Refine vs Curate - What's the difference?
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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.
To act as a curator for.
To apply selectivity and taste to, as a collection of fashion items or web pages.
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To work or act as a curator.
As verbs the difference between refine and curate
is that refine is while curate is to act as a curator for.As a noun curate is
an assistant rector or vicar.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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Verb
(curat)- She curated the traveling exhibition.
- They carefully curated the recovered artifacts.
- Not only does he curate for the museum, he manages the office and fund-raises.