[
US
/ˈpɑɫɪʃ, ˈpoʊɫɪʃ/
]
VERB
-
make (a surface) shine
shine the silver, please
polish my shoes -
bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state
polish your social manners -
improve or perfect by pruning or polishing
refine one's style of writing
NOUN
- a preparation used in polishing
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a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality
almost an inspiration which gives to all work that finish which is almost art
they performed with great polish
I admired the exquisite refinement of his prose - the property of being smooth and shiny
How To Use polish In A Sentence
- I'll get all the engine cowls off, get all the dust out of it, and a lot of areas have to be repolished.
- The principals of the local schools could be counted on for a couple of fresh scrubbed altar boys in charge of polished crucifix, candlesticks and dangerously toxic swinging thuribles.
- I find it hard to get my tongue round these Polish names.
- From the early 1620s, coastal Indians supplied wampum (sacred shell beads, polished and strung in strands, belts, or sashes) to Dutch traders who exchanged it with inland natives for beaver pelts.
- “No, there ain’t no Bowlong,” said the barmaid, taking up a glasscloth and a drying tumbler and beginning to polish the latter. The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll
- Polish shoes; get new heels or soles if necessary.
- Polish the lenses with a piece of tissue.
- It's frustrating, and makes the game look unpolished.
- Petrifications, where no organic material remains, are usually prepared as thin sections or polished and studied under reflected light.
- The manufacturers just don't strive to achieve a mirror-like polish nowadays.