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Definition of polish :
1. A smooth, glossy surface, usually produced by friction; a gloss or luster.
2. Anything used to produce a gloss.
3. Fig.: Refinement; elegance of manners.
4. Hence, to refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite; as, to polish life or manners.
5. The language of the Poles.
6. To become smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss; to take a smooth and glossy surface; as, steel polishes well.
7. To make smooth and glossy, usually by friction; to burnish; to overspread with luster; as, to polish glass, marble, metals, etc.
Synonyms:
glisten, devour, touch up, brush up, finis, attack, civilization, round out, perfect, finishing, reflect, subtlety, labialize, conclusion, pour down, coating, polish up, push down, beam, labialise, colour, finale, complicate, semblance, refinement, down, kill, round down, elaboration, shoot down, bolt down, nuance, consume, graduate, culture, knock down, assail, calibrate, toss off, refining, shade, destination, land, fine-tune, refine, strike, rubric, sleek, light, snipe, stopping point, belt down, fall, glossary, refresh, pop, color, last, smooth out, pull down, drink down, purification, furbish, assault, lash out, rectify, ending, review, radiate, acculturation, fill out, glitter, retouch, nicety, better, close, finish, round, go through, tweak, cultivation, glow, shine, elaborate, goal, cut down, gleam, flesh out, round off, buff, smoothen, glint, civilisation, rarify
smooth (part of speech: verb)
gloss, slick, burnish, grind, level, flatten, smooth, glaze, silken, plane, sand, even
smoothness (part of speech: noun)
silkiness, glossiness, sleekness, slickness, smoothness, glassiness
Usage examples:
- Their point of view is represented by the following leading article of the weekly paper Free Poland, founded since the war and published by the Polish National Council of America: 'What the Poles desire is an independent Poland. - "My Three Years in America", Johann Heinrich Andreas Hermann Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff.
- 2058 represents a polishing device used to polish the surface of engravers' plates. - "Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II", Joshua Rose.
- It has been translated into Italian, German, Dutch, and even Polish; and into French again and again. - "Sterne", H.D. Traill.