Refocus vs Refine - What's the difference?
refocus | refine |
to focus on something else
to change the focus of
to change one's priorities
to come back into focus
* 1954 , William Golding, Lord of the Flies
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.
As verbs the difference between refocus and refine
is that refocus is to focus on something else while refine is .refocus
English
Verb
- to refocus a microscope
- Presently the white, broken stumps, the split sticks and the tangle of the thicket refocused .
Usage notes
The spellings refocusses, refocussing, refocussed are more common in Britain than the US.See also
*focus *prioritizerefine
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.