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sheen
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: sh?n, IPA(key): /?i?n/
- Rhymes: -i?n
Etymology 1
From Middle English shene, schene, from Old English s??ene (“beautiful, fair, bright, brilliant, light”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaun?, from Proto-Germanic *skauniz (“beautiful”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewh?-.
Cognate with Scots schene, scheine (“beautiful, fair, attractive”), Saterland Frisian skeen (“clean, pure”), West Frisian skjin (“nice, clean”), Dutch schoon (“clean, beautiful, fair”), German schön (“beautiful”), Danish skøn (“beautiful”), Norwegian Bokmål skjønn (“beautiful”), Norwegian Nynorsk skjønn (“beautiful”), Swedish skön (“beautiful, fine”). Compare also the loanword Finnish kaunis (“beautiful”). See also English show.
Adjective
sheen (comparative sheener, superlative sheenest)
- (rare, poetic) Beautiful, good-looking, attractive; radiant; shiny.
Derived terms
- sheenly
Noun
sheen (countable and uncountable, plural sheens)
- Splendor; radiance; shininess.
- 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
- 1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan
- A thin layer of a substance (such as oil) spread on a solid or liquid surface.
- 2017, Jeffrey Miller, Ann Powers, Introduction to Environmental Law: Cases and Materials on Water Pollution Control, West Academic (?ISBN)
- 2017, Jeffrey Miller, Ann Powers, Introduction to Environmental Law: Cases and Materials on Water Pollution Control, West Academic (?ISBN)
Derived terms
- sheenful
- sheenless
- sheeny
Translations
Verb
sheen (third-person singular simple present sheens, present participle sheening, simple past and past participle sheened)
- (rare, intransitive, poetic) To shine; to glisten.
Translations
Etymology 2
Noun
sheen (plural sheens)
- The letter ? in the Arabic script.
Further reading
- sheen on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
sheen From the web:
- what sheen for exterior paint
- what sheen for walls
- what sheen for trim
- what sheen for bathroom
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- what sheen for ceiling paint
- what sheen to paint brick fireplace
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brightness
English
Etymology
From Middle English bryghtnes, brightnesse, from Old English beorhtnes (“brightness, splendor”), equivalent to bright +? -ness.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?a?tn?s/
- Hyphenation: bright?ness
Noun
brightness (usually uncountable, plural brightnesses)
- The quality of being bright.
- The perceived luminance of an object.
- Intelligence, cleverness.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:intelligence
Translations
brightness From the web:
- what brightness should my monitor be
- what brightness should my phone be
- what brightness should my monitor be for photo editing
- what brightness of star is the most common
- what brightness should my monitor be for gaming
- what brightness should my tv be
- what brightness is best for eyes
- what brightness should you edit photos
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