Wrong and Fine

noun

• That which is contrary to the principles of justice or law.
  • usage: "he feels that you are in the wrong"
  • synonyms: wrongfulness
• Any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right.
  • synonyms: legal injury, damage

verb

• Treat unjustly; do wrong to.

adjective

• Not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth.
  • usage: "an incorrect calculation"; "the report in the paper is wrong"; "your information is wrong"; "the clock showed the wrong time"; "found themselves on the wrong road"; "based on the wrong assumptions"
  • synonyms: incorrect
• Contrary to conscience or morality or law.
  • usage: "it is wrong for the rich to take advantage of the poor"; "cheating is wrong"; "it is wrong to lie"
• Not appropriate for a purpose or occasion.
  • usage: "said all the wrong things"
  • synonyms: improper
• Not functioning properly.
  • usage: "something is amiss"; "has gone completely haywire"; "something is wrong with the engine"
  • synonyms: amiss, awry, haywire
• Based on or acting or judging in error.
  • usage: "it is wrong to think that way"
• Not in accord with established usage or procedure.
  • usage: "the wrong medicine"; "the wrong way to shuck clams"; "it is incorrect for a policeman to accept gifts"
  • synonyms: incorrect
• Used of the side of cloth or clothing intended to face inward.
  • usage: "socks worn wrong side out"
• Badly timed.
  • usage: "an ill-timed intervention"; "you think my intrusion unseasonable"; "an untimely remark"; "it was the wrong moment for a joke"
  • synonyms: ill-timed, unseasonable, untimely
• Characterized by errors; not agreeing with a model or not following established rules.
  • usage: "he submitted a faulty report"; "an incorrect transcription"; the wrong side of the road"
  • synonyms: faulty, incorrect

adverb

• In an inaccurate manner.
  • usage: "he decided to reveal the details only after other sources had reported them incorrectly"; "she guessed wrong"
  • synonyms: incorrectly, wrongly

• (a.) Not fit or suitable to an end or object; not appropriate for an intended use; not according to rule; unsuitable; improper; incorrect; as, to hold a book with the wrong end uppermost; to take the wrong way.
• (a.) Designed to be worn or placed inward; as, the wrong side of a garment or of a piece of cloth.
• (a.) Whatever deviates from moral rectitude; usually, an act that involves evil consequences, as one which inflicts injury on a person; any injury done to or received from; another; a trespass; a violation of right.
• (adv.) In a wrong manner; not rightly; amiss; morally ill; erroneously; wrongly.
• (a.) Deviation or departure from truth or fact; state of falsity; error; as, to be in the wrong.
• (a.) Nonconformity or disobedience to lawful authority, divine or human; deviation from duty; -- the opposite of moral right.
• (v.t.) To treat with injustice; to deprive of some right or to withhold some act of justice from; to do undeserved harm to; to deal unjustly with; to injure.
• (v.t.) To impute evil to unjustly; as, if you suppose me capable of a base act, you wrong me.
• (a.) That which is not right.
• (a.) Not according to the laws of good morals, whether divine or human; not suitable to the highest and best end; not morally right; deviating from rectitude or duty; not just or equitable; not true; not legal; as, a wrong practice; wrong ideas; wrong inclinations and desires.
• (a.) Not according to truth; not conforming to fact or intent; not right; mistaken; erroneous; as, a wrong statement.
• imp. of Wring. Wrung.
• (a.) Twisted; wry; as, a wrong nose.

noun

• Money extracted as a penalty.
  • synonyms: mulct, amercement

verb

• Issue a ticket or a fine to as a penalty.
  • usage: "I was fined for parking on the wrong side of the street"; "Move your car or else you will be ticketed"
  • synonyms: ticket

adjective

• Being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition.
  • usage: "an all-right movie"; "the passengers were shaken up but are all right"; "is everything all right"; "everything's fine"; "things are okay"; "dinner and the movies had been fine"; "another minute I'd have been fine"
  • synonyms: all right, o. K., ok, okay, hunky-dory
• Minutely precise especially in differences in meaning.
  • usage: "a fine distinction"
• Thin in thickness or diameter.
  • usage: "a fine film of oil"; "fine hairs"; "read the fine print"
• Characterized by elegance or refinement or accomplishment.
  • usage: "fine wine"; "looking fine in her Easter suit"; "a fine gentleman"; "fine china and crystal"; "a fine violinist"; "the fine hand of a master"
• Of textures that are smooth to the touch or substances consisting of relatively small particles.
  • usage: "wood with a fine grain"; "fine powdery snow"; "fine rain"; "batiste is a cotton fabric with a fine weave"; "covered with a fine film of dust"
• Free from impurities; having a high or specified degree of purity.
  • usage: "gold 21 carats fine"

adverb

• An expression of agreement normally occurring at the beginning of a sentence.
  • synonyms: very well, alright, all right, OK
• In a delicate manner.
  • usage: "finely shaped features"; "her fine drawn body"
  • synonyms: finely, delicately, exquisitely

• (n.) End; conclusion; termination; extinction.
• (superl.) Not coarse, gross or heavy.
• (superl.) (Used ironically.).
• (superl.) Not gross; subtile; thin; tenous.
• (a.) To make fine; to refine; to purify, to clarify; as, to fine gold.
• (superl.) Made of fine materials; light; delicate; as, fine linen or silk.
• (n.) A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal.
• (superl.) Finished; brought to perfection; refined; hence, free from impurity; excellent; superior; elegant; worthy of admiration; accomplished; beautiful.
• (superl.) Having (such) a proportion of pure metal in its composition; as, coins nine tenths fine.
• (v.t.) To finish; to cease; or to cause to cease.
• (n.) A sum of money paid as the settlement of a claim or by way of terminating a matter in dispute; especially, a payment of money imposed upon a party as a punishment for an offense; a mulct.
• (superl.) Thin; attenuate; keen; as, a fine edge.
• (superl.) Nice; delicate; subtle; exquisite; artful; skillful; dexterous.
• (a.) To change by fine gradations; as (Naut.), to fine down a ship's lines, to diminish her lines gradually.
• (superl.) Not coarse; comminuted; in small particles; as, fine sand or flour.
• (v.i.) To pay a fine. See Fine, n., 3 (b).
• (superl.) Not thick or heavy; slender; filmy; as, a fine thread.
• (n.) A sum of money or price paid for obtaining a benefit, favor or privilege, as for admission to a copyhold or for obtaining or renewing a lease.
• (n.) To impose a pecuniary penalty upon for an offense or breach of law; to set a fine on by judgment of a court; to punish by fine; to mulct; as, the trespassers were fined ten dollars.
• (superl.) Aiming at show or effect; loaded with ornament; overdressed or overdecorated; showy.
• (a.) To make finer or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.; as. to fine the soil.
• (v.i.) To become fine (in any one of various senses); as, the ale will fine; the weather fined.
• (adv.) Finely; well; elegantly; fully; delicately; mincingly.
• (adv.) In a manner so that the driven ball strikes the object ball so far to one side as to be deflected but little, the object ball being driven to one side.