Definitions of refine [ɪˈfaɪn]

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Definition of 'refine'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) refine
to bring to a pure state; free or separate from impurities or other extraneous substances.

2.  refine
to purify from what is coarse or debasing; make elegant or cultured.

3.  refine
to bring to a finer state or form by purifying or polishing.

4.  refine
to make more fine, subtle, or precise.

5. (v.i.) refine
to become pure.

6.  refine
to become more elegant or polished.

7.  refine
to make fine distinctions in thought or language.

8.  refine
refine on or upon, to improve by inserting finer distinctions, superior elements, etc.

Etymology: (1575–85)

Definition of 'refine'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (verb) polish, refine, fine-tune, down
improve or perfect by pruning or polishing
"refine one's style of writing"

2. (verb) complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate
make more complex, intricate, or richer
"refine a design or pattern"

3. (verb) refine
treat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition
"refine paper stock"; "refine pig iron"; "refine oil"

4. (verb) refine, rectify
reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities
"refine sugar"

5. (verb) refine
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"

6. (verb) refine
make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of
"refine a method of analysis"; "refine the constant in the equation"

Definition of 'refine'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) refine
to make a substance more pure by removing other substances
techniques for refining oil/sugar

2. refine
to change to make as perfect as possible
He spent years refining his theory.

Definition of 'refine'

Webster Dictionary

1. (verb) 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

2. (verb) refine
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

3. (verb) refine
to become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter

4. (verb) refine
to improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence

5. (verb) refine
to affect nicety or subtilty in thought or language

Translation of 'refine'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to make (a substance eg sugar) pure by taking out dirt, waste substances etc Oil is refined before it is used.
Afrikaans: raffineer	Arabic: يُنَقِّي، يُكَرِّر	Bulgarian: пречиствам
Brazilian: refinar	Czech: čistit	German: raffinieren
Danish: raffinere	Greek: διυλίζω	Spanish: refinar
Estonian: puhastama	Farsi: تصفیه کردن؛ خالص کردن	Finnish: jalostaa
French: raffiner	Hebrew: לְזַקֵק	Hindi: निर्मल या परिष्कार करना
Croatian: pročistiti, rafinirati	Hungarian: finomít	Indonesian: mengolah
Icelandic: hreinsa	Italian: raffinare	Japanese: 精製する
Korean: 정제하다	Lithuanian: rafinuoti	Latvian: rafinēt; attīrīt
Malay: menapis, menyuling	Dutch: raffineren	Norwegian: rense, raffinere
Polish: rafinować	Persian: تصفیه کردن؛ خالص کردن	Pashto: چڼل، نينول، تصفيه كول، پا
Portuguese: refinar	Romanian: a rafina	Russian: очищать
Slovak: čistiť	Slovenian: prečistiti	Serbian: prečistiti
Swedish: raffinera, förädla	Thai: ทำให้บริสุทธิ์	Turkish: arıtmak, rafine etmek
Taiwanese: 提煉	Ukrainian: очищати, рафінувати	Urdu: صاف کرنا
Vietnamese: ltinh chế	Chinese: 提炼
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