Shine
51shine — See: rain or shine, take a shine to …
52shine — 1. verb 1) the sun shone Syn: emit light, beam, radiate, gleam, glow, glint, glimmer, sparkle, twinkle, glitter, glisten, shimmer, flash, flare, glare, fluoresce; literary glister, coruscate …
53shine at — verb be good at She shines at math • Syn: ↑excel at • Hypernyms: ↑excel, ↑stand out, ↑surpass • Verb Frames: Somebody s something …
54shine on — phr verb Shine on is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑ray, ↑spotlight …
55shine — [OE] Shine and its Germanic relatives, German scheinen, Dutch schijnen, Swedish skina, and Danish skinne, go back to a prehistoric *skīnan. This was derived from *ski , a base which also produced English sheer and shimmer (sheen, despite its… …
56shine — v To deceive or gull. Don t try to shine me, man; I ve been there. 1960s …
57shine — 1) n American a black person. This now dated, usually pejorative term from the early 20th cen tury (used by Raymond Chandler among others when describing the Los Angeles low life of the 1940s) is still occasion ally heard. The origin of this… …
58shine — ʃaɪn n. radiance, glow; luster, sheen; sunny weather, pleasant weather; act of polishing shoes v. make glimmer, cause to shine; gleam, sparkle; radiate, emit light; excel, do well; polish (shoes, silverware, etc.) …
59shine — 1. verb 1) the sun shone Syn: beam, gleam, radiate, glow, glint, glimmer, sparkle, twinkle, glitter, glisten, shimmer, flash 2) she shone her shoes Syn …
60shine — shi|ne vb., r, de, t; shine noget op …
