padlet by https://padlet.com/StellaRuan/zxpglw004u5o simple en-us 2017-02-25 15:29:06 UTC 2025-11-11 00:16:16 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Lovecookie.png Wish StellaRuan https://padlet.com/StellaRuan/zxpglw004u5o/wish/156191604 wish (plural wishes)
  1. a desire, hope, or longing for something or for something to happen
  2. an expression of such a desire etc.
  3. the process of expressing or thinking about such a desire etc. (often connected with ideas of magic and supernatural power(s)
  4. the thing desired or longed for Your dearest wish will come true.
    • 1901, W. W. Jacobs, The Monkey's Paw"I suppose all old soldiers are the same," said Mrs White. "The idea of our listening to such nonsense! How could wishes be granted in these days? And if they could, how could two hundred pounds hurt you, father?" / "Might drop on his head from the sky," said the frivolous Herbert.
  5. (Sussex) a water meadow.
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  1. (intransitive) To emit light. 
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 20, The China Governess:‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shineinto that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’
  2. (intransitive) To reflect light.
  3. (intransitive) To distinguish oneself; to excel. 
    • 1867, Frederick William Robinson, No Man's Friend, Harper & Brothers, : “ […] I was grateful to you for giving him a year’s schooling—where he shined at it—and for putting him as a clerk in your counting-house, where he shined still more.”
    • 2011 January 15, Phil McNulty, “”, BBC:
    • It prompted an exchange of substitutions as Jermain Defoe replaced Palacios and Javier Hernandez came on for Berbatov, who had failed to shine against his former club.
  4. My nephew tried other sports before deciding on football, which he shone at right away, quickly becoming the star of his school team.
  5. (intransitive) To be effulgent in splendour or beauty. 
    • Spenser So proud she shined in her princely state.
    • Alexander Pope Once brightest shined this child of heat and air.
  6. (intransitive) To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers. 
    • Jonathan Swift Few are qualified to shine in company; but it in most men's power to be agreeable.
  7. (intransitive) To be immediately apparent.
  8. (transitive) To create light with (a flashlight, lamp, torch, or similar). 
    • 2007, David Lynn Goleman, Legend: An Event Group Thriller, St. Martin’s Press (2008), , : As Jenks shined the large spotlight on the water, he saw a few bubbles and four long wakes leading away from an expanding circle of blood.
  9. I shined my light into the darkness to see what was making the noise.
  10. (transitive) To cause to shine, as a light. 
    • Francis BaconHe [God] doth not rain wealth, nor shine honour and virtues, upon men equally.
  11. (US, transitive) To make bright; to cause to shine by reflected light. in hunting, to shine the eyes of a deer at night by throwing a light on them(Can we find and add a quotation of Bartlett to this entry?)
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  1. (obsolete)  To assign, appoint (something tosomeone); to designate. [16th-19th c.]
    • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.10: he looks not below the Moon, but hath designed the regiment of sublunary affairs unto inferiour deputations.
    • Dryden He was designed to the study of the law.
  2. To plan and carry out (a picture, work of art, construction etc.). [from 17th c.]
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, The China Governess:The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.
  3. Primitive people believe that gods designed the Earth and humans.
  4. (obsolete) To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint. 
    • Shakespeare We shall see / Justice design the victor's chivalry.
    • Beaumont and Fletcher Meet me to-morrow where the master / And this fraternity shall design.
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