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 Translation for 'to shine' from English to Russian
VERB   to shine | shined / shone | shined / shone
shining | shines
SYNO effulgence | radiance | radiancy | ...
блестеть [несов.] [светиться]to shine
светить [излучать свет] [несов.]to shine [emit light]
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Usage Examples English
  • An intense light was positioned to shine directly on the arena, exploiting the snake's natural aversion to bright open spaces.
  • "The Tell-Tale Heart", a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, features the use of a dark lantern by the protagonist to shine a single ray of light on his victim's eye.
  • "Time to Shine" from said album was used as the official theme song for the "WWE Extreme Rules" Pay-Per-View in 2010.
  • The absence of colour not only gives the audience a sense of "anyplace" (and thus allows flexibility from play to play or from scene to scene), it also allows for an innovative lighting design to shine through.
  • She had little chance to shine in what "The Stage" called "a one-part play" written as a vehicle for Taylor.

  • They contributed to the Burn to Shine project, appearing in Volume 3 (Portland), playing "Modern Girl".
  • They had little success after moving to Brooklyn, although Barbra Streisand recorded their song "I Mean To Shine" on her 1971 "Barbra Joan Streisand" album.
  • At the summit of an unnamed mount, Jesus' face begins to shine.
  • Further descendants would include Lithuanian "žaibas" "lightning", verb "žibėti" "to shine, to glow", and possibly Croatian "zúblja" "torch" and Slovene "zubelj" "flame".
  • Let's put Peach up there, let's give her her time to shine".

  • Before Gaia or anyone else could find this plant, Zeus forbade Eos (Dawn), Selene (Moon) and Helios (Sun) to shine, harvested all of the plant himself and then he had Athena summon Heracles.
  • , "to shine".
  • National teams had also begun to shine in the Summer Olympics after the sport was introduced as an event.
  • On Rotten Tomatoes the film has a score of 11% based on 27 reviews with the consensus: "A grimy, humorless glimpse of Steven Seagal's direct-to-video future, "The Glimmer Man" fails to shine."
  • "*Tîwaz" derives from the Proto-Indo-European base "*dei-", "*deyā-", "*dīdyā-", meaning 'to shine', whence comes also such words as "deity".

  • 'to shine'. The earliest surviving candles originated in Han China around 200 BC.
  • Brightness refers to how much light "appears to shine" from something.
  • wrote, "Van was the first writer to shine light on the restricted ways in which I had been taught to view the universe and the human condition".
  • 'lynx', perhaps indicating the existence of a Proto-Celtic root that denoted an animal with shining eyes, from PIE *"leuk-" 'to shine' (compare Greek [...] 'lynx', perhaps from a zero-grade form *"luk-" with infixed nasal).
  • The Sanskrit word "हरि" (Hari) is derived from the Proto-Indo-European root "*"ǵʰel-" to shine; to flourish; green; yellow" which also gave rise to the Persian terms "zar" 'gold', Greek "khloros" 'green', Slavic "zelen" 'green' and "zolto" 'gold', as well as the English words "yellow" and "gold".

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