Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who refines or purifies; a refiner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who fines or purifies.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
comparative form offine : morefine - noun One who fines or purifies.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (comparative of `fine') greater in quality or excellence
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Examples
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[2] Hannah I know has some reason about her and if you all think the present proposal wrong which I rather doubt myself even while I write, they may both depend on coming here or elsewhere in finer weather.
Letter 153 2009
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Espresso, ground far finer, is stale in an hour, which is why any espresso bar will have a doser-grinder that grinds the coffee every few minutes located right beside the espresso machine.
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Could you possibly describe the collection in finer detail?
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Of course, such mortals are so favored by virtue of the fact that they almost always do the right and do it in finer and higher ways than other men.
Chapter VI 2010
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Greater and greater sensitivity of measurement was needed, as well, as the material world was examined in finer and finer detail.
Measurement ewillett 2009
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Espresso, ground far finer, is stale in an hour, which is why any espresso bar will have a doser-grinder that grinds the coffee every few minutes located right beside the espresso machine.
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Most examples are certified as AU58 or finer, MS63 and finer from the early 1960s forward.
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Could you possibly describe the collection in finer detail?
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Nothin 'finer than the good old boys network to be alive and well huh?
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The characterization might feel a bit rough around the edges at times and somewhat lacking in finer nuances, but it still manages to impress, regardless of its relative simplicity.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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