• French: fin, fine
• German: filigran
• Russian: тонкий
• Swedish: fin, liten, nätt, smal, späd

• German: filigran
• Russian: тонкий
• Swedish: fin, fintrådig

Translations to be checked

• ttbc Spanish: bueno, fino

Adverb

1. expression of agreement

Synonyms

• (expression of agreement) all right, alright, OK, very well

Translations

Noun

1. (usually plural) something that is fine; fine particles
   • They filtered silt and fines out of the oil.

Verb

1. to make finer, purer, or cleaner
2. to become finer, purer, or cleaner
3. To clarify (wine and beer) by filtration.

Synonyms

• (to make or become finer, purer, or cleaner): clarify, refine, purify

Related terms

• (clarify by filtration): finings

Translations

* German: klären, filtern, sieben

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• Swedish: förfina, klara, raffinera, rena

Etymology 2

fin - end, from finis - a payment in settlement or tax

Noun

1. A payment or fee issued as punishment for breaking the law.
   • The fine for jay-walking has gone from two dollars to thirty in the last fifteen years.

Translations

• Chinese:

  Simplified:

  罚金 (fájīn) (criminal fine in Mainland China, also any fine in Singapore)

  罚款 (fákuǎn) (administrative fine in Mainland China, also any fine in Singapore)

  Traditional:

  罰金 (fájīn) (criminal fine in Macao and Taiwan)

  罰款 (fákuǎn) (any fine in Hong Kong and administrative fine in Macao)

  罰鍰 (fáhuán) (administrative fine in Taiwan)

• Czech: pokuta
• Dutch: boete
• French: amende
• German: Bußgeld , Geldbuße , Geldstrafe
• Italian: multa
• Japanese:

  罰金(ばっきん) (criminal fine)

  反則金 (administrative fine)

• Korean: 벌금 (罰金, beolgeum)
• Portuguese: multa, fiança
• Romanian: amendă
• Russian: штраф (štraf) , пеня (p'én'a)
• Spanish: multa
• Swedish: bot

Verb

1. To issue a fine as punishment to (someone).
   • She was fined a thousand dollars for littering, but she appealed.

Translations

• Dutch: beboeten
• Finnish: sakottaa
• German: mit einer Geldstrafe belegen
• Russian: штрафовать (štrafovát')
• Swedish: bötfälla
• Spanish: multar

Etymology 3

From fine ("end").

Noun

1. The end of a musical composition.
2. 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.

Usage notes

This word is virtually never used in speech and thereby essentially confined to musical notation.

French

Adjective

fine f

1. feminine form of fin

Irish

Etymology

From fine < < ; cf. Old English wine.

Pronunciation

• lang=ga|[ˈfʲɪnʲɪ]

Noun

1. family group

Declension

Italian

Adjective

1. thin
2. fine
3. refined

Synonyms

• (thin): sottile
• (refined): elegante

Etymology

finis

Pronunciation

Noun

1. end

Synonyms

• conclusione
• finale

Antonyms

• inizio
• principio

Noun

1. aim, purpose, end

   il fine giustifica i mezzi - the ends justifies the means

Synonyms

• scopo
• obiettivo

Related terms

• alla fine
• alla fin fine
• in fin dei conti
• finale
• finezza
• finire
• fino
• alla fine
• fine settimana
• infine
• senza fine

Norwegian

Adjective form

fine

1. Plural of fin.

Swedish

Adjective

fine

1. see fin

A fine is money paid usually to superior authority, usually governmenal authority, and in respect of a crime, but also in some other contexts.

Criminal penalty

The most usual use of the term, fine, relates to a financial punishment for the commission of minor crimes or as the settlement of a claim. A synonym, typically used in civil law actions, is mulct.

One common example of a fine is money paid for violations of traffic laws. Currently in English Common Law relatively small fines are used either in place of or alongside community service orders for low-level criminal offences. Larger fines are also given independently or alongside shorter prison sentences where the judge or magistrate considers a considerable amount of retribution is necessary but there is unlikely to be significant danger to the public. For instance, fraud is often punished by very large fines since fraudsters are typically debarred from the position or profession they abused to commit their crimes.

Fines can also be used as a form of tax. Money for bail may be applied toward a fine.

A day-fine is a fine that, above a minimum, is based on personal income.

Fines are considered to be a cost-efficient and fair way of punishment for those who commit a non-violent offense. Lengthy prison sentences for minor offenses such as drug possession cost taxpayers more, remove otherwise productive citizens from society, and impose a fear on society as a whole because of over-policing and excessive prosecution.

Early examples of fines include the Weregild or blood money payable under Anglo-Saxon common law for causing a death. The murderer would be expected to pay a sum of money or goods dependent on the social status of the victim.

Fines in English land transactions

A fine on alienation, in feudal law, was a sum of money paid to the lord by a tenant when he had occasion to make over his land to another. It is similar in nature to a relief, a payment made by an heir to the lord to receive his inheritance. The term fine is also a synonym for a premium, a sum paid to the landlord at the start of a lease or for the extension of the term of an exisitng lease (for example, to add an additional life to the term of a lease for lives).

A fine of lands (sometimes called a final concord) was a species of conveyance (abolished in England in 1833). It took the form of a fictitious suit compromised or terminated by the acknowledgment of the previous owner that such land was the right of the other party (a purchaser or other grantee). The court provided each party with a copy 'chirograph' of the fine and kept a third copy (known as a foot of fine). This was a necessary part of English conveyancing, where a wife was consenting to bar her right to dower, or in certain circumstances where an entail was to be barred. In other circumstances, a Common Recovery was necessary for this purpose.

See also

• Standard scale
• Penalty units

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