Polish

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 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)

    ‘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)