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Shiny vs Shimmer - What's the difference?

shiny | shimmer |

As nouns the difference between shiny and shimmer

is that shiny is anything shiny; a trinket while shimmer is a faint or veiled and tremulous gleam or shining; a glimmer.

As an adjective shiny

is reflecting light.

As a verb shimmer is

to shine with a veiled, tremulous, or intermittent light; to gleam faintly; to glisten; to glimmer.

shiny

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Reflecting light.
  • * :
    • Bender: Bite my shiny metal ass!
  • Emitting light.
  • (colloquial) Excellent; remarkable.
  • (obsolete) Bright; luminous; clear; unclouded.
  • * (rfdate) (Dryden)
    • Like distant thunder on a shiny day.
  • * The Lincolnshire Poacher (traditional song)
    • When I was bound apprentice in famous Lincolnshire
    Full well I served my master for nigh on seven years
    Till I took up to poaching as you shall quickly hear
    Oh, 'tis my delight on a shiny night in the season of the year.

    Derived terms

    * shininess

    Noun

    (shinies)
  • (informal) Anything shiny; a trinket.

    • shimmer

    English

    (wikipedia shimmer)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To shine with a veiled, tremulous, or intermittent light; to gleam faintly; to glisten; to glimmer.
  • * Tennyson
    • the shimmering glimpses of a stream

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A faint or veiled and tremulous gleam or shining; a glimmer.

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