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shade(1) (iou)



shade noun.

I.
Partial or comparative darkness (and usu. coolness), esp. as caused by shelter from direct light or heat. Also, a thing, as foliage etc., providing such sheltered darkness. Freq. with the. OE.
shine and shade: see SHINE noun.
E. Blunden They..Toiled in the sun, lolled in the shade. A. Ransome It was pleasant to come into the shade of the woods. C. Stead It was a hundred degrees in the shade. B. Vine The sun had moved enough to leave..the garden in shade.
b. In pl. The darkness of night, the growing darkness of evening. Chiefly poet. L16.
J. Forbes The shades of evening..descend.
c. fig. Comparative obscurity or inferiority. Chiefly in be in the shade, cast into the shade, put into the shade, throw into the shade. M17.
Edinburgh Review Volumes that have cast..into the shade all contemporary prose.
d. transf. A fleeting look of displeasure, a cloud on a person's face or expression. E19.
sing. & collect. pl. A place sheltered from the sun, spec. a piece of ground overshadowed by trees. Now rare. OE.
J. Kitto The climate is..exceedingly hot..; a shade is not easily found.
b. A secluded spot or corner. Usu. in pl. Now poet. or rhet. E17.
c. A meadow or piece of ground open to the breeze. dial. E19.
d. In pl. (treated as sing. or pl.). An underground or sheltered public house or bar. Now rare. E19.
a. A screen excluding or moderating light or giving shelter from draughts, heat, or cold; US a window-blind. E17.
J. Agee We can be seen, Hannah realised; for the shades were up.
b. A woman's lace headscarf. obsolete exc. dial. E18.
c. A dome-shaped cover of glass to protect ornaments from dust or damage. E18.
d. A usu. translucent cover for a lamp, used to soften or direct the light; a lampshade. L18.
e. A patch or visor for shielding the eyes from strong light, an eye-shade; the peak of a cap. Also in pl. (colloq., orig. US), sunglasses. E19.
E. Fairweather He resembles a..bandit, with his..moustache and shades.
f. In scientific apparatus, a shutter etc. for intercepting light falling on or through an object. M19.
Comparative darkness as represented pictorially; dark colour or a darker part or parts in a painting or drawing; transf. & fig. a quieter passage in music, less dramatic part of a story, etc., providing necessary artistic contrast. Freq. in light and shade. M17.
W. Gilpin The whole is in dark shade, except three figures on the fore-ground. L. Stephen The forcible light and shade of Rembrandt. W. E. Gosse The light and shade that make biography amusing.
b. Entomology. An ill-defined patch of darker colour on the wing of a moth. M19.
a. A colour's degree of darkness or depth; any of the varieties, esp. in terms of darkness or depth, within one colour; gen. a colour, a tint. L17.
M. Mitchell All shades of red hair were represented. U. Holden Her clothes..were a pale greyish shade.
b. transf. & fig. A slightly differing degree or variety of a quality, opinion, meaning, etc. M18.
R. Godden Dear honest Brighton,..welcoming..all shades of life. Resurgence Opposition from all shades of opinion.
c. A small quantity or addition of a quality, substance, etc.; a tinge, a touch. L18.
a shade adverb somewhat, rather; by a small amount, to a slight degree.
J. Tyndall Unwilling to accept an observation..with a shade of doubt attached.
II.
a. = SHADOW noun 1. Now poet. & dial. OE.
b. fig. = SHADOW noun 3a. Now poet. or rhet. ME.
A ghost, a spectre, a phantom; a disembodied spirit, an inhabitant of Hades. Also in pl., the world of spirits, Hades. LME.
shade of (joc., now rare): invoking the spirit of a deceased person as likely to be horrified or amazed by a current event etc. shades of: (a) = shade of above; (b) suggesting reminiscence of or (esp. unfavourable) comparison with a person, event, etc., in the past.
Clive James Speer..insulted the shades of innocent millions.
= SILHOUETTE noun 1. Now chiefly Hist. M18.
Comb.: shade-bearing adjective = shade-tolerant below; shade card a card illustrating the range of colours in which merchandise is supplied; shade deck an upper deck of a passenger vessel, covered at the top but open at the side, forming a sheltered promenade; shade maximum the highest temperature recorded in a single day by a thermometer placed in the shade; shade-reading the indication of a thermometer protected from direct influence of the sun's rays; shade-tolerant adjective able to grow without adverse effect in the shade of taller plants; shade tree: planted to give shade.
shadeless adjective E17.
shadelessness noun L19.