Sheen vs. Shin — What's the Difference?

Glistening brightness; luster

The front part of the leg below the knee and above the ankle.

Splendid attire.

The shinbone.

A glossy surface given to textiles.

A cut of meat from the lower foreleg of beef cattle.

Beautiful, good-looking, attractive; radiant; shiny.

One of the two forms of the 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet, distinguished from the letter sin by having a dot above the right side of the letter. See Table at alphabet.

Splendor; radiance; shininess.

To climb (a rope or pole, for example) by gripping and pulling alternately with the hands and legs.

A thin layer of a substance (such as oil) spread on a solid or liquid surface.

To kick or hit in the shins.

To shine; to glisten.

To climb something by shinning it.

Bright; glittering; radiant; fair; showy; sheeny.

To move quickly on foot.

To shine; to glisten.

The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone: Shinbone

Brightness; splendor; glitter.

A fishplate for a railway

The visual property of something that shines with reflected light

The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others): Shin (letter)

To climb a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like.

To strike with the shin.

To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as when trying to make a payment.

The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone; the lower part of the leg; the shank.

A fish plate for rails.

To climb a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like; - used with up; as, to shin up a mast.

To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as for the payment of one's notes at the bank.

To climb (a pole, etc.) by shinning up.

The front part of the human leg between the knee and the ankle

A cut of meat from the lower part of the leg

The 22nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet

The inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle

Climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling