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Synonyms for refining
re·fin·ing
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Princeton's WordNet
refining, refinement, purificationnoun
the process of removing impurities (as from oil or metals or sugar etc.)
Synonyms:
purgation, nicety, culture, elaboration, shade, subtlety, civilization, cultivation, polish, nuance, civilisation, finish, refinement, purification
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List of paraphrases for "refining":
refinery, refinement, refine, refineries, grow-out, smelting, fine-tune
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#1172 | culture | |
#2674 | finish | |
#4835 | polish | |
#5397 | refine | |
#8025 | shade | |
#8770 | civilization | |
#11996 | purification | |
#15377 | cultivation | |
#16448 | refinement | |
#17245 | refining | |
#20232 | refinery | |
#28666 | elaboration | |
#30332 | civilisation | |
#31375 | refineries | |
#37939 | nuance | |
#43191 | subtlety | |
#53410 | smelting | |
#182397 | nicety | |
#237860 | purgation |
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You can try and pick winners in the shipping segment of the equity markets, but to get a pure play you need the derivatives market, the new fund will look at all the parts of refining that will be affected by the new regulations. In another sign of the impact of IMO 2020, China said on July 4 that it planned to launch a futures contract for low-sulphur fuel oil by the end of the year. Dutch asset manager Robeco is also focussing on fuel, but it's investing in oil refineries that are well-placed to produce large quantities of low-sulphur diesel.
For crude, there's a structural change, going from fairly balanced to an oversupply, for products...demand has not collapsed, (it's) just a tendency of oversupply of refining capacity and slower demand than had hoped for.
The answer is, bring back jobs, bring back activities, and keep refining our policing strategies. There’s no question in my mind, as the city comes back, that's going to help us to reduce crime and violence.
It (will be) a continuation of that strategy, refining it and looking for areas of further improvement.
Those Nexcel oil cells, once they're used, come back to Nexcel for recycling where we split them apart, clean and re-use them a number of times. But also we take that used engine oil, we pass it through a re-refining process, and that allows us to use the oil a number of times.
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