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fin

1  [fin] noun, verb, finned, fin⋅ning.
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–noun
1. a membranous, winglike or paddlelike organ attached to any of various parts of the body of fishes and certain other aquatic animals, used for propulsion, steering, or balancing.
2. Nautical.
a. a horizontal, often adjustable, winglike appendage to the underwater portion of a hull, as one for controlling the dive of a submarine or for damping the roll of a surface vessel.
b. fin keel.
3. Also called vertical stabilizer. Aeronautics. any of certain small, subsidiary structures on an aircraft, designed to increase directional stability.
4. any of a number of standing ridges on an ordinarily hot object, as a radiator, a cylinder of an internal-combustion engine, etc., intended to maximize heat transfer to the surrounding air by exposing a large surface area.
5. any part, as of a mechanism, resembling a fin.
6. Metallurgy. a ridge of metal squeezed through the opening between two rolls, dies, or halves of a mold in which a piece is being formed under pressure. Compare flash (def. 11).
7. Automotive. an ornamental structure resembling an aeronautical fin that is attached to the body of an automobile, as on each rear fender (tail fin).
8. Slang. the arm or hand.
9. Usually, fins. flipper (def. 2).
–verb (used with object)
10. to cut off the fins from (a fish); carve or cut up, as a chub.
11. to provide or equip with a fin or fins.
–verb (used without object)
12. to move the fins; lash the water with the fins, as a whale when dying.
Origin:
bef. 1000; ME, OE finn; c. D vin, LG finne; akin to Sw fena

Related forms:
finless, adjective
finlike, adjective

fin

2  [fin]
–noun
Slang. a five-dollar bill.
Origin:
1865–70; earlier finnip, finnup, fin(n)if(f) a five-pound note < Yiddish fin(e)f five < MHG vumf, vimf; see five

Fin.

 
1. Finland.
2. Finnish.

fin.

 
1. finance.
2. financial.
3. finish.

flip⋅per

  [flip-er]
–noun
1. a broad, flat limb, as of a seal or whale, especially adapted for swimming.
2. Also called fin. one of a pair of paddlelike devices, usually of rubber, worn on the feet as an aid in scuba diving and swimming.
3. Theater. a narrow flat hinged or attached at right angles to a larger flat.
4. Slang. the hand.
5. someone or something that flips.
Origin:
1815–25; flip 1 + -er 1

vertical stabilizer

 
–noun Aeronautics.
the fixed vertical surface of an aircraft empennage, to which the rudder is hinged.
Also called fin, vertical fin.
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fin 1   (fĭn)   
n.  
  1. A membranous appendage extending from the body of a fish or other aquatic animal, used for propelling, steering, or balancing the body in the water.
  2. Something resembling a fin in shape or function, as:
    1. A fixed or movable airfoil used to stabilize an aircraft, missile, or projectile in flight.
    2. A thin, usually curved projection attached to the rear bottom of a surfboard for stability.
    3. A projecting vane used for cooling, as on a radiator or an engine cylinder.
    4. See tail fin.
  3. See flipper.
v.   finned, fin·ning, fins

v.   tr.
To equip with fins.
v.   intr.
  1. To emerge with the fins above water.
  2. To swim, as a fish.
  3. To lash the water with the fins. Used of a dying whale.

[Middle English, from Old English finn.]
fin 2   (fĭn)   
n.   Slang
A five-dollar bill.

[Yiddish finf, five, from Old High German funf, finf; see penkwe in Indo-European roots.]
flip·per   (flĭp'ər)   
n.  
  1. A wide flat limb, as of a seal, whale, or other aquatic mammal, adapted for swimming.
  2. A rubber covering for the foot having a flat flexible portion that widens as it extends forward from the toes, used in swimming and diving. Also called fin1.
  3. A flat lever in a pinball machine, used to hit the ball so it stays in play.
tail fin also tail·fin   (tāl'fĭn')
n.  
  1. A fin at the posterior part of the body of a fish, crustacean, whale, or other aquatic animal.
  2. An ornamental projection shaped like a fin on the rear fender of an automobile. Also called fin1.
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Fin

Fin\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Finned; p. pr. & vb. n. Finning.] [Cf. Fin of a fish.] To carve or cut up, as a chub.

Fin

Fin\, n. [See Fine, n.] End; conclusion; object. [Obs.] "She knew eke the fin of his intent." --Chaucer.

Fin

Fin\, n.[OE. finne, fin, AS. finn; akin to D. vin, G. & Dan. finne, Sw. fena, L. pinna, penna, a wing, feather. Cf. pen a feather.]

1. (Zo["o]l.) An organ of a fish, consisting of a membrane supported by rays, or little bony or cartilaginous ossicles, and serving to balance and propel it in the water.

Note: Fishes move through the water chiefly by means of the caudal fin or tail, the principal office of the other fins being to balance or direct the body, though they are also, to a certain extent, employed in producing motion.

2. (Zo["o]l.) A membranous, finlike, swimming organ, as in pteropod and heteropod mollusks.

3. A finlike organ or attachment; a part of an object or product which protrudes like a fin, as: (a) The hand. [Slang] (b) (Com.) A blade of whalebone. [Eng.] --McElrath. (c) (Mech.) A mark or ridge left on a casting at the junction of the parts of a mold. (d) (Mech.) The thin sheet of metal squeezed out between the collars of the rolls in the process of rolling. --Raymond. (e) (Mech.) A feather; a spline.

4. A finlike appendage, as to submarine boats.

Apidose fin. (Zo["o]l.) See under Adipose, a.

Fin ray (Anat.), one of the hornlike, cartilaginous, or bony, dermal rods which form the skeleton of the fins of fishes.

Fin whale (Zo["o]l.), a finback.

Paired fins (Zo["o]l.), the pectoral and ventral fins, corresponding to the fore and hind legs of the higher animals.

Unpaired, or Median, fins (Zo["o]l.), the dorsal, caudal, and anal fins.

Fin

Fin\, n. (A["e]ronautics) A fixed stabilizing surface, usually vertical, similar in purpose to a bilge keel on a ship.
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Language Translation for : fin
Spanish: aleta,
German: die Flosse,
Japanese: ひれ
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fin 
O.E. fin, from P.Gmc. *finno (cf. M.L.G. vinne, Du. vin), perhaps from L. pinna "feather, wing," or, less likely, from L. spina "thorn, spine" (see spike (n.1)). U.S. underworld slang sense of "$5 bill" is 1925, from Yiddish finif "five," from Ger. fünf. The same word had been used in England 1868 to mean "five pound note" (earlier finnip, 1839).
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fin   (fĭn)  Pronunciation Key 
One of the winglike or paddlelike parts of a fish, dolphin, or whale that are used for propelling, steering, and balancing in water.
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FIN
Finland (international vehicle ID)
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