Word Finder - shade

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Darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is blocked.

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

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Something that blocks light, particularly in a window.

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

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

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

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A subtle variation in a concept.

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shades of meaning

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An aspect that is reminiscent of something.

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shades of Groucho

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A very small degree of a quantity, or variety of meaning

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A ghost or specter; a spirit.

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The adventurer was attacked by a shade.

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A postage stamp showing an obvious difference in colour/color to the original printing and needing a separate catalogue/catalog entry.

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(originally gay slang) Subtle insults.

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Why did you paint your room chartreuse? No shade; I'm genuinely curious.

The old Apple tree spread a blanket of shade in the grass beside the pond.

He paused, his face turning a darker shade of red.

Carmen turned and lifted a hand to shade her eyes from the sun.

Darian looked around, expecting to see her again beneath the shade of an apple tree, as beautiful as she was deadly with the daggers she wore at her waist.

Her eyes were the same shade as Darkyn's, her skin pale.

Green trees in every shade clumped together like heads of overripe broccoli.

Or perhaps it's a subtle shade of gray.

They were feeding in the shade of the shrubbery in the garden.

His eyes had changed color to a deep violet-blue, a beautiful shade of tanzanite.

Large shade trees and bamboo cabanas provided seating and protection from the sun.

Evelyn handled it all with cheerfulness while Kiera stressed over the shade of flowers clashing with the décor, and the cake containing nuts, which Romas was allergic to.

He was much older with a full head of silver hair, a similar shade of dark eyes, and a lean build.

The camping area was a riot of color, with thousands of bodies wrapped in every tone and shade of tight-fitting Lycra, each an individual fashion statement on a rock-hard frame.

After this agreement, there is a shade of difference.

You belong to the gentry? he concluded with a shade of inquiry in his tone.

Geese and cranes, chicory, mildew, thistles, cleavers, caltrops, darnel and shade are farmer's enemies.

It is rich, ornate, yet hardly florid, distinguished by splendid effects of light and shade, obtained by a far bolder use of projections than had hitherto been found in the somewhat fiat design of Venetian façades.

They require only such shade as will shut out the direct rays of the sun, and, though abundant moisture must be supplied, the atmosphere should not be overloaded with it.

In colour they range from a pale stony or yellowish shade to a rich dark brown, almost black with a bluish tone.

They require only such shade as will shut out the direct rays of the sun, and, though abundant moisture must be supplied, the atmosphere should not be loaded with it.

Or perhaps it 's a subtle shade of gray.

The margin of rhododendron beds, where there are sheltered recesses amongst the plants, suits many of the more delicate species well, partial shade Lily of the Valley (Convallaria majalis).

On the other hand, there are broad quays along the river, while public gardens afford grateful shade.

It is a handsome mausoleum faced with blue and white glazed tiles, standing under the shade of some magnificent silver poplars.

Presently reformers of every shade of opinion, even those who were tolerated nowhere else, poured into Poland, which speedily became the battle-ground of all the sects of Europe.

Albinos seem to be rather common; and as in other fishes (for instance, the tench, carp, eel, flounder), the colour of most of these albinos is a bright orange or golden yellow; occasionally even this shade of colour is lost, the fish being more or less pure white or silvery.

The charm of the Orkneys does not lie in their ordinary physical features, so much as in beautiful atmospheric effects, extraordinary examples of light and shade, and rich coloration of cliff and sea.

Plato's theory of the soul and its immortality was not the ordinary Greek view derived from Homer, who regarded the body as the self, the soul as a shade having a future state but an obscure existence, and stamped that view on the hearts of his countrymen, and affected Aristotle himself.

On the other hand, Osiris with Isis and Horus was everywhere honoured and popular, and while the artificer Ptah, the god of the great native capital of Egypt, made no appeal to the imagination, the Apis bull, an incarnation of Ptah, threw Ptah himself altogether into the shade in the popular estimation.

The natural colour of tussur silk is a greyish fawn, and that shade it was found impossible to discharge by any of the ordinary bleaching agents, so as to obtain a basis for light and delicate dyes.

All these forms are put into the shade by that which was introduced by Ritz, led thereto apparently by theoretical considerations.

Tobacco of a high grade, especially for wrappers, has been grown at the Agricultural Experiment Station's farm at Hamakua, on the island of Hawaii, where the tobacco is practically " shade grown " under the afternoon fogs from Mauna Kea.

Nor can we find any difference, except the minute shade that Pearson takes up a position of agnosticism between Clifford's assertion of " mind-stuff " and Mach's denial of things in themselves.

Examples are subject to much variation in colour and shade, and in some the lower parts are deeply tinged with yellow.

The long pontificate of the Franciscan Francesco della Rovere, under the title of Pope Sixtus IV., displays striking contrasts of light and shade; and with him begins the series of the so-called " political popes."

Besides the blue and purple of the spectrum he was able to recognize only one colour, yellow, or, as he says in his paper, "that part of the image which others call red appears to me little more than a shade or defect of light; after that the orange, yellow and green seem one colour which descends pretty uniformly from an intense to a rare yellow, making what I should call different shades of yellow."

The brightest belongs to those species which grow near low-water mark, or under the shade of larger algae at higher levels; species which grow near high-water mark are usually of so dark a hue that they are easily mistaken for brown seaweeds.

The politicians hoped that Elizabeth might convert Mary to her own invisible shade of Protestantism if the sister sovereigns could but meet, and for two years the promise of a meeting was held up before Mary.

But Reid soon came to see that such work was inherently false, painted as the picture was day after day under varying conditions of light and shade.

The colour of the cut wood is a very light yellowish or brownish white, the hard parts of the annual rings being of a darker shade.

In Sozomen everything is a shade more ecclesiastical - but only a shade - than in Socrates.

Technically speaking, he had much finish and harmony of composition and colour, without corresponding mastery of light and shade, and his knowledge of the human frame was restricted.

Almost the whole surface of the Banda Islands is planted with nutmeg trees, which thrive under the shade of the lofty Canarium commune.

On the other hand the summer temperature is exceedingly high, especially in the Oxus regions, where a shade maximum of 110 to 120 is not uncommon.

Growing under the shade of these are several varieties of rose, honeysuckle, currant, gooseberry, hawthorn, rhododendron and a luxuriant herbage, among which the ranunculus family is important for frequency and number of genera.

After underlaying, and to emphasize the respective degrees of light and shade in the illustrations, a separate and careful overlaying is required for the blocks before anything is done to the main forme.

One which is not ten hands high, one which has not three walls, or which has more sun than shade is disallowed.

It is customary to mix these colours together, thus producing a curious ginger-coloured yarn, which upon being dyed black in the piece takes a fuller and deeper shade than can be obtained by piecedyeing a solid-coloured wool.

When the fibre is intended for goods in the natural colour it is essential that it should be of a light shade and uniform, but if intended for yarns which are to be dyed a dark shade, the colour is not so important.

All the working parts of the instrument were supported on the base, so that on removing a glass shade which serves as a Leyden jar they can be got at and adjusted in position.