The difference between Class and Polish

When used as nouns, class means a group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes, whereas polish means a substance used to polish.

When used as verbs, class means to assign to a class, whereas polish means to shine.

Class is also adjective with the meaning: great.

check bellow for the other definitions of Class and Polish

  1. Class as a noun (countable):

    A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.

    Examples:

    "The new Ford Fiesta is set to be best in the 'small family' class."

    "That is one class-A heifer you got there, sonny."

    "Often used to imply membership of a large class."

    "This word has a whole class of metaphoric extensions."

  2. Class as a noun (sociology, countable):

    A social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc. In Britain, society is commonly split into three main classes; upper class, middle class and working class.

  3. Class as a noun (uncountable):

    The division of society into classes.

    Examples:

    "Jane Austen's works deal with class in 18th-century England."

  4. Class as a noun (uncountable):

    Admirable behavior; elegance.

    Examples:

    "Apologizing for losing your temper, even though you were badly provoked, showed real class."

  5. Class as a noun (education, countable, and, uncountable):

    A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.

    Examples:

    "The class was noisy, but the teacher was able to get their attention with a story."

  6. Class as a noun:

    A series of classes covering a single subject.

    Examples:

    "I took the cooking class for enjoyment, but I also learned a lot."

  7. Class as a noun (countable):

    A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.

    Examples:

    "The class of 1982 was particularly noteworthy."

  8. Class as a noun (countable):

    A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.

    Examples:

    "I used to fly business class, but now my company can only afford economy."

  9. Class as a noun (taxonomy, countable):

    A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.

    Examples:

    "Magnolias belong to the class Magnoliopsida."

  10. Class as a noun:

    Best of its kind.

    Examples:

    "It is the class of Italian bottled waters."

  11. Class as a noun (set theory):

    A collection of sets definable by a shared property.

    Examples:

    "The class of all sets is not a set."

    "Every set is a class, but classes are not generally sets. A class that is not a set is called a proper class."

  12. Class as a noun (military):

    A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft.

  13. Class as a noun (object-oriented, countable):

    A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set.

    Examples:

    "an abstract base class'"

  14. Class as a noun:

    One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.

  1. Class as a verb (transitive):

    To assign to a class; to classify.

    Examples:

    "I would class this with most of the other mediocre works of the period."

  2. Class as a verb (intransitive):

    To be grouped or classed.

  3. Class as a verb (transitive):

    To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.

  1. Class as an adjective (Irish, British, slang):

    great; fabulous

  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."

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  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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