shade

Noun

shade (countable and uncountable; plural shades)

1. (uncountable) Darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is blocked.

   The old oak tree gave shade in the heat of the day.

2. (countable) Something that blocks light, particularly in a window.

   Close the shade, please, it"s too bright in here.

3. (countable) A variety of a colour/color, in particular one obtained by adding black (compare tint).

   I"ve painted my room in five lovely shades of pink and chartreuse.

4. (figurative) A subtle variation in a concept.

   shades of meaning

5. (archaic) A ghost.

   Too long have I been haunted by that shade.

5 letters in word "shade": A D E H S.

Anagrams of shade:

• ashed

• deash

• hades

• heads

• sadhe

Words found within shade:

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• Definitions:
• relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body; "it is much cooler in the shade"; "there's too much shadiness to take ... a quality of a given color that differs slightly from a primary color; "after several trials he mixed the shade of pink that she wanted" protective covering that protects something from direct sunlight; "they used umbrellas as shades"; "as the sun moved he readjusted the shade" nuance: a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude; "without understanding the finer nuances you can't enjoy the humor"; "don't argue about shades of meaning" a position of relative inferiority; "an achievement that puts everything else in the shade"; "his brother's success left him in the shade" shadow: cast a shadow over tad: a slight amount or degree of difference; "a tad too expensive"; "not a tad of difference"; "the new model is a shade better than the old one" represent the effect of shade or shadow on ghost: a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past" a representation of the effect of shadows in a picture or drawing (as by shading or darker pigment) protect from light, heat, or view; "Shade your eyes when you step out into the bright sunlight"
• Shade is the blocking of sunlight (in particular direct sunshine) by any object, and also the shadow created by that object. It may refer to blocking of sunlight by a roof, a tree, an umbrella, a window shade or blind, curtains, or other objects.
• Shade is the twelfth maxi single by Japanese group Dragon Ash; released in 2004. The Lilly [sic]uses lyrics from William Blake's poem "The Lily".
• Shade is a 2003 neo-noir crime drama starring Stuart Townsend, Gabriel Byrne, Thandie Newton, Jamie Foxx, Melanie Griffith and Sylvester Stallone. The film follows a trio of grifters who attempt to set up a legendary card sharp nicknamed "The Dean. ...
• The Shade is a DC Comics character, a villain created in the 1940s who would fight against two generations of superheroes, most notably the Golden Age and Silver Age Flashes. ...
• The shade is a being of pure, dark energy, usually with a formless body.
• A Shade in the mythological or supernatural sense can be one of many things. A spiritual or emotional imprint left on a person, place or thing. A "presence" that which is seen out of the corner of the eye or known (sometimes physically felt) only under conditions and times. ...
• In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, shades are humanoids who have merged with the essence of the Plane of Shadow. In Third Edition, a shade is created by applying a template to a humanoid creature.
• Shade is a work of interactive fiction released in 2000 by Andrew Plotkin. The author describes it as a "one-room game set in your apartment". Shade won the 2000 XYZZY Award for Best Setting.
• A shade is created when black is added to a color. It is a darker variant of a color.
• The darker value on the surface of an object that gives the illusion that a portion of it is turned away from the source of light.
• a color which when compared to another has a clear difference in color whether lighter, darker, greener, etc.; also indicates an area of darkness due to an absence of light in an area of a painting or picture.
• Adding black (or other dark color) to a pure color to darken it. More black creates darker shades.
• The degree of darkness of a color determined by the quantity of black added
• the darkening of a color resulting from the addition of black.
• A dull color resulting from mixing a pure hue with its complementary pigment hue.
• The degree to a color, as a dark green. Also, the act of changing the tone or degree of a color by adding small quantities of other colors to it.
• An opaque or translucent covering added to fixtures and lamps to enhance the decoration, shield the light source and/or direct the light.
• Particular hue or tone of the paint.
• Artists' term for a color produced by mixing black with a colored pigment.
• A hue with an admixture of white, black or grey.
• varying degree of darkness in a color (generally with a particular color approaching black). Can also refer to different types of a color (example- scarlet, crimson, carmine, and rose are shades of red)
• Shades are mixtures of a hue and black. This example shows five different shades of red:
• denotes the nuance or tone gradation in a particular basic or pure colour. Strictly speaking, a shade is a degraded or darkened pure colour. A lightened colour or a colour plus white is more correctly a 'tint'.
• In ink and paper, a synonym for Hue.
• Hue plus black.
• color to which black or another dark hue has been added to make that color darker. For example, black added to red produces darker shades of red.
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• an admixture of a hue and black, darker in value than the hue.
• Hue made darker by the addition of black, as compared to tint.
• Variation of a color. Assuming that a color is generally blue, it can have a red shade or a yellow shade as well as being blue. Shade is also called undertone since it describes the subtle tone of a color.
• Changing the value and intensity of a hue by adding black .
• (of a colour) A colour with black added. Also, the process of adding colour to darken a finish, as in shading a piece of furniture. The colour is usually added by spraying on a thin, lightly coloured coating.
• A dark value of a color, ie, a dark blue; as opposed to a tint, which is a lighter shade of a color, ie, light blue. Also, to shade a drawing means to add the lights and darks, usually to add a three-dimensional effect.

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