(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.
Wipe
Definition:
(n.) The lapwing.
(v. t.) To rub with something soft for cleaning; to clean or dry by rubbing; as, to wipe the hands or face with a towel.
(v. t.) To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; -- usually followed by away, off or out. Also used figuratively.
(v. t.) To cheat; to defraud; to trick; -- usually followed by out.
(n.) Act of rubbing, esp. in order to clean.
(n.) A blow; a stroke; a hit; a swipe.
(n.) A gibe; a jeer; a severe sarcasm.
(n.) A handkerchief.
(n.) Stain; brand.
Example Sentences:
(1) More than £26bn was wiped off the value of Britain's top companieson Tuesday, according to FTSE Group.
(2) It’s a good principle: don’t complain to people on whom you’re relying – unless there’s no way they can wipe your steak on their bum or drop a bogey in your soup.
(3) He argues that whenever you have periods of crazy expansion of virtual credit, like today, you either have to have a safety valve of forgiveness, like in Mesopotamia where you wiped the tablets clean every seven years, or you have an outbreak of social violence so intense you rip society apart.
(4) Shelby Quast, of Equality Now, said the gathering could be a “tipping point” and act as a catalyst for change, so that girls in the US could finally be protected: “It’s the first time that members of the government are coming around the table to meet with civil society, survivors and members of the diaspora – this is the first step towards putting together a comprehensive action plan to tackling FGM.” Campaigners are calling for the government to look at practical ways that FGM could be wiped out in the United States – such as engaging with paediatricians and other doctors, immigration officers and visa offices.
(5) A method was developed for the preparation of a standard source to satisfy the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission requirement for calibration of wipe-assay procedures used in nuclear medicine laboratories.
(6) Thugs are distributing leaflets threatening to "wipe us out" and children in schools are being taught that the Rohingya are different.
(7) Each transducer head was wiped clean with a single alcohol wipe, allowed to dry, and then cultured.
(8) 'To returning forests we could reintroduce animals that have been wiped out across much or all of this land.'
(9) Earlier this month, Israeli warplanes struck targets near the capital, Damascus, reportedly wiping out Iranian missiles destined for Hezbollah.
(10) So our house is open to visitors, and you are always welcome.” A few weeks after we left, the Gregório river oveflowed, wiping out five villages, destroying four years worth of handicrafts and carpentry and leaving hundreds of people homeless.
(11) Nearly £5bn was wiped off the company's stock market value on Thursday after the supermarket juggernaut hit the wall during the peak selling season.
(12) Nor should we forget why the Conservatives were so eager to seize that chance: they saw the opportunity to wipe out the achievements of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, who demonstrated, over many years of hard graft, that the country’s economic management was safe in Labour’s hands.
(13) The cell debris from the surfaces of the separated incisors was either gently wiped off with soft facial tissues or chemically removed by treating with NaOH, NaOCl or trypsin.
(14) Hundreds of people, including a former politician seeking re-election, a paedophile and a doctor, have applied to have details about them wiped from Google's search index since the ruling last Tuesday .
(15) Coupled with the global decline in oil prices and a costly pipeline deal with Sudan that allows its northern neighbour to charge South Sudan a fixed rate of $25 a barrel, the bulk of government revenues – and the country’s sole source of foreign exchange – has been virtually wiped out.
(16) These "misdirected wiping responses" have been explained in terms of two alternative hypotheses of nerve regeneration: nerve respecification or selective reinnervation.
(17) It's daunting, but St Louis have the bats and thus the best chance of any team in the NL to wipe out LA, who, despite losing Matt Kemp for the season, can hit a little bit as well.
(18) Billions of pounds have been wiped off the value of global carmakers amid growing concerns that emissions tests may have been rigged across the industry.
(19) But an "intensified euro area crisis" would wipe out growth in Europe, plunging the economy into a deep recession.
(20) Wipe tests were performed on designated areas for two 1-wk periods approximately 6 mo apart.