Polished vs Civil - What's the difference?
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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)
(uncomparable) Having to do with people and government office as opposed to the military or religion.
(comparable) Behaving in a reasonable or polite manner.
As adjectives the difference between polished and civil
is that polished is made smooth or shiny by polishing while civil is having to do with people and government office as opposed to the military or religion.As a verb polished
is past tense of polish.polished
English
Adjective
(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.
Derived terms
* impolished * perpolished * polishedly * polishedness * unpolished * well-polishedVerb
(head)Anagrams
*civil
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- She went into civil service because she wanted to help the people .
- It was very civil of him to stop the argument