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REFINERY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An industrial plant for purifying a crude substance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("refinery" is a kind of...):
industrial plant; plant; works (buildings for carrying on industrial labor)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "refinery"):
oil refinery; petroleum refinery (a refinery for petroleum)
sugar refinery (a refinery for sugar)
Derivation:
refine (treat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition)
