shin | (noun) the inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle | Synonyms: shin bone, shinbone, tibia |
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(noun) the front part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle | - |
(noun) the 22nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
(noun) a cut of meat from the lower part of the leg | Synonyms: shin bone |
(verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: clamber, scramble, shinny, skin, sputter, struggle |
shinbone | (noun) the inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle | Synonyms: shin, shin bone, tibia |
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shindig | (noun) a large and noisy party of people | Synonyms: shindy |
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shindy | (noun) a large and noisy party of people | Synonyms: shindig |
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shine | (noun) the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light | Synonyms: effulgence, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, refulgency |
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(verb) make (a surface) shine | Synonyms: polish, smooth, smoothen |
(verb) experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion | Synonyms: beam, glow, radiate |
(verb) be shiny, as if wet | Synonyms: gleam, glint, glisten, glitter |
(verb) have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink | Synonyms: beam, glow, radiate |
(verb) touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly | Synonyms: fall, strike |
(verb) be distinguished or eminent | - |
(verb) be clear and obvious | - |
(verb) emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light | Synonyms: beam |
(verb) be bright by reflecting or casting light | Synonyms: reflect |
(verb) throw or flash the light of (a lamp) | - |
shiner | (noun) any of numerous small silvery North American cyprinid fishes especially of the genus Notropis | - |
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(noun) important food fish of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scales | Synonyms: common mackerel, Scomber scombrus |
(noun) something that shines (with emitted or reflected light) | - |
(noun) a swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye | Synonyms: black eye, mouse |
shingle | (noun) a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g. | - |
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(noun) building material used as siding or roofing | Synonyms: shake |
(noun) coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel) | - |
(verb) cover with shingles | - |
shingler | (noun) a worker who shingles roofs | - |
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shingles | (noun) eruptions along a nerve path often accompanied by severe neuralgia | Synonyms: herpes zoster, zoster |
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shingling | (noun) the laying on of shingles | - |
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(noun) (geology) sediment in which flat pebbles are uniformly tilted in the same direction | - |
shingly | (adjective) abounding in small stones | Synonyms: gravelly, pebbly |
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shininess | (noun) the visual property of something that shines with reflected light | Synonyms: luster, lustre, sheen |
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shining | (adjective) marked by exceptional merit | - |
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(adjective) reflecting light | Synonyms: glistening, glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shiny |
(adjective) made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow | Synonyms: bright, burnished, lustrous, shiny |
(noun) the work of making something smooth and shiny by rubbing or waxing it | Synonyms: polishing |
shinleaf | (noun) North American evergreen with small pinkish bell-shaped flowers and oblong leaves used formerly for shinplasters | Synonyms: Pyrola elliptica, wild lily of the valley |
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shinney | (noun) a simple version of hockey played by children on the streets (or on ice or on a field) using a ball or can as the puck | Synonyms: shinny |
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shinny | (noun) a simple version of hockey played by children on the streets (or on ice or on a field) using a ball or can as the puck | Synonyms: shinney |
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(verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: clamber, scramble, shin, skin, sputter, struggle |
shinpad | (noun) a stiff protective garment worn by hockey players or a catcher in baseball to protect the shins | Synonyms: shin guard |
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shinplaster | (noun) paper money of little value issued on insufficient security | - |
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shiny | (adjective) having a shiny surface or coating | Synonyms: glazed |
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(adjective) reflecting light | Synonyms: glistening, glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shining |
(adjective) made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow | Synonyms: bright, burnished, lustrous, shining |