Showing posts with label find. Show all posts
Showing posts with label find. Show all posts

Friday, January 6, 2012

find, fined

Find or find means to retrieve something that was lost, or to come upon something while shopping, walking, or going about--
Did you find my keys? I lost them.
They like to find seashells on the beach.
A good bargain at the flea market is considered a "find".

Fined or fined ( rhymes with find ) is the past tense ( yesterday, or some time ago ) form of "fine", meaning to charge money for an infraction of rules, laws, or ordinances--
He was fined $20 for parking in a no-parking zone.
The library fined her ten cents for each overdue book.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"He was fined $50 for going the wrong way on the exit ramp when he couldn't find his way."

Note--"refine" means to process or alter something into a "finer" substance, literally or figuratively--
The oil companies refine oil to make gasoline.
She needs to refine her goals so that they are more specific.