shine
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English shinen, schinen (preterite schon, past participle schinen), from Old English scīnan (“to shine, flash; be resplendent”; preterite scān, past participle scinen), from Proto-West Germanic *skīnan (“to shine”), from Proto-Germanic *skīnaną (“to shine”).
Verb edit
shine (third-person singular simple present shines, present participle shining, simple past and past participle shone or shined)
- (intransitive, copulative) To emit or reflect light so as to glow.
- 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 194:
- The water shone pacifically; the sky, without a speck, was a benign immensity of unstained light; the very mist on the Essex marshes was like a gauzy and radiant fabric, hung from the wooded rises inland, and draping the low shores in diaphanous folds.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 20, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- ‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’
- (intransitive, copulative) To reflect light.
- (intransitive, copulative) To distinguish oneself; to excel.
- My nephew tried other sports before deciding on football, which he shone at right away, quickly becoming the star of his school team.
- 1867, Frederick William Robinson, No Man's Friend, Harper & Brothers, page 91:
- “ […] I was grateful to you for giving him a year’s schooling—where he shined at it—and for putting him as a clerk in your counting-house, where he shined still more.”
- 2011 January 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 0 - 0 Man Utd”, in BBC[1]:
- It prompted an exchange of substitutions as Jermain Defoe replaced Palacios and Javier Hernandez came on for Berbatov, who had failed to shine against his former club.
- (intransitive, copulative) To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 10:
- So proud she shyned in her Princely state.
- 1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify the page)”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin, London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC:
- Once brightest shined this child of heat and air.
- (intransitive, copulative) To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers.
- c. 1713, Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects:
- Few are qualified to shine in company; but it in most men's power to be agreeable.
- (intransitive, copulative) To be immediately apparent.
- (transitive) To create light with (a flashlight, lamp, torch, or similar).
- I shone my light into the darkness to see what was making the noise.
- (transitive) To cause to shine, as a light or by reflected light.
- in hunting, to shine the eyes of a deer at night by throwing a light on them
- 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
- He [God] doth not rain wealth, nor shine honour and virtues, upon men equally.
Synonyms edit
- (to emit light): beam, glow, radiate
- (to reflect light): gleam, glint, glisten, glitter, luster, reflect
- (to distinguish oneself): excel
- (to make smooth and shiny by rubbing): wax, buff, polish, furbish, burnish
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Translations edit
to emit light
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to reflect light
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to distinguish oneself
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to be immediately apparent
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ergative: to create light with a flashlight, lamp, torch, etc.
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Noun edit
shine (countable and uncountable, plural shines)
- Brightness from a source of light.
- 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:
- the distant shine of the celestial city
- Brightness from reflected light.
- Excellence in quality or appearance; splendour.
- Shoeshine.
- Sunshine.
- 1685, John Dryden, Sylvae:
- be fair or foul, or rain or shine
- (slang) Moonshine; illicitly brewed alcoholic drink.
- (cricket) The amount of shininess on a cricket ball, or on each side of the ball.
- (slang) A liking for a person; a fancy.
- She's certainly taken a shine to you.
- (archaic, slang) A caper; an antic; a row.
Synonyms edit
- (brightness from a source of light): effulgence, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, refulgency
- (brightness from reflected light): luster
- (excellence in quality or appearance): brilliance, splendor
- (shoeshine): See shoeshine
- (sunshine): See sunshine
- (slang: moonshine): See moonshine
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
brightness from a source of light
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brightness from reflected light
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excellence in quality or appearance
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shoeshine — see shoeshine
sunshine — see sunshine
slang: moonshine — see moonshine
cricket: the amount of shininess on a cricket ball
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Etymology 2 edit
From the noun shine, or perhaps continuing Middle English schinen in its causative uses, from Old English scīn (“brightness, shine”), and also Middle English schenen, from Old English scǣnan (“to render brilliant, make shine”), from Proto-Germanic *skainijaną, causative of *skīnaną (“to shine”).
Verb edit
shine (third-person singular simple present shines, present participle shining, simple past and past participle shined)
- (transitive) To cause (something) to shine; put a shine on (something); polish (something).
- He shined my shoes until they were polished smooth and gleaming.
- (transitive, cricket) To polish a cricket ball using saliva and one’s clothing.
Synonyms edit
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to polish
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cricket: to polish a cricket ball
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Adjective edit
shine
- Lenited form of sine.
Noun edit
shine
- Lenited form of sine.
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shine
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Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
shine
- Alternative form of schyne (“shin”)
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
shine
- Alternative form of schinen