8. adj. (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
When a girl says she's "fine," she ain't fine.
9. adj. Senses referring to objective quality.
10. adj. Of a particular grade of quality, usually between very good and very fine, and below mint.
The small scratch meant that his copy of “X-Men 2” was merely fine when it otherwise would have been “near mint”.
11. adj. (of weather) Sunny and not raining.
12. adj. Consisting of especially minute particulate; made up of particularly small pieces.
Grind it into a fine powder.
When she touched the artifact, it collapsed into a heap of fine dust.
13. adj. Particularly slender; especially thin, narrow, or of small girth.
The threads were so fine that you had to look through a magnifying glass to see them.
14. adj. Made of slender or thin filaments.
They protected themselves from the small parasites with a fine wire mesh.
15. adj. Having a (specified) proportion of pure metal in its composition.
coins nine tenths fine
16. adj. (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 fournb...
17. adj. (obsolete) Subtle; thin; tenuous.
18. adv. Expression of (typically) reluctant agreement.
21. adv. (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.
22. s. Fine champagne; French brandy.
23. s. (usually in the plural) Something that is fine; fine particles.
24. v. To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify.
to fine gold
25. v. (intransitive) To become finer, purer, or cleaner.
26. v. To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.
to fine the soil
27. v. To change by fine gradations.
to fine down a ship's lines, i.e. to diminish her lines gradually
28. v. To clarify (wine and beer) by filtration.
29. v. (intransitive, dated) To become gradually fine; to diminish; to dwindle (with away, down, or off).
30. s. 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.
31. v. To issue a fine as punishment to (someone).
She was fined a thousand dollars for littering, but she appealed.
32. v. (intransitive) To pay a fine.
33. s. (music) The end of a musical composition.
34. s. (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.
35. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To finish; to cease.
36. v. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to cease; to stop.
37. s. (obsolete) End; conclusion; termination; extinction.
38. s. A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal.
39. s. (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.
thin
1. adj. Delgado, flaco
thin
1. adj. Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
thin plate of metal; thin paper; thin board; thin covering
2. adj. Very narrow in all diameters; having a cross section that is small in all directions.
thin wire; thin string
3. adj. Having little body fat or flesh; slim; slender; lean; gaunt.
thin person
4. adj. Of low viscosity or low specific gravity, e.g., as is water compared to honey.
5. adj. Scarce; not close, crowded, or numerous; not filling the space.
The trees of a forest are thin; the corn or grass is thin.
6. adj. (golf) Describing a poorly played golf shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head. See fat, shank, toe.
7. adj. Lacking body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
8. adj. Slight; small; slender; flimsy; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering.
a thin disguise
9. s. (philately) A loss or tearing of paper from the back of a stamp, although not sufficient to create a complete hole.
10. s. Any food produced or served in thin slices.
chocolate mint thins
potato thins
11. v. To make thin or thinner.
12. v. (intransitive) To become thin or thinner.
13. v. To dilute.
14. v. To remove some plants or parts of plants in order to improve the growth of what remains.
15. adv. Not thickly or closely; in a scattered state.
seed sown thin
sheer
1. adj. Mero
sheer
1. adj. (textiles) Very thin or transparent.
Her light, sheer dress caught everyone’s attention.
2. adj. (obsolete) Pure in composition; unmixed; unadulterated.
3. adj. (by extension) Downright; complete; pure.
I think it is sheer genius to invent such a thing.
This poem is sheer nonsense.
Through technological wizardry and sheer audacity, Google has shown how we can transform the intellectual riches of our libraries....
4. adj. Used to emphasize the amount or degree of something.
The army's sheer size made it impossible to resist.
5. adj. Very steep; almost vertical or perpendicular.
It was a sheer drop of 180 feet.
6. adv. (archaic) Clean; quite; at once.
7. s. A sheer curtain or fabric.
Use sheers to maximize natural light.
8. s. (nautical) The curve of the main deck or gunwale from bow to stern.
9. s. (nautical) An abrupt swerve from the course of a ship.
10. v. (chiefly nautical) To swerve from a course.
