shine
Meaning of shine
- Brightness from a source of light.
- Brightness from reflected light.
- Excellence in quality or appearance; splendour.
- Shoeshine.
- Sunshine.
- Moonshine; illicitly brewed alcoholic drink.
- The amount of shininess on a cricket ball, or on each side of the ball.
- A liking for a person; a fancy.
She's certainly taken a shine to you.
- A caper; an antic; a row.
- To emit light.
- To reflect light.
- 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.
- 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).
I shone my light into the darkness to see what was making the noise.
- To cause to shine, as a light.
- 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
- To cause (something) to shine; put a shine on (something); polish (something).
He shined my shoes until they were polished smooth and gleaming.
- To polish a cricket ball using saliva and one’s clothing.
Information about shine
- The plural form of shine is: shines.
- Languages in which shine is used:
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Hyphenation of shine
shine
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- shine is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
shine synonyms
Meaning radiance:
radiance, radiancy, effulgence, refulgence, refulgency
Meaning reflect:
Meaning beam:
Meaning glitter:
glitter, glisten, glint, gleam
Meaning glow:
Meaning fall:
Meaning polish:
Meaning :
luster, brilliance, splendor, shoeshine, moonshine, sunshine, excel, buff, burnish, furbish, wax
Translation of shine
- Spanish: brillar, relucir, destacar, pulir, lustrar, abrillantar, pulimentar, esplendor, brillo, brillantez, caer
- French: briller, luire, reluire, exceller, polir, lustrer, éclat, brillance
- Italian: risplendere, brillare, splendere, scintillare, luccicare, rilucere, eccellere, pulire, lucidare, lustrare, splendore, brillantezza, lucentezza, cadere, colpire
- German: strahlen, schimmern, auszeichnen, polieren, Glanz
- Portuguese: brilhar, resplandecer, lustrar, polir, brilho
Anagrams of shine
eshin, Heins, Hines, hsien, Shien
Words that rhyme with shine
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