fines
Because it is a word with a single syllable, fines is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions offines
- 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).
- A fee levied as punishment for breaking the law.
Example: "The fine for jay-walking has gone from two dollars to thirty in the last fifteen years."
- To issue a fine as punishment to (someone).
Example: "She was fined a thousand dollars for littering, but she appealed."
- To pay a fine.
- The end of a musical composition.
- The location in a musical score that indicates the end of the piece, particularly when the piece ends somewhere in the middle of the score due to a section of the music being repeated.
- End; conclusion; termination; extinction.
- A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal.
- 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.
- To finish; to cease.
- To cause to cease; to stop.
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