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Fine can be an adjective, a verb, an adverb or a noun.

fine used as an adjective:

  1. Of superior quality.
  2. Of a particular grade of quality, usually between very good and very fine, and below mint.
  3. Sunny and not raining.
  4. (informal) Being acceptable, adequate, passable, or satisfactory.
  5. (informal) Good-looking, attractive.
  6. Consisting of especially minute particulate; made up of particularly small pieces.
  7. Particularly slender; especially thin, narrow, or of small girth.
  8. Made of slender or thin filaments.
  9. Subtle, delicately balanced.
  10. Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets.

Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →

fine used as a verb:

  1. to make finer, purer, or cleaner
  2. to become finer, purer, or cleaner
  3. to clarify (wine and beer) by filtration
  4. To issue a fine as punishment to (someone).

Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →

fine used as an adverb:

  1. expression of agreement

An adverb is a word that modifies an adjective (very red), verb (quietly running), or another adverb (very carefully). Learn more →

fine used as a noun:

  1. something that is fine; fine particles
  2. A payment or fee issued as punishment for breaking the law.
  3. The end of a musical composition.
  4. 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.

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

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What type of word is fine?

As detailed above, 'fine' can be an adjective, a verb, an adverb or a noun. There are currently no example sentences for fine in this site's database.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of fine are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of fine, and guess at its most common usage.

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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.

The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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