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polish Meaning, Definition, Pronunciation, Grammar & Synonyms❤️

0 to rub something using a piece of cloth or brush to clean it and make it shine:
- to polish the furniture
- Polish your shoes regularly to protect the leather.
1 the act of cleaning something by rubbing it:
- I'll just give my shoes a quick polish.
- shoe/furniture/silver polish
2 the quality of having been done in a way that shows skill and experience:
- It's a lively, good-hearted film but it lacks a little polish.
- This is a musical with polish and wit.
3 belonging to or relating to Poland, its people, or its language
4 the language of Poland
5 to make something smooth and shiny by rubbing:
- He polished the hardwood floor.
6 Polish is a cream or other substance that you use to clean or shine something:
- shoe/furniture/silver polish
- The rest of the cast comes nowhere near equaling his polish onstage.

All pearls are refereed (including my own), and there is often a fair amount of polishing as a result of the reviewing stage.
Internally, walls have been plastered with stucco romano that is neither tinted nor polished.
The country rock was typically coarse crystalline granite gneiss, strongly weathered, ventifacted, and partly polished, and outcrops were 'crumbled' and without strength.
To sum up these narratives: a forgotten early music is resurrected in recent times and gradually polished up to achieve a historically informed performance practice.
Certainly in carrying a sense of their making and makers, such materials contrast with plastics and polished or lacquered finishes and mechanised processes.
Rather than honing and polishing a good musical idea, he wanted to follow the dreaming muse of his genius down every rabbit hole.
The floor elements were polished and columns had a variety of shapes, colours and finishes.
Samples from the normal smooth surface of the gneiss boulder show that the surface has been ground and polished during glacial transportation.