REFINE
\ɹɪfˈa͡ɪn], \ɹɪfˈaɪn], \ɹ_ɪ_f_ˈaɪ_n]\
Definitions of REFINE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
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treat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition; "refine paper stock"; "refine pig iron"; "refine oil"
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make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of; "refine a method of analysis"; "refine the constant in the equation"
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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"
By Princeton University
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treat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition; "refine paper stock"; "refine pig iron"; "refine oil"
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make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of; "refine a method of analysis"; "refine the constant in the equation"
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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"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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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.
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To become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter.
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To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.
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To affect nicety or subtilty in thought or language.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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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.
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To become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter.
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To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.
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To affect nicety or subtilty in thought or language.
By Noah Webster.
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To make pure; as, to refine sugar; clear from dross or worthless matter; as, to refine gold; free from coarseness or rudeness; as, to refine manners.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To free from impurities.
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To purify, as liquors, metals, manners, language, taste, morals.
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To become pure; to improve; to affect nicety or subtlety.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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To free from impurities.
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To free from dross or extraneous matter; to purify; to polish or improve, as in language, manners, taste, &c.; to improve in accuracy or excellence; to become pure.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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To separate from extraneous matter: to reduce to a fine or pure state: to purify: to clarify: to polish: to make elegant: to purify the manners, morals, etc.
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To become fine or pure: to affect nicety: to improve in any kind of excellence.
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REFINER.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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