Shined vs Shied - What's the difference?
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(shine)
To emit light.
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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.
(shy)
Easily frightened; timid.
* Jonathan Swift
Reserved; disinclined to familiar approach.
* Arbuthnot
Cautious; wary; suspicious.
* Boyle
* Sir H. Wotton
Short, insufficient or less than.
Embarrassed.
To avoid due to timidness or caution.
To jump back in fear.
to throw sideways with a jerk; to fling
An act of throwing.
* Punch
* 2008 , (James Kelman), Kieron Smith, Boy , Penguin 2009, p. 55:
A place for throwing.
A sudden start aside, as by a horse.
In the Eton College wall game, a point scored by lifting the ball against the wall in the calx.
As verbs the difference between shined and shied
is that shined is past tense of shine while shied is past tense of shy.shined
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*shine
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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, smoothenshied
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* * *shy
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Adjective
(en-adj)- The horses of the army were no longer shy , but would come up to my very feet without starting.
- He is very shy with strangers.
- What makes you so shy , my good friend? There's nobody loves you better than I.
- I am very shy of using corrosive liquors in the preparation of medicines.
- Princes are, by wisdom of state, somewhat shy of their successors.
- By our count your shipment came up two shy of the bill of lading amount.
- It is just shy of a mile from here to their house.
See also
* bashful * reserved * timid * demure * coyUsage notes
* Often used in combination with a noun to produce an adjective or adjectival phrase. * Adjectives are usually applicable to animals (leash-shy'' "shy of leashes" or ''head shy "shy of contact around the head" (of horses)) or to children.Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* brazen * bold * audaciousDerived terms
(terms derived using shy as suffix) * -shy * bird-shy * boy-shy * car-shy * cat-shy * camera-shy * cover-shy * girl-shy * gun-shy * hand-shy * man-shy * mouse-shy * noise-shy * people-shy * water-shy * woman-shy * work-shyVerb
- I shy away from investment opportunities I don't understand.
- The horse shied''' away from the rider, which startled him so much he '''shied away from the horse.
- to shy''' a stone; to '''shy a slipper
Noun
(shies)- (Thackeray)
- If Lord Brougham gets a stone in his hand, he must, it seems, have a shy at somebody.
- The game had started. A man was chasing the ball, it went out for a shy .
- coconut shy