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Polish Definition

polish

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Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French, from Latin polire (“to polish, make smooth”).

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Noun

polish (countable and uncountable; plural polishes)

  1. A substance used to polish.
    A good silver polish will remove tarnish easily.
  2. Cleanliness; smoothness, shininess.
    The floor was waxed to a high polish.
  3. Refinement; cleanliness in performance or presentation.
    The lecturer showed a lot of polish at his last talk.

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Verb

polish (third-person singular simple present polishes, present participle polishing, simple past and past participle polished)

  1. (transitive) To shine; to make a surface very smooth or shiny by rubbing, cleaning, or grinding.
    He polished up the chrome until it gleamed.
  2. (transitive) To refine; remove imperfections from.
    The band has polished its performance since the last concert.
  3. (transitive) To apply shoe polish to shoes.

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make a surface smooth or shiny
  • Arabic: لمع (ar) (lámma3a)
  • Chinese:
    Mandarin: 擦亮 (zh) (cāliàng)
  • Czech: leštit (cs)
  • Danish: polere, blanke, pudse (make shiny), glatte (make smooth)
  • Dutch: polijsten (nl), poetsen (nl), oppoetsen (nl)
  • Esperanto: poluri (eo)
  • Finnish: kiillottaa (make shiny), hioa (make smooth), puunata (colloquial)
  • French: polir (fr)
  • German: polieren (de)
  • Hungarian: kifényesít (hu), políroz (hu)
  • Interlingua: polir; furbir (metal); lustrar (shoes); lisiar (= to smooth)
  • Italian: lucidare (it)
  • Japanese: 磨く (ja) (migaku); (for rice) 研ぐ (ja) (togu)
  • Jèrriais: bliatchinner (of footwear)
  • Korean: 닥다 (ko) (dakda)
  • Polish: polerować, wygładzać
  • Portuguese: polir (pt)
  • Russian: (reflective surface) полировать (ru) (polirovát’), (matte surface) шлифовать (ru) (šlifovát’)
  • Spanish: pulir (es), acicalar (es)
  • Swedish: polera (sv), putsa (sv)
refine; improve imperfections from
  • Japanese: 洗練する (ja) (senren-suru)
  • Portuguese: polir (pt)
  • Swedish: polera (sv), putsa (sv)
apply shoe polish
  • Navajo: náyiishį́į́h
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  • Breton: lufrañ, levnañ
  • Bulgarian: излъсквам (1), шлифовам (2)
  • Catalan: polir
  • German: fegen
  • Persian: صیقل زدن (sayqal zadan)
  • Romanian: a lustrui
  • Spanish: pulir

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