Fin: Definition and part of speech

Fin

  1. n. A finlike appendage, as to submarine boats.
  2. v. t. To carve or cut up, as a chub.
  3. n. End; conclusion; object.
  4. 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.
  5. n. A membranous, finlike, swimming organ, as in pteropod and heteropod mollusks.
  6. n. A finlike organ or attachment; a part of an object or product which protrudes like a fin
  7. n. The hand.
  8. n. A blade of whalebone.
  9. n. A mark or ridge left on a casting at the junction of the parts of a mold.
  10. n. The thin sheet of metal squeezed out between the collars of the rolls in the process of rolling.
  11. 1n. 1 A finlike appendage, as to submarine boats.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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