What's the difference between glossy and shiny?

Glossy


Definition:

  • (superl.) Smooth and shining; reflecting luster from a smooth surface; highly polished; lustrous; as, glossy silk; a glossy surface.
  • (superl.) Smooth; specious; plausible; as, glossy deceit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On the other hand, grinding the glossy ridge-lap surface, painting the teeth with monomer or a solvent, preparing retention grooves on the ridge-lap portion of the teeth effectively lock the teeth to the denture base.
  • (2) About 20,000 of those glossy programmes are normally sold for a big occasion at Manchester United but for this game almost four times that number had been produced.
  • (3) The law will affect a wide variety of publications, including the country’s leading business daily, Vedomosti, the Russian versions of glossy magazines such as Esquire, GQ and Cosmopolitan, and television channels such as Disney and Eurosport.
  • (4) However indignant Hollande may have been about a glossy celebrity magazine revealing the details of his affair with a French actress – and he said his indignation was "total" – whatever reflections and considerations were going through the presidential grey matter on Tuesday morning, the idea of sitting down and drafting his resignation was almost certainly not among them.
  • (5) Photograph: Martin Godwin They say: Nicholas Coleridge, managing director of Condé Nast: "Given the current economic climate, it is reassuring that glossy magazines are still selling in considerable numbers.
  • (6) Boyle loves her physical makeover: the glossy, chestnut hair that replaced the grey, and the posh frocks.
  • (7) Beyond the sumptuous lifestyle spreads in glossies or the gift-strewn shop windows at Harrods and Selfridges, and Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop website , shows like Downton Abbey keep us in thrall to the idea of moolah, mansions and autocratic power.
  • (8) From glossy magazines to giant billboards and the celebrity culture we obsessively consume, all kneel at the altar of the airbrushed.
  • (9) Glossy hair with waves and curls: this evokes allusions to Moorish Spain and Mexico.
  • (10) The launch - from five sites across the US in partnership with Canadian media group Quebecor - will bring him into direct competition with the giants of the glossy world of American publishing, like Time Inc and Condé Nast.
  • (11) For people who don’t care about pop music or the fashion industry, it’s just another month of glossy magazines.
  • (12) Asos also publishes a glossy magazine with circulation of 470,000 – more than Glamour , Grazia or even the giveaway Stylist .
  • (13) Louise Chunn, the former editor of Good Housekeeping and InStyle, is the new editor of upmarket "thinking women's glossy" magazine Psychologies.
  • (14) However, Condé Nast insiders say Greig's resignation is expected within days and the glossy magazine publisher's managing director, Nicolas Coleridge, is understood to be discreetly searching for a replacement Tatler editor.
  • (15) In addition to glossiness, color coordinates in the CIELAB color scale and surface roughness were measured.
  • (16) When you subscribe to the Daily Telegraph you get so much extra: “extra, extra every day”, says the glossy new TV commercial for Rupert Murdoch’s Sydney tabloid.
  • (17) New album Our Love brings all this together: the spindly psychedelia, the thrusting rave breakdowns, the tender positivity… even a convincing tribute to the glossy R&B of Rodney Jerkins and The-Dream.
  • (18) And, yes, he could also look splendidly odd, with his windbeaten thatch of sandy hair, porcine eyes and a freckled face that would glow puce and glossy with rage.
  • (19) It seemed a fairytale romance, ideal fodder for the glossy fan magazines, as both were young, attractive, rich and pampered.
  • (20) Don't place too much authority on universities' glossy photos and grinning case studies – they're adverts.

Shiny


Definition:

  • (superl.) Bright; luminous; clear; unclouded.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) You've got that shiny new promotion and the job looks great - but do you really know what you're letting yourself in for?
  • (2) From his 19th-floor newsroom Eurípedes Alcântara enjoys a spectacular view over the "new Brazil"; helicopters flit through the afternoon sky, shiny new cars honk their way across town, tower blocks and luxury shopping centres sprout like turnips from the urban sprawl.
  • (3) Every bit of her gleams with a sweet and shiny polish: which is probably a natural residue of her southern-belle charm, but is probably also partly attributable to the professional gloss the 20-year-old seems to have acquired with remarkable ease over her nascent two-year film career.
  • (4) This is why, preposterously, America is able to confirm plans to send four shiny F-16 fighter jets to Egyptian military on Thursday, while still talking democracy and inclusion for Egypt's transitional process.
  • (5) With her background in radio, news and current affairs her supporters say she realises that if she wants to be director general she needs more populist programming and the "shiny floor experience" that the Vision post would bring - but she dislikes exposure so much it is not obvious she would enjoy the public pressures of the top job.
  • (6) The first symptom is usually Raynaud's phenomenon, followed by skin changes; at the beginning the skin is swollen and oedematous, and then becomes thick, taut, shiny and atrophic.
  • (7) But Sky, which has built its business on the back of Premier League football and other live sports, chose Wednesday to talk up its new schedule and technological advances at its own shiny new £330m studio complex in west London.
  • (8) Outside the branch in Rochdale, sandwiched between a Nationwide and a bookmakers, Nora McDowell, a retired school cook whose son works at the bank's shiny new Manchester headquarters, said she was disappointed the bank would not be owned by the mutual any more.
  • (9) I can think of hordes of politicians who look worse and "weirder", with wet little pouty-mouths, strange shiny skin, mad glaring eyes, deathly pale demeanour, blank gaze and an unhealthy quantity of fat (I can't name them, because it's rude to make personal remarks), and I don't hear anyone calling them "weird", or mocking their looks, except for the odd bold cartoonist, but when it comes to Miliband , it's be-as-rude-as-you-like time.
  • (10) Equipment Let's be honest: good coffee depends heavily on equipment, which is why so many connoisseurs generally prefer to go out to a cafe with huge, shiny professional machines and baristas who have studied their craft in Milan and Melbourne, while their own over-complicated, underpowered espresso-makers gather dust in the kitchen.
  • (11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The shiny new Postman Pat and his helicopter.
  • (12) Sitting in a shiny studio peopled with uniformed soldiers, athletes, doctors and more, a heavily bronzed Putin held forth for four hours and 47 minutes, beating his previous record by 15 minutes.
  • (13) Ownership of eight cattle and a shiny steel roof on their wood hut indicates relative prosperity.
  • (14) • theglory.co Chosen by music, satire and cabaret duo Bourgeois and Maurice Soho Theatre Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Richard Davenport Soho has undergone so many facelifts in recent years, it has begun to take on traits of the ageing celebrity: plastic, shiny, hard to find the personality.
  • (15) 1. pale mucosa; 2. shiny surface and 3. prominent submucosal vessels.
  • (16) Shareholders may be forgiven for thinking wistfully of the £55 which Pfizer offered to pay for each of their shiny shares.
  • (17) This was made more explicit as the show developed – the addition of shiny PVC jackets in red, yellow and orange had the clean, zesty futurism popular during the decade.
  • (18) Europe’s elites have surely been guilty of letting political idealism run ahead of hard-nosed economics – thinking that by constructing a shiny new set of institutions and rules, they could just legislate away the deep differences between European economies.
  • (19) It has a full operating theatre, with shiny metal and glass equipment.
  • (20) It's causing Kenya – despite all our growth, the shiny buildings, all the nice cars – to head towards failure."