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Fin   /fɪn/   Listen
Fin

noun
1.
The cardinal number that is the sum of four and one.  Synonyms: 5, cinque, five, fivesome, Little Phoebe, pentad, Phoebe, quint, quintet, quintuplet, V.
2.
One of a pair of decorations projecting above the rear fenders of an automobile.  Synonyms: tail fin, tailfin.
3.
One of a set of parallel slats in a door or window to admit air and reject rain.  Synonyms: louver, louvre.
4.
A shoe for swimming; the paddle-like front is an aid in swimming (especially underwater).  Synonym: flipper.
5.
A stabilizer on a ship that resembles the fin of a fish.
6.
Organ of locomotion and balance in fishes and some other aquatic animals.
verb
(past & past part. finned; pres. part. finning)
1.
Equip (a car) with fins.
2.
Propel oneself through the water in a finning motion.
3.
Show the fins above the water while swimming.  Synonym: break water.



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"Fin" Quotes from Famous Books



... green of the water something moved, something pale and long—a ghastly form. It vanished; and yet another came, neared the surface, and displayed itself more fully. Lestrange saw its eyes, he saw the dark fin, and the whole hideous length of the creature; a shudder ran through him as ...
— The Blue Lagoon - A Romance • H. de Vere Stacpoole

... axis, nor moved wholly to man's ends. This sea that stretched away unheaving was not sublimely dead—even to the vulgar apprehension—but penetrated with quivering sensibility, the exquisite fresh feeling of fishes darting and gliding, tingling with life in fin and tail, chasing and chased, zestfully eating or swiftly eaten: in the air the ecstasy of flight, on the earth the happy movements of animals, the very dust palpitating pleasurably with crawling and creeping populations, the soil riddled ...
— Dreamers of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill

... Luis explained nervously because of the look in the black, unreadable eyes of this straight, slim Indian girl who was so beautiful—and so silent. "They go muy fas', Ramon an' Beel. Poco tiempo—sure, we fin' dem little soon." ...
— The Heritage of the Sioux • B.M. Bower

... majestic violence, that it were impious to whimper. Who beachcombed my three rudders, the one toilfully adzed out in one piece from the beautiful heart of a bean-tree log, another cunningly fitted with a sliding fin, and that of red cedar with famous brass mountings? Who owns the pair of ballast tanks once mine? Who the buoy deemed securely moored? Who the paddles and the rowlocks and the signal halyards, lost because of Neptune's whims and violence? Beachcombing is a nicely adjusted, if not ...
— The Confessions of a Beachcomber • E J Banfield

... Southeastern Branch, and there became j and z, while in the Northwestern Branch the same g was frequently labialized and became gv, v, andb. Hence, where we have ja in Sanskrit, we may and do fin ...
— Chips from a German Workshop - Volume IV - Essays chiefly on the Science of Language • Max Muller


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