{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "faɪn" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/fine.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English fin, fyn, from Old French fin (“fine, minute, exact”), of obscure origin, but probably derived from Latin fīnīre (“to finish”) and/or fīnis (“boundary, limit, end”), with an abstract sense of \"fine\" or \"thin\" also arising in many Romance languages (compare Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian fino). Doublet of fino.", "From Middle English fyn, fyne, from Old French fin, from Medieval Latin finis (“a payment in settlement or tax”). Doublet of finis.", "From Italian fine (“end”). French fin.", "From Middle English finen, fynen, from Old French finer, finir. See finish (transitive verb)." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Adjective", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Senses referring to subjective quality.", "submean": [ "Of superior quality.\nThe tree frog that they encountered was truly a fine specimen.\nOnly a really fine wine could fully complement Lucía's hand-made pasta.\n\nSynonyms: good, excellent", "(ironic) Impressively bad, inappropriate, or unsatisfactory.\nYou're a fine one to talk about laziness.\nHere's another fine mess you've gotten us into.\n\nSynonym: hell of a", "(informal) Being acceptable, adequate, passable, or satisfactory.\nHow are you today? – Fine.\nWill this one do? It's got a dent in it. – Yeah, it'll be fine, I guess.\nIt's fine with me if you stay out late, so long as you're back by three.\n\nSynonyms: all right, ok, o.k., okay, hunky-dory, kosher", "(informal) Good-looking, attractive.\nThat man is so fine that I'd jump into his pants without a moment's hesitation.\n", "Subtle, delicately balanced or discriminated.\n", "(obsolete) Showy; overdecorated.\n", "Delicate; subtle; exquisite; artful; dexterous.\n", "An answer often used to cover an unnecessary explanation, rather to avoid conflict or an argument. Saying \"I'm fine\" can be used to avoid inquiry when the speaker is not really okay.\nDo you want to talk about what happened? – I'm fine!" ] }, { "mean": "Senses referring to objective quality.", "submean": [ "Of a particular grade of quality, usually between very good and very fine, and below mint.\nThe small scratch meant that his copy of “X-Men #2” was merely fine when it otherwise would have been “near mint”.", "(of weather) Sunny and not raining.\n", "Consisting of especially minute particulates; made up of particularly small pieces.\n\nGrind it into a fine powder.\nWhen she touched the artifact, it collapsed into a heap of fine dust.\nSynonyms: fine-grained, powdered, powdery, pulverised, pulverized, small-grained\nAntonym: coarse", "Particularly slender; especially thin, narrow, or of small girth.\nThe threads were so fine that you had to look through a magnifying glass to see them.", "Made of slender or thin filaments.\nThey protected themselves from the small parasites with a fine wire mesh.\nSynonym: fine-threaded\nAntonym: coarse", "Having a (specified) proportion of pure metal in its composition.\nCoins nine tenths fine." ] }, { "mean": "(cricket) Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets.\n to nudge it through the covers (or tickle it down to fine leg) for a four" }, { "mean": "(obsolete) Subtle; thin; tenuous." } ] }, { "name": "Adverb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Expression of (typically) reluctant or agreement.\nSynonyms: all right, alright, OK, very well" }, { "mean": "Well, nicely, in a positive, agreeable way.\nEverything worked out fine." }, { "mean": "(dated, dialect, colloquial) Finely; elegantly; delicately." }, { "mean": "(pool, billiards) In a manner so that the driven ball strikes the object ball so far to one side as to be barely deflected, the object ball being driven to one side." } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "Fine champagne; French brandy." }, { "mean": "(usually in the plural) Something that is fine; fine particles.\nThey filtered silt and fines out of the soil." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify.\nto fine gold" }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To become finer, purer, or cleaner." }, { "mean": "To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc." }, { "mean": "To change by fine gradations.\nto fine down a ship's lines, i.e. to diminish her lines gradually" }, { "mean": "(transitive) To clarify (wine and beer) by filtration." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, dated) To become gradually fine; to diminish; to dwindle (with away, down, or off)." } ] }, { "name": "Noun_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "A fee levied as punishment for breaking the law.\nThe fine for jay-walking has gone from two dollars to thirty in the last fifteen years." }, { "mean": "(obsolete) Money paid by a tenant on the commencement of a tenancy so that his or her rent may be small or nominal." }, { "mean": "(Cambridge University slang) A drink that must be taken during a meal or as part of a drinking game, following an announcement that anyone who has done some (usually outrageous) deed is to be fined; similar to I have never; commonly associated with swaps; very similar to a sconce at Oxford University, though a fine is the penalty itself rather than the act of issuing it.\nFine if you've…" } ] }, { "name": "Verb_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To issue a fine as punishment to (someone).\nShe was fined a thousand dollars for littering, but she appealed." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To pay a fine." } ] }, { "name": "Related_terms_3", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "finance" } ] }, { "name": "Noun_3", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(music) The end of a musical composition." }, { "mean": "(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." } ] }, { "name": "Verb_3", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(obsolete, intransitive) To finish; to cease." }, { "mean": "(obsolete, transitive) To cause to cease; to stop." } ] }, { "name": "Noun_4", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(obsolete) End; conclusion; termination; extinction.\n1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 37:And secret feare, to see their fatall fine\nc. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Is this the fine of his fines?" }, { "mean": "(feudal law) A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal.\n1523, Anthony Fitzherbert, The Boke of Surveying and Improvements:To cause them to pay more rent or a gretter fyne than they haue ben acustomed to do in tyme past." }, { "mean": "(UK, law) 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." } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "", "", "", "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "형용사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "" ] }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "", "", "", "", "" ] }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "부사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사_2", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "관련_용어_3", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사_3", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사_3", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사_4", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] } ] }, "synonyms": { "org": [ "(to make or become finer, purer, or cleaner): clarify, refine, purify" ], "kor": [ "" ] } } }