polishing

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun polishing has 1 sense

polishing(n = noun.act) shining - the work of making something smooth and shiny by rubbing or waxing it; "the shining of shoes provided a meager living"; "every Sunday he gave his car a good polishing"

is a kind of work

has particulars: shoeshine

Derived form verb polish₁

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CIDE DICTIONARY

polishing, a. & n.

a. & n. from Polish. [1913 Webster]

Polishing iron, an iron burnisher; esp., a small smoothing iron used in laundries. -- Polishing slate. (a) A gray or yellow slate, found in Bohemia and Auvergne, and used for polishing glass, marble, and metals. (b) A kind of hone or whetstone; hone slate. -- Polishing snake, a tool used in cleaning lithographic stones. -- Polishing wheel, a wheel or disk coated with, or composed of, abrading material, for polishing a surface.