Definition of "fine" in Anglais

adjective

1. Senses referring to subjective quality.

2. Senses referring to objective quality.

3. (cricket) Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets.

   • […]to nudge it through the covers (or tickle it down to fine leg) for a four[…]

4. (obsolete) Subtle; thin; tenuous.

adverb

1. Well, nicely, in a positive, agreeable way.

   • Everything worked out fine.

2. (dated, dialect, colloquial) Finely; elegantly; delicately.

3. (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.

interjection

1. Expression of (typically) reluctant or agreement.

2. Expression of (typically) reluctant acceptance, without further argument or discussion, of another person's viewpoint.

noun

1. Fine champagne; French brandy.

2. (usually in the plural) Something that is fine; fine particles.

   • They filtered silt and fines out of the soil.

verb

1. (transitive) To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify.

   • to fine gold
   • 1666 (written), 1681 (published), Thomas Hobbes, A Dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England It hath been fined and refined by […] learned men.

2. (intransitive) To become finer, purer, or cleaner.

3. To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.

4. To change by fine gradations.

   • to fine down a ship's lines, i.e. to diminish her lines gradually

5. (transitive) To clarify (wine and beer) by filtration.

6. (intransitive, dated) To become gradually fine; to diminish; to dwindle (with away, down, or off).

noun

1. 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.

2. (obsolete) Money paid by a tenant on the commencement of a tenancy so that their rent may be small or nominal.

3. (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.