Polish (BrE: /ˈpoʊlɪʃ/ or AmE: /ˈpoʊlɪʃ/) may refer to:
- Anything from or related to Poland, a country in europe.
- Polish language
- Poles, people from Poland
- Polish (chicken)
- Polish cuisine
- Polish space, in mathematics
Polish ( /ˈpɒlɪʃ/) may refer to:
- Polishing, the process of creating a smooth and shiny surface by rubbing or chemical action
- Nail polish
- Shoe polish
Famous quotes containing the word polish:
“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 (1889–1963)
“It is the art of mankind to polish the world, and every one who works is scrubbing in some part.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.”
—Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)