The difference between Shine and Wax
When used as nouns, shine means brightness from a source of light, whereas wax means beeswax.
When used as verbs, shine means to emit light, whereas wax means to apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.
Wax is also adjective with the meaning: made of wax.
check bellow for the other definitions of Shine and Wax
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Shine as a verb (intransitive):
To emit light.
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Shine as a verb (intransitive):
To reflect light.
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Shine as a verb (intransitive):
To distinguish oneself; to excel.
Examples:
"My nephew tried other sports before deciding on football, which he shone at right away, quickly becoming the star of his school team."
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Shine as a verb (intransitive):
To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.
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Shine as a verb (intransitive):
To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers.
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Shine as a verb (intransitive):
To be immediately apparent.
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Shine as a verb (transitive):
To create light with (a flashlight, lamp, torch, or similar).
Examples:
"I shone my light into the darkness to see what was making the noise."
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Shine as a verb (transitive):
To cause to shine, as a light.
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Shine as a verb (US, transitive):
To make bright; to cause to shine by reflected light.
Examples:
"in hunting, to shine the eyes of a deer at night by throwing a light on them"
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Shine as a noun:
Brightness from a source of light.
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Shine as a noun:
Brightness from reflected light.
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Shine as a noun:
Excellence in quality or appearance.
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Shine as a noun:
Shoeshine.
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Shine as a noun:
Sunshine.
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Shine as a noun (slang):
Moonshine.
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Shine as a noun (cricket):
The amount of shininess on a cricket ball, or on each side of the ball.
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Shine as a noun (slang):
A liking for a person; a fancy.
Examples:
"She's certainly taken a shine to you."
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Shine as a noun (archaic, slang):
A caper; an antic; a row.
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Shine as a verb (transitive):
To cause (something) to shine; put a shine on (something); polish (something).
Examples:
"He shined my shoes until they were polished smooth and gleaming."
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Shine as a verb (transitive, cricket):
To polish a cricket ball using saliva and one's clothing.
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Wax as a noun:
Beeswax.
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Wax as a noun:
Earwax.
Examples:
"What role does the wax in your earhole fulfill?"
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Wax as a noun:
Any oily, water-resistant substance; normally long-chain hydrocarbons, alcohols or esters.
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Wax as a noun:
Any preparation containing wax, used as a polish.
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Wax as a noun (uncountable):
The phonograph record format for music.
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Wax as a noun (US, dialect):
A thick syrup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple and then cooling it.
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Wax as a noun (US, slang):
A type of drugs with as main ingredients weed oil and butane; hash oil
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Wax as an adjective:
Made of wax.
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Wax as a verb (transitive):
To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny.
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Wax as a verb (transitive):
To remove hair at the roots from (a part of the body) by coating the skin with a film of wax that is then pulled away sharply.
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Wax as a verb (transitive, informal):
To defeat utterly.
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Wax as a verb (transitive, slang):
To kill, especially to murder a person.
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Wax as a verb (transitive, archaic, usually, of a musical or oral performance):
To record.
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Wax as a verb (intransitive):
To increase (phase of the Moon or other planet). Example The Moon is waxing.
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Wax as a verb (intransitive, with adjective):
To increasingly assume the specified characteristic, become.
Examples:
"to [[wax lyrical]];  to wax eloquent;  to [[wax wode]]"
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Wax as a verb (intransitive, literary):
To grow.
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Wax as a verb (intransitive, of the [[moon]]):
To appear larger each night as a progression from a new moon to a full moon.
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Wax as a verb (intransitive, of the [[tide]]):
To move from low tide to high tide.
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Wax as a noun (rare):
The process of growing.
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Wax as a noun (dated, colloquial):
An outburst of anger.
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