📖 Definitions of "Fines"
noun
- 1
Fine champagne; French brandy.
- 2
(usually in the plural) Something that is fine; fine particles.
"They filtered silt and fines out of the soil."
verb
- 1
To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify.
"to fine gold"
- 2
To become finer, purer, or cleaner.
- 3
To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.
"to fine the soil"
- 4
To change by fine gradations.
"to fine down a ship's lines, i.e. to diminish her lines gradually"
noun
- 1
A fee levied as punishment for breaking the law.
"The fine for jay-walking has gone from two dollars to thirty in the last fifteen years."
verb
- 1
To issue a fine as punishment to (someone).
"She was fined a thousand dollars for littering, but she appealed."
- 2
To pay a fine.
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