Synonyms of the word

fine-tune

• v. To make small adjustments to something until optimization is achieved.

adjust

• v. (transitive) To modify.
• v. (transitive) To improve or rectify.
• v. (transitive) To settle an insurance claim.
• v. (intransitive) To change to fit circumstances.

ameliorate

• v. (transitive) To make better, or improve, something perceived to be in a negative condition.

amend

• v. (transitive) To make better.
• v. (intransitive) To become better.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To heal (someone sick); to cure (a disease etc.).
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be healed, to be cured, to recover (from an illness).
• v. (transitive) To make a formal alteration (in legislation, a report, etc.) by adding, deleting, or rephrasing.

better

• adj. comparative form of good: more good.
• adj. comparative form of well: more well.
• adv. comparative form of well: more well.
• adv. More, in reference to value, distance, time, etc.
• n. An entity, usually animate, deemed superior to another; one who has a claim to precedence; a superior.
• v. (transitive) To improve.
• v. (intransitive) To become better; to improve.
• v. (transitive) To surpass in excellence; to exceed; to excel.
• v. (transitive) To give advantage to; to support; to advance the interest of.
• v. (colloquial) Had better.
• n. Alternative spelling of bettor.

calibrate

• v. To check or adjust by comparison with a standard.
• v. To mark the scale of a measuring instrument.
• v. To measure the caliber of a tube or gun.

correct

• adj. Free from error; true; the state of having an affirmed truth.
• adj. With good manners; well behaved; conforming with accepted standards of behaviour.
• v. (transitive) To make something that was not valid become right. To remove error.
• v. (by extension, transitive) To grade (examination papers).
• v. (transitive) To inform (someone) of the latter's error.

down

• n. (especially southern England) A hill, especially a chalk hill; rolling grassland.
• n. (usually in the plural) A field, especially one used for horse racing.
• n. (Britain, chiefly in the plural) A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered…
• n. (slang, rare, countable) A penis.
• adv. (comparable) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
• adv. (comparable) At a lower and/or further along or away place or position along a set path.
• adv. South (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
• adv. (Ireland) Away from the city (even if the location is to the North).
• adv. Into a state of non-operation.
• adv. To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
• adv. (rail transport) In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
• adv. (sentence substitute, imperative) Get down.
• adv. (Britain, academia) Away from Oxford or Cambridge.
• adv. From a remoter or higher antiquity.
• adv. From a greater to a less bulk, or from a thinner to a thicker consistence.
• adv. From less to greater detail.
• adv. (intensifier) Used with verbs to add emphasis to the action of the verb.
• adv. Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, rather…
• prep. From the higher end to the lower of.
• prep. From one end to another of.
• adj. Depressed, feeling low.
• adj. At a lower level than before.
• adj. Having a lower score than an opponent.
• adj. (baseball, colloquial, following the noun modified) Out.
• adj. (colloquial) With "on", negative about, hostile to.
• adj. (not comparable, US, slang) Comfortable with, accepting of.
• adj. (not comparable) Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
• adj. Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled…
• adj. (not comparable, military, law enforcement, slang, of a person) Wounded and unable to move normally; killed.
• adj. (not comparable, military, aviation, slang, of an aircraft) Mechanically failed, collided, shot down,…
• adj. Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.).
• adj. (obsolete) Downright; absolute; positive.
• v. (transitive) To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid…
• v. (transitive) To cause to come down; to knock down or subdue.
• v. (transitive, pocket billiards) To put a ball in a pocket; to pot a ball.
• v. (transitive, American football) To bring a play to an end by touching the ball to the ground or while…
• v. (transitive) To write off; to make fun of.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To go down; to descend.
• n. A negative aspect; a downer.
• n. (dated) A grudge (on someone).
• n. An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
• n. (American football) A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle…
• n. (crosswords) A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
• n. A downstairs room of a two-story house.
• n. Down payment.
• n. Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping…
• n. (botany) The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as…
• n. The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
• n. That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
• v. (transitive) To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.

graduate

• n. A person who is recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at…
• n. (US, Canada) A person who is recognized by a high school as having completed the requirements of a course…
• n. A graduated (marked) cup or other container, thus fit for measuring.
• adj. graduated, arranged by degrees.
• adj. holding an academic degree.
• adj. relating to an academic degree.
• v. (intransitive, ergative) To be recognized by a school or university as having completed the requirements…
• v. (transitive, proscribed) To be certified as having earned a degree from; to graduate from (an institution).
• v. (transitive) To certify (a student) as having earned a degree.
• v. (transitive) To mark (something) with degrees; to divide into regular steps or intervals, as the scale…
• v. (intransitive) To change gradually.
• v. To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the…
• v. (chemistry) To bring to a certain degree of consistency, by evaporation, as a fluid.
• v. To taper, as the tail of certain birds.

improve

• v. (transitive) To make (something) better; to increase the value or productivity (of something).
• v. (intransitive) To become better.
• v. (obsolete) To disprove or make void; to refute.
• v. (obsolete) To disapprove of; to find fault with; to reprove; to censure.
• v. (dated) To use or employ to good purpose; to turn to profitable account.

meliorate

• v. (transitive) To make better, to improve; to heal or solve a problem.

polish

• n. A substance used to polish.
• n. Cleanliness; smoothness, shininess.
• n. Refinement; cleanliness in performance or presentation.
• v. (transitive) To shine; to make a surface very smooth or shiny by rubbing, cleaning, or grinding.
• v. (transitive) To refine; remove imperfections from.
• v. (transitive) To apply shoe polish to shoes.
• v. (intransitive) To become smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss; to take a smooth and glossy surface.
• v. (transitive) To refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite.

refine

• v. (transitive) To purify; reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities.
• v. (intransitive) To become pure; to be cleared of impure matter.
• v. (transitive) To purify of coarseness, vulgarity, inelegance etc.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.
• v. (transitive) To make nice or subtle.

set

• v. (transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.
• v. (transitive) To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
• v. (transitive) To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
• v. (transitive, dated) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.
• v. (transitive) To determine or settle.
• v. (transitive) To adjust.
• v. (transitive) To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
• v. (transitive) To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
• v. (transitive) To introduce or describe.
• v. (transitive) To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to.
• v. (transitive) To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
• v. (transitive) To prepare (a stage or film set).
• v. (transitive) To fit (someone) up in a situation.
• v. (transitive) To arrange (type).
• v. (transitive) To devise and assign (work) to.
• v. (transitive, volleyball) To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
• v. (intransitive) To solidify.
• v. (transitive) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
• v. (intransitive) Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
• v. (transitive, bridge) To defeat a contract.
• v. (obsolete, now followed by "out", as in set out) To begin to move; to go forth.
• v. (intransitive, of fruit) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
• v. (intransitive, Southern US, Midwestern US, dialects) To sit (be in a seated position).
• v. To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
• v. (hunting, transitive, intransitive) Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
• v. (obsolete) To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly; to set out.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To fit music to words.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
• v. To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
• v. To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
• v. To place or fix in a setting.
• v. To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
• v. To extend and bring into position; to spread.
• v. To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
• v. To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
• v. (masonry) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
• v. (obsolete) To wager in gambling; to risk.
• v. To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
• v. (obsolete) To value; to rate; used with at.
• v. To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
• v. (Scotland) To suit; to become.
• n. A punch for setting nails in wood.
• n. A device for receiving broadcast radio waves (or, more recently, broadcast data); a radio or television.
• n. Alternative form of sett: a hole made and lived in by a badger.
• n. Alternative form of sett: pattern of threads and yarns.
• n. Alternative form of sett: piece of quarried stone.
• n. (horticulture) A small tuber or bulb used instead of seed, particularly onion sets and potato sets.
• n. The amount the teeth of a saw protrude to the side in order to create the kerf.
• n. (obsolete, rare) That which is staked; a wager; hence, a gambling game.
• n. (engineering) Permanent change of shape caused by excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending,…
• n. (piledriving) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot otherwise be reached…
• n. (printing, dated) The width of the body of a type.
• n. A young oyster when first attached.
• n. Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
• n. A series or group of something. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 2, Noun).
• n. (colloquial) The manner, state, or quality of setting or fitting; fit.
• n. The camber of a curved roofing tile.
• adj. Fixed in position.
• adj. Rigid, solidified.
• adj. Ready, prepared.
• adj. Intent, determined (to do something).
• adj. Prearranged.
• adj. Fixed in one’s opinion.
• adj. (of hair) Fixed in a certain style.
• n. A young plant fit for setting out; a slip; shoot.
• n. A rudimentary fruit.
• n. The setting of the sun or other luminary; (by extension) the close of the day.
• n. (literally and figuratively) General movement; direction; drift; tendency.
• n. A matching collection of similar things. (Note the similar meaning in Etymology 1, Noun.).
• n. A collection of various objects for a particular purpose.
• n. An object made up of several parts.
• n. (set theory) A collection of zero or more objects, possibly infinite in size, and disregarding any order…
• n. (in plural, “sets”, mathematics, informal) Set theory.
• n. A group of people, usually meeting socially.
• n. The scenery for a film or play.
• n. (dance) The initial or basic formation of dancers.
• n. (exercise (sport)) A group of repetitions of a single exercise performed one after the other without rest.
• n. (tennis) A complete series of games, forming part of a match.
• n. (volleyball) A complete series of points, forming part of a match.
• n. (volleyball) The act of directing the ball to a teammate for an attack.
• n. (music) A musical performance by a band, disc jockey, etc., consisting of several musical pieces.
• n. (music) A drum kit, a drum set.
• n. (Britain, education) A class group in a subject where pupils are divided by ability.
• n. (poker, slang) Three of a kind, especially if two cards are in one's hand and the third is a on the board…
• v. (Britain, education) To divide a class group in a subject according to ability.

tune

• n. A melody.
• n. A song, or short musical composition.
• n. (informal) The act of tuning or maintenance.
• n. The state or condition of being correctly tuned.
• n. (Britain, slang) A very good song.
• n. (obsolete) A sound; a note; a tone.
• n. (obsolete) Order; harmony; concord.
• v. To modify a musical instrument so that it produces the correct pitches.
• v. To adjust a mechanical, electric or electronic device (such as a radio or a car engine) so that it functions…
• v. To make more precise, intense, or effective; to put into a proper state or disposition.
• v. To give tone to; to attune; to adapt in style of music; to make harmonious.
• v. To sing with melody or harmony.
• v. (South Africa, slang, transitive) To cheek; to be impudent towards.

tweak

• n. A sharp pinch or jerk; a twist or twitch.
• n. A slight adjustment or modification.
• n. Trouble; distress; tweag.
• n. (obsolete, slang) A prostitute.
• n. (cryptography) An additional input to a block cipher, used in conjunction with the key to select the permutation…
• v. (transitive) To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch.
• v. (transitive, informal) To adjust slightly; to fine-tune.
• v. (transitive) To twit or tease.
• v. (intransitive, US, slang) To abuse methamphetamines, especially crystal meth.
• v. (intransitive, US, slang) To exhibit symptoms of methamphetamine abuse, such as extreme nervousness, compulsiveness,…
• v. (intransitive, US, slang) To exhibit extreme nervousness, evasiveness when confronted by law enforcement…