Word Finder - shaded

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To shield from light.

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

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To alter slightly.

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Most politicians will shade the truth if it helps them.

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To vary or approach something slightly, particularly in color.

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The hillside was bright green, shading towards gold in the drier areas.

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(of a defensive player) To move slightly from one's normal fielding position.

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

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To darken, particularly in drawing.

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

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To surpass by a narrow margin.

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Both parties claimed afterwards that their man did best in the debate, but an early opinion poll suggested Mr Cameron shaded it.

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To reduce (a window) so that only its title bar is visible.

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To shelter; to cover from injury; to protect; to screen.

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To present a shadow or image of; to shadow forth; to represent.

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Being in the shade, not in direct light.

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Having a slight colour added (of a diagram or picture) or being slightly darkened as if in the shade.

Besides, by noon the sun would have cleared all but the most shaded roadways.

The endoderm is shaded, the ectoderm left clear.

She plopped back down and shaded her eyes against the light.

The shaded forest was cool and quiet, as if all the animals and trees watched and waited.

His silver eyes were molten, his rugged jaw line shaded by two days. growth.

The day grew hot fast, though the surrounding peaks shaded her from the sun itself.

However, on this, the shaded west side, aided by the steady flow from the tapped pipe, massive icicles, bulges and clusters coated the side.

While the air remained chilly, especially in the shaded patches, it was so clear and unseasonably warm Dean hardly noticed.

Suddenly the room was flooded with light and Dean shaded his eyes as turned to see him standing there.

Carmen shaded her eyes from the sun as she looked up at him.

Heavy features were shaded by a day or two of stubble, his red-hued gaze on the ocean.

It may be due to insufficient illumination (Etiolation), as seen in geraniums kept in too shaded a situation, and is then accompanied by soft tissues, elongation of internodes, leaves usually reduced in size, &c. The laying of wheat is a particular case.

The streets of Portland are generally well paved, are unusually clean, and, in the residence districts, where the fire of 1866 did not extend, they are profusely shaded by elms and other large trees - Portland has been called the "Forest City."

The cartilage is shaded and dotted, and the bony centres are light and striated.

Monroe lies in a level valley, and has broad streets shaded by live oaks.

Leuzinger and other able cartographers, however admirable as works of art, do not, from the point of utility, supersede the combination of horizontal contours with shaded slopes, such as have been long in use.

Its finest portion is the Chelsea Embankment, fronting Battersea Park across the river, shaded by a pleasant avenue and lined with handsome houses.

C, A young redia, the digestive tract shaded.

At the lower end of the indentation is the modern public square, shaded by a gigantic and picturesque plane tree, nourished by the surplus water of Pirene.

Outside the gate, apparently, was the famous Craneion, shaded by cypress trees, and near it the tombs of Lais and Diogenes, a precinct of Bellerophon and of Athena Melaenis.

Its houses are generally built of wood, with high roofs and wide verandahs shaded by cocoanut or cabbage palms. The principal buildings are the court house, in the centre of the town, government house, at the southern end, Fort George, towards the north, the British bank of Honduras, the hospital, the Roman Catholic convent, and the Wesleyan church, which is the largest and handsomest of all.

The buildings are now in ruins, but the view from the pavilions, shaded by splendid plane trees on the terraced gardens formed on the slope of the mountain, is said to be very beautiful.

It has many handsome buildings, and its residential streets are shaded with live-oaks, water oaks and bitter-orange trees.

The dies and collar are shaded.

The story of the many attempts made in the interval by " forward " or advanced Puritans to secure vital religious fellowship within the queen's Church, and of the few cases in which these shaded off into practical Separatism, is still wrapped in some obscurity.

The shaded rectangles represent the distribution of shear due to the load at C, while no may be termed the datum line of shear.

The distribution of shear is given by the partially shaded rectangles.

The buildings of the town are sombre, shabby and low, but built of stone; and the streets, though wide and shaded by acacias, are mostly unpaved.

The endoderm is shaded, the ectoderm is left clear.

When lifted they should be laid thinly in a well shaded, airy spot to, dry.

Starting from the gates, two broad streets, shaded by plane trees, traverse the town east to west and north to south, the latter dividing the.

The city has an attractive situation and is beautifully shaded.

In the Cathedral Square (Plaza de Armas), embracing two citysquares, and shaded - like all the plazas of the island - with laurels and royal palms, are a statue of Isabel the Catholic, and two marble lions given by Queen Isabel II.; elsewhere there are statues of General Clouet and Marshal Serrano, once captaingeneral.

West Avenue is a finely shaded drive.

It should be well shaded, and fine specimens of fancy caladiums, dracaenas, coleus, crotons, palms, ferns and such plants as are grown for the beauty of their foliage, will make a very attractive show.

The untwisted visceral loop is lightly shaded.

That this action is a direct and not a nervous one is shown by the fact that if the eye be suddenly shaded the pupil will dilate a little, showing that the nerves which cause dilatation are still competent after the administration of physostigmine.

The chief attraction of Wyk is the Sandwall, a promenade which is shaded by trees and skirts the beach.

The streets are old-fashioned, narrow and well shaded.

Handsome labiate plants, flowering towards autumn, and preferring a cool soil and partially shaded situation.

This should be done early in the spring, and the plants heavily shaded until feeding roots are again produced.

The streets of Winchester are heavily shaded, the view as presented from the neighbouring hills being that of a continuous forest stretching from the beautiful Mystic Valley parkway (of the Metropolitan park system), of which more than one-half (50.2 acres) is in the southern part of the township, to the Middlesex Fells Reservation (another Metropolitan park), of which 261.9 acres are in the eastern part; and there are a large public playground and a common.

The town is laid out on a regular plan and ample scale, and the streets are wide and shaded with trees.

While the houses of the poorer classes are mean and too often dirty, in marked contrast are the houses of the wealthier citizens, built generally in a style of elaborate arabesque, the windows shaded with projecting cornices of graceful woodwork (mushrebiya) and ornamented with stained glass.

A winding passage leads through the ornamental doorway into the court, in the centre of which is a fountain shaded with palm-trees.

Its streets are shaded by elms. The city is the seat of Trinity College (Methodist Episcopal, South), opened in 1851 as a normal college, growing out of an academy called Union Institute, which was established in the northwestern part of Randolph county in 1838 and was incorporated in 1841.

The city's streets are broad and heavily shaded with a profusion of elm, oak and maple trees.

Public grounds are few, but on the outskirts of the city are a park and race-course, with the fashionable Marina promenade; while the Mardyke walk, on the west of the island, is pleasantly shaded by a fine avenue, and was the site of the International exhibition held in 1902.

There is some doubt on the point; but a contemporary and intimate friend, Luca Pacioli, speaks of his "ineffable left hand"; all the best of his drawings are shaded downward from left to right, which would be the readiest way for a left-handed man; and his habitual eccentric practice of writing from right to left is much more likely to have been due to natural left-handedness than to any desire of mystery or concealment.

It forms one side of a courtyard, which is shaded by a group of magnificent chenar trees.