| refine | 1. To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify; to defecate; as, to refine gold or silver; to refine iron; to refine wine or sugar. "I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined." (Zech. Xiii. 9) 2. To purify from what is gross, coarse, vulgar, inelegant, low, and the like; to make elegant or exellent; to polish; as, to refine the manners, the language, the style, the taste, the intellect, or the moral feelings. "Love refines The thoughts, and heart enlarges." (Milton) Synonym: To purify, clarify, polish, ennoble. Origin: Pref. Re- + fine to make fine: cf. F. Raffiner. 1. To become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter. "So the pure, limpid stream, when foul with stains, Works itself clear, and, as it runs, refines." (Addison) 2. To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence. "Chaucer refined on Boccace, and mended his stories." (Dryden) "But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit brightens! How the style refines!" (Pope) 3. To affect nicety or subtilty in thought or language. "He makes another paragraph about our refining in controversy." Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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polish: improve or perfect by pruning or polishing; "refine one's style of writing" complicate: make more complex, intricate, or richer; "refine a design or pattern" treat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition; "refine paper stock"; "refine pig iron"; "refine oil" reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities; "refine sugar" attenuate or reduce in vigor, strength, or validity by polishing or purifying; "many valuable nutrients are refined out of the foods in our modern diet" make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of; "refine a method of analysis"; "refine the constant in the equation"
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to change a conjecture slightly so that it is true
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To remove impurities, color, or strong flavor. In olive oil processing, involves the removal of free fatty acids and other flavor components,
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lanolin (def. 1).
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| refine | make more complex, intricate, or richer |
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| refine | make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of |
| refine | attenuate or reduce in vigor, strength, or validity by polishing or purifying |
| refine | improve or perfect by pruning or polishing |
| refine | reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state |
| refine | treat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition |
| refine | free from what is tawdry or unbecoming |
| refine | suggesting taste, ease, and wealth |
| refine | made pure |
| refine | used of persons and their behavior |
| refine | freed from impurities by processing |
| refine | showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience |
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