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The Meaning of fin

  • (v. t.) To carve or cut up, as a chub.
  • (n.) End; conclusion; object.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A membranous, finlike, swimming organ, as in pteropod and heteropod mollusks.
  • (n.) A finlike organ or attachment; a part of an object or product which protrudes like a fin
  • (n.) The hand.
  • (n.) A blade of whalebone.
  • (n.) A mark or ridge left on a casting at the junction of the parts of a mold.
  • (n.) The thin sheet of metal squeezed out between the collars of the rolls in the process of rolling.
  • (n.) A feather; a spline.
  • (n.) A finlike appendage, as to submarine boats.

Synonyms

tail fin , basketball team , louver , cinque , quintet , five , phoebe bird , quin , flipper , pentad , atomic number 23 , five-spot , quintette , quint , tailfin , fivesome , quintuple , vanadium , louvre , volt , quintuplet , vertical fin , vertical stabiliser , vertical stabilizer , caudal fin , break water , equip , fit , fit out , outfit

Homophones

finn , finne , fyn

Rhymes

adin , akin , allin , allphin , alpin , amylin , askin , aslin , astin , aswin , atkin , bedouin , been , begin , bergin , berlin , bihn , bin , binn , blinn , boleyn , bongjin , brin , brinn , bryn , buckskin , bushkin , chagrin , chang-hsin , chin , chinh , chinn , dechine , deerskin , din , eldwin , elkin , emlyn , ervin , erwin , finn , finne , flinn , flynn , foreskin , gin , ginn , glavine , glyn , glynn , grin , gwin , gwinn , gwyn , gwynn , gwynne , gyn , hamelin , has-been , herein , hinn , in , inn , itkin , jin , jocelin , joceline , jocelyn , jocelyne , kamin , katyn , kaylynn , kin , kingpin , kinn , kinne , knin , kyoung-min , levin , ligne , lin , linchpin , linh , linn , linne , lwin , lyn , lynn , mandolin , mcginn , mcguinn , mclin , mclinn , mcminn , mcquinn , mihn , min , minh , pigskin , pin , pinn , prynne , puffin , qian , qin , quin , quinn , redskin , rinn , rinne , schwinn , sheepskin , shin , shinn , sin , sinn , skin , solzhenitsyn , spin , syn , tailspin , therein , thin , tin , trinh , twin , underpin , underspin , verduin , vin , violin , when , wherein , win , winn , winne , within , wynn , wynne , yalin , yan-bin , yin