shine
- Verb. (intransitive) To emit light.
- Verb. (intransitive) To reflect light.
- Verb. (intransitive) To distinguish oneself; to excel.
- Verb. (intransitive) To be immediately apparent.
- Verb. (transitive) To polish (something).
- Verb. (transitive, cricket) To polish a cricket ball using saliva and one’s clothing.
- Verb. (transitive) (ergative) To create light with a flashlight, lamp, torch, etc.
- Noun. Brightness from a source of light.
- Noun. Brightness from reflected light.
- Noun. Excellence in quality or appearance.
- Noun. Shoeshine.
- Noun. Sunshine.
- Noun. (slang) Moonshine.
- Noun. (cricket) The amount of shininess on a cricket ball, or on each side of the ball.
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