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Fine Print

Definitions: Fine Print

Fine Print

Noun

1. The part of a contract that contains reservations and qualifications printed in small type; "don't sign a contract without reading the fine print".

2. Material printed in small type.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Fine Print

Synonym: small print (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Fine Print

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Qualification

Condition, proviso, prerequisite, contingency, stipulation, provision, specification, sine qua non; catch, string, strings attached; exemption; exception, escape clause, salvo, saving clause; discount; restriction; fine print.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Fine Print

English words defined with "fine print": Dry pointserograph, silk screen print, silk-screen, Space rule. (references)
Specialty definitions using "fine print": film cutterSILK-SCREEN CUTTER, silk-screen maker, stencil cutter. (references)

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Modern Usage: Fine Print

DomainUsage

Clever

The lesson is what you read in the fine print. The experience is what you get when you don't. (references; author: unknown)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Fine Print

DomainTitle

Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Fine Print

Illustrations:
Fine Print

More images...

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Photo Album: Fine Print

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Read the fine print on the Viet Nam war -- there's a bomb in it!.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Fine Print

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  fine print

733

  fine print 2000

67
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Fine Print

Language Translations for "fine print"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Romanian

  

text neclar. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

мелкая печать, мелкий шрифт. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Fine Print

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-f-i-i-n-n-p-r-t"

-2 letters: finnier, niftier, tinnier.

-3 letters: finite, intern, intine, pinier, pinite, pinner, pitier, pterin, tenpin, tiepin, tinier, tinner.

-4 letters: feint, finer, inept, inert, infer, inner, inter, niter, nitre, penni, print, refit, renin, repin, ripen, trine, tripe.

-5 letters: fern, fine, fire, firn, fret, frit, inti, neif, nine, nite, pein, pent, peri, pert, pier, pine, pint, pirn, reft.

 Words containing the letters "e-f-i-i-n-n-p-r-t"
 

+2 letters: fingerprint.

 

+3 letters: fingerprints, prenotifying.

 

+4 letters: fingerprinted.

 

+5 letters: fingerprinting, hyperinflation, preunification, superinfecting, superinfection.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Fine Print


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 69 6E 65      50 72 69 6E 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01101001 01101110 01100101 00100000 01010000 01110010 01101001 01101110 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#105 &#110 &#101 &#32 &#80 &#114 &#105 &#110 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0069 006E 0065      0050 0072 0069 006E 0074

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4075807125084758086

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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