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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:
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incandescence
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French incandescence.
Morphologically incandesce +? -ence.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??n.kæn?d?s.?ns/, /??n.k?n?d?s.?ns/
Noun
incandescence (usually uncountable, plural incandescences)
- (physics) the emission of visible light by a hot body
- the light so emitted
- (by extension) great emotion, especially anger
Translations
incandescence From the web:
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- what incandescent bulbs are still available
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- what's incandescent light bulbs
- what incandescent lamp
- what does incandescent mean
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