Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who refines liquors, sugar, metals, etc.
- noun An improver in purity and elegance.
- noun An inventor of superfluous subtleties; one who is overnice in discrimination, or in argument, reasoning, philosophy, etc.
- noun One who indulges in excessive compliment; one who is over-civil; a flatterer.
- noun An apparatus for refining; specifically, in England, a gas-purifier.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, refines.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Agent noun ofrefine ; one who refines.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one whose work is to refine a specific thing
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Examples
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Chevron, California's largest native oil refiner, is officially neutral on Prop 23, but Grist argues it supports Prop 26 because it's a "polluters protection act."
Christopher Mims: When a Cigar Is Just a Cigar: Psychoanalyzing the GOP's Flourishing Climate Skepticism Christopher Mims 2010
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Chevron, California's largest native oil refiner, is officially neutral on Prop 23, but Grist argues it supports Prop 26 because it's a "polluters protection act."
Christopher Mims: When a Cigar Is Just a Cigar: Psychoanalyzing the GOP's Flourishing Climate Skepticism Christopher Mims 2010
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Chevron, California's largest native oil refiner, is officially neutral on Prop 23, but Grist argues it supports Prop 26 because it's a "polluters protection act."
Christopher Mims: When a Cigar Is Just a Cigar: Psychoanalyzing the GOP's Flourishing Climate Skepticism Christopher Mims 2010
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Chevron, California's largest native oil refiner, is officially neutral on Prop 23, but Grist argues it supports Prop 26 because it's a "polluters protection act."
Christopher Mims: When a Cigar Is Just a Cigar: Psychoanalyzing the GOP's Flourishing Climate Skepticism Christopher Mims 2010
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The instruments required by the refiner were a crucible of furnace and a bellows or blow-pipe.
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This follows a deal in February to sell a 49 percent stake in Spanish refiner Cia.
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It is only a refiner, which is a thin-profit business most times, and in the past year, a no-profit business.
The Seattle Times 2010
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The long term supply agreement with a US refiner, which is contingent on the completion of the Keystone Pipeline US Gulf Coast Expansion, ensures a customer at the end of the Keystone Pipeline for a large portion of Canadian Natural's heavy crude oil that is shipped at prevailing US Gulf Coast heavy oil market prices at the points of delivery.
ACN Newswire 2009
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The idea that the trials of Rome shall be as a 'refiner's fire' has a certain grandeur, but the expression of the idea is commonplace.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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The Indians ran away and left their possessions, and Raleigh's dreams of mineral wealth were excited by the discovery of what he took to be a 'refiner's basket, for I found in it his quicksilver, saltpetre, and divers things for the trial of metals, and also the dust of such ore as he had refined.'
Raleigh Edmund Gosse 1888
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