Refine vs Rugged - What's the difference?
refine | rugged |
To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify
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, title= To purify from what is gross, coarse, vulgar, inelegant, low, and the like; to make elegant or excellent; to polish.
To become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter.
To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.
To affect nicety or subtlety in thought or language.
Broken into sharp or irregular points; uneven; not smooth; rough
* 1870 , (Mark Twain), Roughing It , Chapter LXV
Not neat or regular; irregular, uneven.
* 2011 , Ronke Luke-Boone, African Fabrics: Sewing Contemporary Fashion with Ethic Flair
Rough with bristles or hair; shaggy.
* 1897 , Kate Chopin, A Morning Walk
(of a person) strong, sturdy, well-built
* 2010 , Arthru Queen Jr., Young Man: Ageless Fatherly Wisdom to Hold
(of land) rocky and bare of plantlife
* 2013 , Vicky Baker in The Guardian ,
* 1971 , United States Forest Service, Search for solitude: our wilderness heritage
Harsh; austere; hard; crabbed; -- said of temper, character, and the like, or of persons.
Stormy; turbulent; tempestuous; rude.
Harsh; grating; rough to the ear -- said of sound, style, and the like.
Sour; surly; frowning; wrinkled; -- said of looks, etc.
* 1908 , Rafael Sabatini, The Abduction
Violent; rude; boisterous; -- said of conduct, manners, etc.
Vigorous; robust; hardy; -- said of health, physique, etc.
* 1909 , (Jack London), Martin Eden
(computing, of a computer) designed to reliably operate in harsh usage environments and conditions
* 2011 , Nick Fletcher,
Having a rug or rugs.
Covered with a rug.
(rug)
As verbs the difference between refine and rugged
is that refine is while rugged is (rug).As an adjective rugged is
broken into sharp or irregular points; uneven; not smooth; rough or rugged can be having a rug or rugs.refine
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Verb
(refin)Yesterday’s fuel, passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.
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(Webster 1913)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Adjective
(er)- By and by, after a rugged climb, we halted on the summit of a hill which commanded a far-reaching view.
- Commercially produced yarn, such as rayon, produces a cloth with a smoother, shinier look than hand-spun cotton, but the uneven, rugged look of hand-spun cotton can be quite appealing.
- His hair was light and rather thin; his face strong and rugged from exposure, and his eyes narrow and observant.
- Many women and men delude themselves into thinking that only the hardest and most rugged man is attractive and to many it may be the case.
Riding with the cowboys on a Mexico ranch
- Hidden within 30,000 acres of rugged private land, the ranch is cocooned by peaks and canyons in all directions.
- Much of the area can be seen only by hikers who travel without trails to the higher reaches of this rugged mountain range.
- "Ah!" sighed the unimaginative Granby, and his honest, rugged face grew clouded. Pepper puffed in silence for a moment or two; then spoke.
- "Her gaze rested for a moment on the muscular neck, heavy corded, almost bull-like, bronzed by the sun, spilling over with rugged health and strength..."
Psion drops 2% after supply chain issues push it into loss
- Psion, which supplies a range of rugged hand held computers, has lost nearly 2% after announcing a plunge into the red.