shine

1. (intransitive, copulative) To emit or reflect light so as to glow.Examples: "The water shone pacifically; the sky, without a speck, was a benign immensity of unstained light; the very mist on the Essex marshes was like a gauzy and radiant fabric, hung from the wooded rises inland, and draping the low shores in diaphanous folds."; "‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’"Synonyms: beam, glow, radiatecopulativeintransitive

2. (intransitive, copulative) To reflect light.Synonyms: gleam, glint, glisten, glitter, luster, reflect, coruscate, flashcopulativeintransitive

3. (intransitive, copulative) To distinguish oneself; to excel.Examples: "My nephew tried other sports before deciding on football, which he shone at right away, quickly becoming the star of his school team."; "“[…] I was grateful to you for giving him a year’s schooling—where he shined at it—and for putting him as a clerk in your counting-house, where he shined still more.”"; "It prompted an exchange of substitutions as Jermain Defoe replaced Palacios and Javier Hernandez came on for Berbatov, who had failed to shine against his former club."Synonyms: excel, rule, bang, devour, eat, eat and leave no crumbs, excel, go hardcopulativeintransitive

4. (intransitive, copulative) To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.Examples: "So proud she shyned in her Princely state."; "Once brightest shined this child of heat and air."copulativeintransitive

5. (intransitive, copulative) To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers.Examples: "Few are qualified to shine in company; but it in most men's power to be agreeable."copulativeintransitive

6. (intransitive, copulative) To be immediately apparent.copulativeintransitive