Polish vs Mend - What's the difference?
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Of, from or native to Poland, or relating to the Polish language.
A place, as in clothing, which has been repaired by mending.
The act of repairing.
To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put in shape or order again; to re-create; as, to mend a garment or a machine.
To alter for the better; to set right; to reform; hence, to quicken; as, to mend one's manners or pace.
* Sir W. Temple
To help, to advance, to further; to add to.
* Mortimer
* Shakespeare
To grow better; to advance to a better state; to become improved.
Polish is a related term of mend.
As verbs the difference between polish and mend
is that polish is to shine; to make a surface very smooth or shiny by rubbing, cleaning, or grinding while mend is to feed.As a noun polish
is a substance used to polish.polish
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(wikipedia Polish)Alternative forms
* (abbreviation):Adjective
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* Polish notation * reverse Polish notationSee also
* Pole * * (pl) * Language listExternal links
*Polish - English Dictionary]: from [http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/ Webster's Dictionary- the Rosetta Edition. * English heteronyms
mend
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Noun
(en noun)- My trousers have a big rip in them and need a mend .
Derived terms
* on the mendVerb
(en verb)- My trousers have a big rip in them and need mending .
- When your car breaks down, you can take it to the garage to have it mended .
- Her stutter was mended by a speech therapist.
- My broken heart was mended .
- The best service they could do the state was to mend the lives of the persons who composed it.
- Though in some lands the grass is but short, yet it mends garden herbs and fruit.
- You mend the jewel by wearing it.