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Shades

noun

1.

Spectacles that are darkened or polarized to protect the eyes from the glare of the sun. Synonyms: dark glasses, sunglasses.

Shade

noun

1.

Relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body. Synonyms: shadiness, shadowiness. "There's too much shadiness to take good photographs"

2.

A quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color. Synonyms: tincture, tint, tone.

3.

Protective covering that protects something from direct sunlight. "As the sun moved he readjusted the shade"

4.

A subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude. Synonyms: nicety, nuance, refinement, subtlety. "Don't argue about shades of meaning"

5.

A position of relative inferiority. "His brother's success left him in the shade"

6.

A slight amount or degree of difference. Synonym: tad. "Not a tad of difference" , "The new model is a shade better than the old one"

7.

A mental representation of some haunting experience. Synonyms: ghost, specter, spectre, spook, wraith. "It aroused specters from his past"

8.

A representation of the effect of shadows in a picture or drawing (as by shading or darker pigment).

verb

(past & past part. shaded; pres. part. shading)

1.

Cast a shadow over. Synonyms: shade off, shadow.

2.

Represent the effect of shade or shadow on. Synonym: fill in.

3.

Protect from light, heat, or view.

4.

Vary slightly.

5.

Pass from one quality such as color to another by a slight degree.

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"Shades" Quotes from Famous Books

... day being Sunday, Mr. Eden preached two sermons that many will remember all their lives. The first was against theft and all the shades of dishonesty. I give a few of his topics. The dry bones he covered with flesh and blood and beauty. The tendency of theft was to destroy all moral and social good. For were it once to prevail so far as to make property insecure, ...

— It Is Never Too Late to Mend • Charles Reade

... getting lower, but the glittering ice peaks and the lights and shades on the mountain were beautiful to behold. But Watty did not see that beauty. He noticed how profound the silence was, thought it very lonely, and turned back to the fire, which was the most beautiful ...

— Steve Young • George Manville Fenn

... view—individual liberty, collective prosperity, racial and religious harmony, and growth to nationhood. The end in view was not always reached. The path followed was not as ruler-straight as the philosopher or the critic would have prescribed. The leader of a party of many shades of opinion, the ruler of a country of widely different interests and prejudices and traditions, must often do not what is ideally best but what is the most practicable approach to the ideal. Yet with rare consistency ...

— The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier - A Chronicle of Our Own Time • Oscar D. Skelton

... filled with sleek-coated cows, feeding quietly and patiently until the evening when they will return to their stalls to yield their rich milk. Still farther on lies a tract of forest. The varied shades of the beeches, the tulip poplars and the chestnuts make an exquisite contrast and give to the landscape its attractive background framed in by a distant hill. Behind this hill flows a mighty river carrying on its breast the ships by which we share the ...

— The Meaning of Evolution • Samuel Christian Schmucker

... meridional extraction, turbulent and emphatic, stamped his wooden leg, and was as illogical in debate as in painting. Charles Jacque, with the keen smile and the facility for absorbing ideas from the best of them; Ziem even, who painted Venice for some years in the shades of Fontainebleau; Dupre, whose nature expresses itself in deep sunsets gleaming through the oaks of the forest; Daubigny, the youngest of the group, and the more immediate forerunner of landscape as it is ...

— McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896 • Various

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