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refined

[ri-fahynd]

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adjective

having or showing well-bred feeling, taste, etc.: refined people.

freed or free from coarseness, vulgarity, etc.: refined taste.

freed from impurities: refined sugar.

very subtle, precise, or exact: refined distinctions.

Origin:
1565–75; refine + -ed²

Related forms

re·fin·ed·ly

[ri-fahy-nid-lee, -fahynd-] , adverb

re·fin·ed·ness, noun

half-re·fined, adjective

non·re·fined, adjective

qua·si-re·fined, adjective

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sem·i·re·fined, adjective

su·per·re·fined, adjective

ul·tra·re·fined, adjective

well-re·fined, adjective

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Synonyms
1. cultivated, polished, polite, courteous, civilized, courtly, genteel, elegant. 3. clarified, distilled, purified.

Antonyms
1. rude, coarse, crude.

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Example Sentences

Many recipes were tested and refined in royal palaces.

Today's best practices must continually be refined and re-examined.

It is all refined speech with some super refined references thrown in.

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Many recipes were tested and refined in royal palaces.

Today's best practices must continually be refined and re-examined.

It is all refined speech with some super refined references thrown in.

The rocket will soon be set to launch, and the team will discover if a refined type of alcohol can fuel a rocket into the air.

Not food products made from heavily processed and refined grains and legumes that our ancient ancestors didn't eat.

And yet-listened to over and over again-the voice does begin to sound refined.

Sometimes these aged flavors are gorgeous and refined.

Moreover, resolution of pictures from areas of interest can be refined and improved.

Refined wheat is present in ordinary diets as enriched wheat flour, a white flour from which the fiber-rich bran has been removed.

Everyone knows that man created god in his own image, and refined god through the years.

Or it can be refined into biodiesel that can fuel tractors, trucks or trains.

The leftover products are then refined to produce a fuel that cars can use.

For progress on consciousness, something drastically more refined is needed.

They were initially viewed as excessively refined or, in the case of men, a sign of effeminacy.

Those features have been refined and are included here along with the new tab tricks.

If measurement is the issue, though, it can be refined and made as perfect as it can ever be.

Over the centuries scientists have refined their understanding of exactly what makes up the universe.

When recyclables go to the landfill, more materials must be mined, harvested or refined to replace the discarded item.

Exclusive use of refined salt will probably make you ill.

López-Urdiales had refined his ideas and even put aside some capital.

Her further research and chapters arrived on my desk in a much more refined condition than the proposal had.

Some even released refined products, such as diesel or jet fuel, which is only of use in specific industrial settings.

The current process of conclave was refined over time but reflects its turbulent past.

Beyond the sleek design and refined carbon-fiber body, the folding mechanism is both ingenious and simple.

So the computer's humor isn't quite as refined as ours.

Supplies of petrol and other refined fuels are actually a little above average.

Elegance refined from the boardroom to the golf course.

While the technology is not new, it is becoming more common in dentists' offices as it's refined and prices drop.

By taking a course or two in logica, for example, your arguments will become much more refined.

By observing their gestures she refined the experiment.

His compositions and arrangements reveal a subtle melodist and refined composer, in short a complete musician.

And then there's the fact algal kerosene still costs more than the stuff refined from petroleum.

So one might deduce that face-to-face instruction has had more time to evolve and be refined to produce a quality product.

The appeal of honey as an item for refined taste is actually not so new.

If you have less refined tastes, instead of turning right at the cross road, go straight.

Apple soon acquired it and refined the interface and capabilities.

Ultimately, the results will end up helping the scientific community regardless because of the refined results and tests.

IPhone fans are finding there's a price to pay for refined design and an innovative user interface.

It also means the oil can be recaptured and refined as normal.

Dell has refined on its earlier product to make it more attractive and less expensive.

Scientists have refined old therapies and found new ones.

Traditionally, fuel cells work best with a refined fuel containing synthetic sugars, such as glucose.

Mittelstand firms have refined their supply chains, factories and distribution networks to reach far-flung markets more quickly.

China relies on expensive imported alumina, the refined version of bauxite, the ore from which aluminium is made.

It has since been refined to have a ground-attack role as well.

Many of the new products are still being tested and refined.

More prosperous city folk cook instead with more refined gases.

Using propellers, it is incredibly difficult to make refined movements.

The firmness in prices abroad for refined copper, which.

After while without the refined sugars, it really did become a bit strong for my tastes.

They are based on current science and may become more detailed and refined as the ongoing field research yields new information.

There are those with the utmost refined taste in peripherals, and there are those not above making a.

As time went on, they became more refined in their toolmaking, able to create larger double-faced.

Other inventors figured out how to make plastic from refined oil.

There is no need to think in blunt terms when refined conceptual tools were invented and refined long ago.

And, this algae-oil has yet to be refined into usable fuels.

The ultimate test will come when the refined insect-repelling odors are sprayed on the arm of a natural midge magnet.

The leaf is made into a paste, which is refined into coca base and then converted to.

Then it still needs to be shipped to the refinery and refined into petrochemicals, using still more energy.

She walked often, drank only water and orange juice and shunned caffeine and refined sugar.

But living there revealed a city split along a new axis: the edgy east and the refined west.

Silver, on the other hand, comes mixed with other minerals and must be smelted and refined.

The scientists then refined it and were able to completely determine the protein's structure.

Refined poetry and ruthless legal prosecution have been brought together in the latest effort to stop spam.

Theirs is the poison in which he refined his murderous resentment.

The fuel was then refined on the ship, he says, using a process in which caustic soda is blended into gasoline to remove sulfur.

As they refined these experiments they could show that if you knock out part of the.

I'd suggest including more refined approaches into the mix:.

Old can material is refined and melted into ingots or solid metal blocks.

Words get longer and more specific and refined meanings are tacked on the end.

She is a refined and intelligent woman, and exhibited natural reluctance.

In addition to all of that, the writing style of a book should be more mature and/or refined.

Used motor oil can be refined into new motor oil or used as a lubricating oil.

So refined oil products don't have higher-than-background radiation.

Murray refined the dialect some to make it more understandable.

Often the multiple-choice exam questions are refined or enhanced versions of clicker questions asked earlier in the semester.

Then it still needs to be refined into petrochemicals, using still more energy.

Colten added value to our research infrastructure and refined our criteria for faculty appointments, promotions, and searches.

But sellers' data are not refined enough to set different prices for different people.

And the farm equipment needed to cultivate and harvest it can be altered and run on previously refined ethanol.

Now, the program has been refined into what might be the ultimate non-lethal paintball gun.

Both processes produce bitumen, which needs extra treatment before it can be refined into petrol.

Fuel cells have been around for more than a century and a half but have been refined in recent years.

It is forever being refined and rejuvenated by new minds seeking better solutions to the age old questions.

Musical instruments employ nearly every aspect of physics and do so in a completely refined manner.

But a big reason is that the people who create anti-tobacco ads have refined their messages.

It's not merely that the developers have refined the clashes of swords so that every blow feels brutal.

The developers then updated the game so that less zydrine could be refined from other compounds.

There are those with the utmost refined taste in peripherals, and there are those not above making a sacrifice to save a buck.

Humans are social animals and have been refined by evolution to be extremely sensitive to social interactions.

I've dabbled with flipbooks over the past few years and refined the process here and.

They saw themselves as well-endowed with all the refined feelings and sensibilities that could be expected of a gentleman.

They refined the method and tried it successfully in monkeys, whose reproductive physiology is close to that of humans.

The drug could be further refined or recommended for use only in people with appropriate genetic profiles.

Dwyer is a leader in the emerging field of terrestrial gamma rays who has refined scientists' notions of how lightning works.

But now the instrument has been refined to respond to the slightest of touches.

Refined understatement is so rare in mainstream pop music that it is easily mistaken for blandness.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

verb (used with object)

to bring to a fine or a pure state; free from impurities: to refine metal, sugar, or petroleum.

to purify from what is coarse, vulgar, or debasing; make elegant or cultured.

to bring to a finer state or form by purifying.

to make more fine, subtle, or precise: to refine one's writing style.

verb (used without object)

to become pure.

to become more fine, elegant, or polished.

to make fine distinctions in thought or language.

Verb phrase

refine on/upon, to improve by inserting finer distinctions, superior elements, etc.: to refine on one's previous work.

Origin:
1575–85; re- + fine¹

Related forms

re·fin·a·ble, adjective

re·fin·er, noun

pre·re·fine, verb (used with object), -fined, -fin·ing.

self-re·fin·ing, adjective

su·per·re·fine, verb (used with object), -fined, -fin·ing.

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un·re·fin·ing, adjective

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World English Dictionary

refined (rɪˈfaɪnd)

—*adj*
1.	not coarse or vulgar; genteel, elegant, or polite
2.	subtle; discriminating
3.	freed from impurities; purified

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Word Origin & History

refine

1582, of metals, 1588 of manners, from re-, intensive prefix + obs. fine (v.) "make fine," from fine (adj.) "delicate" (q.v.). Cf. Fr. raffiner, It. raffinare, Sp. refinar. General and fig. sense is recorded from 1596; of sugar, from 1613. Refinery in various senses is first

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recorded 1727. Refinement "act or process of refining" is from 1611; meaning "fineness of feeling" is from 1708.

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American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

refine re·fine (rĭ-fīn')
v. re·fined, re·fin·ing, re·fines
To reduce to a pure state; purify.

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"It used to be said that, socially speaking, Philadelphia asked who a person is, New York how much is he worth, and Boston what does he know. Nationally it has now become generally recognized that Boston Society has long cared even more than Philadelphia about the first point and has refined the asking of who a person is to the point of demanding to know who he was. Philadelphia asks about a man's parents; Boston wants to know about his grandparents."

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