Precise vs Refine - What's the difference?
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Exact, accurate.
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(sciences) Of experimental results, consistent, clustered close together, agreeing with each other. This does not mean that they cluster near the true, correct, or accurate value.
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, title= 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
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, title= To purify from what is gross, coarse, vulgar, inelegant, low, and the like; to make elegant or excellent; to polish.
To become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter.
To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.
To affect nicety or subtlety in thought or language.
As an adjective precise
is exact, accurate.As a verb refine is
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.precise
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)Snakes and ladders, passage=Risk is everywhere.
Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* inexact, imprecise * (consistent) inconsistent, varyingDerived terms
* prissyAnagrams
* ----refine
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Verb
(refin)Yesterday’s fuel, passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.