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Significados de polished em inglês

Showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience.

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Perfected or made shiny and smooth.

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Examples for "refined"
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Sugar: Yes, excessive sugar, refined sugars and even excessive healthy natural sugars.
Jamaica Observer
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Rosneft has rapidly expanded its trade in refined products in recent year.
Reuters
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This growing supply surge has not yet affected the refined copper market.
Reuters
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So in January this year, the MP Harry Cohen refined Mahon's question.
The Guardian
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Yet there is no obvious corresponding build of refined lead in China.
Reuters
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In reality the cloak of secrecy is best achieved through urbane banality.
The Irish Times
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Spare a thought for Garry Richardson, the Today programme's urbane sports correspondent.
The Guardian
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Labor, it is clear, can be every bit as urbane as capital.
The new yorker
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He was supremely confident, and the best sense of the word urbane.
The Guardian
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The answering machine clicked and my wonderfully urbane message began to play.
Darkly Dreaming Dexter
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In cold weather his preferences go toward the buxom, in summer, svelte.
A Book of Operas: Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music
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Speck's SeeThru is about as svelte as a protective case can get.
Wired
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More powerful speakers than the previous Pro make it a svelte boombox.
Wired
4
This suede low-top which delivers big-boot stability in a svelte alpine-centric package.
Climbing Magazine
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The Ultrabooks will be svelte and lightweight but still pack high-performace processors.
Reuters

(Of grains especially rice) having the husk or outer layers removed.

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Uso de polished em inglês
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The end result is a polished product, though not without its shortcomings.
Wired
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Tinaja similar in form and size to the preceding; black polished ware.
Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the India...
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But Tamim and Mushfiqur restored the situation with a polished century partnership.
The Guardian
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His enormous sea shells, cast in polished bronze, are cumbersome and costly.
The Guardian
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Points of light twinkled in the polished balls of the brass andirons.
Kathleen
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I consider it as one of the first refinements of polished society.
Pride and Prejudice
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They are polished and translucent; they glitter slightly and please the eye.
The Wonders of Instinct: Chapters in the Psychology of Insects
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They chaffed the poet in polished Yiddish throughout the first two acts.
Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People
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Cap Pas Cap version 2010 reveals a sleeker, more polished end product.
The Irish Times
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They followed a smoothly polished stone path that led to the tree.
The Alchemyst
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They are not without personal charms; good shapes, polished and elastic skins.
The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917
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The bowl of the pipe was of some highly polished red stone.
The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, ...
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The surprising image stood in stark contrast to her usually polished image.
News.com.au
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Every day you start feeling less-than because everyone's so beautiful and polished.
Reuters
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But in six months time these polished concrete floors will be thronged.
The Irish Times
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They're like the teapots in the Lakka Bazar-goodmaterial but not polished.
The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition
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