Sun vs Shine - What's the difference?
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The star that the Earth revolves around and from which it receives light and warmth.The Illustrated Oxford Dictionary , Oxford University Press, 1998
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, title= (astronomy) A star, especially when seen as the centre of any single solar system.
The light and warmth which is received from the sun.
* Shakespeare
Something like the sun in brightness or splendor.Webster's College Dictionary , Random House, 2001
* Bible, Psalms lxxiv. 11
* Eikon Basilike
(chiefly, literary) Sunrise or sunset.
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*:whilst many an hunger-starved poor creature pines in the street, wants clothes to cover him, labours hard all day long, runs, rides for a trifle, fights peradventure from sun' to ' sun , sick and ill, weary, full of pain and grief, is in great distress and sorrow of heart.
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To expose to the warmth and radiation of the sun.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2
, passage=Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines. A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.}}
To warm or dry in the sunshine.
To be exposed to the sun.
To expose the eyes to the sun as part of the Bates method.
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.
As a verb shine is
to emit light or shine can be to cause (something) to shine; put a shine on (something); polish (something).As a noun shine is
brightness from a source of light.sun
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Alternative forms
* (sense) (capitalized) SunProper noun
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage='Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.}}
Usage notes
* The Sun is traditionally regarded as masculine.Noun
(en noun)- Lambs that did frisk in the sun .
- For the Lord God is a sun and shield.
- I will never consent to put out the sun of sovereignity to posterity.
Derived terms
* everything under the sun * sunbath * sunbathe * sunblock * sunburn * sun cream * sun cure * sun deck * sundial * sundown * sunflower * sunglass * sunglasses * sun god * sun hat * sun lamp * sunlight * sunly * sunny * sun protection factor * sunrise * sunscreen * sunset * sunshine * sun shower * sunspot * sunstead * sunstroke * suntan * sunup * sun visor * talk about everything under the sunVerb
(sunn)See also
* aphelion * helio- * parhelion * perihelion * solar * sunnExternal links
* (wikipedia "sun")References
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* * 1000 English basic words ----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
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.’}}
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.
