Definition of Shining

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Shining

of Shine

Emitting light, esp. in a continuous manner; radiant; as, shining lamps; also, bright by the reflection of light; as, shining armor.

Splendid; illustrious; brilliant; distinguished; conspicious; as, a shining example of charity.

Having the surface smooth and polished; -- said of leaves, the surfaces of shells, etc.

Emission or reflection of light.

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Shining Quotations

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
John F. Kennedy

White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

You've got to get out and pray to the sky to appreciate the sunshine; otherwise you're just a lizard standing there with the sun shining on you.
Ken Kesey

Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.
Christian Nestell Bovee

I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible.
Anne Rice

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
Anton Chekhov

There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a branch of the Illuminati.
Carroll Quigley

Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.
Antonin Artaud

Shining Translations

shining in German is scheinend, blanke, starhlend
shining in Italian is brillante, fulgente
shining in Latin is micans, candidus, lucidus
shining in Spanish is brillante, luminoso, esplendoso
shining in Swedish is lysande

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