REFINE


Meaning of REFINE in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

refined oil (= oil that has been treated by an industrial process )

They had exported refined oil.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

further

This search can be further refined by defining minimum profitability, location etc, until a short list of companies is identified.

In a year, as designers further refine the technology, the price could sink to $ 7, 000.

Even though Giddens has further refined the detail of the theory, this basic aspect has not changed.

Constitutional theorists have further refined their analysis of constitutions, creating other points of comparison.

more

As the foragers grow older they move from a juvenile taste for sweet nectar to a more refined preference for pollen.

Another and more refined use of the technique occurred at Preston Trucking Company in the late 1970s.

More refined dishes are to be category.

Schemata never stop changing or becoming more refined .

He has a much more refined sensibility than I even aspire to.

As a child becomes better able to generalize across stimuli, schemata become more refined .

Others, the cuckoos included, are more refined birds and concentrate on just a few victims.

But the traders did not become correspondingly more refined in their behavior.

■ NOUN

company

The leaded petrol market is shrinking so fast that some major petroleum companies have discontinued refining leaded petrol.

method

The community power debate has continued into the 1970s and 1980s with both elitists and pluralists refining their methods and theoretical arguments.

While the list of proposed transportation projects is being refined , possible methods to close the funding gap are being considered.

I argued that individuals can gain great advantage from their ability to refine and enrich their methods of communication by this means.

The Regional Action Network illustrates how campaigners have refined their methods .

sugar

H plant for use in sugar refining .

system

The authors suggest that new experiments to refine the system parameters should be carried out to achieve real global minimum.

Its collective confidence is gradually restored, and from this confidence emerges a refined and revitalized system of core organizational beliefs.

technique

Another and more refined use of the technique occurred at Preston Trucking Company in the late 1970s.

Fifty years of refining training techniques and equipment and breeding for selected deformities have created a monster out of a horse.

■ VERB

become

Schemata never stop changing or becoming more refined .

As a child becomes better able to generalize across stimuli, schemata become more refined .

But the traders did not become correspondingly more refined in their behavior.

Lobbying has become so refined that lobbyists now hold teaching seminars for one another.

develop

This is the logic the new managers had to develop and refine .

At this time, the interpretation of some of these tests has not been completely developed and refined .

Like their comrades from earlier wars, many GIs developed and refined the craft of scrounging into a high art.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

refined petroleum

After the first refining process the metal is washed.

Engineers are working on developing and refining the car engines.

It was a four week course, aimed at refining our understanding of the managerial role.

The dealers buy raw cocaine in the south, refine it here, and smuggle it into the north.

The oil is piped to the coast, where it is refined.

There are huge profits in growing and refining cocaine.

Volvo spent three years refining the design of their new car.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

As they received complaints about this see-sawing, they began to refine their delegating behavior.

In future it could provide cosmologists with a firm age with which to refine their models of how the Universe was formed.

The authors suggest that new experiments to refine the system parameters should be carried out to achieve real global minimum.

The methods have been refined over the years, but not radically changed.

The New Ager certainly demonstrates some of these qualities in the way that he creates and refines an original artistic fiction.

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