| 单词 | polish |
| 释义 | polish (once / 294 pages) vn When you polish something, you rub and buff it until it shines. You might need to polish your reading glasses from time to time. You might polish your wooden coffee table with a cloth or polish beach stones until they gleam. Polish is also a noun, meaning either the spray you use to shine up your furniture or the shininess itself: "The polish on that desk is unbelievable — I can almost see my reflection in it!" There is also a figurative kind of polish, a sort of elegance or clarity you might see in well-edited writing or a fashionable woman sliding into a taxi. WORD FAMILYpolish: polished, polisher, polishes, polishing+/polished: unpolished/polisher: polishers/polishing: polishings USAGE EXAMPLESA popular choice in lobbies and restaurants, the polished material also suits a home’s foyer, kitchen or bathroom. Wall Street Journal(Dec 29, 2016) Flowers is a similar type of threat, though he might be a slightly better runner and a little less polished in the passing game. Washington Times(Dec 28, 2016) Ms. Trump served as a more polished emissary of her father’s messages during the campaign, and she is under pressure to bring jobs home. New York Times(Dec 28, 2016) 1v make (a surface) shine polish my shoes Syn|Hypo|Hyper shine, smooth, smoothen Simonise, Simonize polish with wax sleek, slickmake slick or smooth buff, burnish, furbishpolish and make shiny glossgive a shine or gloss to, usually by rubbing beautify, embellish, fancify, prettify make more beautiful 2v improve or perfect by pruning or polishing Syn|Hypo|Hyper down, fine-tune, refine over-refine, overrefine refine too much or with excess of subtlety civilise, civilize, cultivate, educate, school, trainteach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment sophisticatemake less natural or innocent ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate to make better 3v bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state polish your social manners Syn|Hyper brush up, polish up, round, round off hone, perfect make perfect or complete 4n the property of being smooth and shiny Syn|Hypo|Hyper burnish, gloss, glossiness French polish the glaze produced by repeated applications of French polish shellac glazea glossy finish on a fabric smoothness a texture without roughness; smooth to the touch effulgence, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, refulgency, shinethe quality of being bright and sending out rays of light 5n a preparation used in polishing Hypo|Hyper blacking, shoe polish a substance used to produce a shiny protective surface on footwear Simoniza brand of car polish formulation, preparation a substance prepared according to a formula 6n a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality they performed with great polish Syn|Hyper cultivation, culture, finish, refinement flawlessness, ne plus ultra, perfection the state of being without a flaw or defect Polish (once / 748 pages) adjn WORD FAMILY Polish: Polishes USAGE EXAMPLESSunday's riot involved dozens of locals enraged by the killing of a 21-year-old Polish man, identified only as Daniel R, outside a kebab restaurant. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) Also, starting center Marcin Gortat showed some rare lift in his “Polish Machine” with multiple dunks on his way to 19 points and 13 rebounds. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) All are now the property of the Polish state. BBC(Dec 29, 2016) 1adj of or relating to Poland or its people or culture Polish sausage 2n the Slavic language of Poland Hyper Slavic, Slavic language, Slavonic, Slavonic language a branch of the Indo-European family of languages |
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