(Britain, idiomatic) Synonym of no chance or fat chance with a somewhat more cheerful attitude.

(US) A truss used for roofs and bridges, having multiple diagonal members projecting down from the top of the end posts at a variety of angles to meet the bottoms of the vertical members.

(music, lutherie) A flat or roughly flat strip on the neck of a stringed instrument, against which the strings are pressed to shorten the vibrating length and produce notes of higher pitches.

Alternative form of quarterfinal

Meänkieli (language spoken by some 40,000–70,000 people in Northern Sweden)

A generic name for a number of Finnish dialects spoken in the Northern parts of Finland, Sweden and Norway. Two of them, Meänkieli (or Torne Valley Finnish) in Sweden and Kven in Norway are officially recognized as minority languages in their respective countries, and are currently considered separate languages. Their structure and grammar are similar to Finnish but the vocabularies are considerably influenced by the majority language of their country.

(accounting) The year-end numbers needed to file a balance sheet for a corporation. / (law) The statement submitted at the close of the matter.

A method of using the keyboard of a computer or typewriter in which the typist uses only two fingers (usually the index fingers) to operate the keys, typically because unfamiliar with the layout of the keyboard.

(rare or obsolete, proverb) If a person is determined to punish someone, they will find a way to do so.

plural of fine / Fine particles, whether or not airborne. / Small particles of cereal at the bottom of a cereal box.