shine

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: shine

1	v n	emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light
2	v	make (a surface) shine
3	v	experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion
4	v	be distinguished or eminent

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: shine

“The sun shone bright that day”

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shine hard; beacon
shine like a beacon; glare
shine intensely; flame, flare
shine with a sudden light; outshine
shine brighter than; shimmer
shine with a weak or fitful light; flick, flicker
shine unsteadily; blaze
shine brightly and intensively; scintillate, twinkle, winkle
emit or reflect light in a flickering manner; burn, glow
shine intensely, as if with heat; beat
glare or strike with great intensity; gutter
burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker

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be resplendent or radiant; to shine brightly; glare
be sharply reflected; opalesce
reflect light or colors like an opal; luminesce
be or become luminescent; exhibit luminescence; coruscate, scintillate, sparkle
reflect brightly

Type of:: emit, give off, give out
give off, send forth, or discharge; as of light, heat, or radiation, vapor, etc.

“Shine the light on that window, please”

“The sun shone on the fields”

Type of:: come about, fall out, go on, hap, happen, occur, pass, pass off, take place
come to pass

Type of:: appear, look, seem
give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect

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an appearance of reflected light; luster, lustre, sheen, shininess
the visual property of something that shines with reflected light; burnish, gloss, glossiness, polish
the property of being smooth and shiny; French polish
the glaze produced by repeated applications of French polish shellac; glaze
a glossy finish on a fabric

Type of:: brightness
the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white

“shine the silver, please”

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polish with wax; sleek, slick
make slick or smooth; buff, burnish, furbish
polish and make shiny; gloss
give a shine or gloss to, usually by rubbing

Types:: spangle
glitter as if covered with spangles; shimmer
give off a shimmering reflection, as of silk

Type of:: appear, look, seem
give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect

Type of:: experience, feel
undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind

“His talent shines”

Type of:: be
have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)

“A shining example”

Type of:: be
have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)

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