fin
Noun
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is a part of: auto, automobile, car, machine, motorcar - a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine
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is a part of: jalousie - a shutter made of angled slats
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is a type of: shoe - footwear shaped to fit the foot (below the ankle) with a flexible upper of leather or plastic and a sole and heel of heavier materialsame as: flipper
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is a type of: stabiliser, stabilizer - a device for making something stablesubtypes: vane - a fin attached to the tail of an arrow, bomb or missile in order to stabilize or guide itis a part of: ship - a vessel that carries passengers or freight
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subtypes:
- dorsal fin - unpaired median fin on the backs of fishes and some other aquatic vertebrates that help to maintain balance
- pectoral fin - either of a pair of fins situated just behind the head in fishes that help control the direction of movement
- pelvic fin, ventral fin - either of a pair of fins attached to the pelvic girdle in fishes that help control the direction of movement; correspond to hind limbs of a land vertebrate
- caudal fin, tail fin - the tail of fishes and some other aquatic vertebrates
has: ray - any of the stiff bony spines in the fin of a fishis a part of: fish - any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills
Verb
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referred to in: aquatics, water sport - sports that involve bodies of wateris a type of: swim - travel through water
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is a type of: swim - travel through watersame as: break water
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