polish
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2.7
- noun
- /ˈpɑːlɪʃ/
:
pulimento
- A bottle of loud red nail polish had just spilled on her desk.
- nail polish
- shoe polish
- fingernail polish
You get bracelets, nail Polish, just little toys.
- You get bracelets, nail Polish, just little toys.
- Oh my gosh, I'm going to ruin my Polish trying to open this sucker up.
- This is the Buxom winner takes all six piece mini full on lip Polish and lip cream collection.
Examples
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Old shoes with their patina of brown polish, old socks where the heels had gone threadbare.
Fiction book (1994) -
When did she fall in love with nail polish?
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I boil it clean, then polish it with silver polish.
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So we're gonna cover it up... with the shoe polish.
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Lydia removed the old nail polish and put on a fresh clear coat.
Fiction book (1992) -
She bought the polish, she bought the blush, and she bought the lipstick.
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She applied the polish to the car's surface to make it shine.
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Before the big meeting, he used a special polish on his shoes.
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The furniture looked new again after she used the wood polish.
Synonyms
46
3.9
A protective or decorative layer on a surface
43
3.7
A smooth shiny coating on food or pottery
35
3.4
A layer of material that covers a surface to protect or decorate it
12
4.4
A clear hard shiny layer put on wood to protect it and make it shine
11
6.5
A hard shiny coating that protects and decorates things like wood and metal
10
5.0
A hard shiny coating used to protect or decorate surfaces
4
7.4
A natural hard substance used to make a shiny protective coat on wood or furniture
4
2.0
A wax or cream you put on shoes to make them shine and protect them
A new layer of wax put on a surface to make it shine
A very shiny finish you make on wood by rubbing on thin coats of shellac mixed with alcohol
Antonyms
Idioms
- Offensive
You cannot make something very bad look good no matter how much you try
Compounds
40
1.8
A colored or clear paint you put on fingernails and toenails to give them color and shine
- Specialized
A very shiny finish you make on wood by rubbing on thin coats of shellac mixed with alcohol
- Specialized
A way to write math with numbers before the sign so no parentheses
- Slur
A confused, badly organized practice for leaving a building in an emergency
- Specialized
A way of writing math expressions without parentheses where a math sign like + or − comes before the numbers
The group in Poland that makes laws and has two houses, the Sejm and the Senate
How Glossy
Surface Forms
Etymology
Polish (the substance) is named after the verb: it is what you use to 'polish' something. That is why a shoe or furniture polish is the paste or liquid that makes a surface smooth and shiny.