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fin

/fin/US // fɪn //UK // (fɪn) //

翅片,罚款,融资,鳍片

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a membranous, winglike or paddlelike organ attached to any of various parts of the body of fishes and certain other aquatic animals, used for propulsion, steering, or balancing.
    • : Nautical. a horizontal, often adjustable, winglike appendage to the underwater portion of a hull, as one for controlling the dive of a submarine or for damping the roll of a surface vessel.fin keel.
    • : Also called vertical stabilizer. Aeronautics. any of certain small, subsidiary structures on an aircraft, designed to increase directional stability.
    • : any of a number of standing ridges on an ordinarily hot object, as a radiator, a cylinder of an internal-combustion engine, etc., intended to maximize heat transfer to the surrounding air by exposing a large surface area.
    • : any part, as of a mechanism, resembling a fin.
    • : Metallurgy. a ridge of metal squeezed through the opening between two rolls, dies, or halves of a mold in which a piece is being formed under pressure.Compare flash.
    • : Automotive. an ornamental structure resembling an aeronautical fin that is attached to the body of an automobile, as on each rear fender .
    • : Slang. the arm or hand.
    • : Usually fins. flipper.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    finned, fin·ning.

    • : to cut off the fins from; carve or cut up, as a chub.
    • : to provide or equip with a fin or fins.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    finned, fin·ning.

    • : to move the fins; lash the water with the fins, as a whale when dying.

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Examples

  • It has silvery blue skin and a red dorsal fin that runs the length of its body.

  • “The annoying thing about life is that it screws up the production,” Fin muses.

  • He carried with him the insecurities, foibles, and morose visions of fin de siècle Europe.

  • “Beside me the young Brit was snoring softly now, his glasses askew on his fin-shaped nose,” Obama wrote.

  • They looked up from their cucumber sandwiches and saw, 25 yards off, an enormous fin slicing the water.

  • Mais on peut bien appeller vn voyage heureux, quand en fin on arrive bon port.

  • En fin il parvint Dieppe, & apres quelque sejour il se mit en mer le 26.

  • Bref ilz remboursent lesditz Marchs de chac deux milles livres, 176 & se mettent en fin la voile le 26.

  • They're like whisky, gran' at the time, but you sing sorry next day, an' fin' oot what a fool you hae been.

  • Then spake the Earl to that man whose name 118 some say was Fin, but as others have it was of Finnish kith and kin.