Shine vs Brilliant - What's the difference?
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To emit light.
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, chapter=20 To reflect light.
To distinguish oneself; to excel.
* 1867 , Frederick William Robinson, No Man's Friend , Harper & Brothers,
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To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.
* Spenser
* Alexander Pope
To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers.
* Jonathan Swift
To be immediately apparent.
To create light with (a flashlight, lamp, torch, or similar).
* 2007 , David Lynn Goleman, Legend: An Event Group Thriller , St. Martin’s Press (2008), ISBN 978-0-312-94595-7,
To cause to shine, as a light.
* (Francis Bacon)
(US) To make bright; to cause to shine by reflected light.
Brightness from a source of light.
* Nathaniel Hawthorne
Brightness from reflected light.
Excellence in quality or appearance.
Shoeshine.
Sunshine.
* Dryden
(slang) Moonshine.
(cricket) The amount of shininess on a cricket ball, or on each side of the ball.
(slang) A liking for a person; a fancy.
(archaic, slang) A caper; an antic; a row.
To cause (something) to shine; put a shine on (something); polish (something).
(cricket) To polish a cricket ball using saliva and one’s clothing.
Shining brightly.
(of a colour) Both bright and saturated.
(of a voice or sound) having a sharp, clear tone
Of surpassing excellence.
Magnificent or wonderful.
Highly intelligent.
A finely cut gemstone, especially a diamond, having many facets.
* Alexander Pope
* 1891 , Arthur Conan Doyle, A Case of Identity
(printing) A small size of type.
A kind of cotton goods, figured on the weaving.
As nouns the difference between shine and brilliant
is that shine is brightness from a source of light while brilliant is a finely cut gemstone, especially a diamond, having many facets.As a verb shine
is to emit light or shine can be to cause (something) to shine; put a shine on (something); polish (something).As an adjective brilliant is
shining brightly.shine
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) shinen, schinen (preterite schon, past participle schinen), from (etyl) . Cognate with West Frisian skine, skyne, Low German schienen, Dutch schijnen, German scheinen, Danish skinne, Swedish skina. In Middle English the most standard forms are[http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/mec/med-idx?type=id&id=MED39953]: * present: sh?nen * simple past: (singular) sh?ne'', (plural) ''sh?neden * past participle: sh?ned The form sh?ned(e)'' had already appeared as an alternative past singular at this time, although only in Northern English usage. There is no recorded use of ''sh?ne as an alternative past participle in Middle English.Verb
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- “ I was grateful to you for giving him a year’s schooling—where he shined' at it—and for putting him as a clerk in your counting-house, where he ' shined still more.”
- It prompted an exchange of substitutions as Jermain Defoe replaced Palacios and Javier Hernandez came on for Berbatov, who had failed to shine against his former club.
- So proud she shined in her princely state.
- Once brightest shined this child of heat and air.
- Few are qualified to shine in company; but it in most men's power to be agreeable.
page 318:
- As Jenks shined the large spotlight on the water, he saw a few bubbles and four long wakes leading away from an expanding circle of blood.
- He [God] doth not rain wealth, nor shine honour and virtues, upon men equally.
- (Bartlett)
Synonyms
* (to emit light) beam, glow, radiate * (to reflect light) gleam, glint, glisten, glitter, reflect * (to distinguish oneself) excel * (to make smooth and shiny by rubbing) wax, buff, polish, furbish, burnishCoordinate terms
* (to emit light) beam, flash, glare, glimmer, shimmer, twinkleDerived terms
* beshine * rise and shine * take a shine toNoun
(-)- the distant shine of the celestial city
- be it fair or foul, or rain or shine
- She's certainly taken a shine to you.
Synonyms
* (brightness from a source of light) effulgence, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, refulgency * (brightness from reflected light) luster * (excellence in quality or appearance) brilliance, splendor * (shoeshine) See shoeshine * (sunshine) See sunshine * See moonshineDerived terms
* come rain or shine * fireshine * shimmer * shiner * shininess * shiny * spitshineEtymology 2
From the noun (shine), or perhaps continuing (etyl) schinen (preterite schinede, past participle schined), from (etyl) .Verb
(shin)- He shined my shoes until they were polished smooth and gleaming.
Synonyms
* (to polish) polish, smooth, smoothenbrilliant
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Adjective
(en adjective)- the brilliant lights along the promenade
- butterflies with brilliant blue wings
- The actor's performance in the play was simply brilliant .
- She is a brilliant scientist.
Synonyms
* (shining brightly) glittering, shining * * * (surpassing excellence) excellent, distinctive, striking, superb (obsolete except in UK usage) * (magnificent or wonderful) exceptional, glorious, magnificent, marvellous/marvelous, splendid, wonderful (obsolete except in UK usage) * (highly intelligent) brainy, ingenious * See alsoNoun
(en noun)- This snuffbox — on the hinge see brilliants shine.
- “And the ring?” I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which sparkled upon his finger.
