Antonym: vulgar. Similar words: define, refill, definite, definable, definition, definitely, definitive, firefighter. Meaning: [rɪ'faɪnd] adj. 1. (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel 2. freed from impurities by processing 3. showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience 4. made pure 5. suggesting taste, ease, and wealth 6. free from what is tawdry or unbecoming.
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31 I have simply refined the role of glossy magazines.
32 Schemata never stop changing or becoming more refined.
33 Skills can be refined at a later date.
34 While the list of proposed transportation projects is being refined, possible methods to close the funding gap are being considered.
35 A mature scholarship to Oxford followed, where he acquired more refined snobberies than those afforded by the community of insurance clerks.
36 Even when refined sugar is combined with refined flour to make cakes or desserts, the chewing required tends to be minimal.
37 Problems occasionally arise when individuals consume a great deal of refined sugar, because this is fuel food that has no B vitamins at all.
38 From their responses, slight alterations to some of the questions were made and the response categories were refined.
39 His haughty manner and refined speech had gone, and he spoke with the same accent as the sergeant.
40 Chadwick is thought to have refined the ideas of another sportswriter, one M. J. Kelly, in this regard.
41 Perhaps only expert eyes could have spotted the correlation between this spirited image and the refined clothing which passed in front.
42 But by far the most refined technique for the interpretation of aggradation deposits is that of pollen analysis.
43 Eating refined carbohydrates such as those above can raise the blood cholesterol level, and is a possible cause of heart disease.
44 He has a much more refined sensibility than I even aspire to.
45 The structure was solved by molecular replacement and refined to a crystallographic R factor of 0.22.
46 Early rough edges refined in the studio and the power never drags.
47 This theory has been much refined, and has also been empirically tested using computer simulations.
48 And, perhaps reflecting later, more refined practice, they were all set down on what Taylor termed an instruction card.
49 It has been developed and refined over the last four years by engineers at the company's parent company, General Motors.
50 People tell me that she looks like me: elegant while concealing an active disposition behind a refined behaviour.
51 Put bluntly,[www.Sentencedict.com] the Lexus has the smoothest and most refined drivetrain in existence.
52 Their model of managerial work had been at once broadened and refined.
53 It acts as if it is looking after all our interests in ways too subtle and refined for us to understand.
54 Because taekwondo was originally designed as an art of self-defence, blocking techniques are highly developed and refined.
55 The Regional Action Network illustrates how campaigners have refined their methods.
56 Individual Refined Lip Colour, a unique new made-to-measure lipstick service, offers a choice of over 28,000 shades.
57 The average person, irrespective of weight, has too much refined sugar in their food.
58 Along with him I planted other wild trees, mostly native willows and the nurserymen came and added their more refined products.
59 Existing scale charges are not sufficiently refined to reflect the level of benefit of any particular car provided to an employee.
60 The outcome of the research should be a more refined version of discourse comprehension and an evaluation of connectionist models as implementations.
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