📖 F — The English dictionary · page 18

finder — Everyday, meaning 1: A finder is a person who finds something.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A finder is a tool or device that helps you find something, like a viewfinder on a camera or a stud finder.↗ Example: The finder of the lost dog got a reward.↗ · Finders keepers is not a fair rule for things you find at school.↗ · Look through the viewfinder to take a photo.↗ · Please return the wallet; the finder will get a thank-you.↗ · The cat is a great mouse finder!↗ · If you find money, give it to a grown-up so it can go back to its owner.↗

findest — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «findest» means «you find», a form of «find»: To find is to see or get something you were looking for, or by chance: find a coin.↗ Example: With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, he shall not live; before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee.' — For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them. —↗ (Torah GEN.31.32, JPS 1917) · Page 64: Added closing double-quote (handkerchief thou findest there, and throw it in front of =me."↗ = He drew it out and flung it)↗ (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) · "Look into my right ear," said the bullock, "draw out the little handkerchief thou findest there, and throw it in front of me."↗ He drew it out and flung it, and before them stood a bridge.↗ (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales)

findeth — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «findeth» means «finds», a form of «find»: To find is to see or get something you were looking for, or by chance: find a coin.↗

findings — Everyday, meaning 1: The facts or results someone has discovered after studying, testing or investigating something.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (law) What a court or official inquiry decides is true.↗ Example: Write your findings in the table.↗ · Our findings show that plants grow faster in light.↗ · The scientists shared their findings with the world.↗ · The findings of the report surprised everyone.↗ · The inquiry's findings said the bridge was unsafe.↗ · Present your findings to the class.↗

fine — Everyday, meaning 1: Well or healthy, all right.↗ e.g. "I'm fine, thanks."↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Good enough, acceptable.↗ e.g. "That's fine."↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Very thin or tiny.↗ e.g. "fine sand", "fine hair".↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Sunny and dry.↗ e.g. "fine weather".↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Of high quality.↗ e.g. "fine art".↗ Everyday, meaning 6: As a noun, money you must pay as a punishment.↗ e.g. "a parking fine".↗ Everyday, meaning 7: As a verb, to make someone pay a fine.↗ Example: "How are you?" "↗ I'm fine, thank you."↗ · The beach has fine white sand.↗ · It's a fine day for a picnic.↗ · That's fine with me.↗ · He got a fine for parking in the wrong place.↗ · Draw with a fine pencil.↗ · The library fined me for a late book.↗ · The doctor said my arm is fine.↗ · and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair; (Torah EXO.25.4, JPS 1917)↗ · All the hangings of the court round about were of fine twined linen.↗ (Torah EXO.38.16, JPS 1917)↗ · And he made the ephod of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.↗ (Torah EXO.39.2, JPS 1917)↗ · How is the most fine gold changed!↗ (Writings LAM.4.1, JPS 1917)↗ · Therefore I love Thy commandments above gold, yea, above fine gold.↗ (Writings PSA.119.127, JPS 1917)↗ · She maketh for herself coverlets; her clothing is fine linen and purple.↗ (Writings PRO.31.22, JPS 1917)↗

finely — Everyday, meaning 1: In very small or thin pieces: «finely chopped onion».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Very carefully and exactly, with small details: «finely balanced», «finely tuned».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (old or formal) In a fine, beautiful way.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Finely can also mean well or successfully, as in "I have done finely.".↗ Example: Chop the onion finely.↗ · Grate the cheese finely over the pasta.↗ · The match was finely balanced until the last minute.↗ · The violin was finely tuned before the concert.↗ · Coffee beans are finely ground into powder.↗ · The model ship was finely made, with tiny ropes.↗ · ‘Well,’ thought the shoemaker, ‘I have done finely.↗

finery — Everyday, meaning 1: Fancy, expensive or very smart clothes and jewellery worn for a special occasion.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Bright, showy decoration.↗ Example: The guests arrived at the wedding in all their finery.↗ · The Queen of Hearts came in all her royal finery.↗ · The peacock strutted about showing off its finery.↗ · On Sunday the family went to church in their finery.↗ · Toad paraded in his new motoring finery: goggles, cap and gaiters.↗ · The town was decked in flags and finery for the festival.↗ · Dressed in his borrowed finery he strutted loftily among the birds of his own kind.↗

finger — Everyday, meaning 1: One of the five long parts at the end of your hand (often the thumb is counted separately).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Something shaped like a finger.↗ e.g. "fish fingers".↗ Everyday, meaning 3: As a verb, to touch or feel with your fingers.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To slip through someone's fingers means to escape from them.↗ Example: I have five fingers on each hand.↗ · Count on your fingers.↗ · Keep your fingers away from the door hinge.↗ · Everyone has different fingerprints.↗ · Don't point your finger at people.↗ · Fingers crossed we win!↗ · She cut her finger on the paper.↗ · He didn't lift a finger to help.↗ · I luckily slipped through her fingers.’↗ · And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before the LORD, in front of the veil.↗ (Torah LEV.4.17, JPS 1917)↗ · And the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the LORD.↗ (Torah LEV.14.27, JPS 1917)↗ · And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle of her blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times.↗ (Torah NUM.19.4, JPS 1917)↗ · Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thy heart.↗ (Writings PRO.7.3, JPS 1917)↗ · That winketh with his eyes, that scrapeth with his feet, that pointeth with his fingers; (Writings PRO.6.13, JPS 1917)↗ · Blessed be the LORD my Rock, who traineth my hands for war, and my fingers for battle; (Writings PSA.144.1, JPS 1917)↗

fingernail — Everyday, meaning 1: The hard thin layer that covers and protects the top of the tip of each finger.↗ Example: Scrub under your fingernails when you wash your hands.↗ · Mum cut the baby's tiny fingernails.↗ · There was mud under my fingernails after gardening.↗ · Try not to bite your fingernails.↗ · Fingernails grow only about three millimetres a month.↗ · She painted her fingernails pink for the party.↗ · Fingernails are made of the same stuff as hair.↗ · Scratching a blackboard with fingernails makes a horrible noise.↗

fingerprint — Everyday, meaning 1: The pattern of tiny lines on the tip of each finger, or the mark it leaves on a surface.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To take a record of someone's fingerprints, for example by the police.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A special mark that shows who made something or where it came from.↗ Example: The detective found fingerprints on the window.↗ · No two people have the same fingerprints, not even twins.↗ · I unlock my mum's tablet with my fingerprint.↗ · Press your finger on the ink pad to make a fingerprint.↗ · The police fingerprinted the suspect.↗ · There are sticky fingerprints all over the fridge door!↗

fingerspell — Everyday, meaning 1: To fingerspell is to spell out a word letter by letter using hand shapes in sign language, for example a name or a word that has no sign.↗ Example: We learnt to fingerspell our names in BSL.↗ · She fingerspelled the name of her town.↗ · In ASL you fingerspell with one hand.↗ · Can you fingerspell «cat»?↗ · Names are often fingerspelt because they have no sign.↗ · Our class practised fingerspelling every morning.↗

fingerspelling — Everyday, meaning 1: Fingerspelling is spelling out words letter by letter with hand shapes, as part of a sign language.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It is used for names, places and words that have no sign of their own.↗ Example: We learned fingerspelling in assembly.↗ · I can fingerspell my name in British Sign Language.↗ · Fingerspelling is used for names that have no sign.↗ · In American Sign Language, fingerspelling uses one hand.↗ · British fingerspelling uses both hands.↗ · She fingerspelled the word «cat» slowly so I could follow.↗ · A poster of the fingerspelling alphabet hangs in our classroom.↗ · Fingerspelling fast takes lots of practice.↗

fingertip — Everyday, meaning 1: The very end of a finger.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: At your fingertips: easy to reach or find, ready for you to use (information at your fingertips).↗ Example: Braille is read with the fingertips.↗ · My fingertips went numb in the snow.↗ · Touch the fabric gently with your fingertips.↗ · Every fingertip has its own pattern of lines called a fingerprint.↗ · With a tablet, a whole library is at your fingertips.↗ · Keep your fingertips away from the door hinge.↗ · She was an artist to her fingertips.↗

finish — Everyday, meaning 1: To finish means to come to the end of something, to complete it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The finish is the end of a race, where the finish line is.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To finish something up or off is to use or eat the last of it.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A finish is the look of a surface, like a shiny finish.↗ Example: She finishes the book in 5 days.↗ · How long will it take to finish the puzzle?↗ · He finished the race in 20 minutes.↗ · They need to finish 30 pages.↗ · Finish your homework before you play.↗ · She was first to cross the finish line.↗ · Who finished the milk?↗ · The table has a shiny finish.↗ · Just let me finish carving this cross.↗ · A light shalt thou make to the ark, and to a cubit shalt thou finish it upward; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.↗ (Torah GEN.6.16, JPS 1917)↗ · Then asked we those elders, and said unto them thus: Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?↗ (Writings EZR.5.9, JPS 1917)↗ · 'The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you.↗ (Prophets ZEC.4.9, JPS 1917)↗ · At the same time came to them Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, and Shethar-bozenai, and their companions, and said thus unto them: 'Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this structure?'↗ (Writings EZR.5.3, JPS 1917)↗

finished — Everyday, meaning 1: Finished means done, at the end, complete.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Finished is the past of finish.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «I'm finished» can mean I have nothing more to do or eat.↗ Example: She has finished 12 of the 20 pages.↗ · He finished his homework in 40 minutes.↗ · How many are left after she finished 3?↗ · The finished cake weighs 2 kg.↗ · Are you finished with the scissors?↗ · The finished picture looked great.↗ · When the game finished, we went home.↗ · Then they finished dressing and disappeared.↗ · And the heaven and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.↗ (Torah GEN.2.1, JPS 1917)↗ · And Moses spoke in the ears of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song, until they were finished: (Torah DEU.31.30, JPS 1917)↗ · And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, (Torah DEU.31.24, JPS 1917)↗ · So Solomon built the house, and finished it.↗ (Prophets 1KI.6.14, JPS 1917)↗ · And Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.↗ (Prophets 1KI.7.1, JPS 1917)↗ · Thus all the work that Solomon wrought for the house of the LORD was finished.↗ (Writings 2CH.5.1, JPS 1917)↗

finite — Everyday, meaning 1: Finite means having an end or a limit; not going on forever.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (grammar) A finite verb is a verb that shows tense and agrees with its subject, as in «she runs».↗ Example: The Earth has finite supplies of oil.↗ · Our time on the trip is finite, so let's hurry.↗ · A finite set has an end, like the days of the week.↗ · The counting numbers are infinite, not finite.↗ · In «She sings», «sings» is a finite verb.↗ · The word סָפַר safar is technically a finite verb, and not a noun as the syntax requires.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · Since One, 1 is the finite, the Zero, 0 is the true infinite of the Pythagoreans.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · Chaos .signified in the ancient cosmogonies the vacant, in- finite space out of which sprang all things that exist.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗