Main entry: fine, mulct, amercement
Definition: money extracted as a penalty
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!
Main entry: 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
Main entry: fine
Definition: minutely precise especially in differences in meaning
Usage: a fine distinction
Main entry: fine
Definition: free from impurities; having a high or specified degree of purity
Usage: gold 21 carats fine
Main entry: 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
Main entry: 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
Main entry: fine
Definition: thin in thickness or diameter
Usage: a fine film of oil; fine hairs; read the fine print
Main entry: all right, alright, OK, very well, fine
Definition: an expression of agreement normally occurring at the beginning of a sentence
Main entry: fine, finely, exquisitely, delicately
Definition: in a delicate manner
Usage: finely shaped features; her fine drawn body