Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An industrial plant for purifying a crude substance, such as petroleum or sugar.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A place or establishment where some substance, as petroleum, is refined; specifically, in metallurgy, a place where metals are refined. See
refine and finery.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The building and apparatus for refining or purifying, esp. metals and sugar.
- noun A furnace in which cast iron is refined by the action of a blast on the molten metal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
building , or a mass ofmachinery , used to producerefined products such assugar ,oil , ormetals .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an industrial plant for purifying a crude substance
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Examples
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GJELTEN: Because studying a computer worm designed to sabotage a power plant or gas refinery is a far cry from thinking about some virus engineered by a lone hacker.
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GJELTEN: Because studying a computer worm designed to sabotage a power plant or gas refinery is a far cry from thinking about some virus engineered by a lone hacker.
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Then a black-and-white image of an oil refinery is shown.
Calif.'s Prop 23 battle pits Big Oil against environmental concerns Steven Mufson 2010
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GJELTEN: Because studying a computer worm designed to sabotage a power plant or gas refinery is a far cry from thinking about some virus engineered by a lone hacker.
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The Tianjin refinery, in which CNPC has 51% interest and Russia's OAO Rosneft has 49%, was originally due to refine 200,000 barrels a day, but its capacity was increased to 260,000 in light of rising oil-product demand in China.
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Crude stockpiles rose three million barrels following a drop in refinery utilization rates, but gasoline stocks plunged 2.64 million barrels.
Oil Prices Rise With Euro Paddy Gourlay 2010
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While the refinery is old and complex, it is not in worse condition than any other.
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The refinery is being restarted and is expected to resume normal operations early November.
Tesoro Appeals Fine in Fatal Blast Naureen S. Malik 2010
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Its biggest refinery is being constructed in India.
Excerpt: 'The Post-American World' Fareed Zakaria 2009
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The rest of the crude feedstock for the Tianjin refinery will be bought from the Middle East.
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