Polished

Definition: Polished

Polished

Adjective

1. Perfected or made shiny and smooth; "his polished prose"; "in a freshly ironed dress and polished shoes"; "freshly polished silver".

2. Showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience; "his polished manner"; "maintained an urbane tone in his letters".

3. (of grains especially rice) having the husk or outer layers removed; "polished rice".

4. (of lumber or stone) to trim and smooth.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "polished" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Synonyms: Polished

Care

Phrase: quis custodiet istos custodes?; "care will kill a cat"; ni bebas agua que no veas; "O polished perturbation! Golden care!"; "the incessant care and labor of his mind".

Courtesy

Adjective: courteous, polite, civil, mannerly, urbane; well-behaved, well-mannered, well-bred, well-brought up; good-mannered, polished, civilized, cultivated; refined; (taste); gentlemanlike; (fashion); gallant; on one's good behavior.

Elegance

Adjective: elegant, polished, classical, Attic, correct, Ciceronian, artistic; chaste, pure, Saxon, academical.

Fashion

Polished, refined, thoroughbred, courtly; distingue; unembarrassed, degage; janty, jaunty; dashing, fast.

Smoothness

Adjective: smooth; polished; Verb: leiodermatous, slick, velutinous; even; level; plane; (flat); sleek, glossy; silken, silky; lanate, downy, velvety; glabrous, slippery, glassy, lubricous, oily, soft, unwrinkled; smooth as glass, smooth as ice, smooth as monumental alabaster, smooth as velvet, smooth as oil; slippery as an eel; woolly; (feathery).

Crosswords: Polished

You are such a polished ass kisser that it takes my breath away (Wolf; writing credit: Jim Harrison; Wesley Strick)

I've polished your sword (Lisztomania; writing credit: Ken Russell)

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. (references; author: Chinese Proverb)

Polished Ivory (1930)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The World Market for Nonwired Glass Sheets of Float Glass and Surface Ground or Polished Glass: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Books

• Polished ebony (reference)

• Polished With Love (Harlequin Temptation) (reference)

• Safari Chic: Wild Exteriors and Polished Interiors of Africa (reference)

• Spitfires and Polished Metal: Restoring the Classic Fighter (reference)

• The Artifacts of Dzibilchaltun, Yucatan, Mexico: Shell, Polished Stone, Bone, Wood, and Ceramics (Publication (Tulane Univ. Middle American Research (reference)

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Music

• Deathsentences of the Polished & Structurally Weak (reference)

• Polished Holiday Brass (reference)

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High Tech

• 1M Singlemode Duplex SC-Angled Polished SC (reference)

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Consumer Goods

• Jasco PTS J/A54 PB Tub/Shower Set, Polished Brass (reference)

• Jasco 5890PB 8-1/2" Corner Basket, Polished Brass (reference)

• Jasco 5920PC 10" x 4" Rectangular Basket, Polished Chrome (reference)

• Jasco 18 B2 PB 24" Towel Bar, Polished Brass (reference)

• Amerock BP245-26 Polished Chromium Modern Pull (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Figure 17. Luksch disk, made by Joseph Luksch about 1880 and used in that year aboard the HERTA, the yacht of Prince John II of Liechstenstein. It was provided with five interchangeable 36-cm reflecting plates of different metals, some painted. Afterwards, Luksch used polished white iron disks and white painted disks of 45 cm diameter on the POLA. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Hoyt's A bunch of keys polished up to date. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Then he took off his spectacles, and polished them, and looked at me again, in evident bewilderment

Since he had been at M__ sur M__, it was remarked from year to year that his language became more polished, choicer, and more gently

The name of the hotel, a colourless polished wood, and its colourless quiet front stung him like a glance of polite disdain

He watched the farm families come in, the girls with braided hair and the boys polished for the dance

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Business

The most sought-after wedding bands are matted and polished gold. More recently, however, white gold and platinum have become more common. (references)

Economic History

Israel

Trade: Exports--$28.3 billion: machinery and equipment, software, polished diamonds, agricultural products, chemicals, textiles and clothing, processed foods. (references)

Cote D'ivoire

White rice, polished from U.S. brown rice, has a well-established reputation. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "polished": ground and polished glass ♦ polished coffee ♦ polished glass ♦ polished marble ♦ polished plate ♦ polished plate glass ♦ polished rice ♦ polished section ♦ polished slice ♦ polished stone value test ♦ polished surface ♦ polished yarn. Additional references.

Beginning with "polished": polished-brass, polished-silver, polished-wood.

Ending with "polished": flame-polished, hand-polished, highly-polished, well-polished.

Albanian

i rafinuar (dainty, fastidious, formal, refined), i lustruar (patent leather), i lëmuar (ganoid, glace, glib, highbred, nice, polite, refined, sleek, sleeken, sleeky, slick, smooth, smooth-faced, soft, unruffled, waxy, well mannered). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مهذب (civil, civilized, corrected, courteous, cultivated, cultured, discipliner, educated, educator, fair-spoken, gentleman, mannerly, polite, preceptor, purified, rectified, refined, respectable, teacher, urbane, well bred, well mannered), ‏ملمع (glossy, satin), ‏مصقول (brushed up, buffed, burnished, cultivated, furbished, glazed, glossed, lustered, refined, scoured, smooth, smoothed, suave), ‏مجلى, ‏مثقف (cultivated, cultured, educated, educative, enlightened, informative, instructive, intellectual, learned, literate, refined, scholar), ‏مشذب (refined), ‏لامع (blazing, bright, brilliant, burnished, dazzling, flamboyant, flashing, glazed, gleaming, glimmering, glistering, glittering, glossed, glossy, golden, high, lambent, lucid, lustrous, outstanding, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, sheen, shining, shiny, showy, sleek, slick, sparkle, sparkling, star, staring), ‏قشيب (burnished, clean, cute). (various references)

Bulgarian 

шлифован, полиран (bright, glossy, varnished), изтънчен (cool, dainty, delicate, discriminating, fastidious, fine, polite, refined, subtle, urbane), изискан (accomplished, classic, discerning, distinguished, elegant, exact, exquisite, gracious, neat, nice, polite, precise, recherche, refined, tasteful, urbane, well-rounded). (various references)

Chinese 

漂 (elegant, to bleach, to drift, to float), 擦亮 (Burnished, Burnishing, Polishing). (various references)

Czech

lesklý (bright, glassy, gleaming, glossal, glossy, resplendent, shining, shiny, tawdry). (various references)

Danish

poleret glas (plate, plate glass, polished glass, polished plate, polished plate glass), poleret garn (glazed yarn, polished yarn), poleret kand (polished edge), poleret kant (polished edge), poleret med diamantpasta (polished with diamond pastes), poleret ris (polished rice), poleret skæring (polished section), poleret tværsnit (polished section), poleret valse (polished cylinder), proeven blev elektrolytisk tyndet saa langt ned,at den blev gennemsigtig for elektroner (the specimen was electrolytically polished until it was thin enough to be examined by transmission in the electron microscope), poleret sten (polished stone), polerede frø (polished seed), man ser ogsaa flydefigurer paa plade,der er poleret ved koldvalsning og derefter fortinnet,f.eks.omkring bogstaver og tegn,der er stemplet i konservesdaaser (for example around letters and signs pressed into preserved food cans, stretcher strains are likewise found on sheet polished by cold rolling and then tinned), blaa traehveps (blue horntail, polished horntail, steel-blue wood wasp), en perfekt tilstand af slibets overflade uden tilbagevaerende deformation fra slibningen (perfection of the polished section, with no remnant deformation resulting from the polishing process), flammepolering (fire finished, fire finishing, fire polished, fire polishing, glazing), glittet garn (glazed yarn, polished yarn), i korn,hvis krystalgitterplaner omtrentligt ligger i slibfladen,ses underkorngraenserne som gruber,da de tilsyneladende aetser hurtigere (because they seem to be etched more deeply, the sub-grain boundaries are observed as pits, when the ferrite planes are parallel to the polished section), i mikrostrukturer ses denne struktur kun i staal,der ikke har noget omdannelsespunkt i fast tilstand;kun da forbliver de stoerknede korn uforandrede ned til stuetemperatur uden rekrystallisation (on polished sections this structure is only clearly visible in steels which undergo no solid state transformation, where the solidification grains are retained down to room temperature without recrystallization), kornstoerrelsen maales ved mikroskopisch undersoegelse af et poleret snit i proevestykket (the grain size is shown by micrographic examination of a polished section of the specimen), mekanisk poleret skive (mechanically-polished slice, polished slice), af alle kendte metoder til at undersoege umetalliske indeslutninger er undersoegelsen af polerede slib i det lysoptiske metalmikroskop uden tvivl langt den hyppigst anvendte (is certainly the most widely applied, metallographic examination by reflected light from polished metal surfaces using an optical microscope, of all the known methods for investigating non-metatlic inclusions), slibene blev mekanisk vaadslebet (microsections were wet polished), spejlglas (plate, plate glass, polished plate, polished plate glass), slebet og poleret glas (cut glass, ground and polished glass), kemisk poleret skive (chemically-polished slice, polished slice). (various references)

Dutch

preparaten werden nat voorgeslepen (microsections were wet polished), polijstwals (cleaning roll, poilishing roller, polished forming roller, polished roll, polisher, polishing roll, smooth forming roller, smooth roll, wheel roll), geglansd garen (glazed yarn, polished yarn), gepolijste doorsnede (polished section), gepolijst zaad (polished seed), gepolijst vlakje (polished section), gepolijst steentje (polished stone), gepolijst glas (polished glass), gepolijste kant (polished edge), gelustreerde garen (glazed yarn, polished yarn), gepolijste rijst (polished rice), een goed gepolijst oppervlak,d.w.z.een oppervlak zonder vervormingen die ontstaan zijn door het schuren,slijpen en polijsten (perfection of the polished section, with no remnant deformation resulting from the polishing process), de vloeifiguren zijn ook zichtbaar op platen die door koudwalsen gepolijst zijn en vervolgens vertind,zoals bijvoorbeeld rond letters en merken die in conservenblikjes zijn geperst (for example around letters and signs pressed into preserved food cans, stretcher strains are likewise found on sheet polished by cold rolling and then tinned), de korrelgrootte wordt zichtbaar door microscopische waarneming van een gepolijste doorsnede van het proefstuk (the grain size is shown by micrographic examination of a polished section of the specimen), chemisch gepolijste schijf (chemically-polished slice, polished slice), gepolijst garen (glazed yarn, polished yarn), bij een pompinstallatie voor kunstmatige beweegt het balanssegment op en neer waardoor een heen-en-weergaande beweging op de gepolijste stang wordt overgebracht;de gepolijste stang is weer verbonden met een serie pompstangen,en onderaan deze serie bevindt (and at the bottom of the sucker rod is the bottom-hole pump, in a pumping unit used for artificial lift, the horsehead moves up and down imparting a reciprocating motion to the polish(ed)rod;the polished rod in turn is connected to a string of sucker rods), gepolijste rand (polished edge), van alle bekende methoden van het onderzoeken van niet-metallische insluitingen is bestuderen van gepolijste preparaatoppervlakken in een lichtmicroscoop zonder twijfel de meest gebruikte (is certainly the most widely applied, metallographic examination by reflected light from polished metal surfaces using an optical microscope, of all the known methods for investigating non-metatlic inclusions), gevuurpolijst (fire finish, fire finished, fire polish, fire polished, glaze), gladde cilinder (polished cylinder), glansplaat (polished plate, polishing plate), het preparaat werd zolang elektrolytisch gepolijst dat het dun genoeg was om in een elektronenmicroscoop onderzocht te worden (the specimen was electrolytically polished until it was thin enough to be examined by transmission in the electron microscope), in korrels die evenwijdig met het polijstvlak liggen worden de sub-korrelgrenzen waargenomen als groeven omdat zij klaarblijkelijk sterker worden aangeëtst (because they seem to be etched more deeply, the sub-grain boundaries are observed as pits, when the ferrite planes are parallel to the polished section), in preparaten is deze structuur alleen zichtbaar bij staalsoorten die geen omzettingspunt in vaste toestand hebben daar alleen in dit geval de stollingskristallen in hun oorspronkelijke vorm tot op kamertemperatuur behouden blijven (on polished sections this structure is only clearly visible in steels which undergo no solid state transformation, where the solidification grains are retained down to room temperature without recrystallization), mechanisch gepolijste schijf (mechanically-polished slice, polished slice), met diamantpoeder voorgepolijst (polished with diamond pastes), slijpplaatje (polished section), spiegelglas (plate, plate glass, polished plate, polished plate glass), staalblauwe dennehoutwesp (blue horntail, polished horntail, steel-blue wood wasp), gepolijste koffie (polished coffee). (various references)

Finnish

hiottu (cut, ground, sharpened, smooth), hienostunut (refined, subtle). (various references)

French

polirent, polies (polite), polie (polite), poli (polite), polîmes, lustré, fourbi, brillant, astiqué. (various references)

German

polierte (burnished, glossed, slicked, slickly), abgeschliffen. (various references)

Greek 

στιλπνόσ (lucent, lustrous, shiny, sleek, splendent), εξευγενισμένοσ (cultured, refined), άμεμπτοσ (blameless, irreproachable, spotless, unblamable, unblemished, unexceptionable, unimpeachable). (various references)

Hebrew 

ממורט (shabby, worn), מלוטש (ground, sharpened, whetted), משופשף (cleaned, rubbed), מרוק (anoitnting, cleansing, inunction, polishing, purification), מצוחצח (shiny, sleek, smart). (various references)

Hungarian

választékos (chaste, neat, ornate), ragyogó (agleam, beamy, blazing, bodacious, bright, brilliant, coruscating, dazzling, effulgent, fulgent, glaring, glistening, glittering, glorious, glowing, gorgeous, incandescent, irradiant, light, lucent, luminescent, luminous, lurid, lustrous, radiant, resplendent, royal, sheeny, shining, shiny, splendid, starry, sunny, top-hole), kifényesített, fényezett (enamelled, japanned, varnished), fényesített (glace), csiszolt (accomplished, burnish, chaste, refined, smooth, sophisticated, suave), cizellált (chiseled, chiselled). (various references)

Indonesian

canaian (baptism of fire, manner of sharpening). (various references)

Italian

raffinato (courtly, dainty, distinguished, elegant, ennobles, fine, ladylike, polite, refined, sophisticated, tasteful), lustrato, lucido (bright, brightness, glossy, lucid, luster, lustre, sheen, shine, shining, shoe polish, sleek, tracing), lucidato (dye-burnished). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

技巧的 , 上品 (Buddhism's highest paradise, elegant, refined). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぎこうてき, じょうひん (elegant, refined). (various references)

Korean 

닦는 (scoured, Wiped). (various references)

Manx

gloasit (glazed, glossed, shone). (various references)

Pig Latin

olishedpay.(various references)

Portuguese

polido (attentive, cleanly cut, courtly, gentle, glossy, mannerly, neat, net, polite, precise, shiny, sleek, sleeky, smooth, specular, urbane, well-bred, well-spoken), reluzente (sheeny, shining, shiny, sparkling, spick and span, splendent), encerado (cerecloth, tarpaulin, wax cloth), elegante (attic, beau, brave, braw, cheesy, chic, dainty, dandy, dapper, dink, dinky, elegant, fashionable, feat, fetching, flossy, gentlemanly, graceful, handsome, informed, jimp, knowing, ladylike, light, natty, neat, nifty, nobby, pasta, polite, posh, silk stocking, slim, smart, spicy, spruce, stylish, tasteful, tasty, tony, trig, trim), civilizado (civil, civilized). (various references)

Romanian

neted (clear, even, evenly, flat, flush, lank, level ground, plain, plane, sleek, slick, smooth, smooth-faced, smoothly), lustruit (glazed, glossy, lustrous, sleek, varnish), lucios (bright, glossy, lustrous, shiny, sleek). (various references)

Russian 

шлифовать полированный, лощеный (glossy), безупречный (blameless, faultless, flawless, immaculate, impeccable, indefectible, lily white, perfect, pure, stainless, taintless, unblamable, unblemished, unexceptionable, unimpeachable, unimpechable, unimprovable). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uglačan (glace, shiny), uglađen (genteel, polite, refined, sleek, slick, smooth, suave, trim), sjajan (beaming, bright, brilliant, effulgent, fulgent, glace, glittering, glossal, glossy, gorgeous, luminous, lustrous, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, shining, shiny, spanking, splendent, splendid, splendiferous), doteran (groomed, sleek, spruce, straight out, tricksy, trig, trim, trimmed, well groomed). (various references)

Spanish

pulido (natty, polishing), fino (choice, dainty, delicate, discriminating, fine, gaunt, genteel, gossamer, ladylike, lean, nice, refined, semiprecious, sharp, sheer, shrewd, slender, suave, subtil, subtile, subtle, thin), esmerado (careful, conscientious, neat, painstaking). (various references)

Swedish

polerad. (various references)

Turkish

parlak (aglow, ardent, bright, brightly, brilliant, clear, dazzling, effulgent, flamboyant, flaming, flaring, flashily, flashy, fulgent, fulgurant, glace, glittering, glossy, glowing, gorgeous, illuminant, incandescent, irradiant, jazzy, lambent, live, lively, loud, lucent, luminescent, luminous, lustrous, meteoric, oriental, pyrotechnic, pyrotechnical, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, sheeny, shining, shiny, sleek, sparkling, splendent, splendid, star, staring, starry, sunny, vivid), yontulmuş, nazik (affable, attentive, brittle, civil, civilized, civil-spoken, complaisant, considerate, courteous, dainty, debonair, debonaire, decent, delicate, distingue, Douce, eggshell, exquisite, fair, genteel, gentle, gracious, kid glove, kind, mannerly, mild, obliging, parliamentary, polite, suave, sweet-natured, tender, ticklish, tickly, touchy, trickish, tricky, urbane, well disposed), kibar (aristocratic, aristocratical, attentive, blancmange, bland, chivalrous, civil, civilized, courteous, courtly, distingue, Douce, elegant, exquisite, fashionable, gallant, genteel, gentle, kid glove, mild, nice, parliamentary, polite, refined, sharp, urbane, well born, well disposed, well mannered), gösterişli (artsy, Arty, arty-crafty, baronial, bombastic, chichi, dashing, declamatory, dressy, flamboyant, flash, flashily, flashy, flatulent, Flossy, garish, gingerbread, glossy, meretricious, Nobby, ostentatious, posh, showy, sleek, smart, spectacular, splendent, sporty, swanky, swish, thoroughbred, viewy), cilalı (finished, glazed), boyanmış (colored, coloured, painted). (various references)

Ukrainian

відшліфований, вишуканий (accomplished, ambitious, becoming, chic, choice, courtly, dainty, delicate, distinguished, dressmaker, exquisite, fine, foppish, kid glove, minion, nice, nutty, polite, precious, quaint, recherche, trim, way up), блискучий (brilliant, coruscating, crackajack, crackerjack, crackling, glossy, incandescent, lambent, luminous, lustrous, nitid, oriental, quicksilver, radiant, resplendent, sensational, shining, showy, signal, sparkling, splendent, splendid), полірований. (various references)

Vietnamese 

thanh nhã (delicate, graceful, smart), tao nhã (decently, refined), bóng (lustrous, shade, shadow, shiny, silhouette). (various references)

tam. (various references)

compta, condita, conditae, condite, conditorum, conditum, conditus, levana, leve, levem, levi, levia, leviora, leviores, levis, levius, leviusque, polita, politis, polito, politorum, teres. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words ending with "polished": depolished, repolished, unpolished. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Polished" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Pogliahi, Pollesley, Polsham, Polshek. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: depolish.

-1 letter: despoil, diploes, dipoles, spoiled.

-2 letters: dholes, diploe, dipole, dispel, ephods, helios, hoised, holies, isohel, lisped, oldies, oldish, pilose, pished, poised, poleis, polies, polish, shield, siloed, sliped, sloped, soiled, spiled.

-3 letters: deils, delis, dhole, diols, dipso, doles, dopes, eidos, ephod, heils, helio, helos, helps, hides, hoise, holds, holed, holes, hoped, hopes, hosed, hosel, idles.

+2 letters: depolished, depolishes, diplophase, discophile, haploidies, hexaploids, pedophiles, repolished, shoplifted, sphenoidal, spheroidal, unpolished.

+3 letters: acidophiles, audiophiles, copublished, depolishing, diadelphous, diplophases, discophiles, drosophilae, hyperploids, indophenols, lyophilised, pedophilias, soldiership, spotlighted, videophiles.

+4 letters: accomplished, fellowshiped, haloperidols, heteroploids, hexaploidies, hospitalised, hospitalized, hyperboloids, overlordship, polyhedrosis, soldierships, spheroidally.

+5 letters: amphiploidies, diencephalons, dolphinfishes, fellowshipped, hyperploidies, landownership, overlordships, philodendrons, philosophised, philosophized, policyholders, psychologised, psychologized.