Shine

Verb

 * 1)  To emit light.
 * 2)  To reflect light.
 * 3)  To distinguish oneself; to excel.
 * My nephew tried other sports before deciding on football, which he shined at right away, quickly becoming the star of his school team.
 * 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.
 * 1) * 1867. Frederick William Robinson. No Man's Friend. Harper. page 91
 * 2)  To be immediately apparent.
 * 3)  To polish (something).
 * He shined my shoes until they were polished smooth and gleaming.
 * 1)  To polish a cricket ball using saliva and one’s clothing.
 * 2)   To create light with a flashlight, lamp, torch, etc.
 * I shined my light into the darkness to see what was making the noise.
 * "What's that?" Everett asked as he shined his flashlight into the air.
 * 1) * 2008. David Lynn Goleman. Legend: An Event Group Thriller. Macmillan. page 381
 * 1) * 2008. David Lynn Goleman. Legend: An Event Group Thriller. Macmillan. page 381

Synonyms

 * beam, glow, radiate
 * gleam, glint, glisten, glitter, reflect
 * excel
 * polish, smooth, smoothen

Coordinate terms

 * beam, flash, glare, glimmer, shimmer, twinkle

Derived terms

 * rise and shine
 * take a shine to

Noun

 * 1) Brightness from a source of light.
 * 2) Brightness from reflected light.
 * 3) Excellence in quality or appearance.
 * 4) Shoeshine.
 * 5) Sunshine.
 * 6)  Moonshine.
 * 7)  The amount of shininess on a cricket ball, or on each side of the ball.

Synonyms

 * effulgence, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, refulgency
 * luster
 * brilliance, splendor
 * See shoeshine
 * See sunshine
 * See moonshine

Derived terms

 * come rain or shine
 * shimmer
 * shiner
 * shininess
 * shiny

Adverbs for Shine
serenely; auspiciously; brilliantly; glaringly; perpendicularly; lucidly; radiantly; hazily; luminously; gloriously; goldenly; daz-zlingly; feverishly; fitfully; tremulously; majestically; intermittently; fiercely; capriciously.

Thesaurus
Amor, Christian love, Eros, Platonic love, admiration, adoration, affection, afterglow, agape, air glow, antic, ardency, ardor, array, attachment, bathtub gin, be born for, be bright, be master of, be somebody, be something, beacon, beam, bedazzle, beggar description, blaze, blind, bloom, bodily love, bootleg liquor, brighten, brighten up, brightness, broad day, brotherly love, brush, brush up, buff, burn, burnish, candescence, caper, caritas, charity, conjugal love, coruscate, cut a dash, cut a figure, cut a swath, dawn, day, day glow, daylight, dayshine, daytide, daytime, daze, dazzle, desire, devotion, diffuse light, dress, dusk, excel, faithful love, fancy, fanfare, fervor, figure, finish, fix, flame, flare, flash, flicker, flourish, flush, fondness, free love, free-lovism, freshen, frolic, fulgurate, full sun, furbish, furbish up, give light, glance, glare, glaze, gleam, glimmer, glint, glisten, glitter, gloss, glow, green flash, heart, hero worship, home brew, hooch, idolatry, idolism, idolization, incandesce, incandescence, knock dead, lark, lasciviousness, libido, light of day, like, liking, live, love, lovemaking, luminesce, luster, make a figure, make a show, make a splash, married love, midday sun, monkeyshine, moonshine, mountain dew, noonlight, noontide light, outshine, panoply, parade, passion, patina, physical love, polish, polish up, pomp, popular regard, popularity, radiance, radiate, ray of sunshine, regard, renovate, repair, retouch, revive, rub, rub down, rub up, sand, sandblast, sandpaper, scintillate, scour, send out rays, sentiment, sex, sexual love, sheen, shenanigan, shimmer, shine brightly, shine in, shininess, shining light, shoot, shoot out rays, show, skylight, sleek, slick, slick down, smooth, sparkle, spellbind, spiritual love, splash, splurge, spruce, spruce up, stand out, sun spark, sunbeam, sunbreak, sunburst, sunlight, sunset glow, sunshine, surpass, tender feeling, tender passion, tomfoolery, tone up, touch up, trick, truelove, twilight, twinkle, uxoriousness, vamp, vamp up, varnish, wax, weakness, white lightning, white mule, worship, yearning

Etymology
scīnan, from. Cognate with Dutch schijnen, German scheinen, Swedish skina.

In Middle English the most standard forms are:


 * present: shīnen
 * simple past: (singular) shōne, (plural) shīneden
 * past participle: shīned

The form shīned(e) has already appeared as an alternate past singular at this time, although only in Northern English usage. There is no recorded use of shōne as an alternate past participle in Middle English.

Verb

 * Arabic: لمع
 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 發亮, 发亮, ,  發光,  发光,  ,  ,
 * Crimean Tatar: yıltıramaq
 * Czech:
 * Danish: skinne, lyse, stråle
 * Dutch: ,
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Interlingua: brillar
 * Italian: ,
 * Italian: ,


 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: 비추다 (bichuda), 비치다 (bichida), 빛나다 (bitnada)
 * Latin: luceo
 * Lithuanian: šviesti
 * Nahuatl: tona
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: deàrrs, deàlraich, boillsg
 * Slovene: svetiti, sijati
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Telugu: ప్రకాశించు (prakaaSiMchu)
 * Vietnamese: tỏa sáng, chiếu sáng,  soi sáng
 * Welsh: disgleirio


 * Armenian:
 * Danish: glimte
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:


 * Latin: nitere
 * Nahuatl: tona
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: deàrrs, deàlraich, boillsg
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Telugu: మెరియు (meriyu)


 * Armenian:
 * Danish: glimre, brillere
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Italian:


 * Japanese:
 * Latin: emineo, excello, anteeo, antecedo
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish:, vara lysande
 * Telugu: వెలిగిపోవు (veligipOvu)


 * Dutch: voor de hand liggen
 * Finnish: paistaa silmään


 * Latin: emineo
 * Portuguese:
 * Swedish:


 * Danish: pudse, polere, blanke
 * Dutch: opblinken,
 * Finnish: ,
 * German: ,
 * Japanese: 磨く


 * Latin: tergeo, polio, expolio, levigo
 * Nahuatl: tona
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, (shoes)
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Turkish: parlatmak


 * Japanese:


 * : светя (svetja) (1), блестя (blestja) (2)
 * : brilar
 * : menyinari, bersinar


 * : straluci
 * : brillar

Noun

 * Armenian:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Japanese: 輝き,


 * Kurdish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: ప్రకాశము (prakaaSamu)


 * Armenian:
 * Danish: glans,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * German:
 * German:


 * Japanese: 輝き
 * Kurdish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: మెరుపు (merupu)


 * Armenian:
 * Danish: brillans
 * Dutch: uitmuntendheid,
 * Finnish: loistavuus, loisteliaisuus,
 * German:, ,


 * Japanese: 卓越
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish: ,


 * : блясък
 * : 亮光
 * : Glanz, Schein,
 * : lustro


 * : 빛 (bit)
 * : strălucire
 * : brillo

Anagrams

 * hsien
 * NIEHS