Gleam
Part of speech: noun
Definition: a small or indistinct shaft or stream of light. a glimpse or hint; an indistinct sign of something. brightness or shininess; splendor.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To shine; to glitter; to glisten. To be briefly but strongly apparent. To disgorge filth, as a hawk.
Example sentence: All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
Shine
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To emit light.To reflect light.To distinguish oneself; to excel.To be immediately apparent.To polish (something).To polish a cricket ball using saliva and one's clothing.To create light with a flashlight, lamp, torch, etc.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Brightness from a source of light.Brightness from reflected light.Excellence in quality or appearance.Shoeshine.Sunshine.Moonshine.The amount of shininess on a cricket ball, or on each side of the ball.
Example sentence: We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining - they just shine.