fines

Meaning of fines

plural noun

very small particles found in mining, milling, etc.

verb, 3rd person present
  1. clarify (beer or wine) by causing the precipitation of sediment during production.
  2. make or become thinner.
    she'd certainly fined down —her face was thinner
  3. (of the weather) become bright and clear.

Middle English: from Old French fin, based on Latin finire ‘to finish’ (see finish).

plural noun
  1. a sum of money exacted as a penalty by a court of law or other authority.
    a parking fine
verb, 3rd person present
  1. punish (someone) for an illegal or illicit act by making them pay a sum of money.
    she was fined £1500 for driving offences

Middle English: from Old French fin ‘end, payment’, from Latin finis ‘end’ (in medieval Latin denoting a sum paid on settling a lawsuit). The original sense was ‘conclusion’ (surviving in the phrase in fine); also used in the medieval Latin sense, the word came to denote a penalty of any kind, later specifically a monetary penalty.

plural noun

(in musical directions) the place where a piece of music finishes (when this is not at the end of the score but at the end of an earlier section which is repeated at the end of the piece).

Italian, from Latin finis ‘end’.

Information about fines

Hyphenation of fines

fines

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • fines is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

fines synonyms

Meaning melt (butter) in order to separate out the water and milk solids:

clarify

Meaning remove an obstruction or unwanted item or items from:

clear

Meaning remove contaminants from:

purify

Meaning remove impurities or unwanted elements from (a substance), typically as part of an industrial process:

refine

Meaning pass (a liquid, gas, light, or sound) through a device to remove unwanted material:

filter

Meaning make or become less dense, crowded, or numerous:

thin

Meaning become or make less wide:

narrow

Meaning diminish or reduce in thickness towards one end:

taper

Meaning reduce the force, effect, or value of:

attenuate

Meaning make narrower, especially by encircling pressure:

constrict

Meaning make or become narrow:

straiten

Meaning the infliction or imposition of a penalty as retribution for an offence:

punishment

Meaning a fine or penalty for wrongdoing:

forfeit

Meaning the loss or giving up of something as a penalty for wrongdoing:

forfeiture

Meaning a threatened penalty for disobeying a law or rule:

sanction

Meaning a punishment imposed for breaking a law, rule, or contract:

penalty

Meaning a payment made to a professional person or to a professional or public body in exchange for advice or services:

fee

Meaning a price asked for goods or services:

charge

Meaning punishment inflicted on oneself as an outward expression of repentance for wrongdoing:

penance

Meaning physical harm that impairs the value, usefulness, or normal function of something:

damages

Meaning a fine or compulsory payment:

mulct

Meaning a fine:

amercement

Meaning subject to a penalty or punishment:

penalize

Meaning wound or pierce with a sting:

sting

Meaning punish with a fine:

amerce

Anagrams of fines

fenis, neifs, niefs, nifes

Words that rhyme with fines

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