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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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moonbeam
English
Etymology
In William Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream 1590. Compound of moon +? beam.
Pronunciation
- (US) enPR: mo?on'b?m, IPA(key): /?mun.bim/
Noun
moonbeam (plural moonbeams)
- A shaft of moonlight.
- Moonlight generally.
- Any of various Australasian lycaenid butterflies of the genus Philiris.
- (definition needed)
- 1980: Pauline Kael in The New Yorker
- While you're responding to the dithering confusing Lynda is causing in the bus depot, you're absorbing the emotions between mother and child. Darcy is often very grownup around her mother, as if she knew that Lynda is a bit of a moonbeam and needs looking after.
- 1980: Pauline Kael in The New Yorker
Synonyms
- moon ray
Translations
See also
- sunbeam
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