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What does refine mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word refine? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To purify; reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities
  2. (intransitive) To become pure; to be cleared of impure matter.
  3. (transitive) To purify of coarseness, vulgarity, inelegance etc.
  4. (transitive) To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.
  5. (transitive) To make nice or subtle
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Good investors continually refine their stock picking method, tweaking it here and there.
Mining mostly took place in opencast workings, and primitive methods involving hand sorting and sieving were used to refine the fibre.
The highly effective, biodegradable stuff smells so fresh that it just might refine your sense of clean for good.
Diesel, a middle distillate like kerosene and heating oil, is easier and cheaper to refine from even sludgy oil.
Universities not only transmit knowledge, they also refine existing knowledge and develop new knowledge and ideas.
Arabs were probably the first to cultivate and refine sugar around the Mediterranean.

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