refined

«refined» in Mova's school dictionary: Polite, well-mannered and with good taste — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (more refined, most refined)

meaning for a pupil

1) Polite, well-mannered and with good taste. tree →

2) Pure, with the rough parts removed (refined sugar, refined gold). tree →

sense in the lessons

in stories, a polished person with fine manners; in cooking and science, something cleaned to make it pure

examples

• The refined lady spoke softly and ate politely. tree →
• Refined sugar is whiter than brown sugar. tree →
• The jeweller made a ring of refined gold. tree →

note

nothing for maths.

In the corpora

• Behold, I have refined thee, but not as silver; I have tried thee in the furnace of affliction.
• The words of the LORD are pure words, as silver tried in a crucible on the earth, refined seven times.
• For Thou, O God, hast tried us; Thou hast refined us, as silver is refined.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «refined» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.