shine

Meaning

Verb

1. To emit or reflect light so as to glow.
2. To reflect light.
3. To distinguish oneself; to excel.
4. To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.
5. To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers.
6. To be immediately apparent.
7. To create light with (a flashlight, lamp, torch, or similar).
8. To cause to shine, as a light or by reflected light.

Noun

1. Brightness from a source of light.
2. Brightness from reflected light.
3. Excellence in quality or appearance; splendour.
4. Shoeshine.
5. Sunshine.
6. (slang) Moonshine; illicitly brewed alcoholic drink.
7. 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. (slang) A caper; an antic; a row.

Concepts

shine

glitter

sparkle

gleam

glow

flash

polish

radiate

glisten

lustre

light

twinkle

illuminate

be bright

radiance

brighten

blaze

gloss

beam

brilliance

shimmer

light up

shiny

glare

glint

give light

luster

reflect

bright

brightness

glimmer

emit

burnish

of the sun

irradiate

flame

sheen

scintillate

brush

refulgence

glaze

smooth

burn

burn brightly

radiancy

effulgence

glance

cause to shine

be intelligent

brilliant

be radiant

buff

splendour

blaze up

be luminous

smoothen

fall

strike

refulgency

flare

splendor

excel

emit light

make shine

radiant

glossy

stand out

clean

furbish

give out

lighten

spark

irradiation

radiation

augur

indicate a future probability

promise

incandesce

magnificence

shine forth

be resplendent

make a brilliant display

phosphoresce

resplendence

resplendency

bloom

eradiate

ray

coruscate

shininess

shining

polishing

luminescence

shine brightly

be shiny

be illuminated

sunshine

luminosity

lambency

dazzle

be outstanding

glossiness

look attractive

look pretty

become a success

flourish

prosper

succeed

thrive

flicker

shed

throw

be lustrous

be shinning

wax

diffuse

glister

lustrous

throw the light upon

lacquer

varnish

emission

be token

foreshadow

foreshow

sleek

gorgeousness

be glossy

halo

look finely

be eminent

appear

be beautiful

be splendid

be pellucid

illumination

give off rays

shed rays

glitz

lordliness

pomp

be manifest

emit rays

be iridescent

be polished

clear up

get light

be clean

be worthy

polish off

rub up

sandpaper

coruscation

eclat

limelight

lightening

dressing

sanding

snag

moonlight

be slippery

pierce

prick

polished

glorious

splendid

lighten up

grate

sand down

lit

distinguish

surpass

dress

brightness constancy

brilliancy

clarity

limpidity

lightness

lucidity

lucidness

luminousness

pellucidity

excel at

resplend

shine at

glowing

bake

fry

roast

give off

be shining

sunny

rule

lighting

gleaming

glittering

become shiny

catch fire

sea

display

show forth

file

grind

hone

rub

scrape

sharpen

whet

clear

light a torch

scrub

enlighten

present

show

reflect light

photogenic

grow hot

heated

become visible

silver frost

Tvisha

exude

lightning

come

illumine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ʃaɪn/

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-West Germanic *skīnan (“to shine”), from Proto-Germanic *skīnaną (“to shine”).

Sentences

The sun thought about that , and decided to shine more brightly .