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Definition: SHINED |
SHINED1. Of Shine |
Date "SHINED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Crosswords: SHINED |
| Specialty definitions using "SHINED": Angular Response Characterization. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Fangface! Every 400 years, a baby werewolf is born into the Fangsworth family. And so when the moon shined on little Sherman Fangsworth, he changed into Fangface, a werewolf (Fangface; writing credit: John Alan Schwartz) | |
Lyrics | Til' the sun shined through, I'd try to deny it, but I'm still in love with you (Miss You Like Crazy; performing artist: Natalie Cole; writing credit: M. Masser, G. Foffin, P. Glass) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | Soldiers getting their shoes shined in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Brigade Genera Auby C. Strickland of the United States Army Ninth Air Force gets his shoes shined in Tripoli. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Tripoli, Libya. Brigadier General Auby C. Strickland of the U.S. Army 9th Air Force getting his shoes shined. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Samuel Butler | Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon. |
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| "SHINED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 55.56% of the time. "SHINED" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 55.56% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 22.22% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 22.22% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "SHINED": glass-shined, shoe-shined, well-shined. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
shined | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SHINED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 发光 (Glowed, Glowing, Radiance, shining, shiny, Shone). (various references) | |
French | reluits, reluites, reluite, relui. (various references) | |
German | schien (evidenced, seemed, shone), hinaufgeklettert (shinned), geleuchtet. (various references) | |
Korean | 빛나" (Beamed, Brightened, Gleamed, Glittered, Rayed, Shinier, Shiniest, shiny, Shone). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | inedshay.(various references) | |
Russian | сиять (beam, eradiate, shine, shines, shone). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Potamogeton lucens L., Prosopeia personata. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 9, Verse 3 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | En de tw poreuesqai egeneto auton eggizein th damaskw kai exaifnhV perihstrayen auton fwV apo tou ouranou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et cum iter faceret contigit ut adpropinquaret Damasco et subito circumfulsit eum lux de caelo |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And whanne he made his iourney, it bifelde, that he cam nyy to Damask. And sudenli a liyt from heuene schoon aboute hym; |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | But as he went on his iorney it fortuned yt he drue nye to Damasco and sodenly ther shyned rounde about him a lyght fro heven. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined around him a light from heaven: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And while he was journeying, he came near Damascus; and suddenly he saw a light from heaven shining round him; |
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| Language | Acts Chapter 9, Verse 3 |
| Albanian | Por ndodhi që, ndërsa po udhëtonte dhe po i afrohej Damaskut, befas rreth tij vetëtiu një dritë nga qielli. |
| Cebuano | Ug sa naglakaw siya, sa nagsingabut siya sa Damasco, usa ka kahayag gikan sa langit mikalit pagsidlak libut kaniya. |
| Croatian | Kad se putujuæi približi Damasku, iznenada ga obasja svjetlost s neba. |
| Danish | Men da han var undervejs og nærmede sig til Damaskus, omstrålede et Lys fra Himmelen ham pludseligt. |
| Dutch | En als hij reisde, is het geschied, dat hij nabij Damaskus kwam, en hem omscheen snellijk een licht van den hemel; |
| Finnish | Ja kun hän oli matkalla, tapahtui hänen lähestyessään Damaskoa, että yhtäkkiä valo taivaasta leimahti hänen ympärillänsä; |
| French | Comme il était en chemin, et qu`il approchait de Damas, tout coup une lumière venant du ciel resplendit autour de lui. |
| German | Und da er auf dem Wege war und nahe an Damaskus kam, umleuchtete ihn plötzlich ein Licht vom Himmel; |
| Haitian Creole | Antan l' te sou wout la, prèt pou rive lavil Damas, li rete konsa yon limyè soti nan syèl la, li klere tout kote l' te ye a. |
| Hungarian | És a mint méne, lõn, hogy közelgete Damaskushoz, és nagy hirtelenséggel fény sugárzá õt körül a mennybõl: |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Sementara menuju ke Damsyik, ketika sudah dekat dengan kota itu, tiba-tiba suatu sinar dari langit memancar di sekeliling Saulus. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Sedang ia berjalan dekat dengan Damsyik, tiba-tiba memancarlah suatu cahaya dari langit sekeliling dia; |
| Italian | E avvenne che, mentre era in viaggio e stava per avvicinarsi a Damasco, all'improvviso lo avvolse una luce dal cielo |
| Maori | Na, i a ia e haere ana, ka whakatata ia ki Ramahiku; na, ohorere ana te whitinga mai ki a ia, huri noa, o tetahi marama no te rangi: |
| Norwegian | Men på reisen skjedde det at han kom nær til Damaskus, og med ett strålte et lys fra himmelen om ham, |
| Portuguese | Mas, seguindo ele viagem e aproximando-se de Damasco, subitamente o cercou um resplendor de luz do céu; |
| Rumanian | Pe drum, cknd s`a apropiat de Damasc, de odatq a stqlucit o luminq din cer kn jurul lui. |
| Russian | лПЗ"Б ЦЕ ПО ЫЕМ Й ТЙ'МЙЦБМУС Л дБНБУЛХ, ЧОЕЪБ ОП ПУЙСМ ЕЗП УЧЕФ У ОЕ'Б. |
| Shuar | Tura Papí susam Sauru Jintiá wéai, Tamasku péprunam nuntumsai nui aya aneachma nayaimpinmaya Tsáapin jiitsumir téntakmiayi niin. |
| Swahili | Lakini alipokuwa njiani karibu kufika Damasko, ghafla mwanga kutoka angani ulimwangazia pande zote. |
| Swedish | Men när han på sin färd nalkades Damaskus, hände sig att ett sken från himmelen plötsligt kringstrålade honom. |
| Uma | Jadi', pomako' -na hilou hi Damsyik tohe'e, mohu' -imi hi ngata, muu-mule' mehini ncorobaa baja ngkai langi' mpotipuhi-i. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "SHINED": outshined, reshined. (additional references) | |
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"SHINED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hined, sained, Schindel, schined, schmiled, scinde, shanked, shenzen, shided, Shien, shinai, shindy, shinen, shinet, Shiney, shited, shived, shnide, shoned, shrined, shrinked, shund, Shunde, Shynah, Shyne, shynende, sinad, sined, sinid, stined, swined. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SHINED" (pronounced shī"nd) |
| 3 | -ī" n d | aligned, assigned, behind, bind, blind, combined, confined, consigned, declined, defined, designed, dined, intertwined, kind, lined, disinclined, enshrined, entwined, find, fined, grind, hind, inclined, maligned, mankind, mind, mined, opined, realigned, reassigned, redefined, redesigned, refined, remind, resigned, rind, signed, twined, unconfined, undefined, undermined, unkind, unlined, unrefined, unsigned, unwind, wind, wined. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-h-i-n-s" | |
-1 letter: dines, hides, hinds, nides, shend, shied, shine, snide. | |
-2 letters: deni, dens, dies, dine, dins, dish, edhs, ends, hens, hide, hied, hies, hind, hins, hisn, ides, nide, send, shed, shin, side, sine, sinh, sned. | |
-3 letters: den, die, din, dis, edh, eds, end, ens, hen, hes, hid, hie, hin, his, ids, ins, sei, sen, she. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-h-i-n-s" | |
+1 letter: behinds, hinders, hoidens, nerdish, shinned, shrined. | |
+2 letters: adhesion, banished, deanship, deashing, dinghies, echidnas, fiendish, finished, handiest, headings, headpins, hedonics, hedonism, hedonist, hordeins, inmeshed, minished, monished, pinheads, punished, reshined, shandies, shedding, shending, shindies, shingled, shinnied, siphoned, skinhead, snitched, sphenoid, unfished, unwished, vanished. | |
+3 letters: adhesions, anguished, antherids, burnished, cushioned, dauphines, deanships, dehiscent, dehiscing, demijohns, diaphones, dihedrons, diphenyls, dishonest, echinoids, englished, enshrined, ephedrins, evanished, fashioned, furnished, garnished, haciendas, handiness, handspike, hardiness, headiness, headlines, headwinds, hedonisms, hedonists, hendiadys, hinderers, histidine, hoydenish, humanised, hymnodies, inshrined, insphered, inswathed, mishandle, nailheads, nightside, nourished, outshined, phrensied, planished, plenished, shadiness, shielding, shinneyed, shredding, shunpiked, skinheads, sphenoids, squinched, stonished, swineherd, tarnished, tundishes, unshifted, unshipped, unsighted, varnished. | |
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