Meaning

A substance used to polish..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

A good silver polish will remove tarnish easily.

The floor was waxed to a high polish.

The lecturer showed a lot of polish at his last talk.

He polished up the chrome until it gleamed.

The band has polished its performance since the last concert.

Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.

Steel polishes well.

The other [gold], whether it will polish so well Wherein for the latter [brass] it is probable it will

Word Forms

• polishes
• polishing
• polished

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Use polish when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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