The difference between Bone and Polish

When used as nouns, bone means a composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates, whereas polish means a substance used to polish.

When used as verbs, bone means to prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from, whereas polish means to shine.

Bone is also adjective with the meaning: of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

check bellow for the other definitions of Bone and Polish

  1. Bone as a noun (uncountable):

    A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.

  2. Bone as a noun (countable):

    Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.

  3. Bone as a noun:

    A bone of a fish; a fishbone.

  4. Bone as a noun:

    A bonefish

  5. Bone as a noun:

    One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.

  6. Bone as a noun:

    One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.

  7. Bone as a noun:

    Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.

  8. Bone as a noun (figurative):

    The framework of anything.

  9. Bone as a noun:

    An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

    Examples:

    "color paneE4D4BA"

  10. Bone as a noun (US, informal):

    A dollar.

  11. Bone as a noun (American football, informal):

    The wishbone formation.

  12. Bone as a noun (slang):

    An erect penis; a boner.

  13. Bone as a noun (slang, mostly, plural):

    A domino or dice.

  1. Bone as an adjective:

    Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

  1. Bone as a verb:

    To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.

  2. Bone as a verb:

    To fertilize with bone.

  3. Bone as a verb:

    To put whalebone into.

    Examples:

    "to bone stays"

    "rfquotek Ash"

  4. Bone as a verb (civil engineering):

    To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.

    Examples:

    "[[boning rod]]"

  5. Bone as a verb (vulgar, slang, usually of a man):

    To have sexual intercourse with.

  6. Bone as a verb (Australia, dated, in [[Aboriginal]] culture):

    To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.

  7. Bone as a verb (usually with "up"):

    To study.

    Examples:

    "[[bone up]]"

  8. Bone as a verb:

    To polish boots to a shiny finish.

  1. Bone as a verb (transitive, slang):

    To apprehend, steal.

  1. Bone as a verb (carpentry, masonry, surveying):

    To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Knight"

  1. Bone as a noun (slang):

  1. Polish as a noun:

    A substance used to polish.

    Examples:

    "A good silver polish will remove tarnish easily."

  2. Polish as a noun:

    Cleanliness; smoothness, shininess.

    Examples:

    "The floor was waxed to a high polish."

  3. Polish as a noun:

    Refinement; cleanliness in performance or presentation.

    Examples:

    "The lecturer showed a lot of polish at his last talk."

  1. Polish as a verb (transitive):

    To shine; to make a surface very smooth or shiny by rubbing, cleaning, or grinding.

    Examples:

    "He polished up the chrome until it gleamed."

  2. Polish as a verb (transitive):

    To refine; remove imperfections from.

    Examples:

    "The band has polished its performance since the last concert."

  3. Polish as a verb (transitive):

    To apply shoe polish to shoes.

  4. Polish as a verb (intransitive):

    To become smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss; to take a smooth and glossy surface.

    Examples:

    "Steel polishes well."

    "rfquotek Francis Bacon"

  5. Polish as a verb (transitive):

    To refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Milton"

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