The difference between Cool and Fine

When used as nouns, cool means a moderate or refreshing state of cold, whereas fine means fine champagne.

When used as verbs, cool means to lose heat, to get colder, whereas fine means to make finer, purer, or cleaner.

When used as adjectives, cool means having a slightly low temperature, whereas fine means of superior quality. being acceptable, adequate, passable, or satisfactory. good-looking, attractive. subtle, delicately balanced. showy.

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

check bellow for the other definitions of Cool and Fine

  1. Cool as an adjective:

    Having a slightly low temperature; mildly or pleasantly cold.

  2. Cool as an adjective:

    Allowing or suggesting heat relief.

    Examples:

    "a cool grey colour"

  3. Cool as an adjective:

    Of a person, not showing emotion; calm and in control of oneself.

  4. Cool as an adjective:

    Unenthusiastic, lukewarm, skeptical.

    Examples:

    "His proposals had a cool reception."

  5. Cool as an adjective:

    Calmly audacious.

    Examples:

    "In control as always, he came up with a cool plan."

  6. Cool as an adjective:

  7. Cool as an adjective (informal):

    Of a person, knowing what to do and how to behave; considered popular by others.

  8. Cool as an adjective (informal):

    In fashion, part of or fitting the in crowd; originally hipster slang.

  9. Cool as an adjective (informal):

    Of an action, all right; acceptable; that does not present a problem.

    Examples:

    "Is it cool if I sleep here tonight?"

  10. Cool as an adjective (informal):

    Of a person, not upset by circumstances that might ordinarily be upsetting.

    Examples:

    "I'm completely cool with my girlfriend leaving me."

  1. Cool as a noun:

    A moderate or refreshing state of cold; moderate temperature of the air between hot and cold; coolness.

    Examples:

    "in the cool of the morning"

  2. Cool as a noun:

    A calm temperament.

    Examples:

    "synonyms: calmness composure"

  3. Cool as a noun:

    The property of being cool, popular or in fashion.

  1. Cool as a verb (intransitive, literally):

    To lose heat, to get colder.

    Examples:

    "I like to let my tea cool before drinking it so I don't burn my tongue."

  2. Cool as a verb (transitive):

    To make cooler, less warm.

  3. Cool as a verb (figuratively, intransitive):

    To become less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.

    Examples:

    "Relations cooled between the USA and the USSR after 1980."

  4. Cool as a verb (transitive):

    To make less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.

  5. Cool as a verb (transitive):

    To kill.

  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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