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Burnish vs Sheen - What's the difference?

burnish | sheen |

As a verb burnish

is to make smooth or shiny by rubbing; to polish; to shine.

As a proper noun sheen is

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burnish

English

Verb

  • To make smooth or shiny by rubbing; to polish; to shine.
  • * Dryden
    • The frame of burnished steel, that cast a glare / From far, and seemed to thaw the freezing air.
  • * Cunningham
    • Now the village windows blaze, / Burnished by the setting sun.
  • To shine forth; to brighten; to become smooth and glossy, as from swelling or filling out; hence, to grow large.
  • * Dryden
    • A slender poet must have time to grow, / And spread and burnish as his brothers do.
  • * Herbert
    • My thoughts began to burnish , sprout, and swell.

    Synonyms

    * (to make smooth and shiny by rubbing) wax, shine, polish, furbish, buff

    sheen

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) shene, from (etyl)

    Adjective

    (wikipedia sheen) (en adjective)
  • (rare, poetic) beautiful, good-looking, attractive; radiant; shiny.
  • * Fairfax
    • Up rose each warrier bold and brave, / Glistening in filed steel and armor sheen .

    Noun

    (sheens)
  • splendor; radiance; shininess.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To shine; to glisten.
  • * Byron
    • This town, / That, sheening far, celestial seems to be.

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The letter in the Arabic script.