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blush | polish |

In intransitive terms the difference between blush and polish

is that blush is to have a warm and delicate colour, like some roses and other flowers while polish is to become smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss; to take a smooth and glossy surface.

In transitive terms the difference between blush and polish

is that blush is to express or make known by blushing while polish is to refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite.

As an adjective Polish is

of, from or native to Poland, or relating to the Polish language.

As a proper noun Polish is

the language spoken in Poland.

blush

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) blyscan . Cognate with Old Norse .

Noun

(es)
  • An act of blushing.
  • (uncountable) A sort of makeup, frequently a powder, used to redden the cheeks. Confer rouge.
  • A color between pink and cream.
    • Derived terms
    * blush is off the rose * at first blush

    Verb

    (es)
  • To redden in the face from shame, excitement or embarrassment.
  • * Milton
    • To the nuptial bower / I led her blushing like the morn.
  • * 1912 , Stratemeyer Syndicate, Baseball Joe on the School Nine Chapter 1
    • But Tommy was bashful, and the attention he had thus drawn upon himself made him blush . He was a timid lad and he shrank away now, evidently fearing Shell.
  • To become red.
  • * Shakespeare
    • The sun of heaven, methought, was loth to set, / But stayed, and made the western welkin blush .
  • To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate.
  • * Shakespeare
    • To blush and beautify the cheek again.
  • To express or make known by blushing.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I'll blush you thanks.
  • To have a warm and delicate colour, like some roses and other flowers.
  • * T. Gray
    • Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.
    Synonyms
    * flushing * reddening

    Related terms

    * erythrophobia (fear of blushing)

    Etymology 2

    1486 Dame Julia Barnes. The Book of St Albans.

    Noun

    (es)
  • The collective noun for a group of boys.
    • A blush of boys.
    Usage notes
    This is probably a fanciful expression and is not in common use.
    References
    * Noun sense: 1986 Oxford Reference Dictionary: Appendix

    Anagrams

    * ----

    polish

    English

    (wikipedia Polish)

    Alternative forms

    * (abbreviation):

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of, from or native to Poland, or relating to the Polish language.

    • Derived terms

    * Polish notation * reverse Polish notation

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • The language spoken in Poland.

    • See also

    * Pole * * (pl) * Language list

    External links

    * Polish - English Dictionary]: from [http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/ Webster's Dictionary - the Rosetta Edition. * English heteronyms