Retina vs Refine - What's the difference?
retina | refine |
(anatomy) The thin layer of cells at the back of the eyeball where light is converted into neural signals sent to the brain.
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 retina and refine
is that retina is while refine is .retina
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* retinal * retinitis * retinopathy * detached retinaAnagrams
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* (wikipedia "retina")refine
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(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.