/ʃaɪn/
OriginFrom Middle English shinen, schinen (preterite schon, past participle schinen), from Old English sċīnan (“to shine, flash; be resplendent”; preterite sċān, past participle sċinen), from Proto-West Germanic *skīnan (“to shine”), from Proto-Germanic *skīnaną (“to shine”).
- copulative, intransitiveTo emit or reflect light so as to glow.
“The water shone pacifically; the sky, without a speck, was a benign immensity of unstained light; the very mist on the Essex marshes was like a gauzy and radiant fabric, hung from the wooded rises inl”
“‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’”
- copulative, intransitiveTo reflect light.
- copulative, intransitiveTo distinguish oneself; to excel.
“My nephew tried other sports before deciding on football, which he shone 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.””
“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.”
- copulative, intransitiveTo be effulgent in splendour or beauty.
“So proud she shyned in her Princely state.”
“Once brightest shined this child of heat and air.”
- copulative, intransitiveTo be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers.
“Few are qualified to shine in company; but it in most men's power to be agreeable.”
- copulative, intransitiveTo be immediately apparent.
- transitiveTo create light with (a flashlight, lamp, torch, or similar).
“I shone my light into the darkness to see what was making the noise.”
“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.”
- transitiveTo cause to shine, as a light or by reflected light.
“in hunting, to shine the eyes of a deer at night by throwing a light on them”
“He [God] doth not rain wealth, nor shine honour and virtues, upon men equally.”
- transitiveTo cause (something) to be smooth and shiny by rubbing; put a shine on (something); polish (something).
“He shined my shoes until they were polished smooth and gleaming.”
- transitiveTo polish a cricket ball using saliva and one’s clothing.
- countable, uncountableBrightness from a source of light.
“the distant shine of the celestial city”
- countable, uncountableBrightness from reflected light.
- countable, uncountableExcellence in quality or appearance; splendour.
- countable, uncountableShoeshine.
“Take a shine. You need it.”
- countable, uncountableSunshine (typically in contrast with rain).
“be fair or foul, or rain or shine”
- countable, slang, uncountableMoonshine; an illicitly brewed alcoholic drink.
- countable, uncountableThe amount of shininess on a cricket ball, or on each side of the ball.
- countable, slang, uncountableA liking for a person; a fancy.
“She's certainly taken a shine to you.”
- archaic, countable, slang, uncountableA caper; an antic; a row.
- abbreviation, acronym, alt-ofAcronym of single high-impulse noise event.
Formsshines(present, singular, third-person) · shining(participle, present) · shone(participle, past) · shone(past) · shined(participle, past) · shined(past) · shines(plural) · Shines(plural)