Definitions for shade

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Spelling: [sheyd]

IPA: /ʃeɪd/

Shade is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 68 anagrams from letters in shade (adehs).

Definitions for shade

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:

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 shade

before 900; 1960-65 for def 29; (noun) Middle English s(c)hade, Old English sceadu (see shadow); cognate with German Schatten, Gothic skadus, Greek skótos; (v.) Mid

Examples for shade

A shade of thought passed over his face as he looked at her.

It took me 1,015 strokes to see this shade of green in a world of orange, and my jaw nearly dropped.

Later schools empty out children, who race over to play games in the shade.

A commercial minister had appeared on the scene, and the shade of Hoskisson had revived.

What instinct made you choose that shade of pale green for your frock?

He descended the slope, and sat down in the shade of a broad-leaved tree.

He had drawn the car close to a bank, and they were sitting in the shade, on the grass.

One was overgrown with trees, where young men rested in the shade.

In fact, the only shade of reaction besides enthusiasm Carter and Knight got to the project was some misplaced confusion.

Petty, shade, and thirst are my favorite human “virtues” and the trifecta of any good series of “stories.”