Kata bahasa Indonesia
English word
TANDA HUBUNG
WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
THESAURUS
ROGET THESAURUS
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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb has 6 senses
- refine(v = verb.change) down, fine-tune, polish - improve or perfect by pruning or polishing; "refine one's style of writing"
- refine(v = verb.change) complicate, elaborate, rarify - make more complex, intricate, or richer; "refine a design or pattern"
- refine(v = verb.change) - treat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition; "refine oil"; "refine paper stock"; "refine pig iron"
- refine(v = verb.change) rectify - reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities; "refine sugar"
- refine(v = verb.change) - 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"
- refine(v = verb.change) - make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of; "refine a method of analysis"; "refine the constant in the equation"
Derived form noun refinement1, noun refinement2, noun refiner1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derived form noun refinement3, noun refiner1, noun refinery1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derived form noun refinement3, noun refiner1, noun refining1
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derived form noun refinement4
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
, v. t. Array
- 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 [1913 Webster]refine gold or silver; torefine iron; torefine 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 . [1913 Webster]refine the manners, the language, the style, the taste, the intellect, or the moral feelings
Syn. -- To purify; clarify; polish; ennoble.
, v. i.
- To become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter. [1913 Webster]
- To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence. [1913 Webster]
- To affect nicety or subtilty in thought or language. Atterbury. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
, v.
1 tr. free from impurities or defects; purify, clarify.
2 tr. & intr. make or become more polished or elegant or cultured.
3 tr. & intr. make or become more subtle or delicate in thought, feelings, etc.
1 tr. free from impurities or defects; purify, clarify.
2 tr. & intr. make or become more polished or elegant or cultured.
3 tr. & intr. make or become more subtle or delicate in thought, feelings, etc.
Derivative
refinable adj.
Etymology
RE- + FINE(1) v.
THESAURUS
abate, abrade, abstract, acculturate, advance, ameliorate, amend, bate, beautify, better, bolt, boost, bring forward, carve, chisel, civilize, clarify, cleanse, clear, colliquate, concentrate, convert, cultivate, curtail, decoct, decontaminate, decrassify, decrease, deduct, defrost, depreciate, depurate, derogate, detract, develop, diminish, disparage, distill, drain, eat away, edify, educate, edulcorate, elaborate, elevate, elute, embellish, emend, enhance, enlighten, enrich, erode, essentialize, evolve, excite, express, extract, fatten, favor, file away, filter, filtrate, finish, flux, focus, forward, foster, fuse, go straight, grow, harvest, hone, impair, improve, improve upon, infuse, lard, leach, lessen, lift, lixiviate, machine, make an improvement, make sensitive, mature, meliorate, melt, melt down, mend, mill, mine, narrow, nurture, oversimplify, percolate, perfect, polish, press out, process, promote, pump, purify, quicken, raise, rear, rectify, reduce, reduce to elements, refine upon, reform, remove, render, retrench, ripen, round, rub away, run, screen, season, sensibilize, sensitize, separate, sharpen, shorten, sieve, sift, simplify, sleek, slick, smelt, smooth, soak, socialize, spiritualize, steep, stimulate, stir, straighten out, strain, streamline, strip down, subduct, sublimate, sublime, subtilize, subtract, take away, take from, thaw, thin, thin out, transfigure, transform, try, unfreeze, upgrade, uplift, wear away, weed, whet, winnow, withdraw, wring, wring out
ROGET THESAURUS
Cleanness
VB be clean, render clean, clean, cleanse, mundify, rinse, wring, flush, full, wipe, mop, sponge, scour, swab, scrub, brush up, wash, lave, launder, buck, absterge, deterge, decrassify, clear, purify, depurate, despumate, defecate, purge, expurgate, elutriate, lixiviate, edulcorate, clarify, refine, rack, filter, filtrate, drain, strain, disinfect, fumigate, ventilate, deodorize, whitewash, castrate, emasculate, sift, winnow, pick, weed, comb, rake, brush, sweep, rout out, clear out, sweep out, make a clean sweep of.& Sophistry
VB judge intuitively, judge by intuition, hazard a proposition, hazard a guess, talk at random, reason ill, falsely, misjudge, paralogize, take on faith, take as a given, assume (supposition), pervert, quibble, equivocate, mystify, evade, elude, gloss over, varnish, misteach, mislead, cavil, refine, subtilize, split hairs, misrepresent, beg the question, reason in a circle, reason in circles, assume the conclusion, cut blocks with a razor, beat about the bush, play fast and loose, play fast and loose with the facts, blow hot and cold, prove that black is white and white black, travel out of the record, parler a tort et a travers, put oneself out of court, not have a leg to stand on, judge hastily, shoot from the hip, jump to conclusions (misjudgment).
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