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rarefy
To purify or refine:
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  1. To purify or refine:
  2. To become thin or less dense.
  3. To make or become thin, or less dense
strain
The extent to which a body is distorted when it is subjected to a deforming force, as when under stress. The distortion can involve a change both in shape and in size. All measures of strain are dimensionless (they have no unit of measure). &diamf3; Axial strain is equal to the ratio between the change in length of an object and its original length. &diamf3; Volume strain is equal to the ratio between the change in volume of an object and its original volume. It is also called bulk strain. &diamf3; Shear strain is equal to the ratio between the amount by which an object is skewed and its length.
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  1. The extent to which a body is distorted when it is subjected to a deforming force, as when under stress. The distortion can involve a change both in shape and in size. All measures of strain are dimensionless (they have no unit of measure). &diamf3; Axial strain is equal to the ratio between the change in length of an object and its original length. &diamf3; Volume strain is equal to the ratio between the change in volume of an object and its original volume. It is also called bulk strain. &diamf3; Shear strain is equal to the ratio between the amount by which an object is skewed and its length.
  2. To pass through a screen, sieve, filter, etc.; filter
  3. To filter, ooze, or trickle
filter
A device that allows signals with certain properties, such as signals lying in a certain frequency range, to pass while blocking the passage of others. For example, filters on photographic lenses allow only certain frequencies of light to enter the camera, while polarizing filters allow only light polarized along a given plane to pass. Radio tuners are filters that allow frequencies of only a narrow range to pass into an amplification circuit.
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  1. A device that allows signals with certain properties, such as signals lying in a certain frequency range, to pass while blocking the passage of others. For example, filters on photographic lenses allow only certain frequencies of light to enter the camera, while polarizing filters allow only light polarized along a given plane to pass. Radio tuners are filters that allow frequencies of only a narrow range to pass into an amplification circuit.
  2. To remove or separate by means of a filter
  3. To remove by passing through a filter:
clarify
To make or become clear and free from impurities
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  1. To make or become clear and free from impurities
  2. To become clear.
  3. To melt (butter) and remove the water and milk solids
perfect
To bring to perfection or completion:
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  1. To bring to perfection or completion:
  2. To make perfect or more nearly perfect according to a given standard, as by training
polish
To take a polish; become glossy, elegant, or refined
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  1. To take a polish; become glossy, elegant, or refined
  2. To improve or refine (someone or someone's manners, appearance, etc.) as by removing crudeness or vulgarity
  3. To refine or remove flaws from; perfect or complete:
cultivate
To seek to develop familiarity with; give one's attention to; pursue
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  1. To seek to develop familiarity with; give one's attention to; pursue
  2. To prepare and use (soil or land) for growing crops; till
  3. To break up the surface soil around (plants) in order to destroy weeds, prevent crusting, and preserve moisture
hone
To develop or improve
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  1. To develop or improve
  2. (Mech.) To enlarge or smooth (a bore) to exact specifications with a rotating stick (honing stone) containing abrasive material
  3. To perfect or make more intense or effective:
clarify
To make or become clear and free from impurities
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  1. To make or become clear and free from impurities
  2. To melt (butter) and remove the water and milk solids
  3. To clear of confusion or uncertainty:
clean
To remove (dirt, impurities, etc.) in making clean
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  1. To remove (dirt, impurities, etc.) in making clean
  2. To rid of dirt, rubbish, or impurities:
  3. In a clean or nonpolluting manner:
cleanse
To treat with a regimen intended to remove impurities and promote health:
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  1. To treat with a regimen intended to remove impurities and promote health:
  2. To free from dirt, defilement, or guilt; purge or clean.
  3. To make clean, pure, etc.; clean; purge
purify
To free (someone) from guilt or sin
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  1. To free (someone) from guilt or sin
  2. To cleanse (something), or rid (it) of impurities
  3. To rid of impurities:
perfect
To bring to perfection or completion:
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  1. To bring to perfection or completion:
  2. To make perfect or more nearly perfect according to a given standard, as by training
polish
To take a polish; become glossy, elegant, or refined
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  1. To take a polish; become glossy, elegant, or refined
  2. To improve or refine (someone or someone's manners, appearance, etc.) as by removing crudeness or vulgarity
  3. To refine or remove flaws from; perfect or complete:
smooth
To cause to appear less harsh or severe than is the case:
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  1. To cause to appear less harsh or severe than is the case:
  2. To become smooth.
  3. To make (something) even, level, or unwrinkled:
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  • Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

  • In 1895 the British Aluminium Company was founded to mine bauxite and manufacture alumina in Ireland, to prepare the necessary electrodes at Greenock, to reduce the aluminium by the aid of water-power at the Falls of Foyers, and to refine and work up the metal into marketable shapes at the old Milton factory of the Cowles Syndicate, remodelled to suit modern requirements.

  • The earliest serious attempt to refine copper industrially was made by G.

  • By "make a car," I mean really make a car: dig iron ore out of the ground, smelt it to steel, wildcat for oil, find oil and refine it into gasoline, and so on.

  • The humanistic movement led these learned writers to engraft the graces of the antique upon their native literature, and to refine it by emulating the lucidity of Petrarch.

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