Refinery

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An industrial plant for purifying a crude substance, such as petroleum or sugar.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A building, or a mass of machinery, used to produce refined products such as sugar, oil, or metals.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The building and apparatus for refining or purifying, esp. metals and sugar.
  • n. A furnace in which cast iron is refined by the action of a blast on the molten metal.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A place or establishment where some substance, as petroleum, is refined; specifically, in metallurgy, a place where metals are refined. See refine and finery.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an industrial plant for purifying a crude substance
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    plant    industrial plant    works   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    binary    finery    winery   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    pipeline    shipyard    distillery    smelter    railroad   
     
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