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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



... Auberly, while a shade of anxiety crossed his face. "You—you are rather weak just now; I must make you be quiet, and try to sleep, if you ...
— Fighting the Flames • R.M. Ballantyne

... O woman, true and pure! That life through shade and light had formed thy mind To feel, imagine, reason, and endure,— To soar for truth, to labor for mankind? Was it for this sad end thou didst bear thy part In deeds and words for struggling Italy,— Devoting thy large mind and larger heart ...
— At Home And Abroad - Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe • Margaret Fuller Ossoli

... sorry you find me displeasing," he said, looking at her gravely. Perhaps she was, at the moment, just the merest shade too evidently the American girl. "I hope the impression is one which will change when ...
— Affairs of State • Burton E. Stevenson

... hands, resumed. "None. His kin are Herod, Caracalla, Attila, Genghis Khan, and Cloacus, Lord of Sewers. Those are his kin. To the shade of the Lampsacene, whom the world had forgotten; to that of Cloacus, whom civilisation had ignored, subsequently he devoted the army. For the troops he invoked them. But that night the ghosts of the others gave him pause. At his age, Caracalla, Attila, Genghis, were dead. ...
— The Paliser case • Edgar Saltus

... of the field she spied something that quickened her steps with pleasure. A baby colt, long-legged, sleek of head and altogether "adorable" as Betty would have said, ambled more or less ungracefully about enjoying the shade of a clump of trees and ...
— Betty Gordon in Washington • Alice B. Emerson


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