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Definition of Refine
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Refine
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. Related Definitions:
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Refine Quotations
To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population. Thomas B. Macaulay War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out. William Tecumseh Sherman Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. T. S. Eliot All of the material for The Fine Line was created via improvisation with my partner, but not in front of an audience. We'd continue to refine it in front of an audience based on their responses until it was set and scripted. Douglas Wood I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys. Marvin Gaye |
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Refine Translations
refine in Dutch is louteren, raffineren, verfijnen refine in German is verfeinern, verfeinern, raffiniere refine in Latin is excolo refine in Spanish is refinar |
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