Polish

Quick meaning: Polish is a noun meaning A substance used to polish.

Meaning

A substance used to polish.

More Meanings

1. Cleanliness; smoothness, shininess.
2. Refinement; cleanliness in performance or presentation.
3. (transitive) To shine; to make a surface very smooth or shiny by rubbing, cleaning, or grinding.
4. (transitive) To refine; remove imperfections from.
5. (transitive) To apply shoe polish to shoes.
6. (intransitive) To become smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss; to take a smooth and glossy surface.
7. (transitive) To refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite.

Example Sentences

Steel polishes well.

The floor was waxed to a high polish.

He polished up the chrome until it gleamed.

A good silver polish will remove tarnish easily.

Word Forms

• polishes
• polishing
• polished

Synonyms for polish

Depending on context, synonyms include finish, sheen, shine, shininess, smoothness, class.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include round, refinement, refine, round off, fine-tune, brush up.

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