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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
fine1 /fʌɪn/

▶adjective

• 1 of very high quality.

  ■ satisfactory.

  ■ healthy and feeling well.

  ■ (of the weather) bright and clear.

  ■ (of speech or writing) sounding impressive but ultimately insincere: fine words.

  ■ (of gold or silver) containing a specified high proportion of pure metal.

• 2 very thin: fine hair.

  ■ consisting of small particles.

  ■ of delicate or intricate workmanship.

  ■ subtle and therefore perceptible with difficulty: a fine distinction.

  ■ (of a faculty) sensitive and discriminating.

• 3 Cricket behind the wicket and close to the line of flight of the bowling.

▶noun (fines) very small particles found in mining or milling. ▶adverb

• 1 informal in a satisfactory or pleasing manner.

• 2 Cricket to a fine position.

▶verb

• 1 clarify (beer or wine) by causing the precipitation of sediment.

• 2 (usu. fine something down or fine down) make or become thinner.

• 3 (fine up) N. English & Austral./NZ informal (of the weather) become bright and clear.

– phrases
cut it (or things) fine allow a very small margin of time.
one's finer feelings one's conscience or sense of morality.
one's finest hour the time of one's greatest success.
not to put too fine a point on it speak bluntly.

– derivatives
finely adverb,
fineness noun.

– origin ME: from OFr. fin, based on L. finire (see finish).

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
fine2 /fʌɪn/

▶noun a sum of money exacted as a penalty by a court of law or other authority. ▶verb punish by a fine.

– derivatives
fineable adjective.

– origin ME: from OFr. fin ‘end, payment’, from L. finis ‘end’ (in med. L. denoting a sum paid on settling a lawsuit).

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
fine3 /fiːn/

▶noun

• 1 French brandy of high quality made from distilled wine.

• 2 short for fine champagne.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
fine4 /ˈfiːneɪ/

▶noun Music the place where a piece of music finishes (when at the end of a repeated section rather than at the end of the score).

– origin Ital., from L. finis ‘end’.