Dictionary entry details
• SHINE (noun)
Meaning:
The quality of being bright and sending out rays of light
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
effulgence; radiancy; refulgence; refulgency; shine; radiance
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"):
gleam; gleaming; glow; lambency (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)
• SHINE (verb)
Meaning:
Be bright by reflecting or casting light
Classified under:
Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering
Synonyms:
shine; reflect
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"):
luminesce (be or become luminescent; exhibit luminescence)
opalesce (reflect light or colors like an opal)
glare (be sharply reflected)
resplend (be resplendent or radiant; to shine brightly)
coruscate; scintillate; sparkle (reflect brightly)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sentence example:
The coins shine
Meaning:
Emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light
Classified under:
Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering
Synonyms:
beam; shine
Context examples:
The sun shone bright that day / The fire beamed on their faces
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "shine"):
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)
flame; flare (shine with a sudden light)
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
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"):
shimmer (give off a shimmering reflection, as of silk)
spangle (glitter as if covered with spangles)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
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
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
Meaning:
Have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Synonyms:
glow; radiate; beam; 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
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
Meaning:
Touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
strike; shine; fall
Context examples:
Light fell on her face / The sun shone on the fields / The light struck the golden necklace / 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
Meaning:
Experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion
Classified under:
Verbs of feeling
Synonyms:
glow; beam; radiate; shine
Context examples:
She was beaming with joy / Her face radiated with happiness
Hypernyms (to "shine" is one way to...):
experience; feel (undergo an emotional sensation)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Meaning:
Make (a surface) shine
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
polish; smoothen; smooth; shine
Context examples:
shine the silver, please / 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; flush; 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
