polish

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
polish /ˈpɒlɪʃ/

▶verb

• 1 make smooth and shiny by rubbing.

• 2 (often as adj. polished) improve, refine, or add the finishing touches to.

• 3 (polish something off) finish or consume something quickly.

• 4 (as adj. polished) (of rice) having had the outer husk removed during milling.

▶noun

• 1 a substance used to make something smooth and shiny when rubbed in.

  ■ an act of polishing.

  ■ smoothness or glossiness produced by polishing.

• 2 refinement or elegance.

– derivatives
polishable adjective,
polisher noun.

– origin ME: from OFr. poliss-, lengthened stem of polir ‘to polish’, from L. polire.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Polish /ˈpəʊlɪʃ/

▶noun the Western Slavic language of Poland. ▶adjective relating to Poland, its inhabitants, or their language.