Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: fin
IPA transcription: [f'ɪn]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: fin
    Meaning: organ of locomotion and balance in fishes and some other aquatic animals
  • Synonyms: fin
    Meaning: a stabilizer on a ship that resembles the fin of a fish
  • Synonyms: flipper, fin
    Meaning: a shoe for swimming; the paddle-like front is an aid in swimming (especially underwater)
  • Synonyms: louver, louvre, fin
    Meaning: one of a set of parallel slats in a door or window to admit air and reject rain
  • Synonyms: tail_fin, tailfin, fin
    Meaning: one of a pair of decorations projecting above the rear fenders of an automobile
  • Synonyms: five, 5, V, cinque, quint, quintet, fivesome, quintuplet, pentad, fin, Phoebe, Little_Phoebe
    Meaning: the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: fin, break_water
    Meaning: show the fins above the water while swimming; "The sharks were finning near the surface"
  • Synonyms: fin
    Meaning: propel oneself through the water in a finning motion
  • Synonyms: fin
    Meaning: equip (a car) with fins
Usage examples
  • Just as the pike's attack is at its height, the Rasper suddenly raises his twelve-spined dorsal fin.
  • For the present the whole flock keeps to the bottom, darting along with dorsal fin erect, the stiff spines bristling menacingly.
  • A little later a whirlpool appears on the seething water, and he catches a glimpse of a dorsal fin with the hinder point missing.
  • And to think that Heaven should at last reward him for his magnanimity! For the mark on the dorsal fin showed distinctly that this fish had been in his hands before.
  • All at once the van slips away from the rest, and the latter have to exert themselves to catch up, twisting and turning their tails, and unfurling the stiff sail of their dorsal fin.
  • By this time she weighs about eighteen pounds, and measures the length of a grown man's leg from hip to heel; her dorsal fin measures more than two hand-breadths, and it would take a large hand to span her back.