refine

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If you have an idea, work on it, release it, refine it, and see where it goes.

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Quick take

improve or perfect by pruning or polishing; "refine one's style of writing"

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verb

improve or perfect by pruning or polishing; "refine one's style of writing"

verb

make more complex, intricate, or richer; "refine a design or pattern"

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treat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition; "refine paper stock"; "refine pig iron"; "refine oil"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for refine.

verb

improve or perfect by pruning or polishing; "refine one's style of writing"

verb

make more complex, intricate, or richer; "refine a design or pattern"

verb

treat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition; "refine paper stock"; "refine pig iron"; "refine oil"

verb

reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities; "refine sugar"

verb

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"

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make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of; "refine a method of analysis"; "refine the constant in the equation"

Example sentences

If you have an idea, work on it, release it, refine it, and see where it goes.

For the most part, however, we only use about 30-33 levels of refinement.

Learn and create the process yourself, then hire a sales person and have them execute and refine your process.

Yes, good lawyers can sharpen and refine these arguments to the nth degree and that is where the 6-figure price tags come in.

The best art is achieved via iteration: practice, release, refine, practice, release, refine.

Huge facilities have been built to extract and refine it, and vast areas of land and sea have been irrevocably damaged by that process.

This is the problem I've seen with the previous attempts to go down this route before, and I feed this back in the spirit of helping you refine your thoughts rather than yelling at you to stop.

It could easily be co-opted such that a normal image contains 6 layers of detail, with an additional "retina extension" image that high DPI browsers grab to refine the quality.

I'm surprised nobody is pointing out similarity to Intel's very successful Tick-Tock release cycle - release a new architecture on tick and refine the process on tockThe benefits for Apple are manifold, but the two most obvious are:1.

Modern philosophy is so fascinating that of course there's a temptation to skip right to it in my personal studies, I bounce back and forth between contemporary writers and writers from other centuries and millennia, letting the former refine my understanding of the latter and the latter provide context for the former.