v.
improve or perfect by pruning or polishing
"refine one's style of writing"
同义词:polishfine-tunedown
make more complex, intricate, or richer
"refine a design or pattern"
同义词:complicaterarifyelaborate
treat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition
"refine paper stock"; "refine pig iron"; "refine oil"
reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities
"refine sugar"
同义词:rectify
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"
make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of
"refine a method of analysis"; "refine the constant in the equation"
Spectral karyotyping refines cytogenetic diagnostics of constitutional chromosomal abnormalities.
Analysis of ret/PTC gene rearrangements refines the fine needle aspiration diagnosis of thyroid cancer.
ATRX loss refines the classification of anaplastic gliomas and identifies a subgroup of IDH mutant astrocytic tumors with better pr...
Fine-Scale Mapping of Recombination Rate in Drosophila refines Its Correlation to Diversity and Divergence
A rescue strategy for multimapping short sequence tags refines surveys of transcriptional activity by CAGE
Analysis of Australian Crohn's disease pedigrees refines the localization for susceptibility to inflammatory bowel disease on chromo...
Analysis of BRAF Point Mutation and RET/PTC Rearrangement Refines the Fine-Needle Aspiration Diagnosis of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma
Inactivation of the carbamoyltransferase gene refines post-polyketide synthase modification steps in the biosynthesis of the antitum...
Detection of BRAF V600E mutation on fine needle aspiration specimens of thyroid nodule refines cyto-pathology diagnosis, especially...
Molecular characterization of cytogenetic alterations associated with the Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWS) phenotype refines the lo...