shine meaning
EN
[ʃaɪn] [-aɪn] 
US WShine
- Shine may refer to:
- Reflection (physics)
- Shine (nightclub)
- LG Shine, mobile phone
- Shine (fundraising event), a night-time walking marathon to raise money for research into cancer
- Shine Wrestling, professional wrestling promotion
- The pronunciation of the mathematical function sinh
- Abbreviation for moonshine
- NounSUF-ine
- Brightness from a source of light.
- Brightness from reflected light.
- Excellence in quality or appearance.
- Shoeshine.
- Sunshine.
- (slang) Moonshine.
- (cricket) The amount of shininess on a cricket ball, or on each side of the ball.
- (slang) A liking for a person; a fancy.
- She's certainly taken a shine to you.
- (archaic, slang) A caper; an antic; a row.
- Brightness from a source of light.
- VerbSGshinesPRshiningPT, PPshonePT, PPshined
- (intransitive) To emit light.
- ‘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.’
- (intransitive) To reflect light.
- (intransitive) To distinguish oneself; to excel.
- (intransitive) To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.
- (intransitive) To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers.
- (intransitive) To be immediately apparent.
- (transitive) To create light with (a flashlight, lamp, torch, or similar).
- (transitive) To cause to shine, as a light.
- (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
- (transitive) To cause (something) to shine; put a shine on (something); polish (something).
- He shined my shoes until they were polished smooth and gleaming.
- (transitive, cricket) To polish a cricket ball using saliva and one’s clothing.
- (intransitive) To emit light.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- 1611, Bible (KJV): Psalms 80:1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest [between] the cherubims, shine forth.
- Which from the first has shone on ages past, / Enlights the present, and shall warm the last. — Pope.
- Some essence of dogitude shines through all the caprices of taste and breeding that humans have applied to the animal.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of shine in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Singularia tantum
- Uncountable nouns
- Uncountable nouns
- Singularia tantum
- Verbs
- Ergative verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Verbs by inflection type
- Irregular verbs
- Irregular verbs
- Ergative verbs
- Nouns
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "shine" is a noun, more specifically, a singularia tantum. It's also a verb, more specifically, an ergative verb, an intransitive verb, a transitive verb and a verbs by inflection type.