Word Finder - shades

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Darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is blocked.

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The old oak tree gave shade in the heat of the day.

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Something that blocks light, particularly in a window.

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Close the shade, please: it's too bright in here.

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

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I've painted my room in five lovely shades of pink and chartreuse.

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A subtle variation in a concept.

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shades of meaning

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An aspect that is reminiscent of something.

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shades of Groucho

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

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A ghost or specter; a spirit.

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The adventurer was attacked by a shade.

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

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(originally gay slang) Subtle insults.

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Why did you paint your room chartreuse? No shade; I'm genuinely curious.

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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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Sunglasses.

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His shades are by some famous designer.

Less commonly it is of different shades of brown, red, yellow and black.

Considering how much Gabriel couldn.t tolerate sunlight, Rhyn was surprised to see him during daylight at all, let alone without his shades.

Paintings hung on every wall and expensive looking pottery lamps with hand painted shades gave the room a warm glow.

The sun was brilliant, the pinks and oranges – combined with the multiple shades of blue sky as it lightened – creating a vision beyond that of any dream.

The desired effect may be produced by a graduation of the same colour, or by a polychromatic scale - such as white, pale red, pale brown, various shades of green, violet and purple, in ascending order.

For the purpose of the removal of the glass, the cooler end of the furnace is provided with a number of suitable openings, provided with movable covers or shades.

The plumage of the male is of a uniform black colour, that of the female various shades of brown, while the bill of the male, especially during the breeding season, is of a bright gamboge yellow.

But after proper treatmenti the former develops a glossy black patina with violet sheen, and the latter shows beautiful shades of grey with silvery lustre.

Copper, too, by patina-producing treatment, is made to show not merely a rich golden sheen with pleasing limpidity, but also red of various hues, from deep coral to light vermilion, several shades of grey, and browns of numerous tones from dead-leaf to chocolate.

His passion for the stage completely engrossed him; he tried his hand both at dramatic criticism and at dramatic authorship. His first dramatic piece, Lethe, or Aesop in the Shades, which he was thirty-seven years later to read from a splendidly bound transcript to King George III.

Spaniards of all shades, except Carlists and Ultramontanes, paid homage to his memory when he passed away at his Logrono residence on the 8th of January 1879.

But in Servetus, whose execution he approved, we find an isolated, feeble revolt against assumptions which both Catholics and Protestants of all shades accepted without question.

In the Arctic province the overpowering influence of meteorological phenomena manifested itself both in the doctrine of shades and in their shamanistic practices.

As a technical term in theology, it has various shades of meaning according to the degree of authority which is postulated and the nature of the evidence on which it is based.

But the real meaning is not slight; the sexual distinction has been discovered, and a new sense of shame sends the human pair into the thickest shades, when Yahweh-Elohim walks abroad.

The style "Protestant" had, however, during the 19th century assumed a variety of new shades of meaning which necessarily made its particular application a somewhat hazardous proceeding.

Between these extremes there would be many shades and degrees of ignorance and knowledge.

The family have on the preceding days solemnly visited the grave, and offered to the shades gifts of water, wine, milk, honey, oil, and the blood of black victims; they have decked the tomb with flowers, have renewed the feast and farewell of the funeral, and have prayed to the ancestors to watch over their welfare.

With this goes a general increase of precipitation with altitude, so that a good rainfall map would have its darker shades very generally along the mountain ranges.

For a year he relinquished himself to her endearments, and when he determined to leave, she instructed him how to sail to the land of shades which lay on the verge of the ocean stream, in order to learn his fate from the prophet Teiresias.

They are usually yellowish brown or red in colour, the presence of more amino groups leading to browner shades, whilst the introduction of alkylated amino groups gives redder shades.

Then the uninjured cocoons are by themselves sorted into classes having similar shades of colour, size and quality of fibre.

After protracted experimenting Sir Thomas Wardle was able in 1873 to show a series of tussurs well dyed in all the darker shades of colour, but the lighter and bright blues, pinks, scarlets, &c., he could not produce, Subsequently Tessie du Motay found that the fawn colour of natural tussur could be discharged by solution of permanganate of potash, but the oxidizing action was so rapid and violent that it destroyed the fibre itself.

In colour the skin varies from a black-brown to a copperish hue, but the darker are the most common shades.

At the opening of the Convention the Montagnard group comprised men of very diverse shades of opinion, and such cohesion as it subsequently acquired was due rather to the opposition of its leaders to the Girondist leaders than to any fundamental hostility between the two groups.

It is never crystallized, but may have a fibrous or microcrystalline structure, and commonly occurs in concretionary forms or in compact and earthy masses; sometimes mammillated, botryoidal, reniform or stalactitic. The colour presents various shades of brown and yellow, and the streak is always brownish, a character which distinguishes it from haematite with a red, or from magnetite with a black streak.

The variegated plumage of the Snipe is subject to no inconsiderable variation, especially in the extent of dark markings on the belly, flanks, and axillaries, while examples are occasionally seen in which no trace of white, and hardly any of buff or grey, is visible, the place of these tints being taken by several shades of chocolate-brown.

Usually they are of a different colour, and may be black, brown, yellowish, or also less frequently rose-coloured, rusty-red, orange-reddish, saffron, or of various intermediate shades.

Besides the blue and purple of the spectrum he was able to recognize only one colour, yellow, or, as he says in his paper, "that part of the image which others call red appears to me little more than a shade or defect of light; after that the orange, yellow and green seem one colour which descends pretty uniformly from an intense to a rare yellow, making what I should call different shades of yellow."

There are two races, dwarf and tall, various shades of red and yellow.

To diversify properly and mingle well together the reds, whites, purples, yellows and blues, with all their intervening shades, requires considerable taste and powers of combination; and ascertained failures may be rectified at the proper time the next season.

The colours include golden-yellow, red, orange-yellow, crimson, maroon and intermediate shades.

Under these conditions the hardness, which is very extreme at the impact face, shades off toward the back, till at about quarter way from face to back all hardening ceases, and the rest of the plate is in a very strong, shock-resisting state.

The white foxes that are dyed smoke and celestial blue are brilliant and totally unlike the browner shades of this fox.

The skins that are not perfectly white are dyed jet black, dark or light smoke, violet-blue, blue-grey, and also in imitation of the drab shades of the natural blue.

This fur is dyed jet black and various shades of brown and grey, and manufactured into articles for the small drapers and for exportation.

Skins of a pale bluish tone are generally used in their natural state for stoles, boas and muffs, but the less clear coloured skins are dyed in beautiful shades similar in density to the dark and valuable sables from Russia, and are the most effective skins that can be purchased at a reasonable price.

From Japan a similar animal is obtained in smaller quantities with very good but longer fur, of yellowish motley light-brown shades.

The paler skins from all districts in Siberia are now cleverly coloured or "topped," that is, just the tips of the hair are stained dark, and it is only an expert who can detect them from perfectly natural shades.

The colour is of two or three shades of brown in one skin, the centre being an oval dark saddle, edged as it were with quite a pale tone and merging to a darker one towards the flanks.

Cultivated forms of this, with exquisite shades of colour and without any blotch at the base of the petals, are known as Shirley poppies.

Many hybrid forms of varying shades of colour have been raised of late years.

New Egyptian shades off almost imperceptibly into demotic, and it may be hoped that gaps which now exist in the development will be filled by further discovery.

In outward appearance the motmots have an undoubted resemblance to bee-eaters, but, though beautiful birds, various shades of blue and green predominating in their plumage, they do not exhibit such decided and brilliant colours; and, while the beeeaters are only found in the Old World, the motmots are a purely Neotropical form, extending from southern Mexico to Paraguay, and the majority of species inhabit Central America.

There is, however, a considerable amount of difference in the shades of red which mark different species.

Froude intended, in the same spirit, to give the shades as well as the lights in the portrait of his hero.

The fires of hell and the shades of purgatory, which are the constant background of Dante's "Paradiso," were present to Luther from childhood.

In later life he resided for some years in Paris, where his house was a meeting-place for eminent men of all shades of opinion.

The grasses are dyed in all shades and plaited to form attractive designs suitable for the purposes to which they are to be applied.

Life after death was disbelieved or held as the existence of shades.