Shadename

• 1

  A surname.

shadenoun詞源 1/ʃeɪd/

• 1

  Darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is blocked.

  • The old oak tree gave shade in the heat of the day.
  • Temps rose to a sweltering 40 degrees Celsius in the shade.
• 2

  Something that blocks light, particularly in a window.

  • Close the shade, please: it's too bright in here.
  • Also, people with darker skin tend to have lower blood levels of vitamin D because the pigment (melanin) acts like a shade, reducing production of vitamin D (and also reducing damaging effects of sunlight on skin, including skin cancer).
• 3

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

  • I've painted my room in five lovely shades of pink and chartreuse.
  • 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[…]
• 4

  A subtle variation in a concept.

  • shades of meaning
  • new shades and combinations of thought
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  An aspect that is reminiscent of something.

  • shades of Groucho Marx
• 6

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

  • That is a shade too close.
  • 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.
• 7

  literaryfantasyA ghost or specter; a spirit.

  • Too long have I been haunted by that shade.
  • The adventurer was attacked by a shade.
• 8

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

shadeverb詞源 2/ʃeɪd/

• 1

  To shield (someone or something) from light.

  • The old oak tree shaded the lawn in the heat of the day.
• 2

  rareTo shield oneself from light.

  • We shaded under a huge oak tree.
• 3

  To alter slightly.

  • You'll need to shade your shot slightly to the left.
  • Most politicians will shade the truth if it helps them.
• 4

  To vary or approach something slightly, particularly in color.

  • The hillside was bright green, shading towards gold in the drier areas.
  • This small group will be most conveniently treated with the emotional division, into which it shades.
• 5

  ball-gamesbaseballgamesTo move slightly from one's normal fielding position.

  • Jones will shade a little to the right on this pitch count.
• 6

  To darken, particularly in drawing.

  • I draw contours first, gradually shading in midtones and shadows.
• 7

  To win 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.
  • It was Alexis Mac Allister who lit the touchpaper at the start of the second half, scoring from the penalty spot to cancel out John Stones’s opener for City midway through a first half that the defending champions had shaded.
• 8

  computingengineeringgraphical-user-interfaceTo reduce (a window) so that only its title bar is visible.