Shade Definition–noun | 1. | the comparative darkness caused by the interception or screening of rays of light from an object, place, or area. | | 2. | a place or an area of comparative darkness, as one sheltered from the s
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un. | | 5. | shades, | a. | darkness gathering at the close of day: Shades of night are falling. | | c. | a reminder of something: shades of the Inquisition. | | | 6. | Usually, shades. a secluded or obscure place: He was living in the shades. | | 7. | comparative obscurity. | | 9. | Greek and Roman Religion. one of the spirits of the dead inhabiting Hades. | | 11. | the degree of darkness of a color, determined by the quantity of black or by the lack of illumination. | | 12. | comparative darkness, as the effect of shadow or dark and light, in pictorial representation; the dark part, or a dark part, of a picture or drawing. | | 13. | a slight variation or degree: a shade of difference. | | 14. | a little bit; touch, esp. of something that may change the color of or lighten or darken something else: coffee with a shade of cream. | | 15. | anything used for protection against excessive light, heat, etc. | | 16. | (in architectural shades and shadows) a shadow upon those parts of a solid that are tangent to or turned away from the parallel rays from the theoretical light source. Compare shadow (def. 11). | | 17. | the shades, Hades, as the abode of the spirits of the dead. | –verb (used with object) | 18. | to produce shade in or on. | | 19. | to obscure, dim, or darken. | | 20. | to screen or hide from view. | | 21. | to protect (something) from light, heat, etc., by or as by a screen: to shade the eyes from a bright light. | | 22. | to cover or screen (a candle, light, etc.): to shade a light to protect the eyes. | | 23. | Fine Arts. | a. | to introduce degrees of darkness into (a drawing or painting) in order to render light and shadow or give the effect of color. | | b. | to render the values of light and dark in (a drawn figure, object, etc.), esp. in order to create the illusion of three-dimensionality. | | | 24. | to change by imperceptible degrees into something else. | | 25. | to reduce (the price) by way of a concession. | –verb (used without object) | 26. | to pass or change by slight graduations, as one color, quality, or thing into another. | —Verb phrase | 27. | Agriculture. shade up, to take shelter (as livestock) from the sun. | —Idiom | 28. | cast or put someone in or into the shade, to make another person's efforts seem insignificant by comparison; surpass: Her playing puts mine in the shade. | |
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