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shin

noun

1 shin

The front part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle.

Dutch: scheen, scheenbeen
Polish: goleń, podudzie

2 shin

A cut of meat from the lower part of the leg.

synonym: shin bone.

Polish: golonko, golonka

3 shin

The 22nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

4 shin

The inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle.

synonyms: shin bone, shinbone, tibia.

Dutch: tibia, scheenbeen
Polish: piszczel, kość piszczelowa

verb

1 shin

Climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling.

synonyms: clamber, scramble, shinny, skin, sputter, struggle.

Roget 305: ascend, rise, mount, arise, uprise; go up, get up, work one's way up, start up; shoot up, go into orbit; float up; bubble up; aspire.    ... show more


Moby thesaurus: ankle, bayonet legs, bowlegs, calf, clamber, clamber up, climb, climb over, climb up, cnemis, dash, drumstick, escalade, foreleg, gamb, gambrel, gigot, ham, hind leg, hock ... show more.

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shine

noun

1 shine

The quality of being bright and sending out rays of light.

synonyms: effulgence, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, refulgency.

Dutch: straling
Polish: promienistość

verb

1 shine

Be bright by reflecting or casting light.

synonym: reflect.

2 shine

Emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light.

synonym: beam.

Roget 845: be beautiful etc. adj.; shine, beam, bloom; become one etc. (accord) 23; set off, grace.    render beautiful ... show more

Dutch: schijnen, stralen

3 shine

Be shiny, as if wet.

synonyms: gleam, glint, glisten, glitter.

Roget 420: shine, glow, glitter; glister, glisten; twinkle, gleam; flare, flare up; glare, beam, shimmer, glimmer, flicker, ... show more

Roget 873: be conscious of glory; be proud of etc. (pride) 878; exult etc. (boast) 884; be vain of etc. (vanity) 880.    be distinguished ... show more

4 shine

Be distinguished or eminent.

Dutch: uitblinken

5 shine

Be clear and obvious.

6 shine

Have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink.

synonyms: beam, glow, radiate.

7 shine

Throw or flash the light of (a lamp).

8 shine

Touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly.

synonyms: fall, strike.

9 shine

Experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion.

synonyms: beam, glow, radiate.

Dutch: afstralen, glimmen, glunderen, stralen

10 shine

Make (a surface) shine:
— Shine the silver, please.

synonyms: polish, smooth, smoothen.

Dutch: oppoetsen, poetsen, slijpen


Moby thesaurus: Amor, Christian love, Eros, Platonic love, admiration, adoration, affection, afterglow, agape, air glow, antic, ardency, ardor, array, attachment, bathtub gin, be born for, be bright, be master of, be somebody ... show more.

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