tail fin * unpaired finsVerb
- A neutrally buoyant diver does not need to fin to maintain depth.
