What's the difference between sheen and shin?

Sheen


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Bright; glittering; radiant; fair; showy; sheeny.
  • (v. i.) To shine; to glisten.
  • (n.) Brightness; splendor; glitter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His body was found on the pavement of Portman Avenue, in East Sheen, an affluent west London suburb, shortly before 7.45am on 9 September last year, just after flight BA76 from Luanda, the Angolan capital, passed overhead.
  • (2) In vitro pure-culture studies were conducted to assess growth and sheen formation of groundwater bacteria on M-Endo medium incubated under reduced oxygen concentrations (0, 4, 8, 12, and 16%).
  • (3) Sheen accused the Danish authorities of being complicit in the “brutal slaughter”.
  • (4) The colour to channel for next season is, in fact, not matt buttercup yellow but the gold-foil sheen best explained as the colour of the toffee penny in a box of Quality Street.
  • (5) The engines, gearboxes and even the doors now have a complexity that sees them constructed elsewhere, but the transformation on this line of the dull sheen of aluminium parts into a moving vehicle at the other end is still something to behold.
  • (6) The absence of China and India at the highest level will take some of the sheen off, but they can possibly come back on board if leaders of industrialised countries make serious commitments about what they are going to do to mitigate emissions and help developing nations.
  • (7) The president, played by Martin Sheen, had to hustle to find new neckwear from someone on his staff with less than a minute to air.
  • (8) Suspect sheen-forming colonies were analyzed to determine purity and identity of cultures.
  • (9) Vinterberg's version stars Carey Mulligan as headstrong Bathsheba Everdene, while Michael Sheen, Tom Sturridge and Matthias Schoenarts play the contrasting suitors who jockey for her attention.
  • (10) In pride of place above the fireplace sits a shot of his sons, alongside one of him interviewing Mandela and a US magazine cover which followed the marathon 1977 confrontation with Richard Nixon that earned him a place in history - and provided the subject matter for an award-winning play that will this year become a film starring Michael Sheen as Frost and Frank Langella as Nixon.
  • (11) A ctor Michael Sheen looks a bit like a lot of people and sooner or later usually ends up playing them.
  • (12) Writer Feargus O’Sullivan thinks of the presence of artists and creative workers as adding a “cursory sheen to a place’s transformation”, describing the process as “ artwashing ”.
  • (13) If you fly over the Gulf today, you will see the sheen of oil everywhere .
  • (14) Dilute suspensions of normal erythrocytes exhibit a pearl-like sheen (nacre) when subjected to flow.
  • (15) Having had to give up Twitter (she's an avid user), her replacement social exchange will now be with the likes of Jedward and Kerry Katona, the most recognisable of the celebrities, or bare-knuckle fighter Paddy Doherty from My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding, a paparazzo, a male model and a couple of actors (American superstars Charlie Sheen, Pamela Anderson and Mike Tyson were conspicuous by their absence).
  • (16) The ophthalmoscopic appearance showed a segmental, grayish metallic sheen in association with bone spicule pigmentation, which radiated from the disk along the temporal vessel arcades and joined temporal to the macula.
  • (17) Stephen Sheen, Cardiff • Post your answers – and new questions – below or email them to nq@theguardian.com .
  • (18) The actor Michael Sheen, best known for playing Tony Blair in a series of TV dramas and the award-winning film The Queen, has delivered a passionate defence of the NHS against “bland” politicians in thrall to the market from both Conservative and Labour parties.
  • (19) As a teenager, he was as much of a presence in American magazines for teenage girls as Corey Haim and Charlie Sheen.
  • (20) These were quite dark, with or without a metallic sheen, and closely resembled the colonies of lactose fermenting Escherichia coli on EMB agar.

Shin


Definition:

  • (n.) The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone; the lower part of the leg; the shank.
  • (n.) A fish plate for rails.
  • (v. i.) To climb a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like; -- used with up; as, to shin up a mast.
  • (v. i.) To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as for the payment of one's notes at the bank.
  • (v. t.) To climb (a pole, etc.) by shinning up.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hardy has a 10in tattoo of Lee along his left shin.
  • (2) The 70-year-old describes a life of comfortable detachment from mainstream society, but with long periods in which he and his 74-year-old wife, Shin-yeol, are at the mercy of the elements.
  • (3) Rich, clear and with real depth, these are the prize awaiting anyone who picks up the shin, cheeks and tails before they're put in the mincer.
  • (4) Then there was his finish – it came off his shin but did anybody in Wales really care how he scored?
  • (5) The idea came to Kim, he said, when he heard that Seoul's repressive, militaristic Park regime had closed down Shin Films.
  • (6) Shin Dong-hyuk said he was tormented to see his father alive and speaking in the video released by Pyongyang in October.
  • (7) Tommy Banks, Bolton's left back, was exhausted by his efforts to halt Matthews, contracting cramp in his shins, and four times leaving the field for treatment in the final quarter hour.
  • (8) Sometimes resigned to his stay, Shin took comfort in his increasing material well-being, and in making movies again.
  • (9) 9.33pm BST 73 min: Pedro this time looks for Torres in behind – but his pass rattles straight into the shins of Francisco Silva.
  • (10) To know how CA125 proceeds from tumor cells into the circulation, a CA125-producing, ovarian-cancer-cell line (SHIN-3) was transplanted sub-cutaneously into nude mice.
  • (11) This puzzling confession, Shin writes, lingered in his mind as he drove in a Mercedes to the new office of Shin Films.
  • (12) Training for a marathon is a real challenge for your joints, tendons and cartilage, and so we tend to see regular distance runners developing problems with their knees, hips and shins,” says Vollaard.
  • (13) A spokesman for North Korea’s Association for Human Rights Studies said on Wednesday that Shin’s admissions “self-exposed” the flimsy foundations of efforts to censure Pyongyang for its rights record.
  • (14) 465 cases of exertion pain (18%) were located in the shin.
  • (15) Many pictures in the book – of families cutting cane, of men shinning up coconut trees – replicate the rural sights I see when I visit.
  • (16) The police station at Shin Kalay is not much to look at.
  • (17) A popular theme in Shin's films - not unlike the Hollywood weepies of the 1950s - concerns the plight of women chafing under the limits of society's expectations, such as The Evergreen Tree (1961), in which Choi played a reform-minded woman struggling against provincialism to teach rural children how to read and write.
  • (18) Rheograms of the shin have shown a decrease and asymmetry of the specific blood flow, less elasticity of arteries, less velocity of their blood filling in patients with malformations of the fibular bone.
  • (19) One of the South Korean investigators, Shin Sang-cheol, sacrificed his career to express his belief that the Cheonan had run aground in a tragic accident and with reports of evidence tampering circulating, even the South Korean public wasn't widely convinced of North Korean involvement: a survey conducted in Seoul found less than 33% blamed the DPRK.
  • (20) Lee Young-pyo executes an elaborate series of stepovers down the left - Cristiano Ronaldo eat your heart out - but just as he looks to have Maxi Pereira beaten, he lets the ball clank off his shin and out of play.