The difference between Fine and Very well
Fine is also noun with the meaning: fine champagne.
Fine is also adverb with the meaning: expression of (typically) reluctant agreement.
Fine is also verb with the meaning: to make finer, purer, or cleaner.
Fine is also adjective with the meaning: of superior quality. being acceptable, adequate, passable, or satisfactory. good-looking, attractive. subtle, delicately balanced. showy.
Very well is also interjection with the meaning: indicating acceptance, often with resignation or acquiescence, of a statement or situation.
check bellow for the other definitions of Fine and Very well
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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."
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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'"
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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..."
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Fine as an adjective (obsolete):
Subtle; thin; tenuous.
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Fine as an adverb:
Expression of (typically) reluctant agreement.
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Fine as an adverb:
Well, nicely, in a positive way.
Examples:
"Everything worked out fine."
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Fine as an adverb (dated, dialect, colloquial):
Finely; elegantly; delicately.
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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.
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Fine as a noun:
Fine champagne; French brandy.
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Fine as a noun (usually, in the plural):
Something that is fine; fine particles.
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Fine as a verb (transitive):
To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify.
Examples:
"to fine gold"
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Fine as a verb (intransitive):
To become finer, purer, or cleaner.
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Fine as a verb:
To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.
Examples:
"to fine the soil"
"rfquotek L. H. Bailey"
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Fine as a verb:
To change by fine gradations.
Examples:
"to fine down a ship's lines, i.e. to diminish her lines gradually"
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Fine as a verb (transitive):
To clarify (wine and beer) by filtration.
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Fine as a verb (intransitive, dated):
To become gradually fine; to diminish; to dwindle (with away, down, or off).
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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."
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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."
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Fine as a verb (intransitive):
To pay a fine.
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Fine as a noun (music):
The end of a musical composition.
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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.
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Fine as a verb (obsolete, intransitive):
To finish; to cease.
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Fine as a verb (obsolete, transitive):
To cause to cease; to stop.
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Fine as a noun (obsolete):
End; conclusion; termination; extinction.
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Fine as a noun:
A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal.
Examples:
"rfquotek Spelman"
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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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Very well as an adverb:
Examples:
"He managed the company very well."
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Very well as an adverb (idiomatic):
Examples:
"It may very well rain this afternoon."
"I can't very well talk to you and concentrate on sanding this at the same time."
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Very well as an adjective:
Examples:
"I'm feeling very well today."
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