fin
IPA: fˈɪn
noun
- (ichthyology) One of the appendages of a fish, used to propel itself and to manoeuvre/maneuver.
- A similar appendage of a cetacean or other marine animal.
- A thin, rigid component of an aircraft, extending from the fuselage and used to stabilise and steer the aircraft.
- A similar structure on the tail of a bomb, used to help keep it on course.
- (surfing) A similar structure on the bottom of a surfboard, used to help steer it.
- A hairstyle, resembling the fin of a fish, in which the hair is combed and set into a vertical ridge along the top of the head from about the crown to the forehead.
- A device worn by divers and swimmers on their feet.
- An extending part on a surface of a radiator, engine, heatsink, etc., used to facilitate cooling.
- A sharp raised edge (generally in concrete) capable of damaging a roof membrane or vapor retarder.
- (nautical) The conning tower of a submarine.
- (UK, formerly Australia, slang) a five-pound (£5) note; the sum of five pounds.
- (US, slang, dated) a five-dollar bill; the sum of five dollars.
- (archaic, film, television) "The end".
- (obsolete, road signs) Denotes the end of the road.
- commune in the Somme department in France
- (telecommunications, US) Initialism of facility ID number.
- (law enforcement, UK) Initialism of force identification number.
verb
- (transitive) To cut the fins from a fish, shark, etc.
- (intransitive) (Of a fish) to swim with the dorsal fin above the surface of the water.
- (intransitive) To swim in the manner of a fish.
- (transitive) To provide (a motor vehicle etc) with fins.
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Examples of "fin" in Sentences
- 'Gender and national identity in fin de siecle Greece'.
- Finally, the word fin appeared and the video was finished.
- Back in fin de siecle Paris, UK Garage was the big new thing.
- High salaries for quants would not reduce math in fin or econ research.
- That medical care outcomes should follow a bell curve, instead of a shark fin is not surprising.
- Is their being at school together a tribute to the egalitarian education system that pertained in fin de siècle Vienna?
- Marking the transition from exclusion to integration in fin de siècle Vienna, women gained access to the University of Vienna and to almost all of the scientific institutes in the Mediziner-Viertel.
- Â The pulp magazines ruled the racks, with the actual advent of the superhero still two decades away, a man named Johnston McCulley masterminded the adventures of a rich nobleman in fin de ciecle California who took up sword and mask to fight crime and corruption.
- And I shall know that I must die, at sea most likely, cease crawling of myself to be all a-crawl with the corruption of the sea; to be fed upon, to be carrion, to yield up all the strength and movement of my muscles that it may become strength and movement in fin and scale and the guts of fishes.
- The precise values – the center of the propulsive strokes, the angle at which the caudal fin is held, the point of its two-dimensional visual field at which distant points approach without changing their position on that field – cannot be genetically determined, since there are too many factors involved, including all the factors that determine where the center of mass is.
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