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REFINE

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refine verb A. tranzitiv

1. a curăţa, a rafina, a purifica, a limpezi (lichide); a rafina (zahăr etc.).

2. (fig.) a ciopli, a face mai rafinat, a perfecţiona (maniere, gusturi, limba etc.).

refine verb B. intranzitiv

(despre zahăr, uleiuri etc.) a se rafina; (despre maniere, gusturi etc.) a se rafina, a se perfecţiona;

to refine upon a question a face subtilităţi asupra unei chestiuni, a fila o idee.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Its tendency would be to raise and refine her mind—and it must be saving her from the danger of degradation.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Children born to women with gestational diabetes whose diet included high proportions of refined grains may have a higher risk of obesity by age 7, compared to children born to women with gestational diabetes who ate low proportions of refined grains.

(Pregnancy diet high in refined grains could increase child obesity risk by age 7, NIH)

You may even think it degrading—for I see now your habits have been what the world calls refined: your tastes lean to the ideal, and your society has at least been amongst the educated; but I consider that no service degrades which can better our race.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

I used to think I would like to practise interviewing; Jonathan's friend on The Exeter News told him that memory was everything in such work—that you must be able to put down exactly almost every word spoken, even if you had to refine some of it afterwards.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

If not wise or refined herself, she would have connected him with those who were; but Miss Hawkins, it might be fairly supposed from her easy conceit, had been the best of her own set.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

They found that children born to women with gestational diabetes who consumed the most refined grain (more than 156 grams per day) were twice as likely to be obese at age 7, compared to children born to women with gestational diabetes who ate the least amount of refined grain (less than 37 grams per day).

(Pregnancy diet high in refined grains could increase child obesity risk by age 7, NIH)

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