How to pronounce “fine”

Meaning

• [Adjective]
• Senses referring to subjective quality.
• Senses referring to objective quality.
• (cricket) Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets.
• (obsolete) Subtle; thin; tenuous.
• [Adverb]
• Well, nicely, in a positive, agreeable way.
• (dated, dialect, colloquial) Finely; elegantly; delicately.
• (pool, billiards) 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.
• [Interjection]
• Expression of (typically) reluctant or agreement.
• Expression of (typically) reluctant acceptance, without further argument or discussion, of another person's viewpoint.
• [Noun]
• Fine champagne; French brandy.
• (usually in the plural) Something that is fine; fine particles.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify.
• (intransitive) To become finer, purer, or cleaner.
• To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.
• To change by fine gradations.
• (transitive) To clarify (wine and beer) by filtration.
• (intransitive, dated) To become gradually fine; to diminish; to dwindle (with away, down, or off).

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