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  Refine \Re*fine"\ (r?*f?n"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Refined
     (-find"); p. pr. & vb. n. Refining.] [Pref. re- + fine to
     make fine: cf. F. raffiner.]
     1. To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from
        impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from
        extraneous matter; to purify; to defecate; as, to refine
        gold or silver; to refine iron; to refine wine or sugar.
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              I will bring the third part through the fire, and
              will refine them as silver is refined. --Zech. xiii.
                                                    9.
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     2. To purify from what is gross, coarse, vulgar, inelegant,
        low, and the like; to make elegant or exellent; to polish;
        as, to refine the manners, the language, the style, the
        taste, the intellect, or the moral feelings.
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              Love refines
              The thoughts, and heart enlarges.     --Milton.
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     Syn: To purify; clarify; polish; ennoble.
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  Refined \Re*fined"\ (-f?nd"), a.
     Freed from impurities or alloy; purifed; polished; cultured;
     delicate; as; refined gold; refined language; refined
     sentiments.
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           Refined wits who honored poesy with their pens.
                                                    --Peacham.
     [1913 Webster] -- Re*fin"ed*ly (r?*f?n"?d*l?), adv. --
     Re*fin"ed*ness, n.
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  Refined \Re*fined"\ (-f?nd"), a.
     Freed from impurities or alloy; purifed; polished; cultured;
     delicate; as; refined gold; refined language; refined
     sentiments.
  
           Refined wits who honored poesy with their pens.
                                                    --Peacham.
     -- Re*fin"ed*ly (r?*f?n"?d*l?), adv. -- Re*fin"ed*ness,
     n.

  Refine \Re*fine"\ (r?*f?n"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Refined
     (-find"); p. pr. & vb. n. Refining.] [Pref. re- + fine to
     make fine: cf. F. raffiner.]
     1. To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from
        impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from
        extraneous matter; to purify; to defecate; as, to refine
        gold or silver; to refine iron; to refine wine or sugar.
  
              I will bring the third part through the fire, and
              will refine them as silver is refined. --Zech. xiii.
                                                    9.
  
     2. To purify from what is gross, coarse, vulgar, inelegant,
        low, and the like; to make elegant or exellent; to polish;
        as, to refine the manners, the language, the style, the
        taste, the intellect, or the moral feelings.
  
              Love refines The thoughts, and heart enlarges.
                                                    --Milton.
  
     Syn: To purify; clarify; polish; ennoble.

  refined
       adj 1: used of persons and their behavior; cultivated and genteel;
              "she was delicate and refined and unused to hardship";
              "refined people with refined taste" [ant: unrefined]
       2: freed from impurities by processing; "refined sugar";
          "refined oil"; "to gild refined gold"- Shakespeare [syn: processed]
          [ant: unrefined]
       3: showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that
          comes from wide social experience; "his polished manner";
          "maintained an urbane tone in his letters" [syn: polished,
           svelte, urbane]
       4: made pure [syn: purified, sublimate]
       5: suggesting taste, ease, and wealth [syn: elegant, graceful]
       6: free from what is tawdry or unbecoming; "a neat style"; "a
          neat set of rules"; "she hated to have her neat plans
          upset" [syn: neat, tasteful]

  refined
     a.
     1 precise, freed from imprecision, ''particularly:''
     2 # (label en of people obsolete) sagacious, ''sometimes'' (label en
  pejorative) oversubtle or feigning sagacity.
     3 # (label en of thought) subtle, scrupulous, carefully thought out.
     4 # (label en of processes) developed, improved.
     5 cultured, freed from vulgarity, ''particularly:''
     6 # (label en of language) elevated and polished.
     7 # (label en of people) elegant, ''sometimes'' (label en pejorative)
  affected, prissy, or bloodless.
     n.
     (label en finance) The refined form of a commodity, as opposed to its
  raw or generic form.
     vb.
     (infl of en refine  ed-form)

  refined
     a.
     1 precise, freed from imprecision, ''particularly:''
     2 # (label en of people obsolete) sagacious, ''sometimes'' (label en
  pejorative) oversubtle or feigning sagacity.
     3 # (label en of thought) subtle, scrupulous, carefully thought out.
     4 # (label en of processes) developed, improved.
     5 cultured, freed from vulgarity, ''particularly:''
     6 # (label en of language) elevated and polished.
     7 # (label en of people) elegant, ''sometimes'' (label en pejorative)
  affected, prissy, or bloodless.
     n.
     (label en finance) The refined form of a commodity, as opposed to its
  raw or generic form.
     vb.
     (infl of en refine  ed-form)

  refined
     a.
     1 precise, freed from imprecision, ''particularly:''
     2 # (label en of people obsolete) sagacious, ''sometimes'' (label en
  pejorative) oversubtle or feigning sagacity.
     3 # (label en of thought) subtle, scrupulous, carefully thought out.
     4 # (label en of processes) developed, improved.
     5 cultured, freed from vulgarity, ''particularly:''
     6 # (label en of language) elevated and polished.
     7 # (label en of people) elegant, ''sometimes'' (label en pejorative)
  affected, prissy, or bloodless.
     n.
     (label en finance) The refined form of a commodity, as opposed to its
  raw or generic form.
     vb.
     (infl of en refine  ed-form)

  refined
     a.
     1 precise, freed from imprecision, ''particularly:''
     2 # (label en of people obsolete) sagacious, ''sometimes'' (label en
  pejorative) oversubtle or feigning sagacity.
     3 # (label en of thought) subtle, scrupulous, carefully thought out.
     4 # (label en of processes) developed, improved.
     5 cultured, freed from vulgarity, ''particularly:''
     6 # (label en of language) elevated and polished.
     7 # (label en of people) elegant, ''sometimes'' (label en pejorative)
  affected, prissy, or bloodless.
     n.
     (label en finance) The refined form of a commodity, as opposed to its
  raw or generic form.
     vb.
     (infl of en refine  ed-form)

  refined
     Englanti vb.
     (en-v-taivm r efine d)

  refined
     Engelska a.
     (avledning en refine ordform=perfpart)
     Engelska vb.
     (böjning en verb refine)

  refined /ɹɪfˈaɪnd/
  delikaat, teer

  Refined /ɹɪfˈaɪnd/
  مصفّى

  refined //ɹiːfaɪnd// 
  1. изискан
  cultured, elegant
  2. изискан, изтънчен
  freed from vulgarity
  3. пречистен, рафиниран
  purified

  refined /ɹɪfˈaɪnd/
  zbavený nečistot

  refined /ɹɪfˈaɪnd/ 
  vytříbený

  refined /ɹɪfˈaɪnd/ 
  kultivovaný

  refined /ɹɪfˈaɪnd/ 
  rafinovaný

  refined /ɹɪfˈaɪnd/
  affiniert, gereinigt, geläutert, geschieden
   see: refine sth., refining
  

  refined /ɹɪfˈaɪnd/
  genau ausgestaltet, verfeinert, kultiviert
   see: refine sth., refining
  

  refined /ɹɪfˈaɪnd/
  kultiviert, gewählt 
   see: more refined, most refined
  

  refined /ɹɪfˈaɪnd/
  geläutert, veredelt, verfeinert
   see: refine sth., refining, refine glass, refine metal, refine iron, refine steel
  

  refined /ɹɪfˈaɪnd/
  raffiniert
   see: refine, refining, unrefined
  

  refined /ɹɪfˈaɪnd/
  raffiniert, verfeinert 

  refined /ɹɪfˈaɪnd/
  scharfsinnig, ausgeklügelt, differenziert 

  refined /ɹɪfˈaɪnd/
  weiterentwickelt
     Synonym: developed further
  
   see: develop further, refine, developing further, refining
  

  refined /ɹɪfˈaɪnd/
  
  καλλιεργημένος, εκλεπτυσμένος, ραφινάτος

  refined //ɹiːfaɪnd// 
  hienostunut 2.
  cultured, elegant
   3.
  freed from vulgarity

  refined /rifaind/
  délicat, tendre

  refined /ɹɪfˈaɪnd/ 
  1. निर्मल
        "He is a man of refined tastes in dance and music."

  refined /ɹɪfˈaɪnd/
  oplemenjen, otmjen čovjek, prefinjen, prečišćen, rafiniran, uglađen

  refined /ɹɪfˈaɪnd/
  1. kifinomult
  2. finomított
  3. csiszolt

  refined /ɹɪfˈaɪnd/
  delicato

  refined /rifaind/
  delicaat, fijn, gevoelig, iel, kies, kieskeurig, tactvol, teder, teer

  refined //ɹiːfaɪnd// 
  raffinert
  cultured, elegant

  refined /rɪˈfaɪnd/ 
   1.  rafinowany, oczyszczony
   2.  wyrafinowany
   3.  dopracowany

  refined /rifaind/
  brando, delicado, fino, grácil, meigo, mimoso, sutil

  refined /rifaind/
  fino

  refined /ɹɪfˈaɪnd/
  1. ince, kibar, zarif
  2. safi, has
  3. dakik, tam.

  
/ɹəˈfaɪnd/, /ɹɪˈfaɪnd/

  257 Moby Thesaurus words for "refined":
     Attic, Ciceronian, accurate, advanced, allergic, ameliorated,
     anaphylactic, appreciative, archetypical, aristocratic, assembled,
     attentive, attenuate, attenuated, beautified, bettered,
     bowdlerized, built, cast, chaste, civilized, clarified, classic,
     clean, cleaned, cleaned up, cleansed, clear, close, conscientious,
     constant, constructed, consummate, converted, correct, courteous,
     courtly, crafted, created, critical, cultivated, cultured, custom,
     custom-built, custom-made, dainty, delicat, delicate, demanding,
     detailed, developed, differential, dignified, direct, discerning,
     discriminate, discriminating, discriminative, distilled,
     distinctive, distingue, distinguishing, downy, easy, educated,
     elegant, elevated, embellished, empathetic, empathic, enhanced,
     enriched, even, exact, exacting, exemplary, exigent, expert,
     express, expurgated, exquisite, extracted, fabricated, faithful,
     fashioned, fastidious, filmy, fine, fine-drawn, fine-grained,
     finespun, finical, finicking, finicky, finished, fluffy, forged,
     formed, fully developed, fussy, fuzzy, gathered, gauzy, genteel,
     gentle, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly, goosy, gossamer, gossamery,
     graceful, gracile, gracious, grown, hairline, hairsplitting,
     handcrafted, handmade, harvested, highbred, homemade, homespun,
     hyperesthetic, hyperpathic, hypersensitive, improved, inerrable,
     inerrant, infallible, irritable, itchy, knowledgeable, ladylike,
     limpid, lucid, machine-made, machined, made, made to order,
     man-made, mannerly, manufactured, masterful, masterly,
     mathematical, mature, matured, meticulous, micrometrically precise,
     microscopic, milled, mined, minute, model, molded, narrow, natural,
     neat, nervous, nice, noble, overrefined, oversensible,
     oversensitive, overtender, particular, passible, pellucid,
     perfected, perspicuous, pinpoint, plain, polished, polite, posh,
     precise, precisianistic, precisionistic, prefab, prefabricated,
     prickly, processed, proficient, pubescent, punctilious, punctual,
     pure, purged, purified, put together, quintessential, raised,
     ready-for-wear, ready-formed, ready-made, ready-prepared,
     ready-to-wear, reformed, religious, religiously exact, responsive,
     restrained, rigid, rigorous, ripe, ripened, round, satin, satiny,
     scientific, scientifically exact, scrupulous, scrutinizing,
     selective, sensitive, severe, shaped, silky, simple, skittish,
     smelted, smooth, sophisticated, spruce, square, straightforward,
     strict, subtle, supersensitive, sympathetic, tactful, tasteful,
     tender, terse, tetchy, thin-skinned, thin-spun, ticklish, tidy,
     touchy, transfigured, transformed, trim, unaffected, undeviating,
     unerring, unlabored, urbane, velutinous, velvety, well-bred,
     well-brought-up, well-built, well-constructed, well-made,
     well-mannered, wiredrawn
  
  

  a. 精炼的,优雅的,精细的;
  v. 精炼,净化,使...优雅;
  vbl. 精炼,净化,使...优雅;

     a. 精炼的,优雅的,精细的