polisher

English

Etymology

polish +‎ -er

Noun

polisher (plural polishers)

1. A person who makes something smooth or shiny.
2. A tool that makes something smooth or shiny.
3. A machine that makes something smooth or shiny.

   Where do you keep the floor-polisher?

   Synonym: polishing machine

4. A person who refines something.

   a polisher of stories

Derived terms

• apple-polisher
• knob polisher
• nail-polisher
• shoe-polisher

Translations

person who makes something smooth and shiny

• Catalan: polidor m
• Finnish: kiillottaja
• German: Polierer m, Schleifer (de) m

tool

• Catalan: polidora f
• Finnish: kiillotin
• Galician: puidoiro m
• Hungarian: csiszoló (hu), fényező (hu), fényesítő (hu), polírozó

machine

• Catalan: polidora f
• Finnish: kiillotin, kiillotuskone
• German: Poliermaschine (de) f
• Hungarian: csiszológép (hu), csiszoló (hu)
• Portuguese: polidora f
• Spanish: pulidora (es) f

person who refines

• Catalan: polidor m
• Finnish: viimeistelijä

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Translations to be checked

• Norman: ^{(please verify)} polisseux m (Jersey)

Anagrams

• repolish