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Shiny, a 2005 album by The Bang "Shiny", ... typically because very clean or polished. synonyms: glossy, glassy, bright, polished, gleaming antonyms: matte
In Albanian the Sun – worshiped as the god of light, sky and weather, giver of life, health and energy, and all-seeing eye [8] – is referred to as Dielli, a name that is considered to have been a word taboo originally meaning "yellow, golden, bright/shiny one" used to refer to the Sun due to its perceived sacred nature. [9]
The commonly accepted historical linguistic evolution of the word is: Albanian dielli < Proto-Albanian *dðiella < *dziella-< Pre-Proto-Albanian *ȷ́élu̯a-< Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰélh₃u̯o-"yellow, golden, bright/shiny". [30] Sunday is named e diel in Albanian, translating the Latin diēs Sōlis with the native name of the Sun. [31]
The word is from a Proto-Germanic *berhtaz, ultimately from a PIE root with a closely related meaning, * bhereg-"white, bright". "Brightness" was formerly used as a synonym for the photometric term luminance and (incorrectly) for the radiometric term radiance.
The word iridescence is derived in part from the Greek word ἶρις îris (gen. ἴριδος íridos), meaning rainbow, and is combined with the Latin suffix -escent, meaning "having a tendency toward". [1] Iris in turn derives from the goddess Iris of Greek mythology, who is the personification of the rainbow and acted as a messenger of the ...
A police officer in Taiwan wears a white motorcycle helmet in conjunction with a high-visibility vest. According to a 2004 study, the wearing of reflective or fluorescent clothing correlated with a 37 percent lower risk of a rider sustaining a crash-related injury; likewise, white helmets demonstrated a 24 percent reduction.
The cut motion is designed to give a uniform, smooth, semi-bright surface finish. This is achieved by moving the workpiece against the rotation of the buffing wheel, while using medium to hard pressure. The color motion gives a clean, bright, shiny surface finish.
Thereafter the serpent was able to move again, and the place was called Mound of the Wounded Serpent. One year later the serpent brought a bright pearl [明珠] in its mouth to give the ruler of Sui to show its gratitude. The pearl was greater than an inch in diameter, of the purest white and emitted light like moonglow.