verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
refined oil (= oil that has been treated by an industrial process )
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They had exported refined oil.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
further
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This search can be further refined by defining minimum profitability, location etc, until a short list of companies is identified.
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In a year, as designers further refine the technology, the price could sink to $ 7, 000.
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Even though Giddens has further refined the detail of the theory, this basic aspect has not changed.
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Constitutional theorists have further refined their analysis of constitutions, creating other points of comparison.
more
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As the foragers grow older they move from a juvenile taste for sweet nectar to a more refined preference for pollen.
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Another and more refined use of the technique occurred at Preston Trucking Company in the late 1970s.
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More refined dishes are to be category.
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Schemata never stop changing or becoming more refined .
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He has a much more refined sensibility than I even aspire to.
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As a child becomes better able to generalize across stimuli, schemata become more refined .
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Others, the cuckoos included, are more refined birds and concentrate on just a few victims.
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But the traders did not become correspondingly more refined in their behavior.
■ NOUN
company
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The leaded petrol market is shrinking so fast that some major petroleum companies have discontinued refining leaded petrol.
method
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The community power debate has continued into the 1970s and 1980s with both elitists and pluralists refining their methods and theoretical arguments.
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While the list of proposed transportation projects is being refined , possible methods to close the funding gap are being considered.
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I argued that individuals can gain great advantage from their ability to refine and enrich their methods of communication by this means.
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The Regional Action Network illustrates how campaigners have refined their methods .
sugar
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H plant for use in sugar refining .
system
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The authors suggest that new experiments to refine the system parameters should be carried out to achieve real global minimum.
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Its collective confidence is gradually restored, and from this confidence emerges a refined and revitalized system of core organizational beliefs.
technique
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Another and more refined use of the technique occurred at Preston Trucking Company in the late 1970s.
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Fifty years of refining training techniques and equipment and breeding for selected deformities have created a monster out of a horse.
■ VERB
become
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Schemata never stop changing or becoming more refined .
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As a child becomes better able to generalize across stimuli, schemata become more refined .
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But the traders did not become correspondingly more refined in their behavior.
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Lobbying has become so refined that lobbyists now hold teaching seminars for one another.
develop
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This is the logic the new managers had to develop and refine .
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At this time, the interpretation of some of these tests has not been completely developed and refined .
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Like their comrades from earlier wars, many GIs developed and refined the craft of scrounging into a high art.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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refined petroleum
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After the first refining process the metal is washed.
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Engineers are working on developing and refining the car engines.
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It was a four week course, aimed at refining our understanding of the managerial role.
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The dealers buy raw cocaine in the south, refine it here, and smuggle it into the north.
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The oil is piped to the coast, where it is refined.
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There are huge profits in growing and refining cocaine.
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Volvo spent three years refining the design of their new car.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As they received complaints about this see-sawing, they began to refine their delegating behavior.
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In future it could provide cosmologists with a firm age with which to refine their models of how the Universe was formed.
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The authors suggest that new experiments to refine the system parameters should be carried out to achieve real global minimum.
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The methods have been refined over the years, but not radically changed.
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The New Ager certainly demonstrates some of these qualities in the way that he creates and refines an original artistic fiction.