(a.) Of or pertaining to Poland or its inhabitants.
(n.) The language of the Poles.
(v. t.) To make smooth and glossy, usually by friction; to burnish; to overspread with luster; as, to polish glass, marble, metals, etc.
(v. t.) Hence, to refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite; as, to polish life or manners.
(v. i.) To become smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss; to take a smooth and glossy surface; as, steel polishes well.
(n.) A smooth, glossy surface, usually produced by friction; a gloss or luster.
(n.) Anything used to produce a gloss.
(n.) Fig.: Refinement; elegance of manners.
Example Sentences:
(1) The usefulness of porous tarflen materials (tarflen--Polish name of teflon produced by Zakłady Azotowe in Tarnów, Poland) for this application was evaluated by comparing their properties with those of American porous teflon membranes used in membrane oxygenators.
(2) The accident on 10 April 2010, killed the president, first lady and dozens of senior officials, in the worst Polish air disaster since the second world war.
(3) Photograph: Polish Government Despite his clear-eyed approach to the looted artworks, Wächter maintains that his father was an unwilling cog in the Nazi killing machine, a position that has won him many critics.
(4) Since 1930 Dr. Rakowiecki has started as self-taught astronomy studies becoming soon one of seven most eminent Polish astronomers.
(5) There is a picture, drawn by Polish cartoonist Marek Raczkowski: a crowd of people demonstrating in the street, carrying aloft a big banner that simply reads "FUUUCK!''.
(6) This in turn meant frantic investment in German coal and lignite – 10 new plants are said to be opening – and a surge in Polish coal output.
(7) Romanians making Polish wages go down.” Then he adds: “The Romanian, he not the worst.
(8) Many ceramists advocate polishing, rather than glazing, to control the surface luster of metal ceramic restorations.
(9) The results were compared to controls and children with JRA in Polish populations (where amyloidosis is a frequent complication of JRA) as well as to American children with JRA (where amyloidosis in JRA has been observed only sporadically) and American control children.
(10) Below-zero temperatures crowned the top of the US from Idaho to Minnesota, where many roads still had an inch-thick plate of ice, polished smooth by traffic and impervious to ice-melting chemicals.
(11) Polish foreign affairs minister Radoslaw Sikorski has opposed the ships being handed over.
(12) Obama spoke on the phone with Merkel, the British prime minister, David Cameron , and the Polish president, Bronisław Komorowski.
(13) Russia is Europe's second largest market for food and drink and has been an important consumer of Polish pig meat and Dutch fruit and vegetables.
(14) This cross-sectional study was undertaken after the discovery of cobalt-related fibrosing alveolitis and bronchial asthma in diamond polishers occupationally exposed to cobalt.
(15) Polished rice samples harvested in 1985 were collected from 25 prefectures throughout Japan.
(16) She is very sophisticated, she is polished, and she can speak to the issues.
(17) The leakage of the dye that was observed in each of the groups might have been caused by the ineffectiveness of, or the ineffective use of, the nail polish or cyanoacrylate used to coat all but the apically sealed tips of the endodonticalled prepared teeth.
(18) Early corrosion phenomena required re-polishing every three months.
(19) The remaining incisor was carefully polished and served as an enamel surface.
(20) Cobalt-60, Polish-made BK-10,000 cobalt bombs, and Canadian-made Gammacell were placed in the irradiation chamber to provide irradiation.
Shellac
Definition:
(n.) See the Note under 2d Lac.
Example Sentences:
(1) The mad rush to reissue everything Elvis had ever recorded led to a worldwide shortage of the shellac needed for vinyl records, and Lust for Life was doomed by it.
(2) The antiseptic solutions were sodium chloride 10%, alcohol 75%, Cidex and Sterile pack fluid, whereas the dental materials were dental modelling wax, impression compound, shellac base plate and zinc-oxide eugenol paste.
(3) Side B is given a matte finish so it resembles a shellac 78rpm record.
(4) 850 gold), were processed for light microscopy (LM) in the conventional way, then covered with celloxin shellac and examined in the LM by using the upper illuminating source.
(5) 3 There was considerable inter-subject variation in plasma prednisolone levels after administration of shellac based enteric-coated tablets.
(6) Artificial "calculus", consisting of a mixture of shellac, umbra, pumice and plaster dissolved in ethanol, was painted on the root surfaces.
(7) Various shellac derivatives such as with succinic anhydride, phthalic anhydride, ethylenediamine and myristic acid were prepared.
(8) In place of conventional record blocks, shellac-based wax replicas of the existing dentures are used.
(9) After removal of the shellac from the surface of the sample by immersion in acetone, the sections were air-dried, coated with a copper layer in a vacuum evaporator and examined in a scanning electron microscope (SEM).
(10) Steve Albini with his Shellac bandmates, Todd Trainer and Bob Weston On that trip we established contacts with local promoters and arts organisations and audiences developed an appetite for our music and we have since sold quite a few records into the region.
(11) The training instrument consists of a shellac record base connected with string to an extraoral spring balance scale.
(12) I can personally vouch for two sites: the largely underrated Vouchercloud , which offers meagre but worthwhile discounts off meals and toasters, and Groupon, because it understands that most people are vain and want to shellac their nails for a song.
(13) Individual trays of plastic and shellac-bases which could be softened by heating, and a cold-curing tray material were then also examined: (1) for their distortion by slight loads upon the tray walls; (2) for their ability to retain their shape when stored, and (3) their distortion when temporarily warmed to body temperature.
(14) Where career professionals would not have been seen dead with a set of "falsies" a decade ago, these days the semi-permanent nails such as gel or Shellac are perfect for busy workers who don't have time to be tending to a chipped manicure every couple of days.
(15) Self-curing acrylic, thermoplastic acrylic and shellac were measured at fixed intervals with the aid of a measuring microscope.
(16) At the time he was doing what he continues to do today: playing in bands (such as Shellac ) and producing the music of other bands – although he prefers to call himself a recording engineer.
(17) The pathogenicity of virulent cyclic peptide toxins of the cyanobacterium, Microcystis aeruginosa, and the mushroom, Amanita phalloides, was prevented in mice by pretreatment with a variety of chemically unrelated agents including hydrocortisone, shellac, certain diazo and triazine dyes and cyclosporine.
(18) Shellac; Eudragit E and L, hydroxypropyl methylcellulose (HPMC) and HPMC-Eudragit E mixture were used as film-forming materials.
(19) The outer layer was a swellable membrane layer containing mainly polyvinyl acetate and purified shellac.
(20) Visio-Gem, cyanoacrylate, and shellac were the adhesives tested.