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refine::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | complicate, elaborate, rarify |
| Type of | change, alter, modify |
| Has types | develop, involve, sophisticate |
refine a design or pattern.
refine::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | attenuate |
many valuable nutrients are refined out of the foods in our modern diet.
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Urgent research is being carried out across the world to refine these estimates.
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Spurrier wants to refine his mechanics and eliminate the windup in his delivery.
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Students refine visual-motor skills by practicing cutting, writing, and tracing.
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He has debts to clear, political professionals to meet and strategies to refine.
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Dr Holte and his colleagues are continuing to refine and test the model further.
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Defenses will refine how to scheme him, and he'll have good weeks and bad weeks.
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Wikipedia is a project to write and refine an encyclopedia, not a coffee klatch.
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Nomura was careful to refine songs and had the composers make several revisions.
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Another three maneuvers are planned to refine the spacecraft's path to the comet.
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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"
- Refining (also called affining) is the process of purification of a (1) substance or a (2) form. The term is usually used of a natural resource that is almost in a usable form, but which is more useful in its pure form. ...
- (Refinement (game theory)) In game theory, a solution concept is a formal rule for predicting how the game will be played. These predictions are called "solutions", and describe which strategies will be adopted by players, therefore predicting the result of the game. ...
- (Refinement (topology)) In mathematics, a cover of a set X is a collection of sets such that X is a subset of the union of sets in the collection. Formally, if
