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shade

(shād)

1. Light diminished in intensity as a result of the interception of the rays; partial darkness.

2. Cover or shelter provided by interception by an object of the sun or its rays: sat in the shade under the tree.

3. The part of a picture or photograph depicting darkness or shadow.

a. A gradation of a color as it is mixed with black or is decreasingly illuminated: shades of gray.

b. A slight difference or variation; a nuance: shades of meaning. See Synonyms at nuance.

c. A small amount; a trace: detected a shade of bitterness in her remarks.

a. Any of various devices used to reduce or screen light or heat: closed the window shades.

b. shades Informal Sunglasses.

6. shades

a. Dark shadows gathering at dusk: "The shades of night are falling fast" (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow).

b. The abode of the dead; the underworld: went to the shades of hell.

a. A disembodied spirit; a ghost.

b. shades A present reminder of a person or situation in the past: shades of my high-school days.

v. shad·ed, shad·ing, shades

v.tr.

1. To screen from light or heat: Trees shaded the street.

2. To obscure or darken: "A sliver of mustache shaded his upper lip" (Michael Finkel).

a. To represent degrees of shade or shadow in: shade a drawing.

b. To produce (gradations of light or color) in a drawing or picture: shaded the pink in the sunset.

4. To change or vary by slight degrees: shade the meaning.

5. To make a slight reduction in: shade prices.

v.intr.

To pass from one quality, color, or thing to another by very slight changes or degrees.

Idiom:

a shade

A little bit; slightly: a sprinter who was a shade quicker that the rest.

[Middle English, from Old English sceadu.]

shad′er n.

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shaded

(ˈʃeɪdɪd)

adj

protected from light, sunlight, etc(of an area on a map, diagram, etc) coloured darker than the surrounding areas, so that it can be distinguished from them

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Adj.	1.	shaded - protected from heat and light with shade or shadow; "shaded avenues"; "o'er the shaded billows rushed the night"- Alexander Pope unshaded - not darkened or dimmed by shade; "an unshaded meadow"; "a bright and unshaded lane"
	2.	shaded - (of pictures or drawings) drawn or painted with degrees or gradations of shadow; "the shaded areas of the face seemed to recede" unshaded - (of pictures) not having shadow represented; "unshaded drawings resembling cartoons"

shaded

adjective

Full of shade:

shadowy, shady.

Translations

مُظَلَّل

vystínovaný

skraveret

schattiert

árnyékoltbeárnyékolt

skyggîur

adombrato ombreggiato

skyggelagt

vytieňovaný

gölgeli

加上阴暗的

shaded

[ˈʃeɪdɪd] adj

(= shady) [spot, patio] → ombragé(e)

(= coloured darker) [area] → ombré(e)

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shade

(ʃeid) noun

1. slight darkness caused by the blocking of some light. I prefer to sit in the shade rather than the sun.

2. the dark parts of a picture. light and shade in a portrait.

3. something that screens or shelters from light or heat. a large sunshade; a shade for a light.

4. a variety of a colour; a slight difference. a pretty shade of green; shades of meaning.

5. a slight amount. The weather is a shade better today.

verb

1. (sometimes with from) to shelter from light or heat. He put up his hand to shade his eyes.

2. to make darker. You should shade the foreground of that drawing.

3. (with into) to change very gradually eg from one colour to another.

ˈshaded adjective

(of parts of a picture) made darker.

shades noun plural

(especially American) sunglasses.

ˈshading noun

(in a picture etc) the marking that shows the darker parts.

ˈshady adjective

1. sheltered or giving shelter from heat or light. a shady tree; a shady corner of the garden.

2. dishonest. a shady business.

ˈshadiness noun

put in the shade

to cause to seem unimportant. She is so beautiful that she puts her sister in the shade.

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Hour after hour she sat in the dusky room, with one ray of light on her book, reading to the boy, who lay with shaded eyes silently enjoying the only pleasure that lightened the weary days.

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Shaded by a ledge of rock, beneath a facade of columnar lava, we ate our dinner.

In front of us there was an extensive brake of wild sugar-cane; and the stream was shaded by the dark green knotted stem of the Ava, -- so famous in former days for its powerful intoxicating effects.

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The shaded side of the ravine gleamed with their smiles.

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Its one window is so shaded by a huge willow that the room has a grotto-like effect of emerald gloom.

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That province of the kingdom of Damot, which I was assigned to by my superior, is called Ligonus, and is perhaps one of the most beautiful and agreeable places in the world; the air is healthful and temperate, and all the mountains, which are not very high, shaded with cedars.

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Step 1 - Determine how much indirect UV you are being exposed to, stand in the shaded area.

Tarps Now Announces New Line of Mesh Shade Tarps and Netting Materials Designed to Filter Sunlight and Protect Humans and Animals

During hot weather, cattle actively visit the shaded area, which may reduce radiant heat load by 30% or more (BLACKSHAW & BLACKSHAW, 1994).

Improved grazing activity of dairy heifers in shaded tropical grasslands/Novilhas leiteiras melhoram sua atividade de pastejo em pastagens tropicais sombreadas

At each time step, the daylighting module calculated the luminous exitance of the shaded and non-shaded window areas depending on the position of the shading device(s).

Daylighting and Thermal Assessment of Combined Dynamic Shading Systems on Energy Consumption in Educational Buildings

Shaded plants despite successful canopy closure produced the low yield.

Effect of artificial shading on yield and yield components of Lentil's cultivars

Permanently shaded areas open to the sky, such as alongside a north facing wall or fence, need not become abandoned, neglected corners accumulating only rubbish.