shine

Значение (Английский)

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.

Произносится как (IPA)

/ʃaɪn/

Этимология (Английский)

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”).

Предложения

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

Солнце подумало об этом и решило сиять более ярко.