shine

The water shone pacifically; the sky, without a speck, was a benign immensity of unstained light; the very mist on the Essex marshes was like a gauzy and radiant fabric, hung from the wooded rises inland, and draping the low shores in diaphanous folds.

1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 194:

‘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.’

1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 20, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

(intransitive, copulative) To emit or reflect light so as to glow.

(intransitive, copulative) To reflect light.

My nephew tried other sports before deciding on football, which he shone at right away, quickly becoming the star of his school team.

“[…] 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.”

1867, Frederick William Robinson, No Man's Friend, Harper & Brothers, page 91:

It 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.

2011 January 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 0 - 0 Man Utd”, in BBC:

(intransitive, copulative) To distinguish oneself; to excel.

So proud she shyned in her Princely state.

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 10:

Once brightest shined this child of heat and air.

1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify the page)”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin, London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC:

(intransitive, copulative) To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.

Few are qualified to shine in company; but it in most men's power to be agreeable.

c. 1713, Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects:

(intransitive, copulative) To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers.

(intransitive, copulative) To be immediately apparent.

I shone my light into the darkness to see what was making the noise.

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.

2007, David Lynn Goleman, Legend: An Event Group Thriller, St. Martin’s Press, published 2008, →ISBN, page 318:

(transitive) To create light with (a flashlight, lamp, torch, or similar).

in hunting, to shine the eyes of a deer at night by throwing a light on them

He [God] doth not rain wealth, nor shine honour and virtues, upon men equally.

1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:

(transitive) To cause to shine, as a light or by reflected light.

en-verb

shine (third-person singular simple present shines, present participle shining, simple past and past participle shone or shined)

shines (present singular third-person)
shining (participle present)
shone (participle past)
shone (past)
shined (participle past)
shined (past)

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ergative: to create light with a flashlight, lamp, torch, etc.

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-West Germanic *skīnan (“to shine”), from Proto-Germanic *skīnaną (“to shine”).


shine

the distant shine of the celestial city

1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:

Excellence in quality or appearance; splendour.

be fair or foul, or rain or shine

(slang) Moonshine; illicitly brewed alcoholic drink.

(cricket) The amount of shininess on a cricket ball, or on each side of the ball.

She's certainly taken a shine to you.

(archaic, slang) A caper; an antic; a row.

en-noun

shine (countable and uncountable, plural shines)


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He shined my shoes until they were polished smooth and gleaming.

(transitive) To cause (something) to be smooth and shiny by rubbing; put a shine on (something); polish (something).

(transitive, cricket) To polish a cricket ball using saliva and one’s clothing.

en-verb

shine (third-person singular simple present shines, present participle shining, simple past and past participle shined)

shines (present singular third-person)
shining (participle present)
shined (participle past)
shined (past)

From the noun shine, or perhaps continuing Middle English schinen in its causative uses, from Old English scīn (“brightness, shine”), and also Middle English schenen, from Old English scǣnan (“to render brilliant, make shine”), from Proto-Germanic *skainijaną, causative of *skīnaną (“to shine”).