refine  /rəf'ɑɪn/  /rɪf'ɑɪn/

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資料來源(1): pydict data [pydict]

  refine
  (vt.)精煉,淨化,使優雅,使精練(vi.)精煉,淨化,推敲

資料來源(2): Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]

  Refine \Re*fine"\ (r?*f?n"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Refined}
     (-find"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Refining}.] [Pref. re- + fine to
     make fine: cf. F. raffiner.]
     1. 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.
  
              I will bring the third part through the fire, and
              will refine them as silver is refined. --Zech. xiii.
                                                    9.
  
     2. 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.
  
              Love refines The thoughts, and heart enlarges.
                                                    --Milton.
  
     Syn: To purify; clarify; polish; ennoble.

資料來源(3): Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]

  Refine \Re*fine"\, v. i.
     1. To become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter.
  
              So the pure, limpid stream, when foul with stains,
              Works itself clear, and, as it runs, refines.
                                                    --Addison.
  
     2. To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.
  
              Chaucer refined on Boccace, and mended his stories.
                                                    --Dryden.
  
              But let a lord once own the happy lines, How the wit
              brightens! How the style refines!     --Pope.
  
     3. To affect nicety or subtilty in thought or language. ``He
        makes another paragraph about our refining in
        controversy.'' --Atterbury.

資料來源(4): WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]

  refine
       v 1: improve or perfect by pruning or polishing; "refine one's
            style of writing" [syn: {polish}, {fine-tune}, {down}]
       2: make more complex, intricate, or richer; "refine a design or
          pattern" [syn: {complicate}, {rarify}, {elaborate}]
       3: treat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition; "refine
          paper stock"; "refine pig iron"; "refine oil"
       4: reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from
          extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities; "refine
          sugar" [syn: {rectify}]
       5: 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: make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of;
          "refine a method of analysis"; "refine the constant in the
          equation"

資料來源(5): Free On-line Dictionary of Computing [foldoc]

  REFINE
  
     1. "Research on Knowledge-Based Software Environments at
     Kestrel Institute", D.R. Smith et al, IEEE Trans Soft Eng,
     SE-11(11) (1985).  E-mail: <maria@kestrel.edu>.
  
     2. Cordell Green et al, Stanford U.  Uses logic to specify and
     evolve programs.  [same as 1?] Reasoning Systems, Inc.
     E-mail: <help@reasoning.com>.