fine
Because it is a word with a single syllable, fine is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions offine
- Fine champagne; French brandy.
- (usually in the plural) Something that is fine; fine particles.
Example: "They filtered silt and fines out of the soil."
- To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify.
Example: "to fine gold"
- To become finer, purer, or cleaner.
- To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.
Example: "to fine the soil"
- To change by fine gradations.
Example: "to fine down a ship's lines, i.e. to diminish her lines gradually"
- To clarify (wine and beer) by filtration.
- To become gradually fine; to diminish; to dwindle (with away, down, or off).
- Senses referring to subjective quality.
- Senses referring to objective quality.
- Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets.
Example: "[...] to nudge it through the covers (or tickle it down to fine leg) for a four [...]"
- Subtle; thin; tenuous.
- Expression of (typically) reluctant agreement.
- Well, nicely, in a positive way.
Example: "Everything worked out fine."
- Finely; elegantly; delicately.
- 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.
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