shines

nounbrightness; polish
verbgive off or reflect light
verbpolish, burnish

Synonyms for shines

noun brightness; polish

Antonyms for shines

Word Origin & History

Old English scinan "shed light, be radiant, be resplendent, iluminate," of persons, "be conspicuous" (class I strong verb; past tense scan, past participle scinen), from Proto-Germanic *skinan (cf. Old Saxon and Old High German skinan, Old Norse and Old Frisian skina, Dutch schijnen, German scheinen, Gothic skeinan "to shine, appear"), from PIE root *skai- (2) "to gleam, shine, flicker" (cf. Sanskrit chaya "brilliance, luster; shadow," Greek skia "shade," Old Church Slavonic sinati "to flash up, shine," Albanian he "shadow"). Transitive meaning "to black (boots)" is from 1610s. Related: Shined (in the shoe polish sense), otherwise shone; shining.

Example Sentences for shines

But a sword looks all right—it shines—even when it is put to a wrong use!

He's harmless, with his drawl and his round pink face that shines with admiration.

It shines in your eyes, it burns like a flame in your face; I can feel it in your hands.

By the lake grows the glimmer-stalk grass, which shines like a lamp of gold.

No, no, it shines—I know that,—but it is not the sun we have here.

Let us interrogate the great apparition, that shines so peacefully around us.

The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.

Yet they seem to avoid the sun while it shines in the middle of the day.

This is exposed to the light that shines through the lens of the camera.

Just before the sun sets, it shines through the low, dusty air.