Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Glistening brightness; luster.
- noun Splendid attire.
- noun A glossy surface given to textiles.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete (Scotch) plural of
shoe . - Fair; bright; shining; glittering; beautiful.
- noun Brightness; luster; splendor.
- To shine; glisten.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb Poetic To shine; to glisten.
- adjective R., except in poetry. Bright; glittering; radiant; fair; showy; sheeny.
- noun Brightness; splendor; glitter.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
beautiful ,good-looking ,attractive ;radiant ;shiny . - noun
splendor ;radiance ;shininess . - verb To
shine ; toglisten .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the visual property of something that shines with reflected light
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In fact, a single drop of crude oil dropped into relatively still water in the Gulf can spread out to form a sheen the size of several football fields, even though the sheen is only a few microns thick.
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The product, at the end of the day, is a very literary, heavy on style monkeyism, story which might just have a thin sheen of SF patina on it.
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My favourite SF shows are all American, although maybe there's a certain sheen added by cultural distance.
Thoughts on SciFi Television Lou Anders 2008
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And when day-break dawned and the star of morn appeared in sheen and shone, he broke up the sitting and, dismissing the youths, donned his court-dress and leaving his house set out for the palace of the
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They aren't altogether bad, but they have a certain sheen to them that looks flat and polished.
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When the morning morrowed in sheen and shone, Nur al-Din awoke from deep sleep and found that she had brought water: 484 so they made the Ghusl-ablution, he and she, and he performed that which behoved him of prayer to his Lord, after which she set before him meat and drink, and he ate and drank.
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They aren't altogether bad, but they have a certain sheen to them that looks flat and polished.
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When dawn broke and morn arose in sheen and shone, the Fakirs went to seek the
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On her right cheek is a mole and on her waist, under her navel, is a sign; her face shines as the rondure of the moon in sheen, her waist is slight, her hips a heavy weight, and the water of her mouth the sick doth heal, as it were Kausar or
yarb commented on the word sheen
The sun had begun to set, everything in the range of his vision was overlaid with a sheen of gold.
- Frank Norris, The Octopus, ch. 1
August 9, 2008
actung commented on the word sheen
(v.) To party in excess. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/fashion/06NOTICED.html
June 22, 2011
sunnyabraham commented on the word sheen
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August 22, 2012