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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
shiny
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
glossy/shiny
▪ She combed her hair until it was all glossy.
shiny
▪ This type of cloth has a shiny surface on one side.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
surface
▪ Avoid glare on the board - shiny surfaces can be prevented by careful blackboard maintenance.
▪ It had a slick, shiny surface like smooth, sweating skin.
▪ What do those shiny surfaces do?
▪ Mainly made of cotton with a shiny surface on one side where the weft threads lie on the surface.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a shiny black limousine
▪ At 7:30 p.m. sharp, a shiny limousine pulled in front of the building.
▪ She wore a fashionable jacket and high shiny boots.
▪ To keep the surface shiny, apply a clear, high-gloss varnish.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But this time, Duval and Mickelson are being carried inside a shiny pair of silver Mercedes-Benz minivans.
▪ He lines it up on the shiny sideboard.
▪ He looked as mean as ever, a pallid, unsmiling figure in black-suede jacket and very shiny black shoes.
▪ It will be thick and shiny on top. 2.
▪ She was back within the hour, her face shiny with dried tears, her eyes red-rimmed.
▪ The bike is shiny as a fire engine, looking showroom fresh thanks to Horne.
▪ The higher grades of employee were supplied, as was the custom with many firms, with shiny, new company cars.
▪ When the Prince murders Polonius, the body lies in a huge, shiny pool of blood.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shiny

Shiny \Shin"y\, a. [Compar. Shinier; superl. Shiniest.] Bright; luminous; clear; unclouded.

Like distant thunder on a shiny day.
--Dryden.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
shiny

1580s, from shine (n.) + -y (2). As a noun meaning "a shiny object" (also "money") from 1856. Related: Shininess.

Wiktionary
shiny

a. 1 reflect light. 2 emit light. 3 (context colloquial English) excellent; remarkable. 4 (context obsolete English) bright; luminous; clear; unclouded. n. (context informal English) Anything shiny; a trinket.

WordNet
shiny
  1. adj. reflecting light; "glistening bodies of swimmers"; "the horse's glossy coat"; "lustrous auburn hair"; "saw the moon like a shiny dime on a deep blue velvet carpet"; "shining white enamel" [syn: glistening, glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shining]

  2. having a shiny surface or coating; "glazed fabrics"; "glazed doughnuts" [syn: glazed] [ant: unglazed]

  3. made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow; "bright silver candlesticks"; "a burnished brass knocker"; "she brushed her hair until it fell in lustrous auburn waves"; "rows of shining glasses"; "shiny black patents" [syn: bright, burnished, lustrous, shining]

  4. abounding with sunlight; "a bright sunny day"; "one shining norming"- John Muir; "when it is warm and shiny" [syn: bright, shining, sunshiny, sunny]

  5. [also: shiniest, shinier]

Usage examples of "shiny".

He turned to look at Tuhluer, who was limping up to him through the phalanx of exoskel guards, his own emergency esuit and helmet deployed, the shiny bulge of faceplate reflecting the silvery diamond bubble that enclosed the Archimandrite and his chair.

From its sharp hairpins you can see the Mediterranean on a fine day, or at least the shiny new autoroute that swings inland at Cannes and goes past Aix and Avignon.

Pretending to be setting an example, Prairie slid over to one of the work counters, wrestled a hot baloney into place, quickly sharpened a knife, and began to carve the object into steaming, purple-rimmed slices, which she arranged attractively on a serving platter, generously spooning more shiny grape liquid over the top, to be carried in and set on one of the mess-hall tables, where eaters would serve themselves except for the people in assertiveness programs, of course, who sat over at their own table and each got a separate plate with the food already on it.

I can see a blurry, distorted reflection of his face in the shiny ball on my desk.

I last saw him in my own house with his body-servant and his braw clothes and his shiny boots and his silver dressing-case, the very pattern of a Corinthian.

The warmth of the little fire reflected from shiny log walls, the quiet chuckling of a grandfather clock, the homey display of old photographs over the mantle.

Lo Manto walked into the room, wood floors shiny and waxed, sideboard lights on dim, the bar long and polished.

The shiny FedEx truck was parked outside the diner, looking out of place on the dusty, monochromatic street.

I kept wiping my goggles and face with my Montagnard scarf, and my leather jacket was shiny with moisture.

With a gush of outrushing air and a blast of icy wind, the helmet was torn from his hand, a round, shiny cannonball sailing into the infinite sky.

Then drawing a petronel from his breast, he pointed the long, shiny barrel at the priest, whose face went ashen at the sight.

Still, a number of gray petrous visages continued to appear, drawn on by a habit which they called duty, and perhaps, though none would have admitted it, a sort of perilous curiosity roused by this young man who invoked flesh and deity alike in whistling tones which bounced off their northern souls like shiny stones scaled over still water.

His objective was Doyle Pettit, minus his hat, goggles, and coat, standing by the hood of his shiny black automobile and proudly demonstrating to the curious the function of the crank.

The pavement was shiny, as black goo congealed into plasticky, pungent shellac.

The beautiful, shiny polyhedra were tinted crystal, grown around magnetic metal cores.