verb
- Make (a surface) shine.
- usage: "shine the silver, please"; "polish my shoes"
- Improve or perfect by pruning or polishing.
- usage: "refine one's style of writing"
- Bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state.
- usage: "polish your social manners"
adjective
- Perfected or made shiny and smooth.
- usage: "his polished prose"; "in a freshly ironed dress and polished shoes"; "freshly polished silver"
- Showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience.
- usage: "his polished manner"; "maintained an urbane tone in his letters"
- Of grains especially rice. ( having the husk or outer layers removed)
- usage: "polished rice"
- synonyms: milled
- Of lumber or stone. ( to trim and smooth).
- synonyms: dressed
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
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