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verb
- To become shiny.
- To give a gloss or sheen to.
- To make (something) attractive by deception
- Used in a phrasal verb: gloss over (“to cover up a mistake or crime, to treat something with less care than it deserves”).
- To add a gloss to (a text).
noun
- A surface shine or luster.
- A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance.
- A brief explanatory note or translation of a foreign, archaic, technical, difficult, complex, or uncommon expression, inserted after the original, in the margin of a document, or between lines of a text.
- An interpretation by a court of specific point within a statute or case law.
- An extensive commentary on some text.
- A glossary; a collection of such notes.
verb
- To become bright, glossy, and smooth; to brighten, to gleam, to shine forth.
- To make (something, such as a surface) bright, shiny, and smooth by, or (by extension) as if by, rubbing; to polish, to shine.
- Of a thing: to increase in size; to expand, to spread out, to swell.
- To appear positive and highly respected.
- Of a person's body: to grow large or stout; to fatten, to fill out.
- Of a stag: to remove the velvet (“skin and fine fur”) from (its antlers) by rubbing them against something; to velvet.
- To make (someone or something) appear positive and highly respected.
noun
noun
- Shine, polish or sparkle.
- Refinement, polish or quality.
- Lusterware.
- One who lusts or is inflamed with lust.
- A candlestick, chandelier, girandole, etc. generally of an ornamental character.
- A substance that imparts lustre to a surface, such as plumbago or a glaze.
- A fabric of wool and cotton with a lustrous surface, used for women's dresses.
- Brilliance, attractiveness or splendor.
verb
verb
- To shine; to make a surface very smooth or shiny by rubbing, cleaning, or grinding.
- To refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite.
- To apply shoe polish to shoes.
- To become smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss; to take a smooth and glossy surface.
- To refine; remove imperfections from.
noun
verb
- be bright by reflecting or casting light
- make (a surface) shine
- be shiny, as if wet
- emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light
- be distinguished or eminent
- be clear and obvious
- have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink
- throw or flash the light of (a lamp)
- touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
- experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion
noun
adj
verb
- To emit rays; to shine.
- To illuminate; to brighten; to shine light on.
- To radiate, shed, or diffuse.
- To animate by heat or light.
- To treat (food) with ionizing radiation in order to destroy bacteria.
- To decorate with shining ornaments.
- To enlighten intellectually; to illuminate.
- To treat (a tumour or cancerous growth) with radiation.
adj
verb
- To shine as if throwing off sparks; to emit flashes of light; to scintillate; to twinkle
- To manifest itself by, or as if by, emitting sparks; to glisten; to flash.
- To emit sparks; to throw off ignited or incandescent particles
- To emit little bubbles, as certain kinds of liquors; to effervesce
- To emit in the form or likeness of sparks.
noun
verb
- To make brighter or clearer; to illuminate.
- To become light or lighter in weight.
- To become brighter or clearer; to brighten.
- To make less serious or more cheerful.
- To illuminate with knowledge; to enlighten.
- To descend; to light.
- To emit or disclose in, or as if in, lightning; to flash out, like lightning.
- To alleviate; to reduce the burden of.
- To become less serious or more cheerful.
- To make light or lighter in weight.
verb
- To cause to shine forth; exhibit vividly; be resplendent with.
- To disclose; bewray; defame
- To set a precedent for the taking-on of a challenge; lead by example.
- To set in a blaze; burn.
- To mark with a white spot on the face (as a horse).
- To smoke marijuana.
- To be on fire, especially producing bright flames.
- To blazon
- To blow, as from a trumpet
- To be furiously angry; to speak or write in a rage.
- To be conspicuous; shine brightly a brilliancy (of talents, deeds, etc.).
- To publish; announce publicly
- To send forth or reflect a bright light; shine like a flame.
- To indicate or mark out (a trail, especially through vegetation) by a series of blazes.
- To set a mark on (as a tree, usually by cutting off a piece of its bark).
noun
- Publication; the act of spreading widely by report
- A fire, especially a fast-burning fire producing a lot of flames and light.
- The white or lighter-coloured markings on a horse's face.
- A high-visibility orange colour, typically used in warning signs and hunters' clothing.
- A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark.
- A bursting out, or active display of any quality.
- A hand consisting of five face cards.
- Intense, direct light accompanied with heat.
adj
- made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow
- having strong or striking color
- characterized by quickness and ease in learning
- having lots of light either natural or artificial
- splendid
- clear and sharp and ringing
- characterized by happiness or gladness
- likely to turn out well in the future
adj
adv
verb
- To shine or reflect (from a surface, etc.).
- To return or send back; to repel or drive back; to echo, as sound; to reflect, as light, as light or heat.
- To ring or sound with many echos.
- To rebound or recoil.
- To have a lasting effect.
- To send or force back; to repel from side to side.
- To repeatedly return.
- To fuse by reverberated heat.
adj
verb
- To shine brightly and steadily.
- To be related to or part of an (chiefly online) undercover sting operation, especially by American federal agencies.
- to create a threatening online post that may involve violence, and look suspicious enough to attract a police investigation.
- To emit light as if heated.
- To gaze especially passionately at something.
- to expose someone to the authorities.
- To display intense emotion.
- To make hot; to flush.
- To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn.
- To radiate thermal heat.
noun
verb
- To shine like a star.
- To set or adorn with stars, or bright, radiating bodies; to bespangle.
- To feature (a performer or a headliner), especially in a movie or an entertainment program.
- To mark with a star or asterisk.
- To appear as a featured performer or headliner, especially in an entertainment program.
noun
- A composition of combustible matter used in the heading of rockets, in mines, etc., which, exploding in the air, presents a starlike appearance.
- A concave polygon with regular, pointy protrusions and indentations, usually with four, five, or six points.
- Any small luminous dot appearing in the cloudless portion of the night sky, especially with a fixed location relative to other such dots.
- A luminous celestial body, made up of plasma (particularly hydrogen and helium) and having a spherical shape. Depending on context the sun may or may not be included.
- An exceptionally talented or famous person, often in a specific field; a celebrity.
- A symbol used to rate hotels, films, etc. with a higher number of stars denoting better quality.
- A planet supposed to influence one's destiny.
- A star-shaped ornament worn on the breast to indicate rank or honour.
- An actor in a leading role.
- An asterisk (*) or symbol (★).
- A simple dance, or part of a dance, where a group of four dancers each put their right or left hand in the middle and turn around in a circle. You call them right-hand stars or left-hand stars, depending on the hand which is in the middle.
verb
- To shine, especially with intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp.
- To teleport, mostly for short distances.
- To close and reopen both eyes quickly.
- To flash headlights on a car at.
- To shut out of sight; to evade; to shirk.
- To turn slightly sour, or blinky, as beer, milk, etc.
- To see with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly and with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes.
- To flash on and off at regular intervals.
- To close and reopen one's eyes to remove (something) from on or around the eyes.
- To send a signal with a lighting device.
- To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye.
- To perform the smallest action that could solicit a response.
noun
- A text formatting feature that causes text to disappear and reappear as a form of visual emphasis.
- The act of quickly closing both eyes and opening them again.
- A glimpse or glance.
- An ability that allows teleporting, mostly for short distances
- The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; iceblink
- gleam; glimmer; sparkle
- Boughs cast where deer are to pass, in order to turn or check them.
- The time needed to close and reopen one's eyes.
verb
- To become bright; to light up.
- To cause (something) to glow or shine with light.
- To cause (the eyes) to see.
- To enlighten intellectually.
- To enlighten (someone) spiritually; to induce (someone) to adopt, or believe in the truth of, a religion, religious tenet, etc.
- To enlighten (someone) intellectually.
- To decorate (a page of a manuscript book) with ornamental designs.
- To shine light on (something).
- To cause (a person or their face) to show enlightenment, happiness, etc.
- Of a person or their face: to show enlightenment, happiness, etc.
verb
- To show red; to shine suddenly; to glow.
- To cause to be full; to flood; to overflow; to overwhelm with water.
- To operate a placer mine, where the continuous supply of water is insufficient, by holding back the water, and releasing it periodically in a flood.
- To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover.
- To fill in (joints); to point the level; to make them flush.
- To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid.
- To dispose or be disposed of by flushing down a toilet
- To be cleansed by being flooded with generous quantities of water.
- To flow and spread suddenly; to rush.
- To clear (a buffer or cache) of its contents.
- To fill underground spaces, especially in coal mines, with material carried by water, which, after drainage, constitutes a compact mass.
- To cause to blush.
- To cause to take flight from concealment.
- Particularly, to cleanse a toilet by introducing a large amount of water.
- To write (the data) to primary storage, clearing it from the buffer or cache.
- To excite, inflame.
- To become suffused with reddish color due to embarrassment, excitement, overheating, or other systemic disturbance, to blush.
adv
noun
- The process of clearing the contents of a buffer or cache.
- A hand consisting of all cards with the same suit.
- A sudden flowing; a rush which fills or overflows, as of water for cleansing purposes.
- A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow.
- Particularly, such a cleansing of a toilet.
- Any tinge of red colour like that produced on the cheeks by a sudden rush of blood.
- A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees, etc.
- A sudden flood or rush of feeling; a thrill of excitement, animation, etc.
adj
verb
- To emit beams of light; to shine; to radiate.
- To put (something) on a beam.
- To smile broadly or especially cheerfully.
- To stretch something (for example, an animal hide) on a beam.
- To furnish or supply with beams.
- To give the appearance of beams to.
- To transmit matter or information via a high-tech wireless mechanism.
- To connect (musical notes) with a beam, or thick line, in music notation.
- To transmit, especially by direct wireless means such as infrared.
noun
- One of the long feathers in the wing of a hawk.
- A horizontal bar which connects the stems of two or more notes to group them and to indicate metric value.
- The maximum width of a vessel (note that a vessel with a beam of 15 foot can also be said to be 15 foot abeam).
- One of the principal horizontal structural members, usually of steel, timber, or concrete, of a building; one of the transverse members of a ship's frame on which the decks are laid — supported at the sides by knees in wooden ships and by stringers in steel ones.
- The crossbar of a mechanical balance, from the ends of which the scales are suspended.
- The direction across a vessel, perpendicular to fore-and-aft.
- Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.
- The pole of a carriage or chariot.
- A ray or collection of approximately parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body.
- In steam engines, a heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft.
- A cylinder of wood, making part of a loom, on which weavers wind the warp before weaving and the cylinder on which the cloth is rolled, as it is woven.
- The principal stem of the antler of a deer.
- The straight part or shank of an anchor.
- A ray; a gleam.
- An elevated rectangular dirt pile used to cheaply build an elevated portion of a railway.
- The central bar of a plow, to which the handles and colter are secured, and to the end of which are attached the oxen or horses that draw it.
noun
verb
- To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light.
- To cause to burn; in particular, to burn off excess gas (flare gas).
- To open outward in shape.
- To blaze brightly.
- To shine out with gaudy colours; to be offensively bright or showy.
- To (operate an aircraft to) transition from downward flight to level flight just before landing.
- To suddenly happen or intensify.
- To suddenly erupt in anger.
- To cause inflammation; to inflame.
noun
- A type of pyrotechnic that produces a brilliant light without an explosion, used to attract attention in an emergency, to illuminate an area, or as a decoy.
- Bell-bottom trousers.
- The transition from downward flight to level flight just before landing.
- A low fly ball that is hit in the region between the infielders and the outfielders.
- A route run by the running back, releasing toward the sideline and then slightly arcing upfield looking for a short pass.
- A breakdance move of someone helicoptering his torso on alternating arms.
- A source of brightly burning light or intense heat.
- A sudden eruption or outbreak; a flare-up.
- The increase in width of most ship hulls with increasing height above the waterline.
- A flame produced by a burn-off of waste gas (flare gas) from a flare tower (or flare stack), typically at an oil refinery.
- A widening of an object with an otherwise roughly constant width.
- An inflammation such as of tendons (tendonitis) or joints (osteoarthritis).
- A sudden bright light.
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