Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who refines liquors, sugar, metals, etc.
- n. An improver in purity and elegance.
- n. An inventor of superfluous subtleties; one who is overnice in discrimination, or in argument, reasoning, philosophy, etc.
- n. One who indulges in excessive compliment; one who is over-civil; a flatterer.
- n. An apparatus for refining; specifically, in England, a gas-purifier.
Wiktionary
- n. Agent noun of refine; one who refines.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who, or that which, refines.
WordNet 3.0
- n. one whose work is to refine a specific thing
Examples
“Chevron, California's largest native oil refiner, is officially neutral on Prop 23, but Grist argues it supports Prop 26 because it's a "polluters protection act.”
“The instruments required by the refiner were a crucible of furnace and a bellows or blow-pipe.”
“This follows a deal in February to sell a 49 percent stake in Spanish refiner Cia.”
“It is only a refiner, which is a thin-profit business most times, and in the past year, a no-profit business.”
“The long term supply agreement with a US refiner, which is contingent on the completion of the Keystone Pipeline US Gulf Coast Expansion, ensures a customer at the end of the Keystone Pipeline for a large portion of Canadian Natural's heavy crude oil that is shipped at prevailing US Gulf Coast heavy oil market prices at the points of delivery.”
“The idea that the trials of Rome shall be as a 'refiner's fire' has a certain grandeur, but the expression of the idea is commonplace.”
“The Indians ran away and left their possessions, and Raleigh's dreams of mineral wealth were excited by the discovery of what he took to be a 'refiner's basket, for I found in it his quicksilver, saltpetre, and divers things for the trial of metals, and also the dust of such ore as he had refined.”
“Valero Energy Corp. swung to a first-quarter profit as the largest independent U.S. refiner benefited from stronger refining margins.”
The Wall Street Journal: Valero Swings to Profit on Stronger Refining Margins
“SEOUL— SK Innovation Co., South Korea's No. 1 refiner by capacity, said its first-quarter net profit more than doubled from a year earlier, helped by an increase in demand and product prices following the Japanese earthquake and political unrest in the Middle East and North Africa.”
The Wall Street Journal: SK Innovation Profit More Than Doubles on Exports
“We can expect to see additional supplies become available in the coming days and weeks," said Bill Day , spokesman for Valero Energy Corp., the largest independent refiner in the U.S. and a buyer of Saudi crude.”
The Wall Street Journal: Saudis Signal Boost to Oil Shipments
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