shine
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Etymology 1Edit
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-Germanic *skīnaną (“to shine”). Cognate with West Frisian skine, skyne, Low German schienen, Dutch schijnen, German scheinen, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål skinne, Norwegian Nynorsk skina, skine and Swedish skina.
VerbEdit
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 Feb, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 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[1]:
- ‘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.
- 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[2]:
- 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.
- 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:
- (intransitive, copulative) To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book I, canto IV, stanza 10:
- So proud she shyned in her Princely state.
- 1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify |book=1 to 3)”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. In Three Books, Dublin; London: Reprinted for A. Dodd, OCLC 1033416756:
- 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.
- c. 1713, Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects
- (intransitive, copulative) To be immediately apparent.
- (transitive) To create light with (a flashlight, lamp, torch, or similar).
- 2007, David Lynn Goleman, Legend: An Event Group Thriller, St. Martin’s Press (2008), →ISBN, page 318:
- As Jenks shined the large spotlight on the water, he saw a few bubbles and four long wakes leading away from an expanding circle of blood.
- I shone my light into the darkness to see what was making the noise.
- 2007, David Lynn Goleman, Legend: An Event Group Thriller, St. Martin’s Press (2008), →ISBN, page 318:
- (transitive) To cause to shine, as a light.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature
- He [God] doth not rain wealth, nor shine honour and virtues, upon men equally.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature
- (US, transitive) To make bright; to cause to shine by reflected light.
- in hunting, to shine the eyes of a deer at night by throwing a light on them
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Bartlett to this entry?)
SynonymsEdit
- (to emit light): beam, glow, radiate
- (to reflect light): gleam, glint, glisten, glitter, reflect
- (to distinguish oneself): excel
- (to make smooth and shiny by rubbing): wax, buff, polish, furbish, burnish
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NounEdit
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 223202227:
- 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
- 1685, John Dryden, Sylvae
- (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.
SynonymsEdit
- (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
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Etymology 2Edit
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, causitive of *skīnaną (“to shine”).
VerbEdit
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.
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AdjectiveEdit
shine
- Lenited form of sine.
NounEdit
shine
- Lenited form of sine.
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RomanizationEdit
shine
Middle EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old English sċīnan.
VerbEdit
shine
- Alternative form of schinen
Etymology 2Edit
From Old English sċinu.
NounEdit
shine
- Alternative form of shyn