shine

Plural: shines

Noun

• the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light
• Brightness from a source of light.
• Brightness from reflected light.
• Excellence in quality or appearance; splendour.
• Shoeshine.
• Sunshine (typically in contrast with rain).
• Moonshine; an illicitly brewed alcoholic drink.
• A black person.
• 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.

Verb

Verb Forms: shone, shined, shining, shines

• To emit light, gleam, or reflect brightness.
• be bright by reflecting or casting light
• emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light
• be shiny, as if wet
• be distinguished or eminent
  • "His talent shines"
• be clear and obvious
• have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink
• throw or flash the light of (a lamp)
  • "Shine the light on that window, please"
• touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
• experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion
• make (a surface) shine
  • "shine the silver, please"
• 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 be smooth and shiny by rubbing; put a shine on (something); polish (something).
• To polish a cricket ball using saliva and one’s clothing.

Examples

• He shined my shoes until they were polished smooth and gleaming.
• His face would shine with triumph every time he played a seven-letter word.
• I shone my light into the darkness to see what was making the noise.
• in hunting, to shine the eyes of a deer at night by throwing a light on them
• My nephew tried other sports before deciding on football, which he shone at right away, quickly becoming the star of his school team.
• She's certainly taken a shine to you.

Synonyms

beam, effulgence, fall, gleam, glint, glisten, glitter, glow, polish, radiance, radiancy, radiate, reflect, refulgence, refulgency, smooth, smoothen, strike, affinity, alight, bag, bang, bathtub gin, belight, bent, beshine, bootleg, bright, brilliance, buff, burnish, coon-dick, coondick, corn liquor, coruscate, cup of coffee, cup of joe, cup of tea, devour, eat, eat and leave no crumbs, enlighten, excel, fancy, fire, flash, furbish, go hard, hooch, illume, illuminate, illumine, illustrate, irradiate, kick, kick ass, light, light up, lighten, liking, luster, lustrate, mountain dew, partiality, penchant, predilection, predisposition, preference, proclivity, propension, propensity, rock, rule, see shoeshine, see sunshine, shed light on, sheen, shimmer, shine, slap, slay, sparkle, splendor, taste, thing, wax, white lightning

Antonyms

adumbrate, darken, obscure, overshadow, shade, shadow

Anagrams of shine