Shine is a synonym of glitter.
As nouns the difference between glitter and shine
is that glitter is a bright, sparkling light; brilliant and showy luster; brilliancy; as, the glitter of arms; the glitter of royal equipage while shine is brightness from a source of light.
As verbs the difference between glitter and shine
is that glitter is to sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam while shine is to emit light.
Noun
(en noun)
Verb
(en verb)
- a glittering sword
- the glittering ornaments on a Christmas tree
- The field yet glitters with the pomp of war.
- the glittering scenes of a court
Derived terms
* all that glitters is not gold
Etymology 1
From (etyl) shinen, schinen (preterite schon, past participle schinen), from (etyl) . Cognate with West Frisian skine, skyne, Low German schienen, Dutch schijnen, German scheinen, Danish skinne, Swedish skina.In Middle English the most standard forms are[http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/mec/med-idx?type=id&id=MED39953]:* present: sh?nen* simple past: (singular) sh?ne'', (plural) ''sh?neden* past participle: sh?nedThe form sh?ned(e)'' had already appeared as an alternative past singular at this time, although only in Northern English usage. There is no recorded use of ''sh?ne as an alternative past participle in Middle English.
Verb
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page 91:
- “ I was grateful to you for giving him a year’s schooling—where he shined' at it—and for putting him as a clerk in your counting-house, where he ' shined still more.”
- It prompted an exchange of substitutions as Jermain Defoe replaced Palacios and Javier Hernandez came on for Berbatov, who had failed to shine against his former club.
- So proud she shined in her princely state.
- Once brightest shined this child of heat and air.
- Few are qualified to shine in company; but it in most men's power to be agreeable.
page 318:
- As Jenks shined the large spotlight on the water, he saw a few bubbles and four long wakes leading away from an expanding circle of blood.
- He [God] doth not rain wealth, nor shine honour and virtues, upon men equally.
- (Bartlett)
Synonyms
* (to emit light) beam, glow, radiate* (to reflect light) gleam, glint, glisten, glitter, reflect* (to distinguish oneself) excel* (to make smooth and shiny by rubbing) wax, buff, polish, furbish, burnish
Coordinate terms
* (to emit light) beam, flash, glare, glimmer, shimmer, twinkle
Derived terms
* beshine* rise and shine* take a shine to
Noun
(-)
- the distant shine of the celestial city
- be it fair or foul, or rain or shine
- She's certainly taken a shine to you.
Synonyms
* (brightness from a source of light) effulgence, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, refulgency* (brightness from reflected light) luster* (excellence in quality or appearance) brilliance, splendor* (shoeshine) See shoeshine* (sunshine) See sunshine* See moonshine
Derived terms
* come rain or shine* fireshine* shimmer* shiner* shininess* shiny* spitshine
Etymology 2
From the noun (shine), or perhaps continuing (etyl) schinen (preterite schinede, past participle schined), from (etyl) .
Verb
(shin)
- He shined my shoes until they were polished smooth and gleaming.
Synonyms
* (to polish) polish, smooth, smoothen
