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Shine is to reflect light, or to polish, or to stand out due to excellence.

(verb)

When you point a flashlight into a dark room to illuminate what is in the room, this is an example of when you shine your flashlight.
When you polish your shoes, this is an example of when you shine your shoes.
When you are the best singer in the chorus and everyone pays attention to you instead of the rest of the crowd, this is an example of when you shine.

Shine is defined as brightness, light or luster.

(noun)

A gold ring that has just been cleaned and polished is an example of something that has a shine.

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See shine in Webster's New World College Dictionary

intransitive verb shone, shined, shining

to emit or reflect light; be radiant or bright with light; gleam; glow
to be eminent, conspicuous, or brilliant; stand out; excel
to exhibit itself clearly or conspicuously: love shining from her face

Origin: ME schinen < OE scinan, akin to Ger scheinen < IE base *sāi-, to glimmer > Gr skia, shadow

transitive verb

to direct the light of: to shine a flashlight
to make shiny or bright by polishing: to shine shoes

noun

brightness; radiance
luster; polish; gloss
☆ shoeshine
splendor; brilliance; show
sunshine; fair weather
☆ Informal a trick or prank: usually used in pl.
☆ Slang black (): a vulgar term of hostility and contempt

See shine in American Heritage Dictionary 4

verb shone shone (shōn) or shined, shin·ing, shines

verb, intransitive

To emit light.
To reflect light; glint or glisten.
To distinguish oneself in an activity or a field; excel.
To be immediately apparent: Delight shone in her eyes.

verb, transitive

To aim or cast the beam or glow of (a light).
past tense and past participle shined shined To make glossy or bright by polishing.

noun

Brightness from a source of light; radiance.
Brightness from reflected light; luster.
A shoeshine.
Excellence in quality or appearance; splendor.
Fair weather: rain or shine.
shines Informal Pranks or tricks.
Slang Whiskey; moonshine.
Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a Black person.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English shinen

Origin: , from Old English scīnan

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