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Webster 1913 Edition

Shine

Shine

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Shone
([GREEK] or [GREEK]; 277)
(
archaic
Shined
);
p. pr. & vb. n.
Shining
.]
[OE.
shinen
,
schinen
, AS.
scīnan
; akin to D.
schijnen
, OFries.
skīna
, OS. & OHG.
scīnan
, G.
scheinen
, Icel.
skīna
, Sw.
skina
, Dan.
skinne
, Goth.
skeinan
, and perh. to Gr. [GREEK][GREEK][GREEK] shadow. √157. Cf.
Sheer
pure, and
Shimmer
.]
1.
To emit rays of light; to give light; to beam with steady radiance; to exhibit brightness or splendor;
as, the sun
shines
by day; the moon
shines
by night.
Hyperion’s quickening fire doth
shine
.
Shakespeare
God, who commanded the light to
shine
out of darkness, hath
shined
in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Cghrist.
2 Cor. iv. 6.
Let thine eyes
shine
forth in their full luster.
Denham.
2.
To be bright by reflection of light; to gleam; to be glossy;
as, to
shine
like polished silver
.
3.
To be effulgent in splendor or beauty.
“So proud she shined in her princely state.”
Spenser.
Once brightest
shined
this child of heat and air.
Pope.
4.
To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers;
as, to
shine
in courts; to
shine
in conversation
.
Few are qualified to
shine
in company; but it in most men's power to be agreeable.
Swift.
To make the face to shine upon
, or
To cause the face to shine upon
,
to be propitious to; to be gracious to.
Num. vi. 25.

Shine

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To cause to shine, as a light.
[Obs.]
He [God] doth not rain wealth, nor
shine
honor and virtues, upon men equally.
Bacon.
2.
To make bright; to cause to shine by reflected light;
as, in hunting, to
shine
the eyes of a deer at night by throwing a light on them
.
[U. S.]
Bartlett.

Shine

,
Noun.
1.
The quality or state of shining; brightness; luster, gloss; polish; sheen.
Now sits not girt with taper's holy
shine
.
Milton.
Fair opening to some court's propitious
shine
.
Pope.
The distant
shine
of the celestial city.
Hawthorne.
2.
Sunshine; fair weather.
Be it fair or foul, or rain or
shine
.
Dryden.
3.
A liking for a person; a fancy.
[Slang, U.S.]
4.
Caper; antic; row.
[Slang]
To cut up shines
,
to play pranks.
[Slang, U.S.]

Shine

,
Adj.
[AS.
scīn
. See
Shine
,
Verb.
I.
]
Shining; sheen.
[Obs.]
Spenser.

Webster 1828 Edition

Shine

SHINE

,
Verb.
I.
[If s is a prefix, this word accords with the root of L. canus, caneo.
1. To emit rays of light; to give light; to beam with steady radiance; to exhibit lightness or splendor; as, the sun shines by day; the moon shines by night. Shining differs from sparkling, glistening, glittering, as it usually implies a steady radiation or emission of light, whereas the latter words usually imply irregular or interrupted radiation. This distinction is not always not always observed, and we may say, the fixed stars shine, as well as they sparkle. But we never say the sun or the moon sparkles.
2. To be bright; to be lively and animated; to be brilliant.
Let thine eyes shine forth in their full luster. Denham.
3. To be unclouded; as, the moon shines.

Definition 2024

shine

shine

English

Verb

shine ‎(third-person singular simple present shines, present participle shining, simple past and past participle shone or shined)

  1. (intransitive) To emit light.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 20, in The China Governess:
      ‘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.’
  2. (intransitive) To reflect light.
  3. (intransitive) To distinguish oneself; to excel.
    • 1867, Frederick William Robinson, No Man's Friend, Harper & Brothers, page 91:
      “ […] 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.”
    • 2011 January 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 0 - 0 Man Utd”, in BBC:
      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.
    My nephew tried other sports before deciding on football, which he shone at right away, quickly becoming the star of his school team.‎
  4. (intransitive) To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.
    • Spenser
      So proud she shined in her princely state.
    • Alexander Pope
      Once brightest shined this child of heat and air.
  5. (intransitive) To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers.
    • Jonathan Swift
      Few are qualified to shine in company; but it in most men's power to be agreeable.
  6. (intransitive) To be immediately apparent.
  7. (transitive) To create light with (a flashlight, lamp, torch, or similar).
    • 2007, David Lynn Goleman, Legend: An Event Group Thriller, St. Martin’s Press (2008), ISBN 978-0-312-94595-7, page 318:
      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.
    I shined my light into the darkness to see what was making the noise.‎
  8. (transitive) To cause to shine, as a light.
    • Francis Bacon
      He [God] doth not rain wealth, nor shine honour and virtues, upon men equally.
  9. (US, transitive) To make bright; to cause to shine by reflected light.
    in hunting, to shine the eyes of a deer at night by throwing a light on them‎
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Bartlett to this entry?)
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Noun

shine ‎(uncountable)

  1. Brightness from a source of light.
    • Nathaniel Hawthorne
      the distant shine of the celestial city
  2. Brightness from reflected light.
  3. Excellence in quality or appearance.
  4. Shoeshine.
  5. Sunshine.
    • Dryden
      be it fair or foul, or rain or shine
  6. (slang) Moonshine.
  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.
    She's certainly taken a shine to you.
  9. (archaic, slang) A caper; an antic; a row.
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Etymology 2

From the noun shine, or perhaps continuing Middle English schinen (preterite schinede, past participle schined), from Old English scīn ‎(“brightness, shine”), and also Middle English schenen, from Old English scǣnan ‎(“to render brilliant, make shine”), from Proto-Germanic *skainijaną, causitive of *skīnaną ‎(“to shine”).

Verb

shine ‎(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).
    He shined my shoes until they were polished smooth and gleaming.
  2. (transitive, cricket) To polish a cricket ball using saliva and one’s clothing.
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Irish

Adjective

shine

  1. Lenited form of sine.

Noun

shine

  1. Lenited form of sine.

Japanese

Romanization

shine

  1. rōmaji reading of しね

Etymology

From Middle English shinen, schinen (preterite schon, past participle schinen), from Old English scīnan ("to shine, flash; be resplendent"; preterite scān, past participle scinen), from Proto-Germanic *skīnaną ‎(“to shine”). Cognate with West Frisian skine, skyne, Low German schienen, Dutch schijnen, German scheinen, Danish skinne, 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) had already appeared as an alternative past singular at this time, although only in Northern English usage. There is no recorded use of shōne as an alternative past participle in Middle English.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: shīn, IPA(key): /ʃaɪn/
  • Rhymes: -aɪn

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