单词 | overshine |
释义 | overshinev. 1. transitive. To shine over or upon, to illuminate. Now rare (chiefly poetic).In quot. c1425: (of a shadow) to fall across, cover. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > shine [verb (transitive)] > surround with light beshineOE overshineOE umshinea1400 OE Blickling Homilies 129 Næs na þæt an þæt þæt leoht þa dune ane oferscineþ..ac eac swylce..þa burh. OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xvii. 5 Beorhtwolcn hig oferscean. c1425 Prose Versions New Test.: Deeds (Cambr.) (1904) v. 15 (MED) Whanne Peter kome, at þo leste his schadowe myghte ouer-schine [L. obumbraret] iche of hem, ande so be deliuerde of þer sekenes. c1450 in R. H. Robbins Secular Lyrics 14th & 15th Cent. (1952) 202 (MED) Fair fresshest erþly creature that euere the sonne ouer-shone, [etc.]. a1475 Sidrak & Bokkus (Lansd.) (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Washington) (1965) 902 (MED) Adoun come þere an aungel bright And ouere shone hem wiþ greet light. c1550 Clariodus (1830) v. 607 When that Phebus did all the world ouerschyne. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) ii. i. 38 That wee..Should notwithstanding ioyne our Lights together, And ouer-shine the Earth, as this the World. View more context for this quotation a1711 T. Ken Sion iii, in Wks. (1721) IV. 400 It kindled in Me heavn'ly Flame, I felt it gently over-shine my Breast. 1832 Fraser's Mag. 6 392 A ruddy sun was overshining his face. a1861 E. B. Browning Poet. Wks. (1897) 536 Green anon The sward would quicken, overshone By skies as blue. 1910 H. C. Ray Poems 136 A vista rare with stars That overshone a dewy height. 1991 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 25 Nov. b2 With the arrival of Fortune's floodlights, the wilderness park is overshone by a murky, city-like haze. 2. transitive. To shine more brightly than, to outshine. Frequently figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > outdo or surpass [verb (transitive)] overstyeOE overshinec1175 overgoc1225 passc1225 surmountc1369 forpassc1374 overmatcha1375 overpassa1382 to pass overa1393 overcomec1400 outpass?a1425 exceedc1425 precedec1425 superexcelc1429 transcendc1430 precel?a1439 outcut1447 overgrowc1475 to come over ——a1479 excel1493 overleapa1500 vanquish1533 outweigh1534 prevent1540 better1548 preferc1550 outgo1553 surpassa1555 exsuperate1559 cote1566 overtop1567 outrun1575 outstrip1579 outsail1580 overruna1586 pre-excel1587 outbid1589 outbrave1589 out-cote1589 top1590 outmatch1593 outvie1594 superate1595 surbravec1600 oversile1608 over-height1611 overstride1614 outdoa1616 outlustrea1616 outpeera1616 outstrikea1616 outrival1622 antecede1624 out-top1624 antecell1625 out-pitch1627 over-merit1629 outblazea1634 surmatch1636 overdoa1640 overact1643 outact1644 worst1646 overspana1657 outsoar1674 outdazzle1691 to cut down1713 ding1724 to cut out1738 cap1821 by-pass1848 overtower1850 pretergress1851 outray1876 outreach1879 cut1884 outperform1937 outrate1955 one-up1963 c1175 ( Homily (Bodl. 343) in S. Irvine Old Eng. Homilies (1993) 170 His beorhtnesse oferscinæð alle oðre liht... Efne swa þe steoræ oferscinæð oðerne on brihtnesse. a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. B And ouer-shine the troupe of all the maids. 1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus i. i. 314 That..Dost ouershine the gallanst [sic] Dames of Rome. View more context for this quotation 1650 J. Trapp Clavis to Bible (Gen. xxxvii. 11) 288 Others precellencies, whereby we are over-shined. 1827 T. Carlyle tr. J. P. F. Richter in German Romance III. 86 She would so gladly..have..overshone many a female dignitary. 1877 Harper's Mag. Dec. 98/1 A mass of diamonds..worn..with a kind of insolence, as if the wearer were quite sure their splendor could not overshine her own personal charms. 1911 H. O. Taylor Mediaeval Mind (1919) II. xxxviii. 429 Perhaps the Franciscan glories overshone the Dominican at Oxford. 1992 Chicago Sun-Times (Nexis) 2 Sept. 78 Mount Carmel may be the only program in the city where a former Bears quarterback wouldn't overshine the coaches or players. Derivatives overˈshining n. rare ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > [noun] > shining or being luminous shininga1300 lighteninga1382 lucencec1485 overshining1587 emication1633 luminosity1634 outshining1648 luminousness1668 fulsion1680 affulsion1730 raying1787 lumination1794 nebulosity1813 lustrousness1839 luminance1880 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. iii. 34 Like as the Moone shineth not, but by the ouershining of the Sunne vpon her. 2002 Bioinformatics 18 759/1 When the background pixel region is perturbed by erroneous high pixel intensities, e.g. overshining of bright spots to neighbor background pixels. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.OE |
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