Lin vs Fin - What's the difference?
lin | fin |
To desist (from something), stop.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.i:
To cease; leave off.
A pool or collection of water, particularly one above or below a waterfall.
A waterfall, or cataract.
A steep ravine.
(Webster 1913)
(ichthyology) One of the appendages of a fish, used to propel itself and to manoeuvre/maneuver.
* , chapter=4
, 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 nouns the difference between lin and fin
is that lin is flax or lin can be ling (fish) while fin is finn.lin
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) linnen, from (etyl) .Verb
- Halfe furious vnto his foe he came, / Resolv'd in minde all suddenly to win, / Or soone to lose, before he once would lin [...].
Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 2
From Irish or Gaelic.Alternative forms
* linn * lynNoun
(en noun)- a roaring lin
Anagrams
* English three-letter words ----fin
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.