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US
/ˈʃaɪnɝ/
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[ UK /ʃˈaɪnɐ/ ]
[ UK /ʃˈaɪnɐ/ ]
NOUN
- something that shines (with emitted or reflected light)
- a swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye
- important food fish of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean; its body is greenish-blue with dark bars and small if any scales
- any of numerous small silvery North American cyprinid fishes especially of the genus Notropis
How To Use shiner In A Sentence
- It didn't break, but George was bleeding and had copped a bit of a shiner.
- Before the sale, Moffett signed a deal with Arthur Kaspar to sell coin-operated newspaper vending boxes made by Kaspar Wire Works of Shiner, Texas.22
- He comments that a patient might talk of a "shiner" whereas a doctor (holy of holies) would speak of a "periorbital ecchymosis," which is true only if you could imagine a doctor referring to cephalalgia instead of a headache or odontalgia instead of a toothache. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 1
- Other species include banded killfish, mummichog, tidewater silverside, bay anchovy, tesselated darter and spottail shiner. Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Maryland
- This image evolved over the decades, and the moonshiner became fixed as a corncob-pipe-smoking craftsman filling stoneware jugs with a clear and tasty elixir while keeping an eye out for pesky revenuers. Hipster Moonshine
- I posted a picture of one of the shiners after a match, should have some good boxing shots too soon.
- She is here competing with other piscivorous (fish-eating) birds in search of anchovy, shiner perch and grunion to eat.
- I didn't feel I could go to school, not with my shiner.
- Baitfish comprise the minnows, shiners, and chubs.
- Marginal cell: in Diptera (Williston): = subcostal (Shiner): = radial Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
