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SHINY
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Irregular inflected forms: shinier , shiniest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Reflecting light
Example:
shining white enamel
Synonyms:
glistening; glossy; lustrous; sheeny; shining; shiny
Classified under:
Similar:
bright (emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts)
Derivation:
shininess (the visual property of something that shines with reflected light)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having a shiny surface or coating
Example:
glazed doughnuts
Synonyms:
glazed; shiny
Classified under:
Similar:
glassy; vitreous; vitrified ((of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it)
glass-like (resembling glass)
calendered; glossy ((of paper and fabric and leather) having a surface made smooth and shiny especially by pressing between rollers)
icy (shiny and slick as with a thin coating of ice)
Derivation:
shine (the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light)
shininess (the visual property of something that shines with reflected light)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow
Example:
shiny black patents
Synonyms:
bright; burnished; lustrous; shining; shiny
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
polished (perfected or made shiny and smooth)
Derivation:
shine (the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light)
shininess (the visual property of something that shines with reflected light)
Context examples:
Metallic mercury is a shiny, silver-white, odorless liquid.
(Mercury, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry)
It is characterized by smooth, shiny colonies, a shorter generation time, and a unique phenolic glycolipid and lipo-oligosaccharide.
(Mycobacterium canetti, NCI Thesaurus)
An uncommon inflammatory skin condition, often associated with diabetes mellitus, that is characterized by the formation of multiple shiny atrophic lesions thought to be due to collagen degeneration with a granulomatous response, thickening of blood vessel walls, and fat deposition.
(Necrobiosis Lipoidica, NCI Thesaurus)
They left me, during this time, with a very nice man with a very large head of red hair and a very small shiny hat upon it, who had got a cross-barred shirt or waistcoat on, with Skylark in capital letters across the chest.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Silver hobbled, grunting, on his crutch; his nostrils stood out and quivered; he cursed like a madman when the flies settled on his hot and shiny countenance; he plucked furiously at the line that held me to him and from time to time turned his eyes upon me with a deadly look.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
And when his hands are too trembly, and his eyes too shiny, why, I lecture him about his life and the wrong way he is going about it to mend it.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He shot a questioning glance at each of us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He wore a very shiny top hat and a neat suit of sober black, which made him look what he was—a smart young City man, of the class who have been labeled cockneys, but who give us our crack volunteer regiments, and who turn out more fine athletes and sportsmen than any body of men in these islands.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
What intolerable dulness to sit listening to the ticking of the clock; and watching Miss Murdstone's little shiny steel beads as she strung them; and wondering whether she would ever be married, and if so, to what sort of unhappy man; and counting the divisions in the moulding of the chimney-piece; and wandering away, with my eyes, to the ceiling, among the curls and corkscrews in the paper on the wall!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Brissenden paused and ran an insolent eye over Martin's objective poverty, passing from the well-worn tie and the saw- edged collar to the shiny sleeves of the coat and on to the slight fray of one cuff, winding up and dwelling upon Martin's sunken cheeks.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
