burnish

Betekenis (Engels)

Verb

1. (transitive) To make (something, such as a surface) bright, shiny, and smooth by, or (by extension) as if by, rubbing; to polish, to shine.
2. (transitive) Of a stag: to remove the velvet (“skin and fine fur”) from (its antlers) by rubbing them against something; to velvet.
3. (figuratively, transitive) To make (someone or something) appear positive and highly respected.
4. (intransitive) To become bright, glossy, and smooth; to brighten, to gleam, to shine forth.

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A shine of something which has been polished; a lustre, a polish.
2. (countable, uncountable) A shiny layer applied to a surface or other thing.
3. (uncountable) The making of something bright, shiny, and smooth by, or (by extension) as if by, rubbing; (countable) an instance of this; a burnishing, a polishing, a shining.

Sinonieme

polish

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furbish

shine

gloss

brighten

buff

rub

scrub

buffing

abrade

gleam

glossiness

lustre

smooth

smoothen

varnish

wipe

glassing

glitter

glory

burnishing

grinding-in

grandeur

grinding

lacquer

ground finish

luxuriousness

brush

polishing

polish off

brilliance

rub up

sandpaper

scrape

scratch

blaze

sheen

anoint

polishing tool

dead-bright

sparkle

❇️

splendor

put a gloss on

wax

abrasive planing

politure

make bright

dress

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eclat

file

Vertalings

bruñir

brunir

brunire

polir

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polieren

parlatmak

polir

cilalamak

polir

pulir

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βερνίκι

poetsen

lucidare

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biriqandin

جلى

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈbɜːnɪʃ/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: burnishen

Verwante met Frans: brunir

Geërf van Middle English: barnishen

Geërf van Old English: bearn

In summary

The verb is derived from Middle English burnishen, burnysshen (“to polish, burnish; (figuratively) to brighten, give lustre to; to clean (something) until shiny; to decorate (with something shiny), adorn”) [and other forms], from burniss-, a stem of Old French burnir (compare, for example, the first-person present singular indicative form burnis), a variant of brunir (“to make clean and shiny, polish; to make brown”) (modern French brunir), from Frankish *brūnijan (“to polish, make resplendent”), from Proto-Germanic *brūnijaną (“to decorate; tan”), from Proto-Germanic *brūnaz (“brown”, adjective), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“brown”, adjective). Doublet of brown and brunneous; unrelated to burn.
The noun is derived from the verb.