different between shine vs blink

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.

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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

English

Etymology

From Middle English blynken, blenken, from Old English *blincan (suggested by causative verb blen?an (“to deceive”); > English blench), from Proto-Germanic *blinkan?, a variant of *bl?kan? (“to gleam, shine”). Cognate with Dutch blinken (“to glitter, shine”), German blinken (“to flash, blink”), Danish blinke (“to flash, twinkle, wink, blink”), Swedish blinka (“to flash, blink, twinkle, wink, blink”). Related to blank, blick, blike, bleak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bl??k/
• Rhymes: -??k

Verb

blink (third-person singular simple present blinks, present participle blinking, simple past and past participle blinked)

1. (intransitive) To close and reopen both eyes quickly.
   1. (transitive) To close and reopen one's eyes to remove (something) from on or around the eyes.

   2. To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye.
   3. To see with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly and with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes.
   4. To shine, especially with intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp.
      • 1800, William Wordsworth, The Pet-Lamb

        The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink.
2. To flash on and off at regular intervals.
   1. To flash headlights on a car at.

   2. To send a signal with a lighting device.

3. (hyperbolic) To perform the smallest action that could solicit a response.
   • 1980, Billy Joel, “Don't Ask Me Why”, Glass Houses, Columbia Records

     All the waiters in your grand cafe / Leave their tables when you blink.

4. (transitive) To shut out of sight; to evade; to shirk.

5. (Scotland) To trick; to deceive.

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6. To turn slightly sour, or blinky, as beer, milk, etc.
7. (science fiction, video games) To teleport, mostly for short distances.

Synonyms

• (close and open both eyes quickly): nictitate

Translations

Noun

blink (plural blinks)

1. The act of very quickly closing both eyes and opening them again.
2. (figuratively) The time needed to close and reopen one's eyes.
3. (computing) A text formatting feature that causes text to disappear and reappear as a form of visual emphasis.
   • 2007, Cheryl D. Wise, Foundations of Microsoft Expression Web: The Basics and Beyond (page 150)

     I can think of no good reason to use blink because blinking text and images are annoying, they mark the creator as an amateur, and they have poor browser support.

4. A glimpse or glance.

   • This is the first blink that ever I had of him.

5. (Britain, dialect) gleam; glimmer; sparkle
   • 1835, William Wordsworth, Address from the Spirit of Cockermouth Castle

     Not a blink of light was there.
6. (nautical) The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; iceblink
7. (sports, in the plural) Boughs cast where deer are to pass, in order to turn or check them.
8. (video games) An ability that allows teleporting, mostly for short distances

Related terms

Translations

Danish

Verb

blink

1. imperative of blinke

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??k

Verb

blink

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

German

Verb

blink

1. singular imperative of blinken
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of blinken

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From the verb blinke

Pronunciation

Noun

blink m (definite singular blinken, indefinite plural blinker, definite plural blinkene)

1. a target, bullseye

Synonyms

• skyteskive

Derived terms

• midt i blinken

Noun

blink n

1. lightning

Derived terms

• blinklys

See also

• lynglimt

Verb

blink

1. imperative of blinke

References

• “blink” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From the verb blinke

Noun

blink m (definite singular blinken, indefinite plural blinkar, definite plural blinkane)

1. a target, bullseye

Synonyms

• skyteskive

Derived terms

• augneblink

Verb

blink

1. imperative of blinka

References

• “blink” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.