shine

Meanings

Verb

• To emit or reflect light so as to glow.
• To reflect light.
• To distinguish oneself; to excel.
• To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.
• To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers.
• To be immediately apparent.
• To create light with (a flashlight, lamp, torch, or similar).
• To cause to shine, as a light or by reflected light.
• To cause (something) to shine; put a shine on (something); polish (something).
• To polish a cricket ball using saliva and one’s clothing.

Noun

• Brightness from a source of light.
• Brightness from reflected light.
• Excellence in quality or appearance; splendour.
• Shoeshine.
• Sunshine.
• Moonshine; illicitly brewed alcoholic drink.
• The amount of shininess on a cricket ball, or on each side of the ball.
• A liking for a person; a fancy.
• A caper; an antic; a row.

Related

Similar words

• beam, glow, radiate
• gleam, glint, glisten, glitter, reflect
• excel
• wax, buff, polish, furbish, burnish
• effulgence, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, refulgency
• luster
• brilliance, splendor
• See shoeshine
• See sunshine
• See moonshine
• polish, smooth, smoothen

Origin

• , from Proto-Germanic *skīnaną.
• From the noun shine, or perhaps continuing Middle English schinen in its causative uses, from Old English scīn, and also Middle English schenen, from Old English scǣnan, from Proto-Germanic *skainijaną, causative of *skīnaną.