• Shine

    Pronunciation

    • enPR: shÄ«n, IPA: /ʃaɪn/
    • Rhymes: -aɪn

    Origin 1

    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-Germanic *skīnaną ("to shine"). Cognate with West Frisian skine, skyne, Low German schienen, Dutch schijnen, German scheinen, Danish skinne, Swedish skina.

    In Middle English the most standard forms arehttp://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/mec/med-idx?type=id&id=MED39953:

    • present: shÄ«nen
    • simple past: (singular) shōne, (plural) shÄ«neden
    • past participle: shÄ«ned

    The form shīned(e) had already appeared as an alternative past singular at this time, although only in Northern English usage. There is no recorded use of shōne as an alternative past participle in Middle English.

    Full definition of shine

    Verb

    1. (intransitive) To emit light.
      • 1963, Margery Allingham, The China Governess Chapter 20, ‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’
    2. (intransitive) To reflect light.
    3. (intransitive) To distinguish oneself; to excel.
      • 1867, Frederick William Robinson, No Man's Friend, Harper & Brothers, page 91:“... I was grateful to you for giving him a year’s schooling—where he shined at it—and for putting him as a clerk in your counting-house, where he shined still more.”
      • 2011, January 15, Phil McNulty, Tottenham 0 - 0 Man UtdIt prompted an exchange of substitutions as Jermain Defoe replaced Palacios and Javier Hernandez came on for Berbatov, who had failed to shine against his former club.
    4. My nephew tried other sports before deciding on football, which he shone at right away, quickly becoming the star of his school team.
    5. (intransitive) To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.
      • SpenserSo proud she shined in her princely state.
      • Alexander PopeOnce brightest shined this child of heat and air.
    6. (intransitive) To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers.
      • Jonathan SwiftFew are qualified to shine in company; but it in most men's power to be agreeable.
    7. (intransitive) To be immediately apparent.
    8. (transitive) To create light with (a flashlight, lamp, torch, or similar).
      • 2007, David Lynn Goleman, Legend: An Event Group Thriller, St. Martin’s Press (2008), ISBN 978-0-312-94595-7, page 318:As Jenks shined the large spotlight on the water, he saw a few bubbles and four long wakes leading away from an expanding circle of blood.
    9. I shined my light into the darkness to see what was making the noise.
    10. (transitive) To cause to shine, as a light.
      • Francis BaconHe God doth not rain wealth, nor shine honour and virtues, upon men equally.
    11. (US, transitive) 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

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    Noun

    shine

    (uncountable)
    1. Brightness from a source of light.
      • Nathaniel Hawthornethe distant shine of the celestial city
    2. Brightness from reflected light.
    3. Excellence in quality or appearance.
    4. Shoeshine.
    5. Sunshine.
      • Drydenbe it fair or foul, or rain or shine
    6. (slang) Moonshine.
    7. (cricket) The amount of shininess on a cricket ball, or on each side of the ball.
    8. (slang) A liking for a person; a fancy.She's certainly taken a shine to you.
    9. (archaic, slang) A caper; an antic; a row.

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    Origin 2

    From the noun shine, or perhaps continuing Middle English schinen (preterite schinede, past participle schined), from Old English scīn ("brightness, shine"), and also Middle English schenen, from Old English scǣnan ("to render brilliant, make shine"), from Proto-Germanic *skainijaną, causitive of Proto-Germanic *skīnaną ("to shine").

    Verb

    1. (transitive) To cause (something) to shine; put a shine on (something); polish (something).He shined my shoes until they were polished smooth and gleaming.
    2. (transitive, cricket) To polish a cricket ball using saliva and one’s clothing.

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