Synonyms: fine, mulct, amercement
Definition: money extracted as a penalty
Similar words: penalty
Definition: a payment required for not fulfilling a contract
Definition: issue a ticket or a fine to as a penalty
Usage: I was fined for parking on the wrong side of the street; Move your car or else you will be ticketed!
Similar words: book
Definition: record a charge in a police register
Usage: The policeman booked her when she tried to solicit a man
Synonyms: fine
Definition: characterized by elegance or refinement or accomplishment
Usage: fine wine; looking fine in her Easter suit; a fine gentleman; fine china and crystal; a fine violinist; the fine hand of a master
Similar words: elegant
Definition: refined and tasteful in appearance or behavior or style
Usage: elegant handwriting; an elegant dark suit; she was elegant to her fingertips; small churches with elegant white spires; an elegant mathematical solution--simple and precise and lucid
Synonyms: fine
Definition: minutely precise especially in differences in meaning
Usage: a fine distinction
Similar words: precise
Definition: sharply exact or accurate or delimited
Usage: a precise mind; specified a precise amount; arrived at the precise moment
Synonyms: fine
Definition: free from impurities; having a high or specified degree of purity
Usage: gold 21 carats fine
Similar words: pure
Definition: free of extraneous elements of any kind
Usage: pure air and water; pure gold; pure primary colors; the violin's pure and lovely song; pure tones; pure oxygen
Synonyms: o.k., ok, okay, fine, hunky-dory, all right
Definition: being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition
Usage: an all-right movie; the passengers were shaken up but are all right; is everything all right?; everything's fine; things are okay; dinner and the movies had been fine; another minute I'd have been fine
Similar words: satisfactory
Definition: giving satisfaction
Usage: satisfactory living conditions; his grades were satisfactory
Synonyms: fine
Definition: of textures that are smooth to the touch or substances consisting of relatively small particles
Usage: wood with a fine grain; fine powdery snow; fine rain; batiste is a cotton fabric with a fine weave; covered with a fine film of dust
Definition: of textiles
Usage: a close weave; smooth percale with a very tight weave
Similar words: close-grained, fine-grained
Definition: dense or compact in structure or texture, as a wood composed of small-diameter cells
Usage: close-grained birch; fine-grained rock
Similar words: dustlike
Definition: as fine and powdery as dust
Similar words: floury
Definition: resembling flour in fine powdery texture
Usage: a floury clay
Similar words: nongranular
Definition: not having granules
Usage: clear nongranular cytoplasm
Similar words: fine-grained, powdered, powdery, pulverised, pulverized, small-grained
Definition: consisting of fine particles
Usage: powdered cellulose; powdery snow; pulverized sugar is prepared from granulated sugar by grinding
Similar words: small
Definition: have fine or very small constituent particles
Usage: a small misty rain
Similar words: superfine
Definition: of extremely fine size or texture
Usage: superfine sugar; a superfine file
Synonyms: fine
Definition: thin in thickness or diameter
Usage: a fine film of oil; fine hairs; read the fine print
Similar words: thin
Definition: of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section
Usage: thin wire; a thin chiffon blouse; a thin book; a thin layer of paint