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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)

  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

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intensity

English

Etymology

intense +? -ity. Cf. also Medieval Latin intensitas.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?n?t?ns?ti/

Noun

intensity (plural intensities)

  1. The quality of being intense.
  2. The degree of strength.
  3. (physics) Time-averaged energy flux (the ratio of average power to the area through which the power "flows"); irradiance.
  4. (optics) Can mean any of radiant intensity, luminous intensity or irradiance.
  5. (astronomy) Synonym of radiance.
  6. (geology) The severity of an earthquake in terms of its effects on the earth's surface, and buildings. The value depends on the distance from the epicentre, and is not to be confused with the magnitude.

Derived terms

  • light intensity
  • luminous intensity

Related terms

  • intense

Translations

intensity From the web:

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  • what intensity exercise should i do
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  • what intensity level is walking
  • what intensity is jogging
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