Definitions for shaded

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shaded shad·ed

Spelling: [shey-did]

IPA: /ˈʃeɪ dɪd/

Shaded is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 81 anagrams from letters in shaded (addehs).

Definitions for shaded

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 sun.
3. window shade.
4. a lampshade.
5. shades. darkness gathering at the close of day: Informal. sunglasses. a reminder of something:
6. Usually, shades. a secluded or obscure place:
7. comparative obscurity.
8. a specter or ghost.
9. Greek and Roman Religion. one of the spirits of the dead inhabiting Hades.
10. a shadow.
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:
14. a little bit; touch, especially of something that may change the color of or lighten or darken something else:
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.

Idioms

1. cast / put someone in / into the shade, to make another person's efforts seem insignificant by comparison; surpass:
2. throw shade, Slang. to insult, criticize, or disrespect a person or thing in an indirect, artful manner:

adjective

1. noting or pertaining to an ornamented type in which a thin white line appears along one edge of each of the main strokes of a character.

Verb phrases

1. shade up, Agriculture. to take shelter (as livestock) from the sun.

verb (used with object)

1. to produce shade in or on.
2. to obscure, dim, or darken.
3. to screen or hide from view.
4. to protect (something) from light, heat, etc., by or as by a screen:
5. to cover or screen (a candle, light, etc.):
6. Fine Arts. to introduce degrees of darkness into (a drawing or painting) in order to render light and shadow or give the effect of color. to render the values of light and dark in (a drawn figure, object, etc.), especially in order to create the illusion of three-dimensionality.
7. to change by imperceptible degrees into something else.
8. to reduce (the price) by way of a concession.
9. Slang. to insult, criticize, or disrespect (a person or thing) in an indirect, artful manner:

verb (used without object)

1. to pass or change by slight graduations, as one color, quality, or thing into another.

Origin of shaded

First recorded in 1575-85; shade + -ed²

Examples for shaded

“Look there,” he said, flicking his machete at the shaded ground.

He shaded the dinner, cooled the wines, chilled the gravy, and blighted the vegetables.

It was so huge and shadowy, with only shaded lights here and there.

If you can take them into a shaded area, inside to a building with a cooling system, you can prolong by a few days.

I can contemplate my own death without unease, but every goodbye to one of my children is shaded by dread.

She came into the parlor, clasping the bowl of a shaded lamp—the only light in the room.

It was shaded by dark chestnut hair, just silvered with grey.

She stood by the table, the light from a shaded lamp making her colour glow.

Still, the Doctor, with shaded forehead, beat his foot nervously on the ground.

She made no reply, but opened the door into the cool and, shaded little parlor.