burnish

vt. 擦亮, 打磨, 磨光 vi. 磨光发亮 n. 光辉, 光泽

发音

UK /ˈbɜːnɪʃ/
其它
US /ˈbɝnɪʃ/

词形变化

burnishes 复数 burnishes 三单 burnishing 现在分词 burnished 过去式 burnished 过去分词 burnisht 过去式 burnishest burnishedst 过去式 burnisheth 三单 burnished 复数 burnisht 复数 burnisht 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A shine of something which has been polished; a lustre, a polish.

    可数 不可数
  2. 2.

    A shiny layer applied to a surface or other thing.

    可数 不可数
  3. 3.

    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.

    不可数 可数

    With a good burnish, the old table should fetch a higher price.

v.
  1. 1.

    To make (something, such as a surface) bright, shiny, and smooth by, or (by extension) as if by, rubbing; to polish, to shine.

    打磨

    磨光

    抛光

    及物

    In pottery, a stone is sometimes used to burnish a pot before firing, giving it a smooth, shiny look.

  2. 2.

    Of a stag: to remove the velvet (“skin and fine fur”) from (its antlers) by rubbing them against something; to velvet.

    及物
  3. 3.

    To make (someone or something) appear positive and highly respected.

    打磨

    比喻 及物
  4. 4.

    To become bright, glossy, and smooth; to brighten, to gleam, to shine forth.

    不及物
  5. 1.

    Of a person's body: to grow large or stout; to fatten, to fill out.

  6. 2.

    Of a thing: to increase in size; to expand, to spread out, to swell.

    引申义

词汇关系

名词

同义词 3

polish gloss glossiness

上位词 7

shine radiance effulgence radiancy refulgence refulgency smoothness

下位词 2

glaze French polish
动词

同义词 2

buff furbish

上位词 4

shine smooth polish smoothen

词源

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). Unrelated to burn. The noun is derived from the verb.

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