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shine

verb
/ʃaɪn/CA

Etymology

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”).

  1. inherited from *skainijaną✻
  2. inherited from scǣnan — “to render brilliant, make shine”
  3. inherited from schenen
  4. derived from scīn — “brightness, shine”
  5. derived from schinen

Definitions

  1. To emit or reflect light so as to glow.

    • ‘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.’

  2. To reflect light.

  3. To distinguish oneself

    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.
    • “[…] 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.
  4. ›+ 19 more definitions

    1. To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.

      • So proud she shyned in her Princely state.
      • Once brightest shined this child of heat and air.

    2. To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished

      To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers.

      • Few are qualified to shine in company; but it in most men's power to be agreeable.

    3. To be immediately apparent.

    4. To create light with (a flashlight, lamp, torch, or similar).

      • 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.

    5. 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
      • He [God] doth not rain wealth, nor shine honour and virtues, upon men equally.

    6. Brightness from a source of light.

      • the distant shine of the celestial city

    7. Brightness from reflected light.

    8. Excellence in quality or appearance

      Excellence in quality or appearance; splendour.

    9. Shoeshine.

      • Take a shine. You need it.

    10. Sunshine (typically in contrast with rain).

      • be fair or foul, or rain or shine

    11. Moonshine

      Moonshine; an illicitly brewed alcoholic drink.

    12. A black person.

      • "If you want your black head blown off, shine, you just make a move to stop us."

    13. The amount of shininess on a cricket ball, or on each side of the ball.

    14. A liking for a person

      A liking for a person; a fancy.

      • She's certainly taken a shine to you.

    15. A caper

      A caper; an antic; a row.

    16. To cause (something) to be smooth and shiny by rubbing

      To cause (something) to be smooth and shiny by rubbing; put a shine on (something); polish (something).

      • He shined my shoes until they were polished smooth and gleaming.

    17. To polish a cricket ball using saliva and one’s clothing.

    18. A surname.

    19. Acronym of single high-impulse noise event.

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Derived

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 · +17 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at shine. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01shine02distinguish03clearly04clear05luminous06glowing07glows08glow

A definitional loop anchored at shine. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at shine

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA