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Definition of refined in English:

refined

adjective rɪˈfʌɪndrəˈfaɪnd
  • 1With impurities or unwanted elements having been removed by processing.

    refined sugar
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Another dietary factor that increases the loss of calcium from the body is refined sugar.
    • The benefits of eating refined cereals seem to have been forgotten.
    • Unrefined cane sugar is whole sugar cane in crystal form, with more trace nutrients than refined white sugar.
    • The most universally vilified ingredient in breakfast cereals is refined white sugar, and for good reason.
    • In American colonial times, sugar was not as refined as nowadays and contained impurities.
    • High levels of bad cholesterol has become one of the biggest health issues in the Western world in the last few decades, and at the same time we're eating more and more processed and refined foods.
    • For instance, refined sugar is the big one that comes to mind first.
    • Fruits, vegetables, and whole grains are being replaced by readily accessible foods high in saturated fat, sugar, and refined carbohydrates.
    • Much of it is familiar territory: for good health, cut back on sugar, avoid refined foods, take regular exercise, eat oily fish and drink at most one unit of alcohol a day.
    • Carbonated drinks are the single biggest source of refined sugars in the American diet.
    • Also limit the amount of refined carbohydrates such as sugar and white bread in the diet while including plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables.
    • There can be no ingestion of refined or artificial sugar for obvious reasons - it's just counterproductive.
    • Choose whole grains, such as whole-wheat breads, rather than refined grains and sugars.
    • Most are less refined than white sugar, have a slightly higher nutritional value, and tend to be broken down more slowly in the body, creating less impact on blood sugar.
    • They're packaged as healthy foods and marketed as meal replacements, but these are highly refined foods; often, they have a lot of refined sugars.
    • Again your emphasis at this time should be to replace simple carbs and refined foods with less processed complex carbs for energy.
    • They're consuming foods containing refined white flour and sugar, milk and high fat dairy products.
    • Other companies are converting the sludge into fuel. The heavy metal problem appears to originate from the over use of highly refined and processed toilet paper.
    • Ecuador has its own supply of oil from the Amazon, but it sells this and buys refined oil, chiefly from Venezuela.
    • Carrots contain quite large amounts of sugar, and have occasionally been used as a source of refined sugar; but in this role they cannot compare with the sweeter but otherwise useless sugar beet.
    Synonyms
    purified, pure, clarified, clear, strained, sifted, filtered, rarefied, distilled, concentrated, processed, treated, polished
    technical rectified
    1. 1.1 Elegant and cultured in appearance, manner, or taste.
      her voice was very low and refined
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Campbell's manner is refined and thoughtful; he is not a forceful lecturer, but a measured and methodical rhetorician.
      • Hereditary chiefs were distinguished by refined manners, dignity, honor, and self-confidence.
      • The client got something very elegant and very refined that will look as good in ten years as it looks now.
      • Having been kept as a house slave by his planter-master, who had taught him to read and write, he had acquired refined, civilized tastes.
      • It's only gotten worse lately in Old City - which, let's be honest, has never been a bastion of refined taste and manners.
      • Serena looked up, revealing an elegant face with refined features.
      • No less refined and elegant is a rosewood card table (Pl. V) made by Charles Honore Lannuier of New York City.
      • Her clothing style is subtler, and more refined.
      • This popularity not only confers celebrity status on gardeners but shows the garden owner as a person of refined taste, the minister said.
      • Not for him elegant comedy about refined people.
      • The elegance of refined Shanghai ladies of the first half of last century is long lost.
      • The Lady Look range features the elegant and refined styles for the season.
      • However, given his head, he seems to prefer more modest patterns, the result of which is a refined, tasteful elegance.
      • The quintessence of luxury, based upon a range of cashmere and guanashina, the main collection for this winter is an irresistible invitation to enjoy the ultimate in refined elegance.
      • Julia Blake plays Claire, a refined and elegant beauty whiling away the rest of her life in a stagnant marriage to John.
      • Although his orchestra isn't the most refined and sumptuous, they play with character.
      • Nostalgia for the refined elegance of the older woman is all the rage in New York at the moment, with glossy magazines featuring models wearing tweeds, wool coats and pearls.
      • He looks particularly handsome tonight, the picture of refined elegance in his traditional tuxedo, complete with waistcoat and pure white silk shirt.
      • By the 1870, ferns were so commonplace that they were no longer considered a symbol of refined taste.
      • Such songbirds were considered the most elegant and refined of pets, a living reference to traditional Chinese art and poetry.
      Synonyms
      cultivated, cultured, polished, civilized, stylish, elegant, sophisticated, urbane
      civil, polite, gracious, courtly, well mannered, well bred, gentlemanly, ladylike, genteel
      informal couth
      discriminating, discerning, selective, fastidious, sensitive, perceptive
      sophisticated, cultured, educated, enlightened
      exquisite, impeccable, delicate, fine
    2. 1.2 Developed or improved so as to be precise or subtle.
      building up a more refined profile of the customer's needs
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The first CD contains choral music of the most refined and ethereal sort.
      • Her elegantly refined woodcuts benefit from the limitations of the medium, which require simplification and succinctness.
      • It is conceivable that a more refined and precise way of parametrization could have led to a totally different result.
      • Scoring of WASL questions is a highly refined and rigorous process.
      • Judge Posner's statement is more refined and precise than Karl Rove's, but I think they were both talking about basically the same phenomenon.
      • However, a more refined understanding of the species' habitat requirements is needed.
      • In my view, this is clearly the work of a more refined and subtle draughtsman.
      • Rob Dailey and Todd Fiscus have natural gifts for Design - good taste and a refined eye - that most of us long for.
      • We all know that in order to be fully prepared to appreciate the more elegant and refined of football experiences, one has to first rid oneself of one's negative emotions.
      • Second, Edwards developed a very refined understanding of Christ's office as the Mediator between God and man.
      • This is a realistic story about two people who meet as strangers and remain that way, told with an elegant, refined grace.
      • Hood responds with a careful preamble about the refined admissions process Oxford has put in place.
      • This refined process expedites the work of the Board members and helps them make efficient, knowledge-based decisions.
      • He follows the pattern of a classic Japanese filmmaker with technique so highly refined as to be invisible.
      • Once Islamic Spain boasted such magnificent structures, distinguished educational centers, and a refined culture and society.
      • They'd stripped the prototype engine out and were constructing a more refined version.
      • Over the past 20 years sinus surgery has become a more precise and refined procedure due to the introduction of telescopes and CT scans.
      • A far more refined and subtle form of revenge, one would think.
 
 

Definition of refined in US English:

refined

adjectiverəˈfīndrəˈfaɪnd
  • 1With impurities or unwanted elements having been removed by processing.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Choose whole grains, such as whole-wheat breads, rather than refined grains and sugars.
    • Other companies are converting the sludge into fuel. The heavy metal problem appears to originate from the over use of highly refined and processed toilet paper.
    • Another dietary factor that increases the loss of calcium from the body is refined sugar.
    • Most are less refined than white sugar, have a slightly higher nutritional value, and tend to be broken down more slowly in the body, creating less impact on blood sugar.
    • For instance, refined sugar is the big one that comes to mind first.
    • In American colonial times, sugar was not as refined as nowadays and contained impurities.
    • Fruits, vegetables, and whole grains are being replaced by readily accessible foods high in saturated fat, sugar, and refined carbohydrates.
    • Unrefined cane sugar is whole sugar cane in crystal form, with more trace nutrients than refined white sugar.
    • High levels of bad cholesterol has become one of the biggest health issues in the Western world in the last few decades, and at the same time we're eating more and more processed and refined foods.
    • Again your emphasis at this time should be to replace simple carbs and refined foods with less processed complex carbs for energy.
    • The most universally vilified ingredient in breakfast cereals is refined white sugar, and for good reason.
    • They're packaged as healthy foods and marketed as meal replacements, but these are highly refined foods; often, they have a lot of refined sugars.
    • Carrots contain quite large amounts of sugar, and have occasionally been used as a source of refined sugar; but in this role they cannot compare with the sweeter but otherwise useless sugar beet.
    • Also limit the amount of refined carbohydrates such as sugar and white bread in the diet while including plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables.
    • They're consuming foods containing refined white flour and sugar, milk and high fat dairy products.
    • The benefits of eating refined cereals seem to have been forgotten.
    • Much of it is familiar territory: for good health, cut back on sugar, avoid refined foods, take regular exercise, eat oily fish and drink at most one unit of alcohol a day.
    • There can be no ingestion of refined or artificial sugar for obvious reasons - it's just counterproductive.
    • Carbonated drinks are the single biggest source of refined sugars in the American diet.
    • Ecuador has its own supply of oil from the Amazon, but it sells this and buys refined oil, chiefly from Venezuela.
    Synonyms
    purified, pure, clarified, clear, strained, sifted, filtered, rarefied, distilled, concentrated, processed, treated, polished
    1. 1.1 Elegant and cultured in appearance, manner, or taste.
      her voice was very low and refined
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Although his orchestra isn't the most refined and sumptuous, they play with character.
      • However, given his head, he seems to prefer more modest patterns, the result of which is a refined, tasteful elegance.
      • This popularity not only confers celebrity status on gardeners but shows the garden owner as a person of refined taste, the minister said.
      • Hereditary chiefs were distinguished by refined manners, dignity, honor, and self-confidence.
      • By the 1870, ferns were so commonplace that they were no longer considered a symbol of refined taste.
      • Such songbirds were considered the most elegant and refined of pets, a living reference to traditional Chinese art and poetry.
      • The quintessence of luxury, based upon a range of cashmere and guanashina, the main collection for this winter is an irresistible invitation to enjoy the ultimate in refined elegance.
      • Serena looked up, revealing an elegant face with refined features.
      • The Lady Look range features the elegant and refined styles for the season.
      • Not for him elegant comedy about refined people.
      • Her clothing style is subtler, and more refined.
      • He looks particularly handsome tonight, the picture of refined elegance in his traditional tuxedo, complete with waistcoat and pure white silk shirt.
      • Campbell's manner is refined and thoughtful; he is not a forceful lecturer, but a measured and methodical rhetorician.
      • Julia Blake plays Claire, a refined and elegant beauty whiling away the rest of her life in a stagnant marriage to John.
      • The elegance of refined Shanghai ladies of the first half of last century is long lost.
      • The client got something very elegant and very refined that will look as good in ten years as it looks now.
      • No less refined and elegant is a rosewood card table (Pl. V) made by Charles Honore Lannuier of New York City.
      • Having been kept as a house slave by his planter-master, who had taught him to read and write, he had acquired refined, civilized tastes.
      • Nostalgia for the refined elegance of the older woman is all the rage in New York at the moment, with glossy magazines featuring models wearing tweeds, wool coats and pearls.
      • It's only gotten worse lately in Old City - which, let's be honest, has never been a bastion of refined taste and manners.
      Synonyms
      cultivated, cultured, polished, civilized, stylish, elegant, sophisticated, urbane
      discriminating, discerning, selective, fastidious, sensitive, perceptive
    2. 1.2 Developed or improved so as to be precise or subtle.
      building up a more refined profile of the customer's needs
      Example sentencesExamples
      • This is a realistic story about two people who meet as strangers and remain that way, told with an elegant, refined grace.
      • However, a more refined understanding of the species' habitat requirements is needed.
      • We all know that in order to be fully prepared to appreciate the more elegant and refined of football experiences, one has to first rid oneself of one's negative emotions.
      • Over the past 20 years sinus surgery has become a more precise and refined procedure due to the introduction of telescopes and CT scans.
      • Her elegantly refined woodcuts benefit from the limitations of the medium, which require simplification and succinctness.
      • Rob Dailey and Todd Fiscus have natural gifts for Design - good taste and a refined eye - that most of us long for.
      • It is conceivable that a more refined and precise way of parametrization could have led to a totally different result.
      • Second, Edwards developed a very refined understanding of Christ's office as the Mediator between God and man.
      • A far more refined and subtle form of revenge, one would think.
      • Once Islamic Spain boasted such magnificent structures, distinguished educational centers, and a refined culture and society.
      • The first CD contains choral music of the most refined and ethereal sort.
      • He follows the pattern of a classic Japanese filmmaker with technique so highly refined as to be invisible.
      • In my view, this is clearly the work of a more refined and subtle draughtsman.
      • This refined process expedites the work of the Board members and helps them make efficient, knowledge-based decisions.
      • They'd stripped the prototype engine out and were constructing a more refined version.
      • Scoring of WASL questions is a highly refined and rigorous process.
      • Hood responds with a careful preamble about the refined admissions process Oxford has put in place.
      • Judge Posner's statement is more refined and precise than Karl Rove's, but I think they were both talking about basically the same phenomenon.
 
 
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