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Polished vs Dressed - What's the difference?

polished | dressed |

As verbs the difference between polished and dressed

is that polished is (polish) while dressed is (dress).

As an adjective polished

is made smooth or shiny by polishing.

polished

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Made smooth or shiny by polishing.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword 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,
  • Refined, elegant.
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    • 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-polished

    Verb

    (head)
  • (polish)

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    dressed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (dress)
  • * 1883:
    • ...he was deadly pale, and the blood-stained bandage round his head told that he had recently been wounded, and still more recently dressed .
  • (New Orleans) Having a sandwich prepared with several fixings, typically lettuce, tomato, and mayonnaise.

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