refine
21refine — verb 1) refining our cereal foods Syn: purify, process, treat 2) helping students to refine their language skills Syn: improve, perfect, polish (up), hone, fine tune …
22refine — verb 1) refining our cereal foods Syn: purify, filter, distil, process, treat 2) helping students to refine their skills Syn: improve, perfect, polish (up), hone, fine tune …
23refine — re•fine [[t]rɪˈfaɪn[/t]] v. fined, fin•ing 1) to bring to a pure state; free or separate from impurities or other extraneous substances 2) to purify from what is coarse or debasing; make elegant or cultured 3) to bring to a finer state or form by …
24refine — Hō ae ae, hō ae. ♦ Refine sugar, ho oke oke o i ke kōpa a ula ula …
25refine\ upon — • refine on • refine upon v 1. To make better; improve. Mary was asked to refine on her first outline to make it clearer and more exact. 2. To be better than; surpass. Modern medical techniques refine on those of the past …
26refine — To free from impurities. * * * re·fine ri fīn vt, re·fined; re·fin·ing to free (as sugar or oil) from impurities or unwanted material * * * re·fine (re fīnґ) to purify or free from foreign matter …
27refine — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. purify, cleanse, educate, improve, polish, cultivate, elaborate. See purity, improvement. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To purify] Syn. rarefy, strain, filter, clarify; see clean , filter 2 , purify . 2.… …
28refine — re|fine [rıˈfaın] v [T] 1.) to improve a method, plan, system etc by gradually making slight changes to it ▪ Car makers are constantly refining their designs. 2.) to make a substance purer using an industrial process ▪ oil refining …
29refine — re|fine [ rı faın ] verb transitive 1. ) to remove things from a natural substance in order to make it pure 2. ) to make some changes to something in order to improve it: We ve refined the system since it was first launched …
30refine — see FINE …
