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/rəfˈaɪnɪŋ/ /rɪfˈaɪnɪŋ/ Listen

Refining

noun

1.

The process of removing impurities (as from oil or metals or sugar etc.). Synonyms: purification, refinement.

Refine

verb

(past & past part. refined; pres. part. refining)

1.

Improve or perfect by pruning or polishing. Synonyms: down, fine-tune, polish.

2.

Make more complex, intricate, or richer. Synonyms: complicate, elaborate, rarify.

3.

Treat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition. "Refine pig iron" , "Refine oil"

4.

Reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities. Synonym: rectify.

5.

Attenuate or reduce in vigor, strength, or validity by polishing or purifying.

6.

Make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of. "Refine the constant in the equation"

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"Refining" Quotes from Famous Books

... down, where that admirable wine is kept in great tinajas, which are pots holding about five hundred gallons each; and to let you know how strangely they clear their wine, it is by putting some of the earth of the place in it, which way of refining their wine is done ...

— Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe • Lady Fanshawe

... written, but a score of chroniclers, some not deficient in narrative power, paved the way for future historians. In imaginative and miscellaneous literature the fantastic extravagances of Lyly seemed as though they might have an evil effect. In reality they only spurred ingenious souls on to effort in refining prose, and in one particular direction they had a most unlooked for result. The imitation in little by Greene, Lodge, and others, of their long-winded graces, helped to popularise the pamphlet, and the popularisation of the pamphlet led the way to periodical ...

— A History of English Literature - Elizabethan Literature • George Saintsbury

... broke through the crust of seemingly consistent frivolity that was on her, and down to a deep-seated tendency toward romance and the love of power. She could not rule directly, but she could rule rulers. I am certain that some such idea was in her head, alloying, or at least refining, a grosser self-interest. Therefore Wetter, no less than I, was of value to her. She would not willingly have let him go, even although he could give her nothing and she did not care for him in the only sense of which my friend the Vicomte took account. I came to realize how it was between her and ...

— The King's Mirror • Anthony Hope

... utterly puzzled Lady Alice. His face recalled to her some one whom she had known, and she could not imagine who that some one might be. The features, the contour the face, the expression, were strangely familiar to her. For, by the refining forces which sickness often applies, the man's face had lost all trace of former coarseness or commonness: it had become something like what it had been in the days of his first youth. And the likeness ...

— Brooke's Daughter - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant

... crude oil production and petroleum refining; small-scale production of cotton textiles and leather goods; food processing; handicrafts; ...

— The 1995 CIA World Factbook • United States Central Intelligence Agency

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