Spark vs Shine - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between spark and shine

is that spark is to trigger, kindle into activity (an argument, etc) while shine is to cause (something) to shine; put a shine on (something); polish (something).

In intransitive terms the difference between spark and shine

is that spark is to give off a spark or sparks while shine is to be immediately apparent.

spark

English

(wikipedia spark)

Etymology 1

From Middle English sparke, sperke, from Old English spearca, from (etyl) ).

Noun

(en noun)

A small particle of glowing matter, either molten or on fire.

A short or small burst of electrical discharge.

A small, shining body, or transient light; a sparkle.

(figuratively) A small amount of something, such as an idea, that has the potential to become something greater, just as a spark can start a fire.

* Shakespeare

if any spark of life be yet remaining

* John Locke

We have here and there a little clear light, some sparks of bright knowledge .

* 2013 , Phil McNulty, "[http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23830980]", BBC Sport , 1 September 2013:

Everton's Marouane Fellaini looks one certain arrival but Moyes, who also saw United held to a draw by Chelsea at Old Trafford on Monday, needs even more of a spark in a midfield that looked laboured by this team's standards.

(in plural'' sparks ''but treated as a singular ) A ship's radio operator.

(UK, slang) An electrician.

Synonyms

* gnast * beginnings, germ, glimmer

Derived terms

* sparkle * bright spark * spark arrester * spark coil * spark gap * spark knock * spark of life * spark plug * spark transmitter * sparks fly

Verb

(en verb)

To trigger, kindle into activity (an argument, etc).

* {{quote-news

, year=2012 , date=May 5 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The introduction of substitute Andy Carroll sparked Liverpool into life and he pulled a goal back just after the hour - and thought he had equalised as Kenny Dalglish's side laid siege to Chelsea's goal in the closing stages.}}

To give off a spark or sparks.

Derived terms

* spark off * sparkle

Etymology 2

probably Scandinavian, akin to (etyl) sparkr 'sprightly'

Noun

(en noun)

A gallant, a foppish young man.

* Prior

The finest sparks and cleanest beaux.

A beau, lover.

Verb

(en verb)

To woo, court.

Derived terms

* sparkish * sparker

References

Anagrams

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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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