Clean vs Shine - What's the difference?

In lang=en terms the difference between clean and shine

is that clean is to make things clean in general while shine is to cause (something) to shine; put a shine on (something); polish (something).

As nouns the difference between clean and shine

is that clean is removal of dirt while shine is brightness from a source of light.

As verbs the difference between clean and shine

is that clean is to remove dirt from a place or object while shine is to emit light or shine can be to cause (something) to shine; put a shine on (something); polish (something).

As an adjective clean

is free of dirt or impurities or protruberances .

As an adverb clean

is fully and completely.

clean

English

(wikipedia clean)

Adjective

(er)

Free of dirt or impurities or protruberances.

#Not dirty.

#*:Then his sallow face brightened, for the hall had been carefully furnished, and was very clean . ¶ There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.

#In an unmarked condition.

#(lb) Allowing an uninterrupted flow over surfaces, without protrusions such as racks or landing gear.

#Empty.

#(lb) Having relatively few impurities.

Free of immorality or criminality.

#Pure, especially morally or religiously.

#*(Bible), (Psalms) li.10:

#*:Create in me a clean heart, O God.

#* (1809-1892)

#*:That I am whole, and clean , and meet for Heaven.

#Not having used drugs or alcohol.

# Without restrictions or penalties, or someone having such a record.

#(lb) Not in possession of weapons or contraband such as drugs.

Smooth, exact, and performed well.

(lb) Cool or neat.

(lb) Being free of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).

Which doesn’t .

Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects.

Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.

*(Bible), (w) xxiii.22:

*:When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of corners of thy field.

Well-proportioned; shapely.

Ascended without falling.

Synonyms

* (not dirty) * (empty)

Antonyms

* dirty * unclean

Derived terms

* clean as a hound's tooth * * clean sheet * clean sweep * cleanliness * cleanly * come clean * lick clean * unclean

Noun

(en noun)

Removal of dirt.

This place needs a clean .

(weightlifting) The first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground to the shoulders.

Verb

(en verb)

To remove dirt from a place or object.

Can you clean the windows today?

To tidy up, make a place neat.

Clean your room right now!

(climbing) To remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed.

To make things clean in general.

She just likes to clean . That’s why I married her.

(curling) To brush the ice lightly in front of a moving rock to remove any debris and ensure a correct line; less vigorous than a sweep.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* clean someone’s clock * clean out * clean up * cleaner * houseclean

Adverb

(er)

Fully and completely.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.}}

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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

To emit light.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=20 citation , passage=‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’}}

To reflect light.

To distinguish oneself; to excel.

* 1867 , Frederick William Robinson, No Man's Friend , Harper & Brothers, page 91:

“ 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.”

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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.

To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.

* Spenser

So proud she shined in her princely state.

* Alexander Pope

Once brightest shined this child of heat and air.

To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers.

* Jonathan Swift

Few are qualified to shine in company; but it in most men's power to be agreeable.

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, 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.

To cause to shine, as a light.

* (Francis Bacon)

He [God] doth not rain wealth, nor shine honour and virtues, upon men equally.

(US) To make bright; to cause to shine by reflected light.

(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, burnish

Coordinate terms

* (to emit light) beam, flash, glare, glimmer, shimmer, twinkle

Derived terms

* beshine * rise and shine * take a shine to

Noun

(-)

Brightness from a source of light.

* Nathaniel Hawthorne

the distant shine of the celestial city

Brightness from reflected light.

Excellence in quality or appearance.

Shoeshine.

Sunshine.

* Dryden

be it fair or foul, or rain or shine

(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.

She's certainly taken a shine to you.

(archaic, slang) A caper; an antic; a row.

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 moonshine

Derived terms

* come rain or shine * fireshine * shimmer * shiner * shininess * shiny * spitshine

Etymology 2

From the noun (shine), or perhaps continuing (etyl) schinen (preterite schinede, past participle schined), from (etyl) .

Verb

(shin)

To cause (something) to shine; put a shine on (something); polish (something).

He shined my shoes until they were polished smooth and gleaming.

(cricket) To polish a cricket ball using saliva and one’s clothing.

Synonyms

* (to polish) polish, smooth, smoothen

Anagrams

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