Word Meanings - POLISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of or pertaining to Poland or its inhabitants. -- n.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of POLISH)
- Burnish
- Brighten
- glaze
- polish
- gloze
- gloss
- File
- Rasp
- smooth
- finish
- perfect
- improve
- refine
- Furbish
- burnish
- Levigate
- Comminute
- triturate
- pulverize
- plane
- Refinement
- Clarification
- purification
- filtration
- sublimation
- elegance
- cultivation
- civilization
- subtilty
- finesse
- sophistry
Related words: (words related to POLISH)
- SMOOTHEN
To make smooth. - PLANE TREE
See PLANE - SMOOTHNESS
Quality or state of being smooth. - GLOSSA
The tongue, or lingua, of an insect. See Hymenoptera. - GLOSSIST
A writer of comments. Milton. - GLOSSOLOGY
1. The definition and explanation of terms; a glossary. 2. The science of language; comparative philology; linguistics; glottology. - GLOSSARIAL
Of or pertaining to glosses or to a glossary; containing a glossary. - FINESSE
The act of finessing. See Finesse, v. i., 2. (more info) 1. Subtilty of contrivance to gain a point; artifice; stratagem. This is the artificialest piece of finesse to persuade men into slavery. Milton. - FINISHER
1. One who finishes, puts an end to, completes, or perfects; esp. used in the trades, as in hatting, weaving, etc., for the workman who gives a finishing touch to the work, or any part of it, and brings it to perfection. O prophet of glad tidings, - PERFECT
Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; -- said of flower. Perfect cadence , a complete and satisfactory close in harmony, as upon the tonic preceded by the dominant. -- Perfect chord , a concord or union of sounds which is perfectly - GLOSSOLOGICAL
Of or pertaining to glossology. - BURNISHER
1. One who burnishes. 2. A tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing. It has a variety of forms adapted to special uses. - POLISHMENT
The act of polishing, or the state of being polished. - BURNISH
To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper. The frame of burnished steel, that east a glare From far, and seemed to thaw the freezing - GLOSSOGRAPHICAL
Of or pertaining to glossography. - GLOSSANTHRAX
A disease of horses and cattle accompanied by carbuncles in the mouth and on the tongue. - IMPROVER
One who, or that which, improves. - COMMINUTE
To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth. Pennant. Comminuted fracture. See under Fracture. - SMOOTH-CHINNED
Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton. - PLANETULE
A little planet. Conybeare. - PREFINE
To limit beforehand. Knolles. - REPOLISH
To polish again. - HYDROBIPLANE
A hydro-aƫroplane having two supporting planes. - UNCIVILIZATION
The state of being uncivilized; savagery or barbarism. - GYMNOGLOSSA
A division of gastropods in which the odontophore is without teeth. - UNIMPROVED
1. Not improved; not made better or wiser; not advanced in knowledge, manners, or excellence. 2. Not used; not employed; especially, not used or employed for a valuable purpose; as, unimproved opportunities; unimproved blessings. Cowper. 3. Not