verb
1. make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring
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calibrate an instrument
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graduate a cylinder
• Derivationally related forms: ↑graduation (for: ↑graduate), ↑graduate (for: ↑graduate), ↑calibration (for: ↑calibrate)
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something
2. improve or perfect by pruning or polishing
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refine one's style of writing
• Derivationally related forms: ↑refinement (for: ↑refine), ↑refiner (for: ↑refine), ↑polish (for: ↑polish)
• Hypernyms: ↑better, ↑improve, ↑amend, ↑ameliorate, ↑meliorate
• Hyponyms:
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something
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Somebody ——s somebody
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Something ——s somebody
3. adjust finely
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fine-tune the engine
• Syn: ↑tweak
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something
Useful english dictionary. 2012.