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fin - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'fin' (Webster Dictionary)

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

Meaning of 'fin' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . fin [ v]
Meaning (1):
- show the fins above the water while swimming
Example in sentence:
  • The sharks were finning near the surface