0 present participle of fine
1 to charge someone an amount of money as a punishment for not obeying a rule or law:
Drivers who exceed the speed limit can expect to be fined heavily.
[ + two objects ] They fined him £100 for using threatening behaviour.
The council has begun to fine drivers who park in the bus lanes.
The judge decided to fine him rather than impose a prison sentence.
He was fined for impersonating a police officer.
This succession could represent a fining-upward sequence due to subsidence of the shelf if preserved in the original stratigraphic order.
This boundary fault also induced fining-upwards vertical patterns and synsedimentary deformation in the marginal facies.
The trackways were found in the laminated fine sands and siltstones at the tops of fining-upwards sequences.
