different between glim vs shine

English

Etymology

From Middle English glim, glimme (“radiance; shining brightness”), of uncertain further origin. Perhaps from Old English gleomu (“splendor”) and/or Old Norse *glim, *glima, both apparently from Proto-Germanic *glim?, from Proto-Indo-European *??ley- (“to gleam, shimmer, glow”). Compare Norwegian Nynorsk glim, dialectal Old Swedish glim, glimma.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l?m/

Noun

glim (countable and uncountable, plural glims)

1. (obsolete) brightness; splendour
2. (archaic, slang) A light; a candle; a lantern; a fire.
3. (archaic, slang) An eye.
4. (archaic, slang) A pair of glasses or spectacles.
5. (archaic, slang) A look; a glimpse.
6. (archaic, slang) Gonorrhea
7. (archaic, slang) Fake documents claiming the loss of property by fire (for use in begging).

Derived terms

• (eye): glimflashy (“angry”)

Verb

glim (third-person singular simple present glims, present participle glimming, simple past and past participle glimmed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To brand on the hand.
2. (dated, slang) To illuminate.
3. (dated, slang) To see; to observe.

References

• Farmer, John Stephen (1893) Slang and Its Analogues?^[3], volume 3, pages 153–155

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?m

Verb

glim

1. first-person singular present indicative of glimmen
2. imperative of glimmen

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse [Term?], whence also English glim; from Proto-Germanic *gl?mô (“shine, splendor”).

Noun

glim m or n (definite singular glimen or glimet, indefinite plural glimar or glim, definite plural glimane or glima)

1. glimpse
2. glimmer
3. glitter

Etymology 2

Verb

glim

1. imperative of glime
2. (non-standard since 1938) present tense of glime

References

• “glim” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• Orel, Vladimir (2003) , “*?l?m?n”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden: Brill, ?ISBN, page 136

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