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US
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[ UK /fˈɪn/ ]
[ UK /fˈɪn/ ]
NOUN
- a shoe for swimming; the paddle-like front is an aid in swimming (especially underwater)
- a stabilizer on a ship that resembles the fin of a fish
- one of a pair of decorations projecting above the rear fenders of an automobile
- the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one
- one of a set of parallel slats in a door or window to admit air and reject rain
- organ of locomotion and balance in fishes and some other aquatic animals
VERB
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show the fins above the water while swimming
The sharks were finning near the surface - equip (a car) with fins
- propel oneself through the water in a finning motion
How To Use fin In A Sentence
- I can't find any relevant material on him in the library.
- Mix together with as few stirs as possible - mixing too much will make the muffins too dense and heavy. The Sun
- Lobefins today have dwindled to the lungfishes and the coelacanths ‘dwindled’ as ‘fish’, that is, but mightily expanded on land: we land vertebrates are aberrant lungfish. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
- People at MSFC have told me over drinks that this study concluded that EELV are human ratable but they were going to do what Griffin wanted. Obama Policies on Transparency, Openness, and Participation - and NASA - NASA Watch
- I just know that one beer bash was fine, two was tolerable, and the third was just a way to eat up time on Memorial Day.
- When the moment finally comes, one look through his cataract lenses is all it takes. Christianity Today
- Note that you'll be able to find the demonstration projects themselves as open-source projects on the companion site to the column (see Resources).
- The fin's origin is relatively far behind the pelvic fin insertion.
- The affinities between music and poetry have been familiar since antiquity, though they are largely ignored in the current intellectual climate.
- I have to find grass and bring it up to them, otherwise they'll die. Times, Sunday Times