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shiner

/shahy-ner/US // ˈʃaɪ nər //UK // (ˈʃaɪnə) //

衬衣,衬里,衬垫,衬垫者

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person or thing that shines.
    • : Slang. black eye.
    • : any of various small American freshwater fishes having glistening scales, especially a minnow.
    • : any of various silvery, marine fishes, as the menhaden or butterfish.
    • : a defect in silk or synthetic filament or fabric, produced either in the process of winding or as a result of shuttle friction and appearing on fabric as a shiny streak.

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Examples

  • The shiner that developed meant I had to spend the first five minutes of every video call explaining what had happened.

  • They could only film one side of John Francis Daley’s face that day, given the shiner he got from “catching a flyball with his eye by accident,” as his TV mom, Becky Ann Baker, now puts it.

  • Veterans of old and more recent wars crowded around the bar downing shots of Regal Crown Black, chased by Shiner Bock.

  • Hard to imagine him slammin' down Shiner Bocks and listenin' to Willie Nelson.

  • His untidy hair was rumpled, as if someone had been hanging onto it while in the process of giving him the shiner.

  • This he cut open, and trimmed down with his knife until it resembled a large shiner.

  • The name Helen is philologically allied to Helios the Sun, and is generally interpreted to mean torch, shiner, or giver of light.

  • At station A-2 the Arkansas River shiner made up 14.6 per cent of all fish taken.

  • In the Arkansas River smaller relative numbers of this shiner were obtained.