shine
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
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”).
Cognate with Dutch schijnen, German scheinen, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål skinne, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish skina, Faroese and Icelandic skína.
Inflected forms:
form: shines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shone
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shone
pos: verb
tags: past
form: shined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shined
pos: verb
tags: past
form: shines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To emit or reflect light so as to glow.
pos: verb
tags: copulative
intransitive
examples: 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.
‘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.’
gloss: To reflect light.
pos: verb
tags: copulative
intransitive
gloss: To distinguish oneself; to excel.
pos: verb
tags: copulative
intransitive
examples: My nephew tried other sports before deciding on football, which he shone at right away, quickly becoming the star of his school team.
“[…] 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.”
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.
I can take the heat, baby, best believe
That's the moment I shine
gloss: To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.
pos: verb
tags: copulative
intransitive
examples: So proud she shyned in her Princely state.
Once brightest shined this child of heat and air.
gloss: To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers.
pos: verb
tags: copulative
intransitive
examples: Few are qualified to shine in company; but it in most men's power to be agreeable.
gloss: To be immediately apparent.
pos: verb
tags: copulative
intransitive
gloss: To create light with (a flashlight, lamp, torch, or similar).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I shone my light into the darkness to see what was making the noise.
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.
gloss: To cause to shine, as a light or by reflected light.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: in hunting, to shine the eyes of a deer at night by throwing a light on them
He [God] doth not rain wealth, nor shine honour and virtues, upon men equally.
gloss: Brightness from a source of light.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the distant shine of the celestial city
gloss: Brightness from reflected light.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Excellence in quality or appearance; splendour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Shoeshine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Take a shine. You need it.
gloss: Sunshine (typically in contrast with rain).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: be fair or foul, or rain or shine
gloss: Moonshine; an illicitly brewed alcoholic drink.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: A black person.
pos: noun
tags: countable
derogatory
ethnic
offensive
slang
slur
uncountable
examples: "If you want your black head blown off, shine, you just make a move to stop us."
gloss: The amount of shininess on a cricket ball, or on each side of the ball.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A liking for a person; a fancy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: She's certainly taken a shine to you.
gloss: A caper; an antic; a row.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
slang
uncountable
Synonyms: beam
beshine
gleam
glow
illuminate
illumine
light up
shine
Antonyms: adumbrate
darken
obscure
overshadow
shade
shadow
Derived words: ashine
beshine
fix the roof while the sun is shining
sea to shining sea
intershine
knight in shining armor
knight in shining armour
outshine
overshine
reshine
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
backshine
foreshine
anti-shine powder
candleshine
come rain or shine
cookie-shine
coreshine
cut a shine
dewshine
earthshine
eyeshine
fireshine
get one's shine box
monkeyshine
rain or shine
ringshine
seashine
shine box
shineful
shineless
shine muscat
shininess
Shinola
shiny
spit shine
spitshine
starshine
sylvanshine
take a shine to
take the shine out of
through-shine
wondershine
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