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Polished
Polished Pol"ished, a.
Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly
finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished
manners; polished verse.
PolishedPolish Pol"ish, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Polished; p. pr. & vb.
n. Polishing.] [F. polir, L. polire. Cf. Polite, -ish]
1. To make smooth and glossy, usually by friction; to
burnish; to overspread with luster; as, to polish glass,
marble, metals, etc.
2. Hence, to refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or
rusticity of; to make elegant and polite; as, to polish
life or manners. --Milton.
To polish off, to finish completely, as an adversary.
[Slang] --W. H. Russell. PolishPolish Pol"ish, a. [From Pole a Polander.]
Of or pertaining to Poland or its inhabitants. -- n. The
language of the Poles. PolishPolish Pol"ish, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Polished; p. pr. & vb.
n. Polishing.] [F. polir, L. polire. Cf. Polite, -ish]
1. To make smooth and glossy, usually by friction; to
burnish; to overspread with luster; as, to polish glass,
marble, metals, etc.
2. Hence, to refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or
rusticity of; to make elegant and polite; as, to polish
life or manners. --Milton.
To polish off, to finish completely, as an adversary.
[Slang] --W. H. Russell. Polish
Polish Pol"ish, v. i.
To become smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss; to
take a smooth and glossy surface; as, steel polishes well.
--Bacon.
Polish
Polish Pol"ish, n.
1. A smooth, glossy surface, usually produced by friction; a
gloss or luster.
Another prism of clearer glass and better polish.
--Sir I.
Newton.
2. Anything used to produce a gloss.
3. Fig.: Refinement; elegance of manners.
This Roman polish and this smooth behavior.
--Addison.
Meaning of Polished from wikipedia
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Polish language Polish people,
people from
Poland or of
Polish descent Polish chicken Polish brothers (Mark
Polish and
Michael Polish, born 1970), American...
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surface imperfections and to
obtain optimal results. The
strength of
polished products can be
higher than
their unpolished counterparts owing to the...
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Polish (endonym: język polski, [ˈjɛ̃zɨk ˈpɔlskʲi] ,
polszczyzna [pɔlˈʂt͡ʂɨzna] or
simply polski, [ˈpɔlskʲi] ) is a West
Slavic language of the Lechitic...
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Polished concrete is a multi-step
process where a
concrete floor is
mechanically ground,
honed and
polished with
bonded abrasives in
order to cut a concrete...
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Sankissa elephant. Non
polished.
Rampurva zebu bull
original (Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi). Non
polished.
Rampurva lion.
Polished. The "Lion
Capital of...
- finishes, from the very
highly polished Venetian plaster and
Marmorino to the
rugged look of
textured polished plasters.
Polished plaster itself tends to consist...
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Polish people, or Poles, are a West
Slavic ethnic group and
nation who
share a
common history, culture, the
Polish language and are
identified with the...
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Polish–Ottoman Wars can
refer to one of the
several conflicts between the
Polish–Lithuanian
Commonwealth and the
Ottoman Empire:
Crusade of
Varna (1443-1444)...
- Turned, ground, and
polished (TGP) is a
classification of
finishing processes often used for
metal shafting.
Turning (on a lathe)
creates straight round...
- The
Polish złoty (alternative spelling: zloty;
Polish:
polski złoty,
Polish: [ˈzwɔtɨ] ; abbreviation: zł; code: PLN) is the
official currency and legal...
