Shine vs Gloss - What's the difference?
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To emit light.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, 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.
(uncountable) A surface shine or luster/lustre
(uncountable, figuratively) A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance
* Goldsmith
* 2013 , Daniel Taylor, Danny Welbeck leads England's rout of Moldova but hit by Ukraine ban'' (in ''The Guardian , 6 September 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/sep/06/england-moldova-world-cup-qualifier-matchreport]
To give a gloss or sheen to.
To make (something) attractive by deception
* Philips
To become shiny.
(countable) A foreign, archaic, technical, or other uncommon word requiring explanation.
(countable) A brief explanatory note or translation of a difficult or complex expression, usually inserted in the margin or between lines of a text.
* Hudibras
(countable) A glossary; a collection of such notes.
(countable) An extensive commentary on some text.
(rfv-sense) (countable) A deliberately misleading explanation.
(countable) A brief explanation in speech or in a written work, including a synonym used with the intent of indicating the meaning of the word to which it is applied
(countable, legal, US) An interpretation by a court of specific point within a statute or case law
* 2007 Bruce R. Hopkins. The law of tax-exempt organizations.
* 1979 American Bar Foundation. Annotated code of professional responsibility .
Gloss is a synonym of shine.
In intransitive terms the difference between shine and gloss
is that shine is to be immediately apparent while gloss is to become shiny.In transitive terms the difference between shine and gloss
is that shine is to cause (something) to shine; put a shine on (something); polish (something) while gloss is to give a deliberately false interpretation of.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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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.”
- 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, smoothengloss
English
Etymology 1
From a Germanic language, perhaps (etyl), (etyl) or (etyl) (compare ).Noun
- To me more dear, congenial to my heart, / One native charm than all the gloss of art.
- Hodgson may now have to bring in James Milner on the left and, on that basis, a certain amount of gloss was taken off a night on which Welbeck scored twice but barely celebrated either before leaving the pitch angrily complaining to the Slovakian referee.
Synonyms
* (surface shine ): brilliance, gleam, luster/lustre, sheen, shine * (superficially or deceptively attractive appearance ): , front, veneerVerb
(es)- You have the art to gloss the foulest cause.
Synonyms
* (give a gloss or sheen to ): polish, shine * (make (something) attractive by deception ): * (become shiny ):Etymology 2
From .Noun
(wikipedia gloss) (es)- All this, without a gloss or comment, / He would unriddle in a moment.
- (Dryden)
p. 76
- Judicial Gloss on Test [section title]
p. ix
- This volume is thus not a narrowly defined treatment of the Code of Professional Responsibility but rather represents a "common law" gloss on it.