(v. i.) To emit rays of light; to give light; to beam with steady radiance; to exhibit brightness or splendor; as, the sun shines by day; the moon shines by night.
(v. i.) To be bright by reflection of light; to gleam; to be glossy; as, to shine like polished silver.
(v. i.) To be effulgent in splendor or beauty.
(v. i.) To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers; as, to shine in courts; to shine in conversation.
(v. t.) To cause to shine, as a light.
(v. t.) To make bright; to cause to shine by reflected light; as, in hunting, to shine the eyes of a deer at night by throwing a light on them.
(n.) The quality or state of shining; brightness; luster, gloss; polish; sheen.
(n.) Sunshine; fair weather.
(n.) A liking for a person; a fancy.
(n.) Caper; antic; row.
(v. i.) Shining; sheen.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two of the largest markets are Germany and South Korea, often held up as shining examples of export-led economies.
(2) The NYT article further shines further light into this murky affair, in which both News International and the Metropolitan Police have so far been evasive, to say the least."
(3) So, at the end of her life, Williams, with other Hillsborough families, was recognised not as part of some Liverpool rabble but as a shining example: an everyday person embodying the extraordinary power and depth of human love.
(4) In a country crisscrossed from sea to shining sea by some of the world’s longest and most famous roads, what could be more simple?
(5) It's ironic given this sector is the one shining beacon of potential growth and job creation.
(6) Yes, Shine, the company she set up after a controversial departure from Sky, was helped by an output deal with that branch of the family firm.
(7) A world of hidden wealth: why we are shining a light offshore Read more However, the Nahmad lawyers have also insisted that because the painting is not in New York and the IAC is based in Panama, the court case should not be allowed to proceed in the US.
(8) The list is split between on and off-screen talent, including Sherlock producer Sue Vertue, the writer of Last Tango in Halifax and Happy Valley, Sally Wainwright, and Elisabeth Murdoch , founder of MasterChef producer Shine.
(9) What we need is international action now, and that’s precisely what we are doing today with real concrete action in the war against tax evasion.” He said the transparency rules on beneficial ownership showed that Britain and other governments were working to shine a spotlight on “those hiding spaces, those dark corners of the global financial system”.
(10) Murdoch is chief executive and chairman of Shine, one of the UK leading independent production companies; Hoberman is a non-executive director of the Guardian Media Group, which also publishes MediaGuardian.co.uk; and Highfield now has a senior role at Microsoft.
(11) But no one was looking, as the sun was simply shining too brightly for HMV.
(12) The current IRS controversy does not excuse sham political organizations masquerading as social welfare organizations, and shines a light on the critical need for campaign spending disclosure legislation.
(13) There was a decision to preference a new entrant into the WA political field, an Australian Aboriginal, who happens to be a member of the National Party, and to symbolically, I suppose, display him in the preference list … Where possible, where we see shining stars in individual parties, like Scott, or this guy from the Nats, we should individually preference them higher.
(14) "Right now the sun is shining and it's totally quiet – normally there is a lot of wind.
(15) A safety net to catch those fallen on hard times, come rain or shine, boom or bust, it would be there for all those who had paid in.
(16) Shine waited 18 hours before she could see her baby for the first time and reflected on how Google Glass could have been used in those initial 18 hours to ease some of her apprehensions and fears.
(17) The events in Carlisle shine a rather different light on the problems facing BHS than its bosses have outlined.
(18) A DfE spokesman says: "We are shining a light on the performance of local authorities on a whole range of different indicators which need to be considered jointly.
(19) For me, the shining example of hope and freedom on Lesvos is not its statue but its people.
(20) Yet all agreed that the more diverse the routes into a legal career the better, because at least once people from diverse backgrounds were in they had the chance to shine.
Smoothen
Definition:
(v. t.) To make smooth.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the muscular bioptates of patients with Duchenne's myopathy as the disease progresses there is a gradual smoothening of the diameter of preserved elements at the expense of almost complete disappearance of hypertrophysed filaments.
(2) There was no correlation between smoothening of the skin surface and increase in skin thickness, and no correlation to the duration of the plaques.
(3) The schools for the physically disabled seek to smoothen their transition into adult life by leaving-grade programmes aimed at providing opportunities for work-related experience as well as at building coping skills for day-to-day living.
(4) Comparing light and scanning electron microscopy of a chronically lymphostatic and two normal cisternae chyli made visible a normally folded and smoothened (under load) cisternal wall.
(5) Measurements by a stylus method showed smoothening of the skin in all plaques studied (p less than 0.01).
(6) The periosteoperichondrial flap provides excellent covering for the reconstructed bony and cartilaginous nasal pyramid, smoothens the new nasal dorsum, stabilizes the medial osteotomies, and prevents supratip protrusion.
(7) The volume and time data are stored in a micro-computer and a programme written in dBASEIII Plus is used to smoothen and derive the standard volume-time, flow-volume and time domain indices.
(8) Given in two daily doses the inhibitor smoothened the blood glucose profile by lowering significantly post-prandial blood glucose peaks.
(9) In the study of the effect of age and sex in relation to the fatty acid levels, regression analysis was applied to smoothened data to take care of extraneous effects or variables.
(10) 4-8 furnish the smoothened normal curves for 10th, 50th and 90th percentile.
(11) Important prerequisites for the construction of such a cavity are: A good overview obtained by smoothening of the cavity walls; widening of the auditory canal entrance (cartilage excision); removal of excess bone covering the facial nerve; and reducing the size of the cavity by means of a Palva flap while preserving the postauricular artery and its larger branches.
(12) Smoothing by means of sliding average procedures causes a systematic deformation of the systolic dip and other similar regions of the curve, since the curve smoothened in this way does not converge towards the original curve at these points.
(13) Guar smoothens postprandial glucose peaks and reduces serum cholesterol.
(14) S. mitis and C. albicans, on the other hand, more adhered to the smoothening-treated surface.
(15) 400 paper-polished surface than to the buff-polished and smoothening-treated surfaces.
(16) Cells of cytocentrifuged preparations showed a significant increase in diameter and smoothening of the cell surface as compared with the morphology of non-centrifuged cells.
(17) Chemical polishing of this surface results in a roughening of the topography whilst annealing in oxygen considerably smoothens the surfaces although they appear to be contaminated.
(18) A preceding Free-Wilson analysis allows data smoothening, and thus improved adaptation.
(19) Lasers are used in arthroscopy not only to divide tissue but also to smoothen cartilage, for hemostasis, for percutaneous lumbar and cervical disc surgery, for photodynamic therapy, for tumor therapy and in diagnosis.
(20) S. sanguis less adhered to the smoothening-treated surface.