Fine
Fine noun - A sum of money to be paid as a punishment.
Rate
Rate noun - Degree of excellence.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| human | human fine | human rate |
| high | high fine | high rate |
| full | full fine | full rate |
| best | best fine | best rate |
| Other adjectives: usual, fixed, infinite, small, massive, extreme, great, huge, highest, reduced, maximum, different, overall. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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The amount of health you had was noted by color, heart rate, and name (green: fine, yellow: low fine/high caution, orange: low caution, red: danger, and purple: poison).
Source: Franchise / Resident Evil - This gives them a very fine control over the rate at which they metabolize alcohol, making inebriation or hallucinations possible.
Source: Never Gets Drunk -
Becomes an in-joke in Fine Structure, where a spaceship designed to travel through Alternate Universes at the rate of several hundred thousand dimensions per second is called the Kardashev V.
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