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Refine vs Rework - What's the difference?

refine | rework |

As verbs the difference between refine and rework

is that refine is while rework is to redo, correct, or rebuild.

As a noun rework is

the act of redoing, correcting, or rebuilding.

refine

English

Verb

(refin)
  • 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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  • 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.
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    rework

    English

    (wikipedia rework)

    Noun

  • The act of redoing, correcting, or rebuilding.
  • They sent the assembly back to the shop for rework .
  • (in particular, food manufacturing) Taking unsaleable food and using it in the manufacture of other food.
  • Something redone, corrected or rebuilt.
  • They received the rework back from the shop.
  • Work done to correct defects associated with a deliverable product, plus any root cause analysis effort to identify the task(s) to be re-performed.
  • The schedule has been pushed back because of the rework .
  • (countable) An instance of reworking.
  • Verb

  • To redo, correct, or rebuild.
  • You'll have to rework the crank assembly to incorporate the changes.

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