Usually means: Improve, refine, or enhance appearance.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word POLISH:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. Polish, polish, the Polish, the polish: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Polish, polish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Polish, polish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. polish: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Polish, polish: Vocabulary.com
  6. Polish, polish: Wordnik
  7. Polish, polish: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Polish, polish: Wiktionary
  9. polish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Polish, polish: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. polish: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Polish, polish: Dictionary.com
  13. polish (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. polish: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Polish (chicken), Polish (language), Polish (screenwriting), Polish: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Polish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. polish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. polish: Rhymezone
  19. polish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. polish: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Polish: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. polish: Free Dictionary
  23. polish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Polish: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. polish: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. polish: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Polish (language), polish: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. polish: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. polish: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. polish, polish, Polish: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Fastener Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See polished as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Polish)

adjective:  Of, from or native to Poland, or relating to the Polish language.
noun:  The language spoken in Poland.
noun:  A breed of chickens with a large crest of feathers.
noun:  A substance used to polish.
noun:  Cleanliness; smoothness, shininess.
noun:  Refinement; cleanliness in performance or presentation.
verb:  (transitive) To shine; to make a surface very smooth or shiny by rubbing, cleaning, or grinding.
verb:  (transitive) To refine; remove imperfections from.
verb:  (transitive) To apply shoe polish to shoes.
verb:  (intransitive) To become smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss; to take a smooth and glossy surface.
verb:  (transitive) To refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite.

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