shine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: shīn
ipa: /ʃaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: shines
form: shining
form: shone
form: shone
form: shined
form: shined
Etymology: From Middle English shinen, schinen (preterite schon, past participle schinen), from Old English sċīnan (“to shine, flash; be resplendent”; preterite sċān, past participle sċinen), from Proto-West Germanic *skīnan (“to shine”), from Proto-Germanic *skīnaną (“to shine”).
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: ‘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.’
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 20, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
synonyms: beam
glow
radiate
coordinate_terms: beam
flash
glare
glimmer
shimmer
twinkle
glosses: To emit or reflect light so as to glow.
synonyms: word: gleam
word: glint
word: glisten
word: glitter
word: luster
word: reflect
word: coruscate
word: flash
word: gleam
word: glitter
word: glisten
word: luster
word: sheen
word: shimmer
word: shine
word: sparkle
glosses: To reflect light.
examples: text: My nephew tried other sports before deciding on football, which he shone at right away, quickly becoming the star of his school team.
text: “[…] 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.”
ref: 1867, Frederick William Robinson, No Man's Friend, Harper & Brothers, page 91:
text: 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.
ref: 2011 January 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 0 - 0 Man Utd”, in BBC:
text: I can take the heat, baby, best believe
That's the moment I shine
ref: 2023 May 25, Dua Lipa, Caroline Ailin, Andrew Wyatt, Mark Ronson, “Dance the Night”, in Barbie the Album, performed by Dua Lipa:
synonyms: word: excel
word: rule
word: bang
word: devour
word: eat
word: eat and leave no crumbs
word: excel
word: go hard
word: kick
word: kick ass
word: rock
word: rule
word: shine
word: slap
word: slay
glosses: To distinguish oneself; to excel.
examples: text: So proud she shyned in her Princely state.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 10:
text: Once brightest shined this child of heat and air.
ref: 1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify the page)”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin; London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC:
glosses: To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.
examples: text: Few are qualified to shine in company; but it in most men's power to be agreeable.
ref: c. 1713, Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects:
glosses: To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers.
glosses: To be immediately apparent.
examples: text: I shone my light into the darkness to see what was making the noise.
text: 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.
ref: 2007, David Lynn Goleman, Legend: An Event Group Thriller, St. Martin’s Press, published 2008, →ISBN, page 318:
glosses: To create light with (a flashlight, lamp, torch, or similar).
examples: text: in hunting, to shine the eyes of a deer at night by throwing a light on them
text: He [God] doth not rain wealth, nor shine honour and virtues, upon men equally.
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: belight
word: shed light on
word: alight
word: belight
word: beshine
word: bright
word: enlighten
word: fire
word: illume
word: illuminate
word: illumine
word: illustrate
word: irradiate
word: light
word: lighten
word: light up
word: luster
word: lustrate
word: shed light on
glosses: To cause to shine, as a light or by reflected light.
Synonyms: word: beam
word: beshine
word: gleam
word: glow
word: illuminate
word: illumine
word: light up
word: shine
Hypernyms: word: emit
word: irradiate
word: radiate
Hyponyms: word: outglow
word: outshine
word: glare
word: blink
word: flash
word: flicker
word: glimmer
word: shimmer
word: twinkle
word: fulgurate
word: scintillate
Derived terms: beshine
fix the roof while the sun is shining
sea to shining sea
knight in shining armor
knight in shining armour
outshine
rise and shine
shine a light on
shine down on
shine down upon
shine light on
shine off
shine on
shiner
shine through
shine up
shining firmoss
shining ones
shining tubeshoulder
where the sun doesn't shine
where the sun don't shine