Refine vs Found - What's the difference?
refine | found |
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
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, 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.
Food and lodging, board.
(find)
To begin building.
To start some type of organization or company.
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=4 To melt, especially of metal in an industrial setting.
To form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mould; to cast.
* Milton
As verbs the difference between refine and found
is that refine is while found is (find) or found can be to begin building or found can be to melt, especially of metal in an industrial setting.As a noun found is
food and lodging, board or found can be a thin, single-cut file for comb-makers.refine
English
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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* ----found
English
Etymology 1
see find.Noun
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Verb
(head)Derived terms
* found footage * lost and foundEtymology 2
From (etyl) founder (French: fonder), from (etyl) fundare.Verb
(en verb)citation, passage=“… That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh. Her own father recognised it when he bereft her of all power in the great business he founded . …”}}
Synonyms
* (to start organization) establishAntonyms
* (to begin building) ruin * (to start organization) dissolve, abolishReferences
* Oxford Online Dictionary, found * WordNet 3.1: A Lexical Database for English, Princeton UniversityEtymology 3
From (etyl) fondre.Verb
(en verb)- Whereof to found their engines.