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Polish   /pˈɑlɪʃ/  /pˈoʊlɪʃ/   Listen
Polish

adjective
1.
Of or relating to Poland or its people or culture.
noun
1.
The property of being smooth and shiny.  Synonyms: burnish, gloss, glossiness.
2.
A highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality.  Synonyms: cultivation, culture, finish, refinement.  "I admired the exquisite refinement of his prose" , "Almost an inspiration which gives to all work that finish which is almost art"
3.
A preparation used in polishing.
4.
The Slavic language of Poland.
verb
(past & past part. polished; pres. part. polishing)
1.
Make (a surface) shine.  Synonyms: shine, smooth, smoothen.  "Polish my shoes"
2.
Improve or perfect by pruning or polishing.  Synonyms: down, fine-tune, refine.
3.
Bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state.  Synonyms: brush up, polish up, round, round off.



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"Polish" Quotes from Famous Books



... make a stirring speech and they say he is going to be the President of the United States. He's wise and witty and straight as a string but a rough diamond—big, awkward and homely. You're just the girl to take him in hand and give him a little polish and push him along. ...
— A Man for the Ages - A Story of the Builders of Democracy • Irving Bacheller
... in his hands the keys of Heaven. He receives the adoration of all the faithful who enter into this temple, and this adoration is performed by kissing his foot which, from the repeated kissings, is become of a bright polish and is visibly wearing away. The statue was formerly a statue of Jupiter Capitolinus, but on the grand revolution among the inhabitants of Olympus and the downfall of Jupiter, it was broken to pieces, melted down and fabricated into an image of St Peter, so that this statue has lost ...
— After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 • Major W. E Frye
... to cast an occasional glance into a picture-shop window, or to pause a few seconds now and then to chaff a facetious cabby, or make a politely sarcastic remark to a bobby. His connection with what he termed "'igh life" had softened him down considerably, and given a certain degree of polish to his wit, but it had in no degree repressed his ...
— My Doggie and I • R.M. Ballantyne
... a State school of painting was founded at Sofia, and there is now a fine art gallery in the capital. But most of the artistic impulse has come from abroad, and the most notable names in Bulgarian art after that of Pavlovitch are Piotrovsky (Polish), Boloungaro (Italian), de Fourcade (French), Sliapin (Russian). The first art exhibition was organised in 1887 by Ivan Angeloff, teacher in the Gymnasium of Sofia and a graduate of the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. ...
— Bulgaria • Frank Fox
... Polus, who has treasuries of diplasiology, and gnomology, and eikonology, and who teaches in them the names of which Licymnius made him a present; they were to give a polish. ...
— Phaedrus • Plato


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