refine

Definition of refine in English English dictionary: To become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter; 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; To affect nicety or subtlety in thought or language; To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence; 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; reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities; "refine sugar"; {v} to clear from dross, purify, improve; {f} purify, filter, distill; cultivate, civilize, improve one's manners or style; improve or perfect by pruning or polishing; "refine one's style of writing"; An operation that lets you fine-tune existing connections, moving the point of connection down to a constituent item; When a substance is refined, it is made pure by having all other substances removed from it. Oil is refined to remove naturally occurring impurities. + refining re·fin·ing oil refining; To affect nicety or subtilty in thought or language; To process for consumption; make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of; "refine a method of analysis"; "refine the constant in the equation"; treat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition; "refine paper stock"; "refine pig iron"; "refine oil; To narrow the focus of a search by including more search terms, limiters, and/or Boolean operators In AltaVista, the Refine feature offers menu choices which help you narrow the focus of your search; To alter a search in order to retrieve fewer hits The use of the Boolean operator "and" refines a search This is also known as "limiting" and "narrowing" a search; The term refine is a keyword that signifies a refinement; 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; If something such as a process, theory, or machine is refined, it is improved by having small changes made to it. Surgical techniques are constantly being refined. = improve; In magnesium melting practice, the removal of magnesium oxide and other suspended non-metallic matter by use of flux that preferentially wets the impurities and carries them to the bottom of the pot as sludge; make more complex, intricate, or richer; "refine a design or pattern"; 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"; 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" reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities; "refine sugar" treat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition; "refine paper stock"; "refine pig iron"; "refine oil; 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
refine on: perfect, polish, make better
refine upon: perfect, polish, make better
refined: Not vulgar
refined: An absence of coarseness
refined: Showing or having good feelings or good taste
Ozzie and Harriet are refined people.
refined: Without impurities
The sugar was refined, not gritty.
refined: Simple past tense and past participle of refine
The raw petroleum was refined into kerosene.
refiner: Agent noun of refine; one who refines
refining: Present participle of refine
refined: {s} purified, filtered, distilled; cultivated, civilized, having fine manners or style
refiner: {n} one who refines or clears, a purifier
To refine: affine
refined: used of persons and their behavior; cultivated and genteel; "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship"; "refined people with refined taste"
refined: past of refine
refined: Term for well-balanced wines Mostly refers to reds, such as Zinfandel, which normally turn "powerful" in the barrel Almost a synonym for "elegant"
refined: made pure
refined: suggesting taste, ease, and wealth
refined: Freed from impurities or alloy; purifed; polished; cultured; delicate; as; refined gold; refined language; refined sentiments
refined: Term for well-balanced wines Mostly refers to reds, such as Zinfandel, that normally turn "powerful" in the barrel Almost a synonym for "elegant"
refined: free from what is tawdry or unbecoming; "a neat style"; "a neat set of rules"; "she hated to have her neat plans upset"
refined: If you describe a machine or a process as refined, you mean that it has been carefully developed and is therefore very efficient or elegant. This technique is becoming more refined and more acceptable all the time
refined: A refined substance has been made pure by having other substances removed from it. refined sugar
refined: If you say that someone is refined, you mean that they are very polite and have good manners and good taste. refined and well-dressed ladies = genteel
refined: freed from impurities by processing; "refined sugar"; "refined oil"; "to gild refined gold"- Shakespeare
refined: showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience; "his polished manner"; "maintained an urbane tone in his letters"
refiner: Machine for breaking down wood chips into fibers between two rotating surfaces, used in production of mechanical pulp
refiner: one whose work is to refine a specific thing; "he was a sugar refiner"
refiner: A machine in which wood chips are broken down into fibres for pulp making
refiner: A facility for final separation and purification of metals in a refining lot
refiner: The process of refining metals is referred to by way of illustrations in Isa 1: 25; Jer 6: 29; Zech 13: 9; Mal 3: 2, 3
refiner: An equipment used to give mechanical treatment to the fibers
refiner: one whose work is to refine a specific thing; "he was a sugar refiner
refiner: A person or company that has any part in the control or management of any operation by which the physical or chemical characteristics of petroleum or petroleum products are changed
refiner: Refiners are people or organizations that refine substances such as oil or sugar in order to sell them
refiner: One who, or that which, refines
refiner: {i} purifier, clarifier, filterer
refiner: one who refines
refiners: plural of refiner
refining: Process designed to substantially remove free fatty acids and other impurities such as phosphatides, proteinaceous and mucilagenous substances, which could contribute to undesirable flavor and appearance in the finished product
refining: A step in the collective creation process during which choices are made and episodes are shaped and connected
refining: {i} purification, filtration, distillation; act of making civilized, cultivation, improvement of manners or style
refining: Mechanical treatment of fibers to enhance bonding
refining: series of processes for converting crude oil and its fractions to finished petroleum products Following distillation, a petroleum fraction may undergo one or more additional steps to purify or modify it These refining steps include: thermal cracking, catalytic cracking, hydroforming, hydrogenation, hydrogen treating, hydrofinishing, solvent extraction, dewaxing, de-oiling, acid treating, clay filtration, and de-asphalting Refined lube oils may be blended with other lube stocks, and additives may be incorporated, to impart special properties; refined naphthas may be blended with alkylates, cracked stock or reformates to improve octane number and other properties of gasolines
refining: the process of removing impurities (as from oil or metals or sugar etc )
refining: the separation of the pure sugar from the impurities - invert sugars, inorganic matter, organic salts, gums, waxes, sugar lice and bacteria
refining: (a) The removal of impurities and metallic oxides from the molten bath by the reaction of the slag and other additions (b) A heat treatment process with the object of refining or making the grain size of the steel uniform
refining: After distillation the hydrocarbons still contain compounds with sulphur as well as other contaminants They are removed in subsequent refining by chemical-physical processes to improve quality
refining: the process of purification of a substance
refining: The process of converting crude oil into usable fuel products
refining: A second stage of oil production where crude oils (and this includes all vegetable oils) are subjected to combinations of heat, chemicals or enzyme treatments to correct problems of smell, discoloration or contamination
refining: The process of removing the precious metals from the alloying metals to improve the purity of the precious metals
refining: The final stage of metal production in which impurities are removed from the molten metal
refining: Purifying the matte or impure metal undertaken to obtain a pure metal or mixture with specific properties
refining: The process of reducing crude ore to its mineral or metal; such as gold sulfide to gold
refining: A manufacturing process through which crude oil is turned into usable fuels and other products
refining: Manufacturing petroleum products by a series of processes that separate crude oil into its major components and blend or convert these components into a wide range of finished products, such as gasoline or jet fuel
refining: the process of removing impurities as from oil or metals or sugar etc