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fine-tune
Found in thesaurus: better, ameliorate, meliorate, improve, amend, tune up, tune, adjust, correct, set
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fine-tune
Verb
1. improve or perfect by pruning or polishing; "refine one's style of writing"
(synonym) polish, refine, down
(hypernym) better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate
(hyponym) overrefine, over-refine
2. adjust finely; "fine-tune the engine"
(synonym) tweak
(hypernym) tune, tune up
3. make fine adjustments or divide into marked intervals for optimal measuring; "calibrate an instrument"; "graduate a cylinder"
(synonym) calibrate, graduate
(hypernym) adjust, set, correct
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fine-tune
cause it to work very well, cause it to run smoothly Sandro fine-tuned my Peugeot. Now it purrs like a kitten.
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