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refinement    音标拼音: [rəf'ɑɪnmənt]
n. 精致,高尚,精巧

精致,高尚,精巧

refinement
精化 细化

refinement
n 1: a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless
or impeccable quality; "they performed with great polish";
"I admired the exquisite refinement of his prose"; "almost
an inspiration which gives to all work that finish which is
almost art"--Joseph Conrad [synonym: {polish}, {refinement},
{culture}, {cultivation}, {finish}]
2: the result of improving something; "he described a refinement
of this technique" [synonym: {refinement}, {elaboration}]
3: the process of removing impurities (as from oil or metals or
sugar etc.) [synonym: {refining}, {refinement}, {purification}]
4: a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude;
"without understanding the finer nuances you can't enjoy the
humor"; "don't argue about shades of meaning" [synonym: {nuance},
{nicety}, {shade}, {subtlety}, {refinement}]
5: the quality of excellence in thought and manners and taste;
"a man of intellectual refinement"; "he is remembered for his
generosity and civilization" [synonym: {refinement},
{civilization}, {civilisation}]

Refinement \Re*fine"ment\ (r?*f?n"ment), n. [Cf. F.
raffinement.]
1. The act of refining, or the state of being refined; as,
the refinement or metals; refinement of ideas.
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The more bodies are of kin to spirit in subtilty and
refinement, the more diffusive are they. --Norris.
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From the civil war to this time, I doubt whether the
corruptions in our language have not equaled its
refinements. --Swift.
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2. That which is refined, elaborated, or polished to excess;
an affected subtilty; as, refinements of logic. "The
refinements of irregular cunning." --Rogers.
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Syn: Purification; polish; politeness; gentility; elegance;
cultivation; civilization.
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270 Moby Thesaurus words for "refinement":
Atticism, ablation, abrasion, absoluteness, abstraction,
acculturation, accuracy, acquired taste, appreciation,
appreciation of differences, appreciation of excellence,
appreciativeness, appropriateness, artistic judgment,
attention to detail, attention to fact, beautification, bettering,
betterment, bolting, breeding, care for truth, chasteness,
chastity, choiceness, circumstantiality, civility, civilization,
civilized taste, civilizedness, clarification, clarifying, clarity,
classicalism, classicism, cleaning, cleansing, clearness, colature,
comeliness, concentrate, concentration, connoisseurship,
conscientiousness, correctness, courtesy, courtliness,
critical niceness, criticality, criticalness, cultivated taste,
cultivation, culture, daintiness, decoction, deduction, delicacy,
delicate distinction, delicateness, destructive distillation,
detail, development, differentia, differential, dignity, diplomacy,
directness, discernment, discriminating taste, discriminatingness,
discrimination, discriminativeness, disentanglement,
disinvolvement, distillate, distillation, distinction, down,
downiness, ease, education, edulcoration, elaboration, elegance,
elegancy, elixir, elution, elutriation, embellishment,
enculturation, enhancement, enlightenment, erosion, essence,
essentialization, evolution, exactingness, exactitude, exactness,
excellence, exquisiteness, extract, extraction, faithfulness,
fastidiousness, faultlessness, feel, feeling, felicitousness,
felicity, fidelity, filminess, filtering, filtration, fine palate,
fine point, fine-grainedness, fineness, finesse, finicality,
finicalness, finickiness, finickingness, finish, fittingness,
flawlessness, flow, flowing periods, fluency, fluff, fluffiness,
fussiness, fuzz, fuzziness, genteelness, gentility,
gentlemanlikeness, gentlemanliness, gentleness, good breeding,
good taste, gossameriness, grace, gracefulness, gracility,
graciosity, graciousness, hairline, improvement, infusion,
judiciousness, ladylikeness, leaching, limpidity, literalism,
literality, literalness, lixiviation, lucidity,
making distinctions, margin, mathematical precision, maturation,
meticulousness, minuteness, minutia, narrow margin, narrowing,
naturalness, neatness, nice distinction, niceness,
niceness of distinction, nicety, nuance, palate,
particle of difference, particularity, particularness, peach fuzz,
pellucidity, percolation, perfection, perspicuity, plainness,
point of difference, polish, politeness, politesse, preciseness,
precisianism, precision, propriety, pubescence, punctiliousness,
punctuality, purification, purifying, purity, quality,
quintessence, refined discrimination, refined palate, refining,
removal, restraint, riddling, right, rightness, rigidity,
rigidness, rigor, rigorousness, ripening, satin, satininess,
screening, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, seasoning, seemliness,
selectiveness, sense, sensibility, sensitivity, separation,
severity, shade of difference, sieving, sifting, silk, silkiness,
simplicity, simplification, smoothness, socialization, softness,
sophistication, spirit, spiritualization, straightforwardness,
straining, streamlining, strictness, stripping, stripping down,
suaveness, suavity, subduction, sublation, sublimation,
subtle distinction, subtlety, subtraction, tact, tactfulness,
taste, tastefulness, terseness, textualism, the letter,
unaffectedness, uncluttering, unscrambling, unsnarling, urbanity,
velvet, velvetiness, wide margin, winnowing


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  • REFINEMENT Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
    The meaning of REFINEMENT is the action or process of refining How to use refinement in a sentence
  • REFINEMENT | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
    Underlying self-regulatory processes are refinements in cortical neurobiology In this paper, we will propose refinements of our recursive method above Then we add some refinements originating in probabilistic number theory (see [9]) These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web
  • REFINEMENT Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
    Things that go through a process of refinement have been refined; they've lost their rough edges For people, this means they have good manners, and for substances like oil and sugar, it means that their impurities have been removed
  • REFINEMENT | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
    To satisfy this desire for yield, investment banks engage with investors to develop new products through an iterative process of feedback and refinement We have used technology to enhance effectiveness, to track data and mine it for new refinements
  • Refinement - Definition, Meaning Synonyms | Vocabulary. com
    Do you know which fork is for your salad and which one is for dessert? Then you have some refinement — good manners and taste Things that go through a process of refinement have been refined; they've lost their rough edges
  • What does Refinement mean? - Definitions. net
    Refinement generally refers to the process of enhancement or improvement towards perfection It involves making necessary modifications, adjustments or amendments in order to make something more accurate or developed This can apply to a wide range of things, such as systems, processes, designs, theories, methods, or character and behaviors
  • refinement - WordReference. com Dictionary of English
    the quality or state of being refined:[uncountable]the refinement of oil an improved form of something:[countable]The new theory is a refinement of an earlier one [countable] a detail or device added to improve something See -fin- re•fine•ment (ri fīn′mənt),USA pronunciation n the act or process of refining
  • REFINEMENT definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
    Refinement is the process of making refinements Older cars inevitably lack the latest safety refinements development and refinement of the game Refinement is politeness and good manners a girl who possessed both dignity and refinement Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers 1 2 3 4
  • Refinement - definition of refinement by The Free Dictionary
    refinement (rɪˈfaɪnmənt) n 1 the act of refining or the state of being refined 2 a fine or delicate point, distinction, or expression; a subtlety 3 fineness or precision of thought, expression, manners, etc; polish or cultivation 4 a device, change, adaptation, etc, designed to improve performance or increase efficiency
  • Refinement - Wikipedia
    This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Refinement If an internal link incorrectly led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article





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