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Refine
- verb -
- attenuate or reduce in vigor, strength, or validity by polishing or purifying;
- improve or perfect by pruning or polishing;
- make more complex, intricate, or richer;
- make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of;
Refits
- noun - fit out again
- outfitting a ship again (by repairing or replacing parts)
REFLAG
- unknown - TO CHANGE THE COUNTRY OF REGISTRATION OF A SHIP
Reflet
- - Luster; special brilliancy of surface; -- used esp. in ceramics to denote the peculiar metallic brilliancy seen in lustered pottery such as majolica; as, silver reflet; gold reflet.
Reflex
- adjective - An angle greater than 180 degrees
- an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus
- without volition or conscious control; "the automatic shrinking of the pupils of the eye in strong light"; "a reflex knee jerk"; "sneezing is reflexive"
Reflux
- noun - A chemical technique in which a flask of boiling liquid is equipped with a condenser attached vertically to the mouth of the flask. The hot vapour rises, condenses and runs back down into the flask thereby preventing the contents from boiling off.
- an abnormal backward flow of body fluids
- the outward flow of the tide
Reform
- noun - a campaign aimed to correct abuses or malpractices; "the reforms he proposed were too radical for the politicians"
- a change for the better as a result of correcting abuses; "justice was for sale before the reform of the law courts"
- break up the molecules of; "reform oil"
- bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one; "The Church reformed me"; "reform your conduct"
- change for the better;
- improve by alteration or correction of errors or defects and put into a better condition; "reform the health system in this country"
- make changes for improvement in order to remove abuse and injustices; "reform a political system"
- produce by cracking; "reform gas"
- self-improvement in behavior or morals by abandoning some vice; "the family rejoiced in the drunkard's reform"