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refiner

US // (rɪˈfaɪnə) //

炼油师,精炼师,炼油厂,炼油工

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person, device, or substance that removes impurities, sediment, or other unwanted matter from something

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Examples

  • And therefore, though he innovated a little, he may justly be called a great refiner of the Roman tongue.

  • The same may be said, in a more transitory sense, of Flaubert, the great renovator and refiner of Romanticism.

  • Upton, the refiner, has a smoky chimney, that sets him and all the neighbourhood by the ears.

  • The refiner takes then an assay with a small ladle, and when it cools, breaks it in a vice, to see the state of the copper.

  • Here also perished our Saxon refiner and discoverer of inestimable riches, as it was left amongst some of us in undoubted hope.