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to make somethingpureorimprovesomething,especiallybyremovingunwantedmaterial: （尤指去除不需要的杂质而）精炼，提炼，提纯Crudeoilisindustriallyrefined topurifyit andseparateout the differentelements, such asbenzene.原油经过工业提炼来提纯并且分离出诸如苯之类的不同元素。 C2toimproveanidea,method,system, etc. by makingsmallchanges: 改进；完善；使精炼 Engineersspentmanymonthsrefining thesoftware.工程师们花了数月来完善这个软件。 Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examplesto improve something - improveHis health has improved dramatically since he started exercising.
- get betterThe first part of the book isn't very good but it gets better.
- rallyThe team played badly in the first half but rallied in the second.
- recoverWe are still waiting for the economy to recover.
- look upOur financial situation is looking up.
- pick upBusiness is really beginning to pick up.
See more results » SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesCorrecting and mending - calibration
- clean(someone/something)up
- correction
- fiddle (around) withsomething
- fine-tune
- mess
- put/setsomeonerightidiom
- recondition
- reconstruct
- reconstruction
- rectification
- remedy
- revise
- revised
- set/put the record straightidiom
- smoothsomethingaway
- smoothen
- sort
- sortsomethingout
- tinker
See more results » You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Industrial processing Making things better refine| American Dictionaryto make asubstancepurebyremovingunwantedmaterial: Sugar andoilare refined before use. To refine something alsomeanstoimproveit by makingsmallchanges: We haven’tfinishedrefining theplanyet. PRODUCTIONtoimprovesomething or to make itpure,especiallybyremovingmaterialthat is notwanted: Crudeoilisindustriallyrefined topurifyit. toimproveanidea, amethod, asystem, etc. by makingsmallchanges: Engineersspentmanymonthsrefining thesoftware. Examplesofrefinerefine The resulting pieces were often recorded, listened to, analysed and sometimes refined.From theCambridge English Corpus In particular, special care must be taken to avoid infinite loops bouncing back and forth between refining segments and facets of the input polyhedron.From theCambridge English Corpus The things that determine and surround our lives, such as tools, means of transport, the products of science, technology and art, are extremely refined.From theCambridge English Corpus A series of environmental indicators was developed and refined by a group of experts during a period of 18 months.From theCambridge English Corpus The force field is then refined for a given polypeptide structure in order to match the calculated frequencies with the experiment.From theCambridge English Corpus As our investigative techniques become better and more refined we are discovering preclinical tumors of uncertain significance.From theCambridge English Corpus Nevertheless, such results cannot be static, and they will evolve as terminology and explanations are refined, new descriptions are added, or formats are changed.From theCambridge English Corpus Then, the structure of the ontology was refined and the definitive design was obtained.From theCambridge English Corpus Thus, every time an application is built, the ontology that represents the knowledge required for the application is refined.From theCambridge English Corpus Students largely chose to undertake their own project, refining the question and its scope during their first term with their supervisor's assistance.From theCambridge English Corpus Rival adopts this framework, refining it by accounting for internal sociocultural processes and adopting a subjective perspective.From theCambridge English Corpus A strong body of research continues to appear, developing and refining the hypothesis, along with publications that argue against a demonstrated relationship among these languages.From theCambridge English Corpus However, this is only a basic model, and for more specific considerations it has to be refined.From theCambridge English Corpus Therefore, the generic components are refined into a form and framework to create a model for the application.From theCambridge English Corpus Both categories can be further refined in an ontology of semantic tuple types.From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |