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Shades   /ʃeɪdz/   Listen
Shades

noun
1.
Spectacles that are darkened or polarized to protect the eyes from the glare of the sun.  Synonyms: dark glasses, sunglasses.


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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"Shades" Quotes from Famous Books



... not appear to be very communicative, I mounted my cream-coloured horse, and left him staring at me in silence until I was out of sight. We encamped at noon, under two wide-spreading Sarcocephalus trees, whose grateful shade offered us a shelter from the scorching sun. But, as the sun got low, the shades of the oval crown of the trees drew rapidly off, and we had to lean against the shady side of the butt to obtain relief from the heat, which had so enervating an effect upon us that the slightest exertion was ...
— Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia • Ludwig Leichhardt
... released the girl who crouched at once by the side of the other lieutenant. The shades of night were falling on the little trim garden with this touching group, whence proceeded low murmurs of sorrow and compassion, with other feeble sounds of a different character, as if an imperfectly awake invalid were trying to swear. Lieut. ...
— A Set of Six • Joseph Conrad
... the sale entirely, another would think more might be done by some other method of restriction. All that I have read of our experiences goes to prove that the people of the earth will never drive out this evil till all shades of temperance people get Christianity enough into their hearts to unite on a broad platform and work as one army with ...
— Daybreak: A Romance of an Old World • James Cowan
... now renounced of the gigantic effects predicted in the guide-books. On the other hand, the heteroclite array of the dancers of the night before, torn from their slumbers, appeared in fantastic and ridiculous outline like the shades of a magic lantern; shawls, rugs, and even bed-quilts wrapped around them. Under varied headgear, nightcaps of silk or cotton, broad-brimmed female hats, turbans, fur caps with ear-pads, were haggard faces, swollen faces, heads of shipwrecked ...
— Tartarin On The Alps • Alphonse Daudet
... manner is never like a person of the lower classes, trying to show she thinks she is an equal. It has exactly the right note—perfectly respectful as one who is employed, but with the serene unselfconsciousness that only breeding gives. Shades of manner are very interesting to watch. Somehow I know that Miss Sharp, in her washed cotton, with her red ...
— Man and Maid • Elinor Glyn


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