Polish

Noun

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

Synonyms

 * wax
 * finish, sheen, shine, shininess, smoothness
 * class, elegance, panache, refinement, style

Derived terms

 * depolish
 * expolish
 * repolish

Related terms

 * polissoir

Verb

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

Synonyms

 * shine, smooth, bone
 * hone, perfect, refine

Derived terms

 * polishable
 * polished
 * polisher
 * polishing
 * polishment
 * polishure
 * repolish
 * unpolish

Related terms

 * polite

Adjectives for Polish
patrician; massive; gleaming; sleek; high.

Adverbs for Polish
painstakingly; superficially; vigorously; industriously; gleamingly; glitteringly; highly; splendidly.

Thesaurus
Atticism, abradant, abrasive, acculturation, acquired taste, aluminum oxide, ameliorate, appreciation of excellence, appropriateness, auto polish, beautify, better, breeding, brighten, brighten up, brightness, brilliance, brush up, buff, bump off, burnish, chasteness, chastity, choiceness, civility, civilization, civilized taste, civilizedness, clarity, classicalism, classicism, clean, clearness, colcothar, comeliness, con, conclude, consume, correct, correctness, corundum, crocus, cultivate, cultivated taste, cultivation, culture, daintiness, delicacy, destroy, develop, dignity, directness, discrimination, dispatch, dispose of, distinction, do away with, do in, dress, ease, eat, education, elaborate, elegance, elegancy, eliminate, embellish, emend, emery, emery board, emery paper, enculturation, end, enhance, enlightenment, evolve, excellence, fastidiousness, felicitousness, felicity, file, finesse, finish, fittingness, fix, flow, flowing periods, fluency, freshen, furbish, furbish up, garnet, genteelness, gentility, gentlemanlikeness, gentlemanliness, gentleness, glance, glaze, gleam, glint, gloss, glow, good breeding, good taste, grace, gracefulness, gracility, graciosity, graciousness, improve, kill, ladylikeness, lawn-roller, learn, limpidity, liquidate, lucidity, luster, mature, mend, murder, nail file, naturalness, neatness, niceness, nicety, oil, patina, pellucidity, perfect, perspicuity, plainness, polish off, polish up, polishes, propriety, pumice, pumice stone, purity, put away, quality, radiance, rasp, refine, refinement, renovate, repair, restraint, retouch, review, revive, ripen, roller, rottenstone, rouge, round, rub, rub out, rub up, sand, sandblast, sandpaper, scour, scrub, season, seemliness, sheen, shine, shoe polish, silicon carbide, silver polish, simplicity, slay, sleek, sleeker, slick, slick down, slicker, smooth, smoother, smoothness, socialization, sophistication, sparkle, spruce, spruce up, straightforwardness, study, subtlety, taste, tastefulness, terminate, terseness, tone up, touch up, unaffectedness, vamp, vamp up, varnish, wax, wolf down

Etymology
From <  <  polire:.

Noun

 * Czech:
 * Danish: pudsecreme, politur
 * Dutch: poets, poetsmiddel
 * Esperanto: polurilo
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:


 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 研磨剤
 * Polish: pasta do polerowania
 * Portuguese: cera (de polimento), graxa (footwear)
 * Spanish: betún footwear polish
 * Swedish: polityr, polermedel, putsmedel


 * Danish: glans, glathed
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: kiilto (shininess), tasaisuus (smoothness)
 * German:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese:, 清らか, 清潔;  , 平坦;  輝き, つや, , 光沢
 * Polish: Połysk
 * Portuguese:
 * Swedish: ,


 * Danish: elegance, forfinelse
 * Finnish:, ,
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 洗練
 * Portuguese: polimento
 * Swedish: finess, polityr


 * : политура (1), блясък  (2), изтънченост  (3)
 * : جلا (jala)
 * : Schliff (3)
 * : cera (de polimento)
 * : pastă de lustruit
 * : abrillantador

Verb

 * Arabic: لمع
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 擦亮
 * Czech:
 * Danish: polere, blanke, pudse (make shiny), glatte (make smooth)
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: kiillottaa (make shiny), hioa (make smooth), puunata
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: kifényesít, políroz
 * Interlingua: polir; furbir (metal); lustrar (shoes); lisiar (= to smooth)


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 磨く; 研ぐ
 * Jèrriais: bliatchinner (of footwear)
 * Korean: 닥다
 * Polish: polerować, wygładzać
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: полировать,  шлифовать
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,


 * Danish: forfine, pudse af
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 洗練する
 * Portuguese:
 * Swedish: ,


 * : lufrañ, levnañ
 * : излъсквам (1), шлифовам (2)
 * : polir
 * : fegen
 * : (sayqal zadan)
 * : a lustrui
 * : pulir