Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 26
Fin (n.) (Mech.) The thin sheet of metal squeezed out between the collars of the rolls in the process of rolling. -- Raymond.
Fin (n.) (Mech.) A feather; a spline.
Fin (n.) A finlike appendage, as to submarine boats.
Fin (n.) (A["e]ronautics) A fixed stabilizing surface, usually vertical, similar in purpose to a bilge keel on a ship.
Apidose fin. (Zool.) See under Adipose, a.
Fin ray (Anat.), One of the hornlike, cartilaginous, or bony, dermal rods which form the skeleton of the fins of fishes.
Fin whale (Zool.), A finback.
Paired fins (Zool.), The pectoral and ventral fins, corresponding to the fore and hind legs of the higher animals.
Unpaired fins, or Median fins (Zool.), The dorsal, caudal, and anal fins.
Fin (n.) The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one [syn: five, 5, V, cinque, quint, quintet, fivesome, quintuplet, pentad, fin, Phoebe, Little Phoebe].
Fin (n.) One of a pair of decorations projecting above the rear fenders of an automobile [syn: tail fin, tailfin, fin].
Fin (n.) One of a set of parallel slats in a door or window to admit air and reject rain [syn: louver, louvre, fin].
Fin (n.) A shoe for swimming; the paddle-like front is an aid in swimming (especially underwater) [syn: flipper, fin].
Fin (n.) A stabilizer on a ship that resembles the fin of a fish.
Fin (n.) Organ of locomotion and balance in fishes and some other aquatic animals.
Fin (v.) Equip (a car) with fins.
Fin (v.) Propel oneself through the water in a finning motion.
Fin (v.) Show the fins above the water while swimming; "The sharks were finning near the surface" [syn: fin, break water].
Finable (a.) Liable or subject to a fine; as, a finable person or offense. -- Bacon.
Finable (a.) Liable to a fine [syn: finable, fineable].
Final (a.) Pertaining to the end or conclusion; last; terminating; ultimate; as, the final day of a school term.
Final
(a.)
Conclusive; decisive; as, a final judgment; the battle of
Final (a.) Respecting an end or object to be gained; respecting the purpose or ultimate end in view.
Final cause. See under Cause.
Syn: Final, Conclusive, Ultimate.
Usage: Final is now appropriated to that which brings with it an end; as, a final adjustment; the final judgment, etc. Conclusive implies the closing of all discussion, negotiation, etc.; as, a conclusive argument or fact; a conclusive arrangement. In using ultimate, we have always reference to something earlier or proceeding; as when we say, a temporary reverse may lead to an ultimate triumph. The statements which a man finally makes at the close of a negotiation are usually conclusive as to his ultimate intentions and designs.
Final (a.) Occurring at or forming an end or termination; "his concluding words came as a surprise"; "the final chapter"; "the last days of the dinosaurs"; "terminal leave" [syn: concluding, final, last, terminal].
Final (a.) Conclusive in a process or progression; "the final answer"; "a last resort"; "the net result" [syn: final, last, net].
Final (a.) Not to be altered or undone; "the judge's decision is final"; "the arbiter will have the last say" [syn: final, last].
Final (n.) The final match between the winners of all previous matches in an elimination tournament.
Final (n.) An examination administered at the end of an academic term [syn: final examination, final exam, final].
Final. () That which puts an end to anything.
Final. () It is used in opposition to interlocutory; as, a final judgment,. is a judgment which ends the controversy between the parties litigant. 1 Wheat. 355; 2 Pet. 449. See 12 Wheat. 135; 4 Dall. 22; 9 Pet. 1; 6 Wheat. 448; 3 Cranch, 179; 6 Cranch, 51; Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t.
Finale (n.) Close; termination; as:
Finale (n.) (Mus.) The last movement of a symphony, sonata, concerto, or any instrumental composition.
Finale (n.) The last composition performed in any act of an opera.
Finale (n.) The closing part, piece, or scene in any public performance or exhibition.
Finale (n.) The closing section of a musical composition [syn: finale, coda].
Finale (n.) The temporal end; the concluding time; "the stopping point of each round was signaled by a bell"; "the market was up at the finish"; "they were playing better at the close of the season" [syn: stopping point, finale, finis, finish, last, conclusion, close].
Finale (n.) The concluding part of any performance [syn: finale, close, closing curtain, finis].
Finalities (n. pl. ) of Finality.
Finality (n.) The state of being final, finished, or complete; a final or conclusive arrangement; a settlement. -- Baxter.
Finality (n.) The relation of end or purpose to its means. -- Janet.
Finality (n.) The quality of being final or definitely settled; "the finality of death" [syn: finality, conclusiveness, decisiveness] [ant: inconclusiveness].
Finalize (v. t.) To put the last touches on; put into final form.
Syn: make final, settle, nail down.
Finalize (v.) Make final; put the last touches on; put into final form; "let's finalize the proposal" [syn: {finalize}, {finalise}, {settle}, {nail down}].
Finally (adv.) 最後，終於；決定性地 At the end or conclusion; ultimately; lastly; as, the contest was long, but the Romans finally conquered.
Whom patience finally must crown. -- Milton.
Finally (adv.) Completely; beyond recovery.
Not any house of noble English in Ireland was utterly destroyed or finally rooted out. -- Sir J. Davies.
Finally (adv.) After an unspecified period of time or an especially long delay [syn: {finally}, {eventually}].
Finally (adv.) As the end result of a succession or process; "ultimately he had to give in"; "at long last the winter was over" [syn: {ultimately}, {finally}, {in the end}, {at last}, {at long last}].
Finally (adv.) The item at the end; "last, I'll discuss family values" [syn: {last}, {lastly}, {in conclusion}, {finally}].
Finance (n.) 財政；金融；財政學 [U]；（對事業的）資金支援 [U]；財源；資金；（國家的）歲入；財務情況 [P] The income of a ruler or of a state; revennue; public money; sometimes, the income of an individual; often used in the plural for funds; available money; resources.
All the finances or revenues of the imperial crown. -- Bacon.
Finance (n.) The science of raising and expending the public revenue.
"Versed in the details of finance." -- Macaulay.
Finance (v. t. & i.) (v. t.) 供資金給；融資，為……籌措資金；賒貨給 To conduct the finances of; to provide for, and manage, the capital for; to financier.
Securing foreign capital to finance multitudinous undertakings. -- B. H Chamberlain.
Finance (n.) The commercial activity of providing funds and capital.
Finance (n.) The branch of economics that studies the management of money and other assets.
Finance (n.) The management of money and credit and banking and investments.
Finance (v.) Obtain or provide money for; "Can we finance the addition to our home?"
Finance (v.) Sell or provide on credit.
Finance (n.) The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The pronunciation of this word with the i long and the accent on the first syllable is one of America's most precious discoveries and possessions.
Financial (a.) 財政的；金融的；金融界的 Pertaining to finance. "Our financial and commercial system." -- Macaulay.
Financial (a.) Involving financial matters; "fiscal responsibility" [syn: {fiscal}, {financial}] [ant: {nonfinancial}].
Financialist (n.) A financier.
Financially (adv.) In a dfinancial manner. -- Burke.
Financially (adv.) From a financial point of view; "this was financially unattractive."
Financier (n.) One charged with the administration of finance; an officer who administers the public revenue; a treasurer.
Financier (n.) One skilled in financial operations; one acquainted with money matters.
Financier (n.) A person skilled in large scale financial transactions [syn: {financier}, {moneyman}].
Financier (v.) Conduct financial operations, often in an unethical manner.
Financiered (imp. & p. p.) of Financier.
Financiering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Financier.
Financier (v. i.) To conduct financial operations.
Finary (n.) See Finery.
Finative (a.) Conclusive; decisive; definitive; final.
Finback (n.) Any whale of the genera Sibbaldius, Balaenoptera, and allied genera, of the family Balaenopteridae, characterized by a prominent fin on the back. The common finbacks of the New England coast are Sibbaldius tectirostris and S. tuberosus.
Fishes (n. pl. ) of Finch.
Finch (n.) A small singing bird of many genera and species, belonging to the family Fringillidae.
Finchbacked (a.) Streaked or spotted on the back; -- said of cattle.
Finched (a.) Same as Finchbacked.
Found (imp. & p. p.) of Find.
Finding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Find.
Find (v. t.) To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a person.
Searching the window for a flint, I found This paper, thus sealed up. -- Shak.
In woods and forests thou art found. -- Cowley.
Find (v. t.) To learn by experience or trial; to perceive; to experience; to discover by the intellect or the feelings; to detect; to feel. "I find you passing gentle." -- Shak.
The torrid zone is now found habitable. -- Cowley.
Find (v. t.) To come upon by seeking; as, to find something lost.
Find (v. t.) To discover by sounding; as, to find bottom.
Find (v. t.) To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end; as, water is found to be a compound substance.
Find (v. t.) To gain, as the object of desire or effort; as, to find leisure; to find means.
Find (v. t.) To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
Seek, and ye shall find. -- Matt. vii. 7.
Every mountain now hath found a tongue. -- Byron.
Find (v. t.) To provide for; to supply; to furnish; as, to find food for workemen; he finds his nephew in money.
Wages [pounds]14 and all found. -- London Times.
Nothing a day and find yourself. -- Dickens.
Find (v. t.) To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish; as, to find a verdict; to find a true bill (of indictment) against an accused person.
To find his title with some shows of truth. -- Shak.
To find out, To detect (a thief); to discover (a secret) -- to solve or unriddle (a parable or enigma); to understand. "Canst thou by searching find out God?" --Job. xi. 7. "We do hope to find out all your tricks." -- Milton.
To find fault with, To blame; to censure.
To find one's self, to be; to fare; -- often used in speaking of health; as, how do you find yourself this morning?
Find (v. i.) (Law) To determine an issue of fact, and to declare such a determination to a court; as, the jury find for the plaintiff. -- Burrill.
Find (n.) Anything found; a discovery of anything valuable; especially, a deposit, discovered by archaeologists, of objects of prehistoric or unknown origin.
Find (n.) A productive insight [syn: discovery, breakthrough, find].
Find (n.) The act of discovering something [syn: discovery, find, uncovering].
Find (v.) Come upon, as if by accident; meet with; "We find this idea in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day" [syn: find, happen, chance, bump, encounter].
Find (v.) Discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of; "She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water"; "We found traces of lead in the paint" [syn: detect, observe, find, discover, notice].
Find (v.) Come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost; "Did you find your glasses?"; "I cannot find my gloves!" [syn: find, regain] [ant: lose].
Find (v.) Establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study; "find the product of two numbers"; "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize" [syn: determine, find, find out, ascertain].
Find (v.) Come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds; "I feel that he doesn't like me"; "I find him to be obnoxious"; "I found the movie rather entertaining" [syn: find, feel].
Find (v.) Perceive or be contemporaneous with; "We found Republicans winning the offices"; "You'll see a lot of cheating in this school"; "The 1960's saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions"; "I want to see results" [syn: witness, find, see].
Find (v.) Get something or somebody for a specific purpose; "I found this gadget that will serve as a bottle opener"; "I got hold of these tools to fix our plumbing"; "The chairman got hold of a secretary on Friday night to type the urgent letter" [syn: line up, get hold, come up, find].
Find (v.) Make a discovery, make a new finding; "Roentgen discovered X-rays"; "Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle" [syn: discover, find].
Find (v.) Make a discovery; "She found that he had lied to her"; "The story is false, so far as I can discover" [syn: discover, find].
Find (v.) Obtain through effort or management; "She found the time and energy to take care of her aging parents"; "We found the money to send our sons to college."
Find (v.) Decide on and make a declaration about; "find someone guilty" [syn: rule, find].
Find (v.) Receive a specified treatment (abstract); "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"; "His movie received a good review"; "I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions" [syn: receive, get, find, obtain, incur].
Find (v.) Perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place; "I found myself in a difficult situation"; "When he woke up, he found himself in a hospital room."
Find (v.) Get or find back; recover the use of; "She regained control of herself"; "She found her voice and replied quickly" [syn: recover, retrieve, find, regain].
Find (v.) Succeed in reaching; arrive at; "The arrow found its mark."
Find (v.) Accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation; "My son went to Berkeley to find himself" [syn: find oneself, find].
Findable (a.) Capable of beong found; discoverable.
Finder (n.) One who, or that which, finds; specifically (Astron.), a small telescope of low power and large field of view, attached to a larger telescope, for the purpose of finding an object more readily.
Findfault (n.) A censurer or caviler.
Findfaulting (a.) Apt to censure or cavil; faultfinding; captious.
Finding (n.) That which is found, come upon, or provided; esp. (pl.), that which a journeyman artisan finds or provides for himself; as tools, trimmings, etc.
Finding (n.) Support; maintenance; that which is provided for one; expence; provision.
Finding (n.) The result of a judicial examination or inquiry, especially into some matter of fact; a verdict; as, the finding of a jury.
Findy (a.) Full; heavy; firm; solid; substemtial.
Fine (a.) 美好的，優秀的；傑出的 [B]；纖細的；尖細的 Finished; brought to perfection; refined; hence, free from impurity; excellent; superior; elegant; worthy of admiration; accomplished; beautiful.
The gain thereof [is better] than fine gold. -- Prov. iii. 14.
A cup of wine that's brisk and fine. -- Shak.
Not only the finest gentleman of his time, but one of the finest scholars. -- Felton.
To soothe the sick bed of so fine a being [Keats]. -- Leigh Hunt.
Fine (a.) Aiming at show or effect; loaded with ornament; overdressed or overdecorated; showy.
He gratified them with occasional . . . fine writing. -- M. Arnold.
Fine (a.) Nice; delicate; subtle; exquisite; artful; skillful; dexterous.
The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! -- Pope.
The nicest and most delicate touches of satire consist in fine raillery. -- Dryden.
He has as fine a hand at picking a pocket as a woman. -- T. Gray.
Fine (a.) Not coarse, gross, or heavy; as:
Fine (a.) Not gross; subtile; thin; tenous.
The eye standeth in the finer medium and the object in the grosser. -- Bacon.
Fine (a.) Not coarse; comminuted; in small particles; as, fine sand or flour.
Fine (a.) Not thick or heavy; slender; filmy; as, a fine thread.
Fine (a.) Thin; attenuate; keen; as, a fine edge.
Fine (a.) Made of fine materials; light; delicate; as, fine linen or silk.
Fine (a.) Having (such) a proportion of pure metal in its composition; as, coins nine tenths fine.
Fine (a.) (Used ironically.) Ye have made a fine hand, fellows. -- Shak.
Note: Fine is often compounded with participles and adjectives, modifying them adverbially; a, fine-drawn, fine-featured, fine-grained, fine-spoken, fine-spun, etc.
{Fine arch} (Glass Making), The smaller fritting furnace of a glasshouse. -- Knight.
{Fine arts}. See the Note under {Art}.
{The fine arts} 美術 Are those which have primarily to do with imagination and taste, and are applied to the production of what is beautiful. They include poetry, music, painting, engraving, sculpture, and architecture; but the term is often confined to painting, sculpture, and architecture.
{Fine cut}, Fine cut tobacco; a kind of chewing tobacco cut up into shreds.
{Fine goods}, Woven fabrics of fine texture and quality. -- McElrath.
{Fine stuff}, Lime, or a mixture of lime, plaster, etc., used as material for the finishing coat in plastering.
{To sail fine} (Naut.), To sail as close to the wind as possible.
Syn: {Fine}, {Beautiful}.
Usage: When used as a word of praise, fine (being opposed to coarse) denotes no "ordinary thing of its kind." It is not as strong as beautiful, in reference to the single attribute implied in the latter term; but when we speak of a fine woman, we include a greater variety of particulars, viz., all the qualities which become a woman, -- breeding, sentiment, tact, etc. The term is equally comprehensive when we speak of a fine garden, landscape, horse, poem, etc.; and, though applied to a great variety of objects, the word has still a very definite sense, denoting a high degree of characteristic excellence.
Fined (imp. & p. p.) of Fine.
Fining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fine.
Fine (v. t.) 使純；澄清；使精細；使細小 To make fine; to refine; to purify, to clarify; as, to fine gold.
Fine (v. t.) To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.; as. to fine the soil.
Fine (v. t.) To change by fine gradations; as (Naut.), to fine down a ship's lines, to diminish her lines gradually.
Fine (n.) End; conclusion; termination; extinction. [Obs.] "To see their fatal fine." -- Spenser.
Is this the fine of his fines? -- Shak.
Fine (n.) A sum of money paid as the settlement of a claim, or by way of terminating a matter in dispute; especially, a payment of money imposed upon a party as a punishment for an offense; a mulct.
Fine (n.) (Law) (Feudal Law) A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal.
Fine (n.) (Law) (Eng. 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.
Fine (v. t.) To impose a pecuniary penalty upon for an offense or breach of law; to set a fine on by judgment of a court; to punish by fine; to mulct; as, the trespassers were fined ten dollars.
Fine (v. i.) To pay a fine. See {Fine}, n., 3 (b). [R.]
Fine (v. t. & i.) To finish; to cease; or to cause to cease. [Obs.]
Fine (adv.) 細微地；精巧地；【口】很好地；妙 Finely; well; elegantly; fully; delicately; mincingly. [Obs., Dial., or Colloq.]
Fine (adv.) (Billiards & Pool) In a manner so that the driven ball strikes the object ball so far to one side as to be deflected but little, the object ball being driven to one side.
Finedrawn (imp. & p. p.) of Finedraw.
Finedrawing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Finedraw.
Finedraw (v. t.) To sew up, so nicely that the seam is not perceived; to renter. -- Marryat.
Finedrawer (n.) One who finedraws.
Finedrawn (a.) Drawn out with too much subtilty; overnice; as, finedrawn speculations.
Fineer (v. i.) To run in dept by getting goods made up in a way unsuitable for the use of others, and then threatening not to take them except on credit. [R.] -- Goldsmith.
Fineer (v. t.) To veneer.
Fineless (a.) Endless; boundless. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Finely (adv.) In a fine or finished manner.
Finely (adv.) In tiny pieces; "the surfaces were finely granular" [ant: {coarsely}].
Finely (adv.) In an elegant manner; "finely costumed actors".
Finely (adv.) In a delicate manner; "finely shaped features"; "her fine drawn body" [syn: {finely}, {fine}, {delicately}, {exquisitely}].
Fineness (n.) The quality or condition of being fine.
Fineness (n.) Freedom from foreign matter or alloy; clearness; purity; as, the fineness of liquor.
The fineness of the gold, and chargeful fashion. -- Shak.
Fineness (n.) The proportion of pure silver or gold in jewelry, bullion, or coins.
Note: The fineness of United States coin is nine tenths, that of English gold coin is eleven twelfths, and that of English silver coin is [frac925x1000].
Fineness (n.) Keenness or sharpness; as, the fineness of a needle's point, or of the edge of a blade.
Fineness (n.) The quality of being very good indeed; "the inn is distinguished by the fineness of its cuisine" [syn: {fineness}, {choiceness}].
Fineness (n.) The property of being very narrow or thin; "he marvelled at the fineness of her hair" [syn: {fineness}, {thinness}].
Fineness (n.) Having a very fine texture; "the fineness of the sand on the beach" [syn: {fineness}, {powderiness}].
Fineness (n.) The quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance; "the daintiness of her touch"; "the fineness of her features" [syn: {daintiness}, {delicacy}, {fineness}].
Finer (n.) One who fines or purifies.
Finer (a.) (Comparative of `fine') Greater in quality or excellence; "a finer wine"; "a finer musician".
Finer (n.) A worker in silver and gold (Prov. 25:4). In Judg. 17:4 the word (tsoreph) is rendered "founder," and in Isa. 41:7 "goldsmith."
Finery (n.) Fineness; beauty.
Finery (n.) Ornament; decoration; especially, excecially decoration; showy clothes; jewels.
Finery (n.) A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling.
Finespun (a.) Spun so as to be fine; drawn to a fine thread; attenuated; hence, unsubstantial; visionary; as, finespun theories.
Finesse (a.) Subtilty of contrivance to gain a point; artifice; stratagem.
This is the artificialest piece of finesse to persuade men into slavery. -- Milton.
Finesse (a.) (Whist Playing) The act of finessing. See Finesse, v. i., 2.
Finessed (imp. & p. p.) of Finesse.
Finessing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Finesse.
Finesse (v. i.) To use artifice or stratagem. -- Goldsmith.