Polished

Definition

polish /'pɒlÇʃ/ v ၁။ ~ sth (up) (with sth) (အေရာင္တင္ေဆး ျဖင့္) ေျပာင္လက္ေအာင္ တိုက္ခြၽတ္သည္။ polish shoes with a brush and a cloth ❍ polish the floor ❍ polish up some old brass candlesticks. ၂။ ~ sth (up) ျပဳျပင္မြမ္းမံသည္။ polish (up) a speech/an article. n ၁။ [U, C] အေရာင္တင္ေဆး။ ပါလစ္။ wax polish ❍ furniture/floor/shoe polish ❍ a tin of metal polish ❍ apply polish to sth. See also FRENCH POLISH, NAIL VARNISH ၂။ [sing] အေရာင္တင္ထားေသာ မ်က္ႏွာျပင္။ a table-top with a good polish. ၃။ [sing] တိုက္ခြၽတ္ အေရာင္တင္ျခင္း။ give the floor a thorough polish. ၄။ [U] ( approv ) ရည္မြန္မႈ။ ေျပာင္ေျမာက္မႈ။ He's still young and lacks polish and sophistication. ❍ The choir sang with clarity, precision and polish. ❏ polished adj ၁။ အေရာင္တင္ထားေသာ။ polished wood. ၂။ ရည္မြန္ေသာ။ ေျပာင္ေျမာက္ေသာ။ polished manners ❍ a polished style/performance. ❏ polisher n အေရာင္တင္စက္။ a floor polisher. ❏ polish sth off [ PHRV ] ( infml ) အျပတ္ရွင္းသည္။ polish off a big plateful of stew (ie eat it all) ❍ polish off a bit of work. ❏ polish sth up [ PHRV ] မြမ္းမံသည္။ အေရာင္တင္သည္။ The country needs to polish up its image abroad.

Examples

1. They spend most of their time polishing shoes.
2. He’d spent the summer polishing his flying skills.