adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
finely chopped
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Add two finely chopped onions and a clove of garlic.
finely honed (= extremely well-developed )
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finely honed intuition
finely/delicately balanced (= very carefully balanced )
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soup with a delicately balanced flavor
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
chopped
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Ad a little finely chopped onion, a few black olives, fruity olive oil and a squeeze of lemon.
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Mix with the finely chopped shallots, tarragon and parsley.
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Add 1 finely sliced carrot and 1 stick finely chopped celery and cook 5 minutes.
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A little finely chopped fresh coriander may also be added for colour.
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Soften cheese with a fork and add finely chopped chives, parsley or spring onion tops and season well.
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Fresh mint is also good finely chopped and sprinkled over buttery new potatoes or peas.
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Fill each half with a finely chopped tomato.
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A summery variation is to add finely chopped cress.
crafted
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That was the rallying cry of Nelson Mandela's finely crafted speech.
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Or are they simply reacting emotionally to finely crafted television commercials and populist rhetoric?
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The Shakers believed rooms should be tidy so they designed finely crafted fitted and storage furniture, all available from this shop.
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All Saunders' finely crafted drawings, in fact, suggest speed and fluidity and an abandonment of conscious control.
grated
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Add the finely grated rind of the orange and lemon, the rum and mixed spice.
tuned
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Dana had been too determined to avoid her, and Claudia's finely tuned senses told her Dana was uneasy.
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He was a highly sensitized instrument, a finely tuned social and academic barometer.
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Concepts such as proportionality or legal certainty may be able to provide a more finely tuned approach.
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Spring's new swimwear is a finely tuned balance between modesty and brazenness.
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This is a finely tuned mechanism for responding to the imperatives of the law of conservation of mass.
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Manifestations Gifts Physical and mental dexterity; finely tuned perceptions.
■ VERB
balance
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Ferndown consolidated as the game progressed and the game was very finely balanced .
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Please try not to upset or destroy this finely balanced mechanism or the building blocks will collapse like a row of dominoes.
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Arguments over toxicity and cost-benefit are finely balanced .
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The issues are finely balanced and there is no simple answer to the question.
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But in practice the prognosis is finely balanced .
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There is concern about the law in this area and I believe that the arguments on it are finely balanced .
chop
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Scald, skin, de-seed and finely chop the tomatoes.
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Remove and cut the cloves in half, removing any green core, and chop finely .
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Peel, core and finely chop the apricots and mix well with the cheese mixture.
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Drain well and chop finely in a food processor or with a knife.
dice
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Deseed the peppers, dice finely and place in a bowl.
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Discard stems and finely dice caps.
grind
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In the early days ordinary mill-stones were used as the clinker was soft and the cement need not be finely ground .
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Pimientos become paprika when dried and finely ground .
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As production methods improved the clinker produced was harder and the cement had to be more finely ground .
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The finely ground nuts got lost in the batter.
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Scattering may be a problem unless the sample is very finely ground .
hone
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And while a teenager has the foresight of a flea, her powers of humbug-detection are finely honed .
mince
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Finely mince the lemon and add it to sauces or marinades.
slice
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The more finely sliced the ingredients the stronger the flavour.
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Trim and finely slice the spring onions.
tune
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Secondly, in some species the choice is remarkably finely tuned so that under certain circumstances familiarity may be preferred over novelty.
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It is a finely tuned art that depends on the perceptive skills and sound judgment of the consultant.
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Not only is the bird's distribution highly individual, its ecology is more finely tuned than that of any other falcon.
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And it is our experience that successful entrepreneurs quickly develop a finely tuned instinct for investing their time in high-profit opportunities.
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His stomach was as finely tuned an instrument as was his palate.
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Likewise, the balance between incidental excitement and structural cohesion is finely tuned in Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel.
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They are so finely tuned to each other s responses that they do seem to be cellmates.
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The administration of each territory was finely tuned and certain aspects of it were recorded on clay tablets at the urban centres.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
finely/highly tuned
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And it is our experience that successful entrepreneurs quickly develop a finely tuned instinct for investing their time in high-profit opportunities.
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Dana had been too determined to avoid her, and Claudia's finely tuned senses told her Dana was uneasy.
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He was a highly tuned machine for using people.
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He was a highly sensitized instrument, a finely tuned social and academic barometer.
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It is a finely tuned art that depends on the perceptive skills and sound judgment of the consultant.
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Or had it been between them, or only in her own highly tuned emotions?
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Secondly, in some species the choice is remarkably finely tuned so that under certain circumstances familiarity may be preferred over novelty.
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True each of them has been finely tuned .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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finely detailed furniture
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a finely polished mirror
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In a food processor, finely chop the peppers and onions.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Balancing these tensions required finely honed knowledge and skill that the new managers had only begun to acquire.
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Bold golden dragons with cherry red eyes danced sinuously on deep green, finely tiled columns.
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The Circotherm system includes a unique, finely balanced, fan which cleverly draws any wasted heat directly back into the oven.
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The prongs had rounded edges that fit into finely finished grooves.
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The web was so finely woven that he had no way forward but by continuing the deceit.
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You generally need to remove the thick spine before finely shredding the leaf.