Refine
verb — past tense: refined ; past participle: refined ; present participle: refining ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) (To free or become free from impurities, etc., to make pure; to improve, to reduce crude metals to a finer state, to improve, to improve in accuracy, or good taste) refine oil ស្ល, ចំហុយ (ប្រេងកាត)
Example: To mfte a metal, The tennis player his serve by practice.refine a technique ធ្វើឲ្យ ប្រសើរឡើង - 2.
- (បច្ចេកទេស) ចម្រាញ់ធើ្វអោយល្អប្រសើរ
ENGLISH MEANING
verb — past tense: refined ; past participle: refined ; present participle: refining ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) 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 refine gold or silver; to refine iron; to refine wine or sugar.
- 2.
- (TRANSITIVE) To purify from what is gross, coarse, vulgar, inelegant, low, and the like; to make elegant or exellent; to polish; as, to refine the manners, the language, the style, the taste, the intellect, or the moral feelings.
- 3.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter.
- 4.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.
- 5.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To affect nicety or subtilty in thought or language.