English-Dutch translations for refined

• verfijnd
  Het heeft enkele aspecten van het voorstel van de Commissie verfijnd en gespecificeerd. It refined and specified certain aspects of the Commission' s proposal.
  De Raad moet met een iets verfijnder voorstel voor de dag komen voordat wij tot de tweede lezing overgaan. The Council needs to make a more refined proposal before we come to second reading.
  Deze maatregelen worden verfijnd en aangevuld naarmate de wetenschappelijke en technische kennis vordert. These are being refined and added to as technical and scientific knowledge advances.
• elegant
• gevoelig
• ladylike
• teder

Definition of refined

• Precise, freed from imprecision, ''particularly:''
• Cultured, freed from vulgarity, ''particularly:''
• Purified, reduced in or freed from impurities, ''particularly:''
• Dealing in a refined product such as sugar or petroleum
• The refined form of a commodity, as opposed to its raw or generic form

Examples

• The raw petroleum was refined into kerosene.
• The argument, while not persuasive, is quite refined.
• The curriculum has been carefully refined to meet the needs of foreign students.
• In the British Isles, Oxbridge is considered refined; Geordie somewhat less so.
• Don Draper was a man of refined tastes.
• Under current guidelines, refined sugar must be at least five times purer than its raw counterpart.
• The Temple at Jerusalem preferred Tyrian shekels, since even with Baals portrait they bore highly refined silver.
• Were still purchasing copper ore, but the market for refined is weaker.

Related words

• refine
• refinery
• refiner
• biorefinery
• refinement
• unrefined
• hydrorefine
• refined petrol
• oil refinery