fin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fĭn
ipa: /fɪn/
homophone: Finn
homophone: thin (th-fronting)
rhymes: -ɪn
Forms: form: fins
Etymology: From Middle English fin, from Old English finn, from Proto-Germanic *finnō, *finǭ (“dorsal fin”) (compare Dutch vin, German Finne, Swedish finne, fena), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pīn- (“backbone, dorsal fin”) (compare Old Irish ind (“end, point”), Latin pinna (“feather, wing, fin”), Tocharian A spin (“hook”).
Senses: examples: text: The fish's fins minimize water flow.
text: Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter IV, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
topics: biology
ichthyology
natural-sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: One of the appendages of a fish, used to propel itself and to manoeuvre/maneuver.
examples: text: a dolphin's fin
glosses: A similar appendage of a cetacean or other marine animal.
examples: text: The fin stabilises the plane in flight.
glosses: A thin, rigid component of an aircraft, extending from the fuselage and used to stabilise and steer the aircraft.
glosses: A similar structure protruding from a projectile, used to help keep it on course.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: A similar structure on the bottom of a surfboard, used to help steer it.
glosses: A hairstyle, resembling the fin of a fish, in which the hair is combed and set into a vertical ridge along the top of the head from about the crown to the forehead.
examples: text: The divers wore fins to swim faster.
glosses: A device worn by divers and swimmers on their feet.
glosses: An extending part on a surface of a radiator, engine, heatsink, etc., used to facilitate cooling.
glosses: A sharp raised edge (generally in concrete) capable of damaging a roof membrane or vapor retarder.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The conning tower of a submarine.
examples: text: "Done say I to that, Reuben, tip me your fin, my spark, and it shall be a bet."
ref: 1839, Dearden's Miscellany, volumes 1-2, page 661:
glosses: A person's hand.
Synonyms: sense: appendage of a cetacean or other marine animal
english: of mammals
translation: of mammals
word: flipper
sense: of a bomb
word: vane
topics: hairstyle
hairdressing
crafts
arts
hobbies
lifestyle
word: Mohican
sense: device worn by divers
word: flipper
Derived terms: abdominal fin
adipose fin
anal fin
backfin
bigfin
blackfin
bloodfin
bluefin
bowfin
caudal fin
cephalic fin
definned
dorsal fin
fan-in-fin
finback
fin chop
finclip
finfish
fin fold
finfolk
finfoot
fin-foot
fin-footed
fin gripper
fin keel
fin key
finless
finlet
finlike
fin-like
finnage
finning
finny
finray
fin rot
finspine
finswimmer
finswimming
fin-toed
fin whale
forefin
hindfin
Hoxton fin
kitefin
lobefin
longfin
monofin
nanofin
paired fin
pectoral fin
pelvic fin
plainfin
redfin
red-fin shark
sailfin
scalyfin
shark-fin
shark fin
sharkfin
shark fin soup
sharksfin
sharpfin
shortfin
silverfin
snubfin
soupfin
splitfin
spotfin
swim fin
swimfin
tail fin
tailfin
threadfin
threefin
triplefin
unpaired fin
ventral fin
whitefin
woundfin
yellowfin