shine
//ʃaɪn//
Forms
- present (v1)
- shine
- past (v2)
- shone
- past participle (v3)
- shone
- present participle
- shining
- 3rd person singular
- shines
- Plural
- shines
Definitions
1.To emit or reflect light so as to glow.
- ‘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.To reflect light.
3.To 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.
- 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.
4.To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.
- So proud she shyned in her Princely state.
- Once brightest shined this child of heat and air.
1.Brightness from a source of light.
2.Brightness from reflected light.
3.Excellence in quality or appearance; splendour.
4.Shoeshine.
- Take a shine. You need it.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3411
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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Etymology
From 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”).