Refine vs Rework - What's the difference?
refine | rework |
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.
The act of redoing, correcting, or rebuilding.
(in particular, food manufacturing) Taking unsaleable food and using it in the manufacture of other food.
Something redone, corrected or rebuilt.
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.
(countable) An instance of reworking.
To redo, correct, or rebuild.
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
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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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English
(wikipedia rework)Noun
- They sent the assembly back to the shop for rework .
- They received the rework back from the shop.
- The schedule has been pushed back because of the rework .
Verb
- You'll have to rework the crank assembly to incorporate the changes.