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shine
  1. Brightness from a source of light.
  2. Brightness from reflected light.
  3. Excellence in quality or appearance.
  4. Shoeshine.
  5. Sunshine.
  6. (slang) Moonshine.
  7. (cricket) The amount of shininess on a cricket ball, or on each side of the ball.
  8. (slang) A liking for a person; a fancy.
  9. (archaic, slang) A caper; an antic; a row.
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  11. Examples:
    1. “She loved the twinkling of the stars and the hot white shine of the full moon.”
      “Linseed oil helps restore the shine to a dull surface.”
      “He quickly took quite a shine to her quirkiness and dry sense of humor.”
shiner
  1. One who shines; a luminary.
  2. (colloquial) A black eye.
  3. (slang, dated) A bright piece of money.
  4. Any of numerous species of small freshwater American cyprinoid fishes of Notropis, Minnilus, and allied genera, such as the redfin.
  5. Any silvery fish, such as the horsefish, menhaden, or moonfish.
  6. The common silverfish,Lepisma.
  7. (slang) A moonshiner.
  8. A small reflective surface used for cheating at card games.
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  10. Examples:
    1. “He had the beginnings of a bruise on his left eye, which would become a decent sized shiner by morning.”
      “Don't stand too close to the stage during their 10-minute set or you might be sporting a shiner for the rest of the summer.”
      “He was strong and hard against me, for such a pale-faced, freckly-armed shiner of the shoes.”
shininess
  1. the visual property of something shining with reflective light; shine
  2. (computing) the coefficient of specular reflectivity associated with the surface of an object being displayed
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Remember that surface flatness is always much more important than shininess.”
      “The terms you mention are ones that various manufacturers use to describe the shininess of their products.”
      “That afternoon, my cousins and I were admiring its shininess and how cool it looks.”
shiny
  1. (informal) Anything shiny; a trinket.
  2. (slang) Contraction of disparaging term "shiny arses", originating during World War Two, to describe a desk worker.
shiningness
  1. The quality of shining; brightness.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The epithets marmoreus, eburneus, and candidus, are all applied to beauty by the Roman poets, sometimes as to their shape, and sometimes as to the shiningness here spoken of.”
shining
shininesses
shinings
shiners
  1. plural of shiner
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Like all surfperch, shiners are viviparous, that is, they do not lay eggs but bear live young.”
      “He led us through some fantastic coral formations, tunnels, and schools of shiners so thick you couldn't see the person in front of you.”
      “I posted a picture of one of the shiners after a match, should have some good boxing shots too soon.”
shinies
  1. plural of shiny
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