Refine

What do we mean by refine?

To reduce to a pure state; purify. intransitive verb

To remove by purifying. intransitive verb

To free from coarse, unsuitable, or immoral characteristics. intransitive verb

To become free of impurities. intransitive verb

To acquire polish or elegance. intransitive verb

To use precise distinctions and subtlety in thought or speech. intransitive verb

To bring or reduce to a pure state; free from impurities; free from sediment; defecate; clarify; fine: as, to refine liquor, sugar, or petroleum.

In metallurgy, to bring into a condition of purity as complete as the nature of the ore treated will allow.

To purify from what is gross, coarse, debasing, low, vulgar, inelegant, rude, clownish, and the like; make elegant; raise or educate, as the taste; give culture to; polish: as, to refine the manners, taste, language, style, intellect, or moral feelings.

To become pure; be cleared of feculent matter.

To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or in anything that constitutes excellence.

To exhibit nicety or subtlety in thought or language, especially excessive nicety.

To become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter. intransitive verb

To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence. intransitive verb

To affect nicety or subtilty in thought or language. intransitive verb

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 transitive verb

To purify from what is gross, coarse, vulgar, inelegant, low, and the like; to make elegant or exellent; to polish. transitive verb

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; as, to refine gold or silver; to refine iron; to refine wine or sugar. verb

To purify from what is gross, coarse, vulgar, inelegant, low, and the like; to make elegant or excellent; to polish; as, to refine the manners, the language, the style, the taste, the intellect, or the moral feelings. verb

To become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter. verb

To purify; reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities.

To become pure; to be cleared of impure matter.

To purify of coarseness, vulgarity, inelegance, etc.; to polish.

To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.

To make nice or subtle.

1: to edit into a more polished work 2: to steal; as in refining your morals Urban Dictionary

To make small improvements. Urban Dictionary

Food. Things to eat. Urban Dictionary

Requiring rework of perfectly adequate deliveries in an effort improve ones status. Urban Dictionary

Cultivated and genteel. Showing a high degree of refinement. Suggesting taste, ease and wealth. Urban Dictionary

Growing older, aging gracefully, Urban Dictionary

To make better. Refinements are usually improvements of small details. Urban Dictionary

To take out all your impurities And train yourself to replace them all With purity Urban Dictionary

To have refined Taste, simply means having a good or respectable liking for a particular Art form or content. It could be music,food, Animation/film,painting,location, personal,Nature... topic etcetera. Urban Dictionary

A person where you can't tell if they are a hobo or if that is really their personal style. The refined hobo can be a person who (if it really is their personal style) purposely puts holes and bangs up their clothing. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to refine:
refine, define, repine, reine, refile, reline, refind, rexine, retine, regine, refire, prefine, refin.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word refine:
crude, refining, refinery, refined, skills, methodology, ore, technique, metals, improve, parameters, techniques, strategies, concepts, tactics, grain, ideas, petroleum, measurement, theories, estimate, procedures, designs, methods, search, sugar, recommendations, capabilities, oil, copper, prototype, estimates, processes, abilities, develop, process, expand, understanding, craft, definition, concept, drawing, method, approach, knowledge, models, perfect, requirements, approaches, tools, strategy, design, testing.

Words that rhyme with refine:
line, design, sign, pine, fein, fine, vine, benign, divine, align, wine, genuine, shine, mine, decline, assign, outline, asinine, undermine, define, online, supine, opine, streamline, pipeline, brine, malign, combine, whine, baseline, nine, byzantine, resign, incline, bovine, spine, confine, deadline, concubine, shrine, canine, lifeline, tine, moonshine, grapevine, consign, stein, devine, sine, endocrine, lupine, enshrine, outshine, frontline, sunshine, thine, dine, equine, alkaline, alpine, feline, sideline, chine, twine, aline, guideline, porcupine, swine, iodine, valentine, tagline, intertwine, byline, headline, serpentine, saccharine, storyline, stine, zine, cline, borderline, spline, crystalline, bottom line, airline, eglantine, turpentine, affine, dopamine, hotline, trine, quinine, punchline, underline, skyline, entwine, ballantine, palatine, rine, clementine.

Adjectives that are often used to describe refine:
more, uncouth, gross, such, old, luxuriant, great, social, cleer, further, scarce.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective refine:
ment, option, skills, tasks, requirements, strategy, ments, language, ideas, compiler, design, techniques, estimates, methods, model, data, list, plan, procedures, paradigm, oil, models, goals, command, iterations, details, definitions, step, control, cycle, function, objectives, phase, knowledge, criteria, base, mode, strategies, axis, tactic, search, process, your, theory, test, options, program, alloys, structure, analysis, policies, concepts, clusters, approach, power, tool, understanding, chapter, standards, project.

Consonant match to refine:
roughen, ruffin, rough in, raf in, raff in, raphe in, ref in, rife in, riff in, rofin, roof in, roof inn, rough fun, rough on, ruef in, ruf in, ruff in, ruff on.

Words that sound like refine:
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