About The Word Refine
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Refine
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What's The Definition Of Refine?
[v] make more complex, intricate, or richer; "refine a design or pattern"
[v] make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of; "refine a method of analysis"; "refine the constant in the equation" [v] 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" [v] improve or perfect by pruning or polishing; "refine one's style of writing" [v] reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities; "refine sugar" [v] treat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition; "refine paper stock"; "refine pig iron"; "refine oil" Synonyms | Synonyms for Refine: complicate | down | elaborate | fine-tune | polish | rarify | rectify Related Terms | Find terms related to Refine: See Also | alter | ameliorate | amend | attenuate | better | change | civilise | civilize | cultivate | develop | distill | educate | improve | involve | make pure | meliorate | process | purify | school | sophisticate | sublimate | train | treat Refine In Webster's Dictionary \Re*fine"\ (r?*f?n"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Refined}
(-find"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Refining}.] [Pref. re- + fine to
make fine: cf. F. raffiner.]
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.
Syn: To purify; clarify; polish; ennoble.
\Re*fine"\, v. i. 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.'' --Atterbury. |
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