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# refinement

«refinement» in Mova's school dictionary: **Good manners, fine taste and polish** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (refinements)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Good manners, fine taste and polish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refinement/#m1)

2) A small improvement or fine detail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refinement/#m2)

3) The cleaning of something to make it pure. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refinement/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, the elegant manners of gentle people; in science, the cleaning of oil or metal

### examples

- Her refinement showed in her gentle manners. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refinement/#x1)
- The refinement of crude oil makes it fit for engines. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refinement/#x2)
- The drawing had many small refinements. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refinement/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «refinement» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/refinement/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.