Crossword clues for shining
shining
- Be bright by reflecting or casting light
- Esp. of the complexion show a strong bright color, such as red or pink
- Excellent polishing
- Bright sun, next to Mercury, orbits cool pair
- Distinguished knight's armour?
- Daughter leaving party after irruption by number rather lit up
- Aglow, like a star
- The ____, 1980 Hal-lowe'en bone-chiller
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shine \Shine\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Shone (? or ?; 277) (archaic Shined); p. pr. & vb. n. Shining.] [OE. shinen, schinen, AS. sc[=i]nan; akin to D. schijnen, OFries. sk[=i]na, OS. & OHG. sc[=i]nan, G. scheinen, Icel. sk[=i]na, Sw. skina, Dan. skinne, Goth. skeinan, and perh. to Gr. ??? shadow. [root]157. Cf. Sheer pure, and Shimmer.]
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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.
Hyperion's quickening fire doth shine.
--Shak.God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Cghrist.
--2 Cor. iv. 6.Let thine eyes shine forth in their full luster.
--Denham. To be bright by reflection of light; to gleam; to be glossy; as, to shine like polished silver.
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To be effulgent in splendor or beauty. ``So proud she shined in her princely state.''
--Spenser.Once brightest shined this child of heat and air.
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To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers; as, to shine in courts; to shine in conversation.
Few are qualified to shine in company; but it in most men's power to be agreeable.
--Swift.To make the face to shine upon, or To cause the face to shine upon, to be propitious to; to be gracious to.
--Num. vi. 2
Shining \Shin"ing\, a.
Emitting light, esp. in a continuous manner; radiant; as, shining lamps; also, bright by the reflection of light; as, shining armor. ``Fish . . . with their fins and shining scales.''
--Milton.Splendid; illustrious; brilliant; distinguished; conspicious; as, a shining example of charity.
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Having the surface smooth and polished; -- said of leaves, the surfaces of shells, etc.
Syn: Glistening; bright; radiant; resplendent; effulgent; lustrous; brilliant; glittering; splendid; illustrious.
Usage: Shining, Brilliant, Sparking. Shining describes the steady emission of a strong light, or the steady reflection of light from a clear or polished surface. Brilliant denotes a shining of great brightness, but with gleams or flashes. Sparkling implies a fitful, intense shining from radiant points or sparks, by which the eye is dazzled. The same distinctions obtain when these epithets are figuratively applied. A man of shining talents is made conspicious by possessing them; if they flash upon the mind with a peculiarly striking effect, we call them brilliant; if his brilliancy is marked by great vivacity and occasional intensity, he is sparkling.
True paradise . . . inclosed with shining rock.
--Milton.Some in a brilliant buckle bind her waist, Some round her neck a circling light display.
--Gay.His sparkling blade about his head he blest.
--Spenser.
Shining \Shin"ing\, n. Emission or reflection of light.
Wiktionary
emitting light. n. A bright emission of light; a gleam. v
(present participle of shine English)
WordNet
adj. marked by exceptional merit; "had shining virtues and few faults"; "a shining example"
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, shiny]
abounding with sunlight; "a bright sunny day"; "one shining norming"- John Muir; "when it is warm and shiny" [syn: bright, shiny, sunshiny, sunny]
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, shiny]
n. the work of making something shine by polishing it; "the shining of shoes provided a meager living" [syn: polishing]
Wikipedia
Shining or The Shining may refer to:
Shining is a Swedish black metal band formed in 1996 by Niklas Kvarforth in Halmstad, Sweden. The band’s music contains depressive undertones, which include personal and suicide-themed lyrics.
The band's name does not refer to the book The Shining or the film based on it, but rather according to Kvarforth, it means "the path to enlightenment".
Shining is the first EP by pop singer Crystal Kay. It was released on November 28, 2007. The EP features five tracks, all of which have a Christmas or holiday theme. A music video was made for the main promotional track, also called "Shining". The song was used in commercials for "Parco X'Mas TV" throughout the Christmas period, in which Kay starred. "Happy 045 Xmas"had been released digitally in 2005, and "No More Blue Christmas'" (a Natalie Cole cover) had been released on Kay's first English studio album Natural: World Premiere Album in December 2003.
First press editions of the EP had a sleeve cover and a greeting card.
' Shining ' is the second studio album by American-Australian singer Marcia Hines. Hines had been resident in Australia since 1970. Shining peaked at #3, and remains Hines’ highest charting studio album. It sold more than 150,000 copies.
is a series of fantasy console games developed by Sega. The series can be thought of as Sega's main venture into the RPG genre, along with the sci-fi RPG series, Phantasy Star. The first game, Shining in the Darkness, was a first-person dungeon crawler with randomly encountered, turn-based battles (comparable to Wizardry and Might and Magic). The next game released in the series was Shining Force, which were turn-based strategy style tactical role-playing games with battle scenes acted out with sprites (comparable to the Kure Software Koubou games and Fire Emblem). Other spin-offs include Shining Soul, a dungeon crawl action role-playing game with roguelike elements.
Shining is a Norwegian avant-garde music band from Oslo. Thirteen musicians have been a part of the band's line-up in its history, with singer, guitarist, saxophonist and songwriter Jørgen Munkeby as its leading force and only constant member.
Shining was created in 1999 as an acoustic instrumental jazz quartet consisting of Munkeby, drummer Torstein Lofthus, pianist Morten Qvenild, and double bassist Aslak Hartberg. They released their first albums Where the Ragged People Go and Sweet Shanghai Devil in 2001 and 2003 respectively. Their 2005 album In the Kingdom of Kitsch You Will Be a Monster led the band into a more avant-garde, electric, rock-oriented sound, with Qvenild now playing synthesizers and other electronic keyboards, and Hartberg mostly using bass guitar instead of double bass.
Qvenild and Hartberg both left the band before or following the release of the album, being replaced in 2005 by Andreas Hessen Schei and Morten Strøm respectively. Under this line-up, Shining released Grindstone in 2007, an album going into a heavier direction and distancing itself more from jazz, incorporating elements from progressive rock, pop, as well as 19th and 20th century classical music. On the following years, Schei was replaced by Andreas Ulvo who was himself later replaced by Bernt Moen, while Tor Egil Kreken replaced Strøm on bass guitar, and in addition the band included guitarist Even Helte Hermansen as a new member in 2010, expanding into a quintet.
The release of their fifth album Blackjazz in 2010 saw Shining turn into an extreme avant-garde metal band, with the use of growled vocals from Munkeby. The same year, Hermansen was replaced by Sagen. Their first live album Live Blackjazz and their latest album to date, One One One, released in 2013, follow the musical direction initiated in Blackjazz. In the following years, Lofthus (the only original member left aside from Munkeby), Løchsen and Kreken all left the band. The two first were replaced by Tobias Ørnes Andersen and Eirik Tovsrud Knutsen respectively, while Ole Vistnes became the new bassist.
Shining's metal-oriented albums were received with much acclaim from both jazz, heavy metal, and more mainstream critics.
Usage examples of "shining".
I came out, Shining Knife had evoked local HQ on the annular phone and was reporting in Middle Sumerian.
All-seeing Eye be the centre of many concentric circles, beholding equally in perspective the circumference of each, and for accordance with human periods of time measuring off segments by converging radii: separately marked on each segment of the wheel within wheel, in the way of actual fulfilment, as well as type and antitype, will appear its satisfied word of prophecy, shining onward yet as it becomes more and more final, until time is melted in eternity.
Simon had all the more opportunity of shining at the bar in the arrondissement of Arcis because he was the only barrister, solicitors pleading their own cases in these petty localities.
Beyond the short spire and its shining cock, rose the balls and stars and arrowy vanes of the House, glittering in gold and sunshine.
He was astounded by the beauty of her thick fur and the shining splendor of her strange, haunting eyes.
He remembered the sound of TIAMAT as the initiates spoke the word for the first time, and remembered the tale the Worshipful Master told them of the sacred origins of the order, of Guiseppe Balsamo, called Cagliostro, and the secret entrusted him by the Shining Brother in an English wood.
By the time Yama had waded to shore, the coracle was already far off, a black speck on the shining plane of the river, making a long, curved path toward a raft of banyan islands far from shore.
March, and though the sun was shining brightly outside, and the old porter wore his linen jacket, as if it were already spring, there was a cold draught down the staircase, and the Baroness instinctively made haste up the steps, and was glad when she reached the big swinging door covered with red baize and studded with smart brass nails, which gave access to the grand apartment.
He had seen her work the barque with her shining black head bent low over the worsted likeness of the Holy Family.
Behind him appeared the genial face of Senor Perkins, shining with the benignant courtesy of a master of ceremonies.
Suddenly they found themselves on the edge of the town of Berwick, walled and ramparted like a fortress, with red roofs shining agreeably in the morning sun.
His shirt and arms were bespeckled with red, but to her he looked as resplendent as a knight in shining armor.
It is full moon here, and last night I was out on the pergola for hours, staring away at the shining blankness that hides so much.
They drew rein to the right, and so rode in a little cloud of dust along the Strand Street towards London town, with the breeze blowing merrily, and the sunlight shining as sweetly and blithesomely as though they were riding to a wedding rather than to a grim and dreadful ordeal that meant either victory or death.
Down there somewhere lay Bottommost, barely visible, shining sometimes at noonglow as the merest thread.