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Shade   /ʃeɪd/   Listen
Shade

noun
1.
Relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body.  Synonyms: shadiness, shadowiness.  "There's too much shadiness to take good photographs"
2.
A quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color.  Synonyms: tincture, tint, tone.
3.
Protective covering that protects something from direct sunlight.  "As the sun moved he readjusted the shade"
4.
A subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude.  Synonyms: nicety, nuance, refinement, subtlety.  "Don't argue about shades of meaning"
5.
A position of relative inferiority.  "His brother's success left him in the shade"
6.
A slight amount or degree of difference.  Synonym: tad.  "Not a tad of difference" , "The new model is a shade better than the old one"
7.
A mental representation of some haunting experience.  Synonyms: ghost, specter, spectre, spook, wraith.  "It aroused specters from his past"
8.
A representation of the effect of shadows in a picture or drawing (as by shading or darker pigment).
verb
(past & past part. shaded; pres. part. shading)
1.
Cast a shadow over.  Synonyms: shade off, shadow.
2.
Represent the effect of shade or shadow on.  Synonym: fill in.
3.
Protect from light, heat, or view.
4.
Vary slightly.
5.
Pass from one quality such as color to another by a slight degree.



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"Shade" Quotes from Famous Books



... beads of perspiration rolling from their foreheads sat down under the shade of an apple tree to discuss the situation. Since their armory was demeaned into a pig-pen, it was necessary to remove their weapons and put them in a secure place; but ...
— Pixy's Holiday Journey • George Lang

... an object, sufficiently suggests the color intended. But it may easily be seen that this is not true; for apples are of many different hues of green, and it is only by a conventional selection that we can appropriate the term to one special shade. When this appropriation is once made, the term refers to the sensation, and not to the parts of the term; for these enter into the compound merely as a help to the memory, whether the suggestion be a ...
— A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive • John Stuart Mill

... motionless sea, the consuming rays of the tropical sun are poured pitilessly and directly. You have to climb these streaks of red-hot ash, descend again on the other side, climb again, climb, climb without halt, without repose, without shade. The horses cough, sink to their knees and slide down the ...
— Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories • Edited by Julian Hawthorne

... among trees, a half-Norman, decorated beauty, out of the age, but altogether in the heart. As I came near, of a summer afternoon, the waving of leaves and the buzzing of bees without, and the hum of the voices of children at school within the adjoining building, the cool shade and the beautiful view of the ruined Abbey beyond, made an impression which I can never forget. Among such scenes one learns why the English love so heartily their rural life, and why every object peculiar to it has brought forth a picture or a poem. I can imagine ...
— The Gypsies • Charles G. Leland

... he lived in Fleet Street or Chancery Lane, but whether he frequented the Grecian or the Rainbow. Nobody was excluded from these places who laid down his penny at the bar. Yet every rank and profession, and every shade of religious and political opinion, had its own headquarters. There were houses near Saint James's Park where fops congregated, their heads and shoulders covered with black or flaxen wigs, not less ample than those which are now worn by the Chancellor ...
— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 1 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay


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