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
- 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
Sort: Oldest first
-
treat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition; "refine paper stock"; "refine pig iron"; "refine oil"
-
make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of; "refine a method of analysis"; "refine the constant in the equation"
-
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
-
treat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition; "refine paper stock"; "refine pig iron"; "refine oil"
-
make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of; "refine a method of analysis"; "refine the constant in the equation"
-
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
-
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.
-
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.
-
To become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter.
-
To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.
-
To affect nicety or subtilty in thought or language.
By Oddity Software
-
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.
-
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.
-
To become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter.
-
To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.
-
To affect nicety or subtilty in thought or language.
By Noah Webster.
-
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
-
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.
-
To become fine or pure: to affect nicety: to improve in any kind of excellence.
-
REFINER.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
Word of the day
Quinones
- Hydrocarbon rings which contain two moieties position. They can be substituted in any position except at the ketone groups.