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Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English schade, from Old English sċeadu, sċadu (“shadow; shade”), from Proto-West Germanic *skadu, from Proto-Germanic *skadwaz (“shadow; shade”). More at shadow.
Noun[edit]
shade (countable and uncountable, plural shades)
- (uncountable) Darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is blocked.
- The old oak tree gave shade in the heat of the day.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 8, in The Celebrity:
- Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: […] .
- (countable) Something that blocks light, particularly in a window.
- Close the shade, please: it's too bright in here.
- (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.
- 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], OCLC 153628242:
- Thus light and colours, as white, red, yellow, blue, with their several degrees or shades, and mixtures, as green, scarlet, purple, sea-green, and the rest, come in only by the eyes […]
- (figuratively) A subtle variation in a concept.
- shades of meaning
- 1823, Thomas De Quincey, Letters to a Young Man whose Education has been Neglected. No. V. On the English Notices of Kant
- new shades and combinations of thought
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 3, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:
- Every shade of religious and political opinion had its own headquarters.
- (figuratively) An aspect that is reminiscent of something.
- shades of Groucho
- A very small degree of a quantity, or variety of meaning
- 1934, Agatha Christie, Miss Marple Tells a Story
- Mrs. Rhodes who (so I gathered from Mr. Petherick's careful language) was perhaps just a shade of a hypochondriac, had retired to bed immediately after dinner.
- 1934, Agatha Christie, Miss Marple Tells a Story
- (chiefly literary and fantasy) A ghost or specter; a spirit.
- Too long have I been haunted by that shade.
- The adventurer was attacked by a shade.
- 1700, [John] Dryden, “Ceyx and Alcyone”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 228732415:
- Swift as thought the flitting shade / Thro' air his momentary journey made.
- 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 39:
- Still, Birch House (a sop to the shade of the murdered Perak Resident) had no more than its normal share of flagellation[.]
- (countable) A postage stamp showing an obvious difference in colour/color to the original printing and needing a separate catalogue/catalog entry.
- (uncountable, originally gay slang) Subtle insults.
- Why did you paint your room chartreuse? No shade; I'm genuinely curious.
- 1990, Paris Is Burning:
- Dorian Corey: Shade is: "I don't tell you you're ugly, but I don't have to tell you because you know you're ugly." And that's shade.
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Translations[edit]
darkness where light is blocked
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something that blocks light, particularly in a window
variety of color
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subtle variation in a concept
very small degree of a quantity, or variety of meaning
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ghost — See also translations at ghost
postage stamp showing an obvious difference in colour to the original
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Etymology 2[edit]
From Old English sceadwian, derived from sċeadu (see above).
Verb[edit]
shade (third-person singular simple present shades, present participle shading, simple past and past participle shaded)
- (transitive) To shield from light.
- The old oak tree shaded the lawn in the heat of the day.
- (transitive) To alter slightly.
- You'll need to shade your shot slightly to the left.
- Most politicians will shade the truth if it helps them.
- (intransitive) To vary or approach something slightly, particularly in color.
- The hillside was bright green, shading towards gold in the drier areas.
- 1886, Edmund Gurney, Phantasms of the Living
- This small group will be most conveniently treated with the emotional division, into which it shades.
- (intransitive, baseball, of a defensive player) To move slightly from one's normal fielding position.
- Jones will shade a little to the right on this pitch count.
- (transitive) To darken, particularly in drawing.
- I draw contours first, gradually shading in midtones and shadows.
- To surpass by a narrow margin.
- Both parties claimed afterwards that their man did best in the debate, but an early opinion poll suggested Mr Cameron shaded it.
- (transitive, graphical user interface) To reduce (a window) so that only its title bar is visible.
- Antonym: unshade
- (transitive, obsolete) To shelter; to cover from injury; to protect; to screen.
- c. 1608–1609, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i]:
- Ere in our own house I do shade my head.
- (transitive, obsolete) To present a shadow or image of; to shadow forth; to represent.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book V, canto VII, stanza 3:
- [The goddess] in her person cunningly did shade / That part of Justice which is Equity.
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Translations[edit]
to shield from light
to alter slightly
to vary slightly, particularly in color
baseball
to darken or to lightly colour
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