shadow
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[edit] Etymology
Old English sceaduwe, inflected form of sceadu ( > English shade).
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[edit] Noun
shadow (plural shadows)
- A dark image projected onto a surface where light is blocked by the shade of an object.
- My shadow lengthened as the sun began to set.
- Relative darkness, especially as caused by the interruption of light; gloom, obscurity.
- I immediately jumped into shadow as I saw them approach.
- That which looms as though a shadow.
- I don't have a shadow of doubt in my mind that my plan will succeed.
- The shadow of fear of my being outed always affects how I live my life.
- I lived in her shadow my whole life.
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page vii
- Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.
- Merely a hint of substance.
- He came back from war the shadow of a man.
- He did not give even a shadow of respect to the professor.
- One who secretly or furtively follows another.
- The constable was promoted to working as a shadow for the Royals.
- A type of lettering form of word processors that makes a cubic effect.
[edit] Derived terms
- backshadowing
- foreshadowing
- rain shadow
- shadow acting
- shadow boxing
- shadow cabinet
- shadow government
- shadow minister
- shadow play
- sideshadowing
[edit] Translations
dark image projected onto a surface
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relative darkness
one who secretly or furtively follows another
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type of lettering form
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[edit] Verb
shadow (third-person singular simple present shadows, present participle shadowing, simple past and past participle shadowed)
- To block light or radio transmission.
- Looks like that cloud's going to shadow us.
- (espionage) To secretly or discreetly track or follow another, to keep under surveillance.
- (programming) To make an identifier, usually a variable, inaccessible by declaring another of the same name within the scope of the first.
[edit] Derived terms
[edit] Translations
to block light or radio transmission
to secretly track or follow another
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