shines

Meaning of shines

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. Moonshine; illicitly brewed alcoholic drink.
  7. The amount of shininess on a cricket ball, or on each side of the ball.
  8. A liking for a person; a fancy.
    She's certainly taken a shine to you.
  9. A caper; an antic; a row.
verb
  1. To emit light.
  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.
  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).
    I shone my light into the darkness to see what was making the noise.
  8. To cause to shine, as a light.
  9. 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
verb
  1. To cause (something) to shine; put a shine on (something); polish (something).
    He shined my shoes until they were polished smooth and gleaming.
  2. To polish a cricket ball using saliva and one’s clothing.

Information about shines

  • The singular form of shines is: shine.
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Hyphenation of shines

shines

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • shines is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

shines synonyms

Meaning :

effulgence, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, refulgency, luster, brilliance, splendor, shoeshine, moonshine, sunshine, excel, beam, glow, radiate, buff, burnish, furbish, polish, wax, gleam, glint, glisten, glitter, reflect, smooth, smoothen

Anagrams of shines

Shensi

Words that rhyme with shines

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