Refine

[rɪ'faɪn]

解释:

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

(verb.) 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'.

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

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

编辑:奥斯本--From WordNet

解释:

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) 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.

(v. i.) To become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter.

(v. i.) To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.

(v. i.) To affect nicety or subtilty in thought or language.

校对:玛拉

同义词及近义词:

v. a. [1]. Purify, clarify, fine, defecate.[2]. Cultivate, polish, make elegant.

v. n. [1]. Become pure, be clarified.[2]. Improve, make improvement.[3]. Be over-nice, affect nicety, split hairs, make useless distinctions.

校对:莱利亚

解释:

v.t. to separate from extraneous matter: to reduce to a fine or pure state: to purify: to clarify: to polish: to make elegant: to purify the manners morals language &c.—v.i. to become fine or pure: to affect nicety: to improve in any kind of excellence.—p.adj. Refined′ made fine: polished: highly cultivated.—adv. Refin′edly in a refined manner: with affected elegance.—ns. Refin′edness Refine′ment act of refining or state of being refined: purification: separation from what is impure &c.: cultivation: elegance: polish: purity: an excessive nicety; Refin′er one who refuses anything: a piece of mechanism for refining as a gas purifier; Refin′ery a place for refining; Refin′ing the act or process of refining or purifying particularly metals.

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