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54 short excerpts of Wiktionnary (A collaborative project to produce a free-content dictionary.)

— English words —
  • shine v. (Intransitive, copulative) To emit or reflect light so as to glow.
  • shine v. (Intransitive, copulative) To reflect light.
  • shine v. (Intransitive, copulative) To distinguish oneself; to excel.
  • shine v. (Intransitive, copulative) To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.
  • shine v. (Intransitive, copulative) To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers.
  • shine v. (Intransitive, copulative) To be immediately apparent.
  • shine v. (Transitive) To create light with (a flashlight, lamp, torch, or similar).
  • shine v. (Transitive) To cause to shine, as a light or by reflected light.
  • shine n. Brightness from a source of light.
  • shine n. Brightness from reflected light.
  • shine n. Excellence in quality or appearance; splendour.
  • shine n. Shoeshine.
  • shine n. Sunshine.
  • shine n. (Slang) Moonshine; illicitly brewed alcoholic drink.
  • shine n. (Cricket) The amount of shininess on a cricket ball, or on each side of the ball.
  • shine n. (Slang) A liking for a person; a fancy.
  • shine n. (Archaic, slang) A caper; an antic; a row.
  • shine v. (Transitive) To cause (something) to shine; put a shine on (something); polish (something).
  • shine v. (Transitive, cricket) To polish a cricket ball using saliva and one’s clothing.
  • Shine prop.n. A surname.
— Foreign words, define in English —
  • Irish
    • shine adj. Lenited form of sine.
    • shine n. Lenited form of sine.
  • Japanese
    • shine rom. Rōmaji transcription of しね.
  • Middle english
    • shine n. Alternative form of schyne (“shin”).
    • shine v. Alternative form of schinen.
— English words, defined in German —
  • shine V. Scheinen.
  • shine V. Glänzen.
  • shine V. Etwas polieren.
  • shine V. Übertragen: glänzen, brillieren.
— English words, defined in Dutch —
  • shine w. Schijnen.
  • shine w. Glimmen.
  • shine w. Poetsen.
  • shine n. Glans.
  • shine n. Poetsbeurt.
— English words, defined in French —
  • shine v. Faire briller.
  • shine v. Briller, luire.
  • shine n. Éclat.
— English words, defined in Spanish —
  • shine v. Brillar por emisión de luz.
  • shine v. Brillar por reflexión de la luz.
  • shine v. Pulir, pulimentar.
  • shine s. Brillo procedente de una fuente de luz; fulgor.
  • shine s. Brillo procedente de luz reflejada.
— English words, defined in Portuguese —
  • shine s. Brilho.
  • shine v. Brilhar.
  • shine v. Polir.
— English words, defined in Italian —
  • shine s. Luce, lucentezza.
  • shine s. Splendore.
  • shine s. Brillantezza.
— In French —
  • shine v. Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de shiner.
  • shine v. Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de shiner.
  • shine v. Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de shiner.
  • shine v. Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de shiner.
  • shine v. Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de shiner.
  • shiné v. Participe passé masculin singulier de shiner.
80 English words from 25 English definitions

alcoholic Alternative amount and antic apparent appearance Archaic as␣to ball beauty brewed Brightness brilliant caper cause clothing conspicuous copulative create cricket cricket␣ball distinguish distinguished drink each effulgent eminent emit excel Excellence exhibit fancy flashlight for form from glow illicitly immediately intellectual Intransitive lamp Lenited light liking Moonshine one oneself person polish powers put quality reflect reflected Rōmaji row saliva shin shine shininess Shoeshine side similar sine slang so␣as so␣as␣to something source splendour Sunshine surname the torch transcription Transitive using with

11 English words from 29 foreign definitions

Brillo Éclat Faire fulgor Glans Luce luz masculin passé Première shiner

42 foreign words from 29 foreign definitions

Brilhar Brilho Brillantezza Brillar briller brillieren de␣la Deuxième Deuxième␣personne emisión Etwas fuente glänzen Glimmen impératif indicatif lucentezza luire Participe Participe␣passé personne Poetsen polieren Polir por Première␣personne présent présent␣du␣subjonctif procedente pulimentar Pulir reflejada reflexión Scheinen Schijnen singulier Splendore subjonctif Troisième Troisième␣personne Übertragen una

16 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

shined shiner Shiner shines Shines shiners Shiners shiness shinest shineth shine␣up shinedst shineful shineless shine␣through Shine-Dalgarno␣sequence

106 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

arshines ashiness beshines dashines Kishinev McShines reshined reshines Tushines unshined bushiness cushiness dishiness eyeshines fishiness gushiness mushiness outshined outshiner outshines pushiness rushiness sunshined sunshines Sunshines sunshiney washiness blushiness bolshiness brushiness flashiness fleshiness foreshines marshiness moonshiner moonshines moonshiney outshiners overshines plushiness shoeshiner shoeshines sloshiness slushiness spitshined spitshines spit␣shines swishiness trashiness cut␣up␣shines +56 words

59 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

ashine arshine beshine coshine dashine McShine reshine Tushine dewshine eyeshine outshine sunshine Sunshine backshine coreshine cut␣a␣shine fireshine foreshine Lockshine moonshine noonshine overshine ringshine shoeshine spitshine spit␣shine starshine earthshine Earthshine earth-shine intershine candleshine cookie-shine monkeyshine monkey-shine rain␣or␣shine Sonnenshine sylvanshine wondershine open␣sunshine rise␣and␣shine through-shine ray␣of␣sunshine liquid␣sunshine orange␣sunshine rays␣of␣sunshine walk␣on␣sunshine come␣rain␣or␣shine eggs␣in␣moonshine umbral␣moonshine +9 words

8 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

hin Hin Hine -ine shi Shi shin Shin

2 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

IHS NIH

6 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

Enshi Heins Hines hsien NIEHS Shein

78 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

ashine Benish benshi Biehns Chiens chines chinse elshin Enshih En-shih enship fishen Haines Hedins Heinos Heinys Heinzs hemins hems␣in henids henism hepsin Heslin Hewins Hindes Hiners hineys hinges Hinges Hinzes Hirens hissen honies Hosein hsiens Husein inches inmesh Kiehns nebish neighs Nenshi Neshki Neskhi newish niches Nitesh oneish Pen-hsi renshi +28 words

31 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

EINs eish ensi Hein heis hens hies HIES Hine hins Hins Hise hisn his'n nesh NHEs Nies NIEs nish Nish sein Shen shie shin Shin Sieh sien sine SINE sinh snie

34 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

chine chiné rhine Rhine Saine seine Seine Shane shibe shide Shide shife Shihe Shina shink Shinn shins shiny Shipe shire Shire -shire shite shive Shive shize shone Shone spine suine swine thine Thine whine

6 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

Hine shie shin Shin sine SINE

2 epenthesis (New words found when adding only one letter.)

Shinde shrine


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