Refine vs Rectificator - What's the difference?
refine | rectificator |
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.
(chemistry) That which rectifies or refines; especially, a part of a distilling apparatus in which the more volatile portions are separated from the less volatile by evaporation and condensation; a rectifier.
(Webster 1913)
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As a verb refine
is .As a noun rectificator is
(chemistry) that which rectifies or refines; especially, a part of a distilling apparatus in which the more volatile portions are separated from the less volatile by evaporation and condensation; a rectifier.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.