1. polish - Noun
2. polish - Adjective
3. polish - Verb
Of or pertaining to Poland or its inhabitants.
The language of the Poles.
To make smooth and glossy, usually by friction; to burnish; to overspread with luster; as, to polish glass, marble, metals, etc.
Hence, to refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite; as, to polish life or manners.
To become smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss; to take a smooth and glossy surface; as, steel polishes well.
A smooth, glossy surface, usually produced by friction; a gloss or luster.
Anything used to produce a gloss.
Fig.: Refinement; elegance of manners.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAuthority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish. Anne Bradstreet
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others. Michel de Montaigne
Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature. Jean Cocteau
You can't polish a turd. Persian Proverb
Elbow grease is the best polish. English Proverb
True friends never polish each other. American Proverb