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PRONUNCIATION OF OVERFINE

overfine  [ˌəʊvəˈfaɪn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OVERFINE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Overfine is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES OVERFINE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of overfine in the English dictionary

The definition of overfine in the dictionary is too fine.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OVERFINE


affine
ˈæfaɪn
confine
kənˈfaɪn
define
dɪˈfaɪn
didelphine
daɪˈdɛlfaɪn
elaphine
ˈɛləfaɪn
fine
faɪn
giraffine
dʒɪˈræfaɪn
misdefine
ˌmɪsdɪˈfaɪn
overrefine
ˌəʊvərɪˈfaɪn
predefine
ˌpriːdɪˈfaɪn
reconfine
ˌriːkənˈfaɪn
redefine
ˌriːdɪˈfaɪn
refine
rɪˈfaɪn
superfine
ˌsuːpəˈfaɪn
superrefine
ˌsuːpərrɪˈfaɪn
sylphine
ˈsɪlfaɪn
tragelaphine
trəˈɡɛləˌfaɪn
ultrafine
ˈʌltrəˌfaɪn
unconfine
ˌʌnkənˈfaɪn
unfine
ʌnˈfaɪn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OVERFINE

overfat
overfatigue
overfavor
overfear
overfed
overfeed
overfeeding
overfertilise
overfertilize
overfill
overfineness
overfinished
overfish
overfishing
overfit
overflew
overflight
overflood
overflourish
overflow

WORDS THAT END LIKE OVERFINE

cuisine
cut it fine
determine
divine
eine
engine
genuine
hotline
imagine
in fine
ja well no fine
line
machine
magazine
olefine
on-the-spot fine
paraffine
parking fine
speeding fine
spot fine

Synonyms and antonyms of overfine in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «overfine» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OVERFINE

Find out the translation of overfine to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of overfine from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «overfine» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

overfine
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

overfine
570 millions of speakers

English

overfine
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

overfine
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

overfine
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

overfine
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

overfine
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

overfine
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

overfine
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Overfine
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

overfine
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

overfine
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

overfine
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Overfine
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

overfine
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

overfine
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अतिप्रमाणात
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

overfine
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

overfine
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

overfine
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

overfine
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

overfine
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

overfine
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

overfine
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

overfine
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

overfine
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of overfine

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OVERFINE»

The term «overfine» is normally little used and occupies the 150.849 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OVERFINE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «overfine» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «overfine» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about overfine

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OVERFINE»

Discover the use of overfine in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to overfine and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Manchineel
eyes, Overfine cautiously opened the door to Skye's insistent pounding. Skye told him to get dressed and explained what had happened. Overfine paused with one foot in his right pant leg and looked over his shoulder in wide- eyed disbelief.
John Bishop Ballem, John Ballem, 2000
2
The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Textiles
Allows the fabric to shrink lengthwise. overfeed fabric Warp knit fabric in which one warp is fed faster than others to form large loops or underlaps. May be brushed, raised, or sueded to form a nap. overfine wool / oxford sheep overfine wool A ...
‎2013
3
Apostolic Teaching and Constitutions
Neither dothou wear overfine garments to seduceany; neitherdo thou, with an evil subtilty, affect overfine stockings or shoes for thy feet, butonlysuch assuit the measures of decency and usefulness. Neither do thou put a gold ring upon thy ...
The Pastor of Hermas et al.
4
Oxford Dictionary of English
put more into (a container) than it either should or can contain. overfine 7adjective excessively or extremely fine: the distinction may seem overfine to westerners. overfish 7verb [with obj.] deplete the stock of fish in (a body of water) by ...
Angus Stevenson, 2010
5
Pattern recognition engineering
One danger of such blind procedures is the risk of overfine discrimination (Fig. 1 1 .7). This can happen especially when the data set is too small, so that the p.d.f. is not representative of the true distribution. We note that the K-L expansion can ...
Morton Nadler, Eric P. Smith, 1993
6
Islands Magazine
Y HOTEL IS at Holetown, about halfway along the west coast beach, a setting to , agitate the dreams of travel brochure designers. The uncrowded tree-lined expanse, with sand neither white nor overfine, but a pale tan sandy sand, traces its ...
7
The Dial: A Magazine for Literature, Philosophy, and Religion
Your opposition is feather-brained and overfine. Young man, I have no skill to talk with you, but look at me ; I have risen early and sat late, and toiled honestly, and painfully for very many years. I never dreamed about methods ; I laid my bones ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, George Ripley, 1843
8
Early Statistical Papers
Influence of overfine grouping 456 (7.) Probable errors and error correlations of sub-contingencies 457 (8.) Change of order of grouping unimportant in the general case of linear regression 459 (9.) Relation of contingency to association 461 ...
9
Plato's Defence of Poetry
His programme requires that we be as rational as we can, use every method that might advance knowledge, and be alert to the way in which language may properly be used, avoiding the whited sepulchre of overfine analysis. These are the ...
Julius A. Elias, 1984
10
Italian Pocket Dictionary: In Two Parts : I. Italian and ...
impinzamento Overfall, ». cataratta Over-fierce, a. troppo fiero, troppo intenso ; — ly, ait troppo fieramente Overfill, v. a. empier, troppo Overfine, a. strafino Overflow, v. a. and n. traboccare, inondare; — ». soprabbondanza ¡ — ing, ...
Giuspanio Graglia, J. Ouiseau, 1833

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