Refine vs Hone - What's the difference?
refine | hone |
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.
A sharpening stone composed of extra-fine grit used for removing the burr or curl from the blade of a razor or some other edge tool.
A machine tool used in the manufacture of precision bores.
To sharpen with a hone .
To use a hone to produce a precision bore.
To refine or master (a skill).
To make more acute, intense, or effective.
To pine; to lament; to long.
Hone is a synonym of refine.
As verbs the difference between refine and hone
is that 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 while hone is to sharpen with a hone.As a noun hone is
a sharpening stone composed of extra-fine grit used for removing the burr or curl from the blade of a razor or some other edge tool.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.
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) ).Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* hone slate * hone stoneVerb
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