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:
“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)
“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)
“‘Then I polish all the silver, which a supper-table lacquers;
Then I write the pretty mottoes which you find inside the
crackers’—”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)