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Shining   /ʃˈaɪnɪŋ/   Listen
Shining

adjective
1.
Marked by exceptional merit.  "A shining example"
2.
Made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow.  Synonyms: bright, burnished, lustrous, shiny.  "A burnished brass knocker" , "She brushed her hair until it fell in lustrous auburn waves" , "Rows of shining glasses" , "Shiny black patents"
3.
Reflecting light.  Synonyms: glistening, glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shiny.  "The horse's glossy coat" , "Lustrous auburn hair" , "Saw the moon like a shiny dime on a deep blue velvet carpet" , "Shining white enamel"
noun
1.
The work of making something smooth and shiny by rubbing or waxing it.  Synonym: polishing.  "Every Sunday he gave his car a good polishing"



Shine

verb
(past & past part. shone, archaic shined; pres. part. shining)
1.
Be bright by reflecting or casting light.  Synonym: reflect.
2.
Emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light.  Synonym: beam.  "The fire beamed on their faces"
3.
Be shiny, as if wet.  Synonyms: gleam, glint, glisten, glitter.
4.
Be distinguished or eminent.
5.
Be clear and obvious.
6.
Have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink.  Synonyms: beam, glow, radiate.
7.
Throw or flash the light of (a lamp).
8.
Touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly.  Synonyms: fall, strike.  "The sun shone on the fields" , "The light struck the golden necklace" , "A strange sound struck my ears"
9.
Experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion.  Synonyms: beam, glow, radiate.  "Her face radiated with happiness"
10.
Make (a surface) shine.  Synonyms: polish, smooth, smoothen.  "Polish my shoes"



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"Shining" Quotes from Famous Books



... suggesting. The ark in the Priestly Code differs indeed in every way from the appearance of it in 1Kings vii. 23 seq. We are reminded of the Haggada by the covering which Moses has to put before his face, which is shining with the reflection of the glory of Jehovah (Exodus xxxiv. 29-35), and by the making of the brazen laver of the looking-glasses of the women who serve the temple (Exodus xxxviii. 8, cf. Numbers xvii. 1, 9); these traits do not, ...
— Prolegomena to the History of Israel • Julius Wellhausen

... of the Cuneiform, Inscription.—"The palace of Assur-nazir-pal, servant of Assur, servant of the god Beltis, the god Ninit, the shining one of Anu and Dagon, servant of the Great Gods, Mighty King, king of hosts, king of the land of Assyria; son of Bin-nirari, a strong warrior, who in the service of Assur his Lord marched vigorously among the princes of the four regions, who had ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 • Various

... On the rock beside the shining things it coveted, it dropped dried and shriveled fruit. Dalgard's fingers separated two of the gleaming marbles, rolled them toward the animal, who scooped them up with a chirp of delight. But it did not leave. Instead it peered intently at the rest of the beads. ...
— Star Born • Andre Norton

... lichens. On her right white-caps were running before the west wind and diving like ducks on the strait. She crossed the threads of a brook ravelling themselves from density. For the forest was a mask. But Marianson knew well the tricks of that brook—its pellucid shining on pebbles, its cascades, its hidings underground of all but a voice and a crystal pool. Wet to her knees, she had more than once followed it to its source amid such greenery of moss and logs as seemed a ...
— Marianson - From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 • Mary Hartwell Catherwood

... enlivened by bright moonlight, whilst dancing in the open air, their impromptu songs contain a greeting to the shining orb that presides over their festivity and with its silvery rays enhances its enjoyment. But in this there is nothing to suggest ...
— My Friends the Savages - Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) • Giovanni Battista Cerruti


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