📚 Refine, verb. 🔉 /rɪˈfʌɪn/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Make minor changes so as to improve or clarify (a theory or method) ❗️ Examples: 1. Ease of access to computers has refined analysis and presentation of data. 2. The premise is correct: there has been progress; theories are refined, generalised, clarified, simplified, and perfected. 3. We then used the results of our analysis to refine the original theory and to add to the literature in new ways. 4. The course materials and the presentation methods were progressively refined for each course. 5. Freud's theories were incidental - useful in refining traditional methods of popular control perhaps, but a sideshow. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic