shine

  1. Verb.  (intransitive) To emit light.
  2. Verb.  (intransitive) To reflect light.
  3. Verb.  (intransitive) To distinguish oneself; to excel.
  4. Verb.  (intransitive) To be immediately apparent.
  5. Verb.  (transitive) To polish (something).
  6. Verb.  (transitive, cricket) To polish a cricket ball using saliva and one’s clothing.
  7. Verb.  (transitive) (ergative) To create light with a flashlight, lamp, torch, etc.
  8. Noun.  Brightness from a source of light.
  9. Noun.  Brightness from reflected light.
  10. Noun.  Excellence in quality or appearance.
  11. Noun.  Shoeshine.
  12. Noun.  Sunshine.
  13. Noun.  (slang) Moonshine.
  14. Noun.  (cricket) The amount of shininess on a cricket ball, or on each side of the ball.

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