SHINE (shone)

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shine mean? 

• SHINE (noun)
  The noun SHINE has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light

  Familiarity information: SHINE used as a noun is very rare.

• SHINE (verb)
  The verb SHINE has 10 senses:

1. be bright by reflecting or casting light

2. emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light

3. be shiny, as if wet

4. be distinguished or eminent

5. be clear and obvious

6. have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink

7. throw or flash the light of (a lamp)

8. touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly

9. experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion

10. make (a surface) shine

  Familiarity information: SHINE used as a verb is familiar.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being bright and sending out rays of light

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

effulgence; radiance; radiancy; refulgence; refulgency; shine

Hypernyms ("shine" is a kind of...):

brightness (the location of a visual perception along a continuum from black to white)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "shine"):

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)

gleam; gleaming; glow; lambency (an appearance of reflected light)

Derivation:

shine (throw or flash the light of (a lamp))

shine (emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light)

shine (be bright by reflecting or casting light)

shiny (having a shiny surface or coating)

shiny (made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow)

• SHINE (verb)

Conjugation:

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be bright by reflecting or casting light

Classified under:

Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering

Synonyms:

reflect; shine

Context example:

Drive carefully--the wet road reflects

Hypernyms (to "shine" is one way to...):

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

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "shine"):

resplend (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)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sentence example:

The coins shine

Derivation:

shine (the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light)

shiner (something that shines (with emitted or reflected light))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light

Classified under:

Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering

Synonyms:

beam; shine

Context example:

The fire beamed on their faces

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "shine"):

flame; flare (shine with a sudden light)

burn; glow (shine intensely, as if with heat)

scintillate; twinkle; winkle (emit or reflect light in a flickering manner)

blaze (shine brightly and intensively)

flick; flicker (shine unsteadily)

shimmer (shine with a weak or fitful light)

outshine (shine brighter than)

glare (shine intensely)

beacon (shine like a beacon)

beat down (shine hard)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sentence examples:

Lights shine on the horizon
The horizon is shineing with lights

Derivation:

shine (the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Be shiny, as if wet

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

gleam; glint; glisten; glitter; shine

Context example:

His eyes were glistening

Hypernyms (to "shine" is one way to...):

appear; look; seem (give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "shine"):

spangle (glitter as if covered with spangles)

shimmer (give off a shimmering reflection, as of silk)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 4

Meaning:

Be distinguished or eminent

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Context example:

His talent shines

Hypernyms (to "shine" is one way to...):

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

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Sense 5

Meaning:

Be clear and obvious

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Context example:

A shining example

Hypernyms (to "shine" is one way to...):

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

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 6

Meaning:

Have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

beam; glow; radiate; shine

Context example:

Her face glowed when she came out of the sauna

Hypernyms (to "shine" is one way to...):

appear; look; seem (give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Sense 7

Meaning:

Throw or flash the light of (a lamp)

Classified under:

Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering

Context example:

Shine the light on that window, please

Cause:

beam; shine (emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

shine (the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light)

Sense 8

Meaning:

Touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

fall; shine; strike

Context example:

A strange sound struck my ears

Hypernyms (to "shine" is one way to...):

come about; fall out; go on; hap; happen; occur; pass; pass off; take place (come to pass)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Sense 9

Meaning:

Experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

beam; glow; radiate; shine

Context example:

Her face radiated with happiness

Hypernyms (to "shine" is one way to...):

experience; feel (undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sense 10

Meaning:

Make (a surface) shine

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

polish; shine; smooth; smoothen

Context example:

polish my shoes

Hypernyms (to "shine" is one way to...):

beautify; embellish; fancify; prettify (make more beautiful)

"Shine" entails doing...:

rub (move over something with pressure)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "shine"):

Simonise; Simonize (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)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

They shine the glass tubes

Derivation:

shining (the work of making something smooth and shiny by rubbing or waxing it)

 Context examples 

Subordinates want to work with you too—they feel they can learn much from your style—that is, how to be the shining star that you are each day.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

He would survive and carry it to the ship in the shining sea.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

It drizzled a little, shone a little, blew a little, and didn't make up its mind till it was too late for anyone else to make up theirs.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It was indeed the full moon which shone straight down the aperture which opened upon the cliffs.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

KELT-9 is a blue A-type star, which shines brightly but, unlike some other stars such as our own Sun, their life span is on the order of millions rather than billions of years.

(Astronomers reveal discovery of the hottest gas giant exoplanet known yet, Wikinews)

The evening sun shone upon the brilliant stones; they glittered and sparkled with all colours so beautifully that the children stood still and stared at them.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

How his eye shone, still watchful, and yet wild beneath!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

One method uses a device that shines light through a finger.

(Oxygen saturation test, NCI Dictionary)

The streaming umbrella which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told of the fierce weather through which he had come.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The sun shining slantwise through the trees threw delicate traceries across the road, with bars of golden light between.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)