The difference between Clarify and Fine

When used as verbs, clarify means (of liquids, such as wine or syrup) to make clear or bright by freeing from feculent matter, whereas fine means to make finer, purer, or cleaner.

Fine is also noun with the meaning: fine champagne.

Fine is also adverb with the meaning: expression of (typically) reluctant agreement.

Fine is also adjective with the meaning: of superior quality. being acceptable, adequate, passable, or satisfactory. good-looking, attractive. subtle, delicately balanced. showy.

check bellow for the other definitions of Clarify and Fine

  1. Clarify as a verb:

    (of liquids, such as wine or syrup) To make clear or bright by freeing from feculent matter

  2. Clarify as a verb:

    To make clear; to free from obscurities; to brighten or illuminate.

  3. Clarify as a verb (ergative):

    To grow or become clear or transparent; to become free from feculent impurities, as wine or other liquid under clarification.

    Examples:

    "Leave the wine for 24 hours and it will clarify."

  4. Clarify as a verb (ergative):

    To grow clear or bright; to clear up.

  5. Clarify as a verb (obsolete):

    To glorify.

  1. Fine as an adjective (informal):

    Of superior quality. Being acceptable, adequate, passable, or satisfactory. Good-looking, attractive. Subtle, delicately balanced. Showy; overdecorated. Delicate; subtle; exquisite; artful; dexterous.

    Examples:

    "The tree frog that they encountered was truly a fine specimen."

    "Only a really fine wine could fully complement Lucía's hand-made pasta."

    "How are you today? – Fine."

    "Will this one do? It's got a dent in it. – Yeah, it'll be fine, I guess."

    "It's fine with me if you stay out late, so long as you're back by three."

    "That man is so fine that I'd jump into his pants without a moment's hesitation."

    "When a girl says she's "fine," she ain't fine."

  2. Fine as an adjective (of weather):

    Of a particular grade of quality, usually between very good and very fine, and below mint. Sunny and not raining. Consisting of especially minute particulate; made up of particularly small pieces. Particularly slender; especially thin, narrow, or of small girth. Made of slender or thin filaments. Having a (specified) proportion of pure metal in its composition.

    Examples:

    "The small scratch meant that his copy of “X-Men #2” was merely fine when it otherwise would have been “near mint”."

    "Grind it into a fine powder."

    "When she touched the artifact, it collapsed into a heap of fine dust."

    "The threads were so fine that you had to look through a magnifying glass to see them."

    "They protected themselves from the small parasites with a fine wire mesh."

    "coins nine tenths fine'"

  3. Fine as an adjective (cricket):

    Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets.

    Examples:

    "...to nudge it through the covers (or tickle it down to fine leg) for a fournb..."

  4. Fine as an adjective (obsolete):

    Subtle; thin; tenuous.

  1. Fine as an adverb:

    Expression of (typically) reluctant agreement.

  2. Fine as an adverb:

    Well, nicely, in a positive way.

    Examples:

    "Everything worked out fine."

  3. Fine as an adverb (dated, dialect, colloquial):

    Finely; elegantly; delicately.

  4. Fine as an adverb (pool, billiards):

    In a manner so that the driven ball strikes the object ball so far to one side as to be barely deflected, the object ball being driven to one side.

  1. Fine as a noun:

    Fine champagne; French brandy.

  2. Fine as a noun (usually, in the plural):

    Something that is fine; fine particles.

  1. Fine as a verb (transitive):

    To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify.

    Examples:

    "to fine gold"

  2. Fine as a verb (intransitive):

    To become finer, purer, or cleaner.

  3. Fine as a verb:

    To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.

    Examples:

    "to fine the soil"

    "rfquotek L. H. Bailey"

  4. Fine as a verb:

    To change by fine gradations.

    Examples:

    "to fine down a ship's lines, i.e. to diminish her lines gradually"

  5. Fine as a verb (transitive):

    To clarify (wine and beer) by filtration.

  6. Fine as a verb (intransitive, dated):

    To become gradually fine; to diminish; to dwindle (with away, down, or off).

  1. Fine as a noun:

    A fee levied as punishment for breaking the law.

    Examples:

    "The fine for jay-walking has gone from two dollars to thirty in the last fifteen years."

  1. Fine as a verb (transitive):

    To issue a fine as punishment to (someone).

    Examples:

    "She was fined a thousand dollars for littering, but she appealed."

  2. Fine as a verb (intransitive):

    To pay a fine.

  1. Fine as a noun (music):

    The end of a musical composition.

  2. Fine as a noun (music):

    The location in a musical score that indicates the end of the piece, particularly when the piece ends somewhere in the middle of the score due to a section of the music being repeated.

  1. Fine as a verb (obsolete, intransitive):

    To finish; to cease.

  2. Fine as a verb (obsolete, transitive):

    To cause to cease; to stop.

  1. Fine as a noun (obsolete):

    End; conclusion; termination; extinction.

  2. Fine as a noun:

    A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Spelman"

  3. Fine as a noun (UK, legal):

    A sum of money or price paid for obtaining a benefit, favor, or privilege, as for admission to a copyhold, or for obtaining or renewing a lease.

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