Refine vs Polish - What's the difference?
refine | polish |
To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify
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, title= To purify from what is gross, coarse, vulgar, inelegant, low, and the like; to make elegant or excellent; to polish.
To become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter.
To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.
To affect nicety or subtlety in thought or language.
Of, from or native to Poland, or relating to the Polish language.
Polish is a synonym of refine.
As verbs the difference between refine and polish
is that refine is to reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify while polish is to shine; to make a surface very smooth or shiny by rubbing, cleaning, or grinding.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.As a noun polish is
a substance used to polish.refine
English
Verb
(refin)Yesterday’s fuel, passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.
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*Polish - English Dictionary]: from [http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/ Webster's Dictionary- the Rosetta Edition. * English heteronyms