Definition of "shine"

shine¹

/ʃaɪn/

verb
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.
  Quotations
  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 inland, and draping the low shores in diaphanous folds.
  1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], part I, page 194
  ‘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.’
  1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 20, in The China Governess‎
2. (intransitive, copulative) To reflect light.
3. (intransitive, copulative) To distinguish oneself; to excel.
  Quotations
  “ […] 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.”
  1867, Frederick William Robinson, No Man's Friend, Harper & Brothers, page 91
  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.
  2011 January 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 0 - 0 Man Utd”, in BBC‎
4. (intransitive, copulative) To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.
  Quotations
  So proud she shyned in her Princely state.
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, stanza 10
  Once brightest shined this child of heat and air.
  1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify the page)”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin, London: […] A. Dodd
5. (intransitive, copulative) To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers.
  Quotations
  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
6. (intransitive, copulative) To be immediately apparent.
7. (transitive) To create light with (a flashlight, lamp, torch, or similar).
  Quotations
  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, published 2008, page 318
8. (transitive) To cause to shine, as a light or by reflected light.
  Quotations
  He [God] doth not rain wealth, nor shine honour and virtues, upon men equally.
  1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret
noun
countable and uncountable, plural shines
1. Brightness from a source of light.
  Quotations
  the distant shine of the celestial city
  1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields
2. Brightness from reflected light.
3. Excellence in quality or appearance; splendour.
4. Shoeshine.
5. Sunshine.
  Quotations
  be fair or foul, or rain or shine
  1685, John Dryden, Sylvae
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.
9. (archaic, slang) A caper; an antic; a row.

shine²

/ʃaɪn/

verb
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).
2. (transitive, cricket) To polish a cricket ball using saliva and one’s clothing.

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