Honed vs Polished - What's the difference?
honed | polished |
Made sharp.
Made more accurate or precise.
(hone)
Made smooth or shiny by polishing.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=Foreword Refined, elegant.
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(polish)
As adjectives the difference between honed and polished
is that honed is made sharp while polished is made smooth or shiny by polishing.As verbs the difference between honed and polished
is that honed is past tense of hone while polished is past tense of polish.honed
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*polished
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(en adjective)citation, passage=A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away,
- She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished , pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.
