Definitions for finned

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IPA: /fɪnd/

Finned is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in finned (definn).

Definitions for finned

noun

1. a membranous, winglike or paddlelike organ attached to any of various parts of the body of fishes and certain other aquatic animals, used for propulsion, steering, or balancing.
2. Nautical. a horizontal, often adjustable, winglike appendage to the underwater portion of a hull, as one for controlling the dive of a submarine or for damping the roll of a surface vessel. fin keel.
3. Also called vertical stabilizer. Aeronautics. any of certain small, subsidiary structures on an aircraft, designed to increase directional stability.
4. any of a number of standing ridges on an ordinarily hot object, as a radiator, a cylinder of an internal-combustion engine, etc., intended to maximize heat transfer to the surrounding air by exposing a large surface area.
5. any part, as of a mechanism, resembling a fin.
6. Metallurgy. a ridge of metal squeezed through the opening between two rolls, dies, or halves of a mold in which a piece is being formed under pressure. Compare flash (def 11).
7. Automotive. an ornamental structure resembling an aeronautical fin that is attached to the body of an automobile, as on each rear fender (tail fin)
8. Slang. the arm or hand.
9. Usually, fins. flipper (def 2).

adjective

1. having fins.

verb (used with object)

1. to cut off the fins from (a fish); carve or cut up, as a chub.
2. to provide or equip with a fin or fins.

verb (used without object)

1. to move the fins; lash the water with the fins, as a whale when dying.

Origin of finned

First recorded in 1300-50, finned is from the Middle English word finnede. See fin¹, -ed³

Examples for finned

This plug will be furnished either with or without the finned portion, to meet individual requirements.

She was as lean as a man at the hips, and finned away like a mermaid, as became a daughter of the Old Roke.

Karara is she who swims with the finned ones, and they obey her.

One morning we found the decks sprinkled with these finned aerial adventurers, which had flown on board during the night.

They moved slower than their tailed and finned brothers, I noticed.

Fantastic reptiles, winged and finned and fanged, had basked upon it—grotesque, tentative vehicles of the Flame of Life!

I'll wager as 'e wos aweer as a Billingsgit Pheasant is finned!

The shell is finned, as shown at G, to provide greater heat radiating surface.

Fin′-foot′ed, having feet with toes connected by a membrane; finned, having fins; Fin′ny, furnished with fins.