Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Made shiny and smooth by rubbing or chemical action.
- adjective Naturally shiny and smooth.
- adjective Having the husk or outer layers removed. Used of grains of rice.
- adjective Refined or sophisticated.
- adjective Having no imperfections or errors; well-executed; flawless.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Made smooth by polishing.
- Having naturally a smooth, lustrous surface, like that produced by polishing; specifically, in entomology smooth and shining, but without metallic luster.
- Brought by training or elaboration to a condition void of roughness, irregularity, imperfections, or inelegances; carefully elaborated; especially, elegant; refined; polite.
- Purified; absolved.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Made
smooth orshiny bypolishing . - adjective
refined ,elegant - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
polish .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of grains especially rice) having the husk or outer layers removed
- adjective (of lumber or stone) to trim and smooth
- adjective showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience
- adjective perfected or made shiny and smooth
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Examples
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One of the great misfortunes, as also one of the great follies, of mankind, is that in all countries which we call polished, except, perhaps, China, priests concern themselves with what belongs only to philosophers.
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For Banana Republic, after being hurt by a "too casual" assortment during the holiday season last year, it's balancing that with what it calls "polished casual" assortment as well as "work versatile" outfits that shoppers can wear from work to dinner.
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And then we run our tubing, and it is inserted to what we call a polished bore receptacle at 16,000 feet.
unknown title 2012
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The first 1/3 is due on Friday in polished form, so I plan to spend today and tomorrow going over the approximately 70 pages.
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One wall is sheathed in polished plaster: a crafted and, dare I say it, luxurious touch.
James Murdoch's Sky scraper Jonathan Glancey 2010
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The cast, this time, turned in polished, energetic performances without erasing memories of earlier ensembles.
Donna Perlmutter: Postino and Figaro: Underclass Heroes Who Usher in L.A. Opera's 25th Season Donna Perlmutter 2010
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The cast, this time, turned in polished, energetic performances without erasing memories of earlier ensembles.
Donna Perlmutter: Postino and Figaro: Underclass Heroes Who Usher in L.A. Opera's 25th Season Donna Perlmutter 2010
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Each new update, whilst supremely polished, is intimately tied to the current season in order to be as up to date as possible, but also as disposable as possible.
Suttree » Casual Games, Social Software » 2009 » February 2009
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The cast, this time, turned in polished, energetic performances without erasing memories of earlier ensembles.
Donna Perlmutter: Postino and Figaro: Underclass Heroes Who Usher in L.A. Opera's 25th Season Donna Perlmutter 2010
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Sipping coffee recently at a Shanghai Starbucks, dressed in polished black shoes and a crisply starched shirt, Chen, 30, fully embodied the success and wealth China's new generation has found in this industrial, corporate age.
Young Chinese farmers sowing seeds for organic revolution William Wan Washington Post Foreign Service 2010
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