different between broadcast vs shine

English

Etymology

broad +? cast.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b???dk??st/, /-kæst/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b??dkæst/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /?b??dkæst/
• (US)
• (California)
• Hyphenation: broad?cast

Adjective

broadcast (comparative more broadcast, superlative most broadcast)

2. Cast or scattered widely in all directions; cast abroad.
3. Communicated, signalled, or transmitted through radio waves or electronic means.
4. Relating to transmissions of messages or signals through radio waves or electronic means.

Synonyms

• widespread

Translations

Adverb

broadcast (comparative more broadcast, superlative most broadcast)

1. Widely in all directions; abroad.
2. (agriculture, horticulture, archaic) By having its seeds sown over a wide area.

Noun

broadcast (plural broadcasts)

1. A transmission of a radio or television programme intended to be received by anyone with a receiver.
   • 1961 May 9, Newton Minow, "Television and the Public Interest":

     No one knows how long it will be until a broadcast from a studio in New York will be viewed in India as well as in Indiana, will be seen in the Congo as it is seen in Chicago. But as surely as we are meeting here today, that day will come; and once again our world will shrink.
2. A programme (bulletin, documentary, show, etc.) so transmitted.

   Antonym: narrowcast
3. (agriculture, horticulture, archaic) The act of scattering seed; a crop grown from such seed.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

broadcast (third-person singular simple present broadcasts, present participle broadcasting, simple past and past participle broadcast or broadcasted)

1. (transitive) To transmit a message or signal through radio waves or electronic means.

   Synonyms: air, transmit

   Antonym: narrowcast
2. (transitive) To transmit a message over a wide area; specifically, to send an email in a single transmission to a (typically large) number of people.
3. (intransitive) To appear as a performer, presenter, or speaker in a broadcast programme.
4. (transitive, agriculture, horticulture, archaic) To sow seeds over a wide area.

Usage notes

The past of broadcast is either broadcast or broadcasted. Both are in use, but broadcast is much more common, especially in the simple past but also as past participle. As of 2019, Google Books search gives 326,000 results for "was broadcast", vs. 12,900 for "was broadcasted".

Derived terms

Translations

Hypernyms

• cast

References

• broadcast in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• broadcast in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Further reading

• broadcast (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• bad actors

English

Pronunciation

• (US, UK) enPR: sh?n, IPA^(key): /?a?n/, /?a??n/
• Rhymes: -a?n

Etymology 1

From Middle English shinen, schinen (preterite schon, past participle schinen), from Old English sc?nan (“to shine, flash; be resplendent”; preterite sc?n, past participle scinen), from Proto-Germanic *sk?nan? (“to shine”).

Verb

shine (third-person singular simple present shines, present participle shining, simple past and past participle shone or shined)

1. (intransitive, copulative) To emit or reflect light so as to glow.
2. (intransitive, copulative) To reflect light.
3. (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.”

   • 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. (intransitive, copulative) To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.
5. (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.

6. (intransitive, copulative) To be immediately apparent.
7. (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.

8. (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.

9. (US, transitive) To make bright; to cause to shine by reflected light.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Bartlett to this entry?)

Synonyms

• (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

Coordinate terms

• (to emit light): beam, flash, glare, glimmer, shimmer, twinkle

Derived terms

• beshine
• rise and shine
• take a shine to

Translations

Noun

shine (countable and uncountable, plural shines)

1. Brightness from a source of light.

   • the distant shine of the celestial city

2. Brightness from reflected light.
3. Excellence in quality or appearance; splendour.
4. Shoeshine.
5. Sunshine.
   • 1685, John Dryden, Sylvae

     be fair or foul, or rain or shine

6. (slang) Moonshine; illicitly brewed alcoholic drink.
7. (cricket) The amount of shininess on a cricket ball, or on each side of the ball.
8. (slang) A liking for a person; a fancy.

   She's certainly taken a shine to you.

9. (archaic, slang) A caper; an antic; a row.

Synonyms

• (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

Translations

Etymology 2

From the noun shine, or perhaps continuing Middle English schinen in its causative uses, from Old English sc?n (“brightness, shine”), and also Middle English schenen, from Old English sc?nan (“to render brilliant, make shine”), from Proto-Germanic *skainijan?, causative of *sk?nan? (“to shine”).

Verb

shine (third-person singular simple present shines, present participle shining, simple past and past participle shined)

1. (transitive) To cause (something) to shine; put a shine on (something); polish (something).

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

2. (transitive, cricket) To polish a cricket ball using saliva and one’s clothing.

Synonyms

• (to polish): polish, smooth, smoothen

Translations

Anagrams

• Enshi, Heins, Hines, NIEHS, hsien

Irish

Adjective

shine

1. Lenited form of sine.

Noun

shine

1. Lenited form of sine.

Japanese

Romanization

shine

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English s??nan.

Verb

shine

1. Alternative form of schinen

Etymology 2

From Old English s?inu.

Noun

shine

1. Alternative form of shyn