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FINE-TUNE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they fine-tune ... he / she / it fine-tunes
Past simple: fine-tuned
Past participle: fine-tuned
-ing form: fine-tuning
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring
Example:
graduate a cylinder
Synonyms:
calibrate; fine-tune; graduate
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "fine-tune" is one way to...):
adjust; correct; set (alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Adjust finely
Example:
fine-tune the engine
Synonyms:
fine-tune; tweak
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "fine-tune" is one way to...):
tune; tune up (adjust for (better) functioning)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 3
Meaning:
Improve or perfect by pruning or polishing
Example:
refine one's style of writing
Synonyms:
down; fine-tune; polish; refine
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "fine-tune" is one way to...):
ameliorate; amend; better; improve; meliorate (to make better)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "fine-tune"):
over-refine; overrefine (refine too much or with excess of subtlety)
civilise; civilize; cultivate; educate; school; train (teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
