shines
shines is the third-person singular simple present indicative of shine.
shines is the plural of shine.
Meaning of shine
Verb
shine (third-person singular simple present shines, present participle shining, simple past and past participle shone or shined)
- To emit or reflect light so as to glow.
- The water shone pacifically; the sky, without a speck, was a benign immensity of unstained light; the very mist on the Essex marshes was like a gauzy and radiant fabric, hung from the wooded rises inland, and draping the low shores in diaphanous folds.1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 194
- To reflect light.
- To distinguish oneself; to excel.
- My nephew tried other sports before deciding on football, which he shone at right away, quickly becoming the star of his school team.
- To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.
- So proud she shyned in her Princely state.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 10
- To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers.
- Few are qualified to shine in company; but it in most men's power to be agreeable.c. 1713, Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects
- To be immediately apparent.
Proper noun capitalized: Shines
Shines
- plural of Shine
Phrases with shines
- shines on
- shines up
- shines off
- spit shines
- cut up shines
- shines down on
- shines through
- shines light on
- rises and shines
- shines down upon
- shines a light on
- make hay while the sun shines
14 more phrasesFewer phrases
- makes hay while the sun shines
- making hay while the sun shines
- think the sun shines out of someone's ass
- think the sun shines out of someone's arse
- think the sun shines out of someone's butt
- thinks the sun shines out of someone's ass
- thinks the sun shines out of someone's arse
- thinks the sun shines out of someone's butt
- thinking the sun shines out of someone's ass
- thinking the sun shines out of someone's arse
- thinking the sun shines out of someone's butt
- think the sun shines out of someone's backside
- thinks the sun shines out of someone's backside
- thinking the sun shines out of someone's backside
Words that rhyme with shines
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- argentines
- bines
- bread lines
- breadlines
- brines
- carbines
- clementines
- co-signs
- coal mines
- coalmines
- colour outside the lines
- cosigns
- cosines
- defines
- designs
- dines
- fine lines
- fuel lines
- gas lines
- kines
- maligns
- mines
- misdefines
- ninety-nines
- number nines
- overdefines
- overlines
- overmines
- pines
- redefines
- refines
- relines
- serpentines
- shrines
- signs
- sixty-nines
- spines
- sublines
- telephone lines
- turpentines
- undefines
- underdefines
- underlines
- undermines
- vines
- water lines
- waterlines
- whines
Questions about shines
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Source and license
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