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shine
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)
- (intransitive, copulative) To emit or reflect light so as to glow.
- (intransitive, copulative) To reflect light.
- (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.
- 1867, Frederick William Robinson, No Man's Friend, Harper & Brothers, page 91:
- (intransitive, copulative) To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.
- (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.
- c. 1713, Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects
- (intransitive, copulative) To be immediately apparent.
- (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.
- 2007, David Lynn Goleman, Legend: An Event Group Thriller, St. Martin’s Press (2008), ?ISBN, page 318:
- (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.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature
- (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)
- Brightness from a source of light.
- the distant shine of the celestial city
- Brightness from reflected light.
- Excellence in quality or appearance; splendour.
- Shoeshine.
- Sunshine.
- 1685, John Dryden, Sylvae
- be fair or foul, or rain or shine
- 1685, John Dryden, Sylvae
- (slang) Moonshine; illicitly brewed alcoholic drink.
- (cricket) The amount of shininess on a cricket ball, or on each side of the ball.
- (slang) A liking for a person; a fancy.
- She's certainly taken a shine to you.
- (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)
- (transitive) To cause (something) to shine; put a shine on (something); polish (something).
- He shined my shoes until they were polished smooth and gleaming.
- (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
- Lenited form of sine.
Noun
shine
- Lenited form of sine.
Japanese
Romanization
shine
- R?maji transcription of ??
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English s??nan.
Verb
shine
- Alternative form of schinen
Etymology 2
From Old English s?inu.
Noun
shine
- Alternative form of shyn
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flicker
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?fl?k?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?fl?k?/
- Rhymes: -?k?(?)
Etymology 1
From Middle English flikeren (“to flutter”), from Old English flicerian, flicorian (“to flutter”).
Akin to Saterland Frisian flikkerje (“to flicker”),West Frisian flikkerje (“to flicker”), Dutch flikkeren (“to flicker, flutter”), German Low German flickern (“to light up, flash, flicker”). Compare Old English flacor (“flickering, fluttering”), German flackern (“to flicker, flutter”), Old English fl?o?an (“to fly”).
Noun
flicker (countable and uncountable, plural flickers)
- An unsteady flash of light.
- A short moment.
Translations
Verb
flicker (third-person singular simple present flickers, present participle flickering, simple past and past participle flickered)
- (intransitive) To burn or shine unsteadily, or with a wavering light.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Death of the Old Year
- The shadows flicker to and fro.
- Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth and heaping kindling on the coals, […].
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, The Death of the Old Year
- (intransitive) To keep going on and off; to appear and disappear for short moments; to flutter.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, Ch.3:
- There I lay on one side with a thin and rotten plank between the dead man and me, dazed with the blow to my head, and breathing hard; while the glow of torches as they came down the passage reddened and flickered on the roof above.
- 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
- The ruddy brick floor smiled up at the smoky ceiling; the oaken settles, shiny with long wear, exchanged cheerful glances with each other; plates on the dresser grinned at pots on the shelf, and the merry firelight flickered and played over everything without distinction.
- 1967, Barry Mason (writer), Tom Jones (performer), Delilah
- I saw the light on the night that I passed by her window
I saw the flickering shadow of love on her blind
- I saw the light on the night that I passed by her window
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, Ch.3:
- To flutter; to flap the wings without flying.
- And flickering on her nest made short essays to sing.
Translations
Etymology 2
1808, American English, probably echoic of the bird's call, or from the white spotted plumage which appears to flicker.
Noun
flicker (plural flickers)
- (US) Any of certain small woodpeckers, especially of the genus Colaptes.
Derived terms
- northern flicker (Colaptes auratus)
- yellow-shafted flicker (Colaptes auratus auratus)
- red-shafted flicker (Colaptes auratus cafer)
- Caribbean flicker (Colaptes auratus chrysocaulosus)
- Guatemalan flicker (Colaptes auratus mexicanoides)
- Campo flicker (Colaptes campestris)
- Pampas flicker (Colaptes campestris)
- gilded flicker (Colaptes chrysoides)
- Fernandina's flicker (Colaptes fernandinae)
- Bermuda flicker (Colaptes oceanicus)
- Chilean flicker (Colaptes pitius)
- Andean flicker (Colaptes rupicola)
Translations
See also
- flicker on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 3
flick +? -er
Noun
flicker (plural flickers)
- One who flicks.
Derived terms
- bean flicker
Anagrams
- fickler, frickle
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