fine

/fʌɪn/

US pronunciation

American sound/fʌɪn/

fine

Syllables: 1 syllable
Stress: One strong syllable
Vowel: Short i vowel
Ending: Final e often stays silent

US voice -> fine

Myanmar meaning

(n) ဒဏ်ငွေ။ (v) ဒဏ်ငွေရိုက်သည်။ (adj) ကောင်းမွန်သော။ ကြည်လင်သော။ (adj) အဆင့်မြင့်

Full entry

fine¹ / faÇn / adj (-r, -st)

၁။ (က) အဆင့်မြင့်သော။ ထိပ်တန်း ကျသော။ ကောင်းသော။ a very fine performance ❍ a particularly fine example of this style of decoration ❍ fine clothes / wines ❍ This is arguably the finest collection of paintings in Europe. (ခ) အနုစိတ်သော။ လက်ရာမြောက်သော။ fine workmanship ❍ fine silk / china.
(ဂ) ကောင်းသော။ လှသော။ နှစ်လိုဖွယ်။ a fine view ❍ ‘How was your skiing holiday?’ ‘Fine–plenty of snow. ’ ❍ a fine-looking young man ❍ (ironic ) This is a fine mess we're in!
တို့တော့ ဒုက္ခလှလှ ရောက်ပြီပေါ့။
(ဃ) နေကောင်းသော။ ကျန်းမာသော။ အကောင်းပကတိ။ ‘How are you?’ ‘Fine, thanks. ’ ❍ My mother was feeling fine when I got home. (င) (esp Brit ) သာယာသော။ ကြည်လင် သော။ It poured all morning, but turned fine later.
(စ) သန့်စင်ထားသော။ (ကြေး) ချွတ်ထားသော။ fine gold.
၂။ နုသော။ ညက်သော။ fine powder / flour / dust ❍ Sand is finer than gravel.
၃။ ပါးလွှာသော။ သေးမျှင်သော။ ချွန်ထက်သော။ fine hair / thread ❍ a pencil with a fine point.
၄။ အနုစိတ်သော။ You are making very fine distinctions. ❍ There is a fine line (to be drawn) between assertiveness and aggressiveness.
၅။ ကြီးကျယ်သော။ His speech was full of fine words which meant nothing.
၆။ (infml ) ကောင်းတယ်။ ကောင်းပြီ။ ‘I'll leave these on your desk in the morning, OK?’ ‘Fine. ’
adv
၁။ (infml ) အံကိုက်။ ဟန်ကျပန်ကျ။ That arrangement suits me fine.
၂။ (in compounds) (က) အနုစိတ်။ fine-drawn distinctions.
(ခ) ညံ့ညံ့သက်သက်။ ညက်ညက် ညောညော။ fine-spun cloth.
❏ cut it/things fine [IDM ] အတိမ်းအစောင်း မခံနိုင်အောင် တိကျလွန်းသည်။ If we only allow five minutes for catching our train, we'll be cutting it very fine.
❏ fine art n [U] (also the fine arts [pl]) အနုပညာ။ သုခုမပညာ။ a fine-arts course.
❏ finely adv
၁။ ကောင်းစွာ။ ခမ်းနားစွာ။ သားသားနားနား။ finely dressed.
၂။ ရိပ်ရိပ်။ နုပ်နုပ်။ ညက်ညက်။ မျှင်မျှင်။
finely chopped herbs.
၃။ ညက်အောင်။ a finely tuned engine
❍ The match was finely balanced.
ဤပွဲတွင် နှစ်ဖက် အထူး လက်ရည်မျှကြသည်။
❏ fineness n [U]
အလွန်ကောင်းခြင်း။ မူးရည်စသော စံချိန်။
❏ the fine print n [U] = THE SMALL PRINT (SMALL)
❏ the finer points (of sth) [IDM ] အနုစိတ်အချက်များ။ သိမ်မွေ့သောသဘော။
I don't understand the finer points of billiards but I enjoy watching it on TV.
❏ fine-tooth comb n ဘီးစိပ်။
❏ fine-tune v အသေးစိတ် ချိန်ညှိသည်။
We spent the next few weeks fine-tuning the scheme and made some useful improvements.
❏ get sth down to a fine art [IDM ] (infml ) အလွန်ကျွမ်း သည်။ တစ်ဖက်ကမ်းခပ်သည်။
She's got the business of buying birthday presents down to a fine art.
❏ not to put too fine a point on it [IDM ] အမှန်အတိုင်း ပြောသည်။ I don't much like modern music —in fact, not to put too fine a point on it, I hate it.
❏ (go over, through, etc sth) with a fine-tooth comb [IDM ] ပိုက်စိပ်တိုက်သည်။ အသေးစိတ် လိုက်သည်။ Police experts are sifting all the evidence with a fine-tooth comb.

fine² / faÇn / n

ဒဏ်ငွေ။ parking fines
❍ Offenders will be liable to a heavy / stiff fine. ❍ Her escapade cost her $ 1000 in fines.
v ~ sb (for sth / doing sth)
ဒဏ်တပ်သည်။ ဒဏ်တပ် ခံရ သည်။
She was fined for dangerous driving.
❍ The court fined him a total of £ 500.

More examples

‘Is your room all right?’ ‘Yes, fine, thanks.’
‘Is it okay if we join you later?’ ‘Yes, that’s fine.’
[fine for] : I’m not very hungry. A sandwich will be fine for me.
[fine by someone] : If that’s what he wants, that’s fine by me.
One of the city’s finest Victorian buildings
She has a remarkably fine singing voice.
Fine clothes/food/wine
Mr Huddlestone was a very fine man.
‘How are you?’ ‘Fine, thanks.’
Sarah’s been quite ill, but she’s fine now.
Your blood pressure is absolutely fine.
A fine summer’s afternoon
We’ll go to the beach tomorrow if the weather’s fine.
I’ve got very fine hair.
Everything was covered in a fine layer of dust.
The rain had slowed to a fine drizzle.
Fine sand/gravel/soil
An attractive girl with fine features
It seems a very fine distinction to make.
[fine details/points] : He spent hours explaining the finer details of the scheme.

Synonyms

well, very well, in good health, all right, okay, OK, abstruse, acceptable, accomplished, aces, acute, adequate, admirable, admirably, agreed, alienate, amends, amerce, amercement, assessment, attractive, balmy, beautiful, beyond a doubt, beyond doubt, bright, by all means, capital, certainly, charge, chiseled, choice, clarion, clear, clement, cloudless, confiscate, cool, crack, critical, cryptic, dainty, damages, dandy, delicate, delicate; sheer, diaphanous, discerning, discriminating, distinct, distinctively, divinely, dock, dry, elegant, enigmatic, enjoyable, esoteric, ethereal, even so, exact, excellent, excellently, exceptional, expensive, exquisite, exquisitely, extort, extremely well, faint, fair, famously, fashionable, fastidious, filmy, fine-drawn, fine-grained, fine-spun, first-class, first-rate, first-string, five-star, flawlessly, flimsy, forfeit, fragile, gauzy, gilt-edged, gnarly, good, good enough, good-looking, gossamer, gossamery, granular, great, hairline, hairsplitting, handsome, hit with, impalpable, ingeniously, insubstantial, intelligent, just so, keen, levy, light, lightweight, little, loose, lovely, magnificent, make pay, masterfully, masterly, mean, minute, most assuredly, mulct, neat, nice, no problem, not too shabby, obscure, of course, ornate, outstanding, pay through the nose, payment, penalize, penalty, perceptive, petty, pleasant, porous, powdered, powdery, precise, pulverized, punish, punishment, pure, quality, quick, rainless, rare, reasonable, recondite, refined, reparation, right on, rip, roger, satisfactory, sconce, seize, select, sensationally, sensitive

Antonyms

amends, award, awkward, bad, big, blunt, cheap, cloudy, coarse, common, compensate, compensation, consequential, corrupt, crude, dark, disagreeable, drab, dull, fat, forthright, giant, give, harsh, hateful, heavy, homely, honest, horrifying, huge, humble, ignorant, important, imprecise, indefinite, inferior, insensitive, insignificant, large, obtuse, offensive, ordinary, polluted, poor, rainy, regular, reimburse, reimbursement, release, repulsive, reward, rough, second-rate, serious, shabby, significant, slow, small, stormy, stupid, substantial, thick, ugly, unattractive, uncouth, undiscriminating, unexceptional, unfashionable, unhappy, unimportant, unintelligent, unpopular, unrefined, unsatisfactory, unsophisticated, useful, usual