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
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
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
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
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