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shad⋅ing

  [shey-ding]
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–noun
1. a slight variation or difference of color, character, etc.
2. the act of a person or thing that shades.
3. the representation of the different values of color or light and dark in a painting or drawing.
Origin:
1605–15; shade + -ing 1
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shade

  [sheyd] noun, verb, shad⋅ed, shad⋅ing.
–noun
1. the comparative darkness caused by the interception or screening of rays of light from an object, place, or area.
2. a place or an area of comparative darkness, as one sheltered from the sun.
3. window shade.
4. a lampshade.
5. shades,
a. darkness gathering at the close of day: Shades of night are falling.
b. Slang. sunglasses.
c. a reminder of something: shades of the Inquisition.
6. Usually, shades. a secluded or obscure place: He was living in the shades.
7. comparative obscurity.
8. a specter or ghost.
9. Greek and Roman Religion. one of the spirits of the dead inhabiting Hades.
10. a shadow.
11. the degree of darkness of a color, determined by the quantity of black or by the lack of illumination.
12. comparative darkness, as the effect of shadow or dark and light, in pictorial representation; the dark part, or a dark part, of a picture or drawing.
13. a slight variation or degree: a shade of difference.
14. a little bit; touch, esp. of something that may change the color of or lighten or darken something else: coffee with a shade of cream.
15. anything used for protection against excessive light, heat, etc.
16. (in architectural shades and shadows) a shadow upon those parts of a solid that are tangent to or turned away from the parallel rays from the theoretical light source. Compare shadow (def. 11).
17. the shades, Hades, as the abode of the spirits of the dead.
–verb (used with object)
18. to produce shade in or on.
19. to obscure, dim, or darken.
20. to screen or hide from view.
21. to protect (something) from light, heat, etc., by or as by a screen: to shade the eyes from a bright light.
22. to cover or screen (a candle, light, etc.): to shade a light to protect the eyes.
23. Fine Arts.
a. to introduce degrees of darkness into (a drawing or painting) in order to render light and shadow or give the effect of color.
b. to render the values of light and dark in (a drawn figure, object, etc.), esp. in order to create the illusion of three-dimensionality.
24. to change by imperceptible degrees into something else.
25. to reduce (the price) by way of a concession.
–verb (used without object)
26. to pass or change by slight graduations, as one color, quality, or thing into another.
—Verb phrase
27. Agriculture. shade up, to take shelter (as livestock) from the sun.
—Idiom
28. cast or put someone in or into the shade, to make another person's efforts seem insignificant by comparison; surpass: Her playing puts mine in the shade.
Origin:
bef. 900; 1960–65 for def. 28; (n.) ME s(c)hade, OE sceadu (see shadow ); c. G Schatten, Goth skadus, Gk skótos; (v.) ME schaden, deriv. of the n.

Related forms:
shadeless, adjective
shade⋅less⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
1. obscurity, gloom, dusk. Shade, shadow imply partial darkness or something less bright than the surroundings. Shade indicates the lesser brightness and heat of an area where the direct rays of light do not fall: the shade of a tree. It differs from shadow in that it implies no particular form or definite limit, whereas shadow often refers to the form or outline of the object that intercepts the light: the shadow of a dog. 8. apparition, phantom, spirit. 13. bit. 14. trace, hint, suggestion. 15. veil, screen. See curtain. 19. cloud, blur, obfuscate. 20. conceal, shelter.

Antonyms:
1. light, glare.

Regional variation note:
3. See window shade.
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shade   (shād)   
n.  
  1. Light diminished in intensity as a result of the interception of the rays; partial darkness.
  2. An area or a space of partial darkness.
  3. Cover or shelter provided by interception by an object of the sun or its rays.
  4. Any of various devices used to reduce or screen light or heat.
  5. shades Slang Sunglasses.
  6. Relative obscurity.
  7. shades
    1. Dark shadows gathering at dusk: "The shades of night are falling fast" (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow).
    2. The abode of the dead; the underworld.
  8. The part of a picture or photograph depicting darkness or shadow.
  9. The degree to which a color is mixed with black or is decreasingly illuminated; gradation of darkness.
  10. A slight difference or variation; a nuance: shades of meaning.
  11. A small amount; a trace: detected a shade of bitterness in her remarks.
  12. A disembodied spirit; a ghost.
  13. shades A present reminder of a person or situation in the past: shades of my high-school days.
v.   shad·ed, shad·ing, shades

v.   tr.
  1. To screen from light or heat.
  2. To obscure or darken.
  3. To cause shade in or on.
    1. To represent degrees of shade or shadow in: shade a drawing.
    2. To produce (gradations of light or color) in a drawing or picture.
  5. To change or vary by slight degrees: shade the meaning.
  6. To make a slight reduction in: shade prices.
v.   intr.
To pass from one quality, color, or thing to another by very slight changes or degrees.

[Middle English, from Old English sceadu.]
shad'er n.
Synonyms: These nouns denote an area of comparative darkness resulting from the blocking of light rays: sitting in the shade; Earth's penumbra; in the shadow of the curtains; the umbra beyond the footlights; in the umbrage of a forest. See Also Synonyms at nuance.
shad·ing   (shā'dĭng)   
n.  
  1. A screening against light or heat.
  2. The lines or other marks used to fill in outlines of a sketch, engraving, or painting to represent gradations of color or darkness.
  3. A small variation, gradation, or difference.
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Shading

Shad"ing\, n. 1. Act or process of making a shade.

2. That filling up which represents the effect of more or less darkness, expressing rotundity, projection, etc., in a picture or a drawing.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : Shading
Spanish: sombreado,
German: die Schattierung,
Japanese: 陰影
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