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More at shadow.\nVerb from Old English sceadwian, derived from sċeadu, above." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(uncountable) Darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is blocked.\nThe old oak tree gave shade in the heat of the day.\n1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: ." }, { "mean": "(countable) Something that blocks light, particularly in a window.\nClose the shade, please: it's too bright in here." }, { "mean": "(countable) A variety of a colour/color, in particular one obtained by adding black (compare tint).\nI've painted my room in five lovely shades of pink and chartreuse.\n1689 (indicated as 1690), , An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. , London: Eliz Holt, for Thomas Basset, , →OCLC:Thus light and colours, as white, red, yellow, blue, with their several degrees or shades, and mixtures, as green, scarlet, purple, sea-green, and the rest, come in only by the eyes" }, { "mean": "(figuratively) A subtle variation in a concept.\nshades of meaning\n1823, Thomas De Quincey, Letters to a Young Man whose Education has been Neglected. No. V. On the English Notices of Kant\nnew shades and combinations of thought\n1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 3, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:Every shade of religious and political opinion had its own headquarters." }, { "mean": "(figuratively) An aspect that is reminiscent of something.\nshades of Groucho" }, { "mean": "A very small degree of a quantity, or variety of meaning\n1934, Agatha Christie, Miss Marple Tells a Story\nMrs. Rhodes who (so I gathered from Mr. Petherick's careful language) was perhaps just a shade of a hypochondriac, had retired to bed immediately after dinner." }, { "mean": "(chiefly literary and fantasy) A ghost or specter; a spirit.\nToo long have I been haunted by that shade.\nThe adventurer was attacked by a shade.\n1700, Dryden, “Ceyx and Alcyone”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; , London: Jacob Tonson, , →OCLC:\nSwift as thought the flitting shade / Thro' air his momentary journey made.\n1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 39:Still, Birch House (a sop to the shade of the murdered Perak Resident) had no more than its normal share of flagellation" }, { "mean": "(countable) A postage stamp showing an obvious difference in colour/color to the original printing and needing a separate catalogue/catalog entry." }, { "mean": "(uncountable, originally gay slang) Subtle insults.\nthrow shade\nWhy did you paint your room chartreuse? No shade; I'm genuinely curious.\n1990, Jennie Livingston, director, Paris Is Burning, spoken by Dorian Corey:Shade is: \"I don't tell you you're ugly, but I don't have to tell you because you know you're ugly.\" And that's shade." }, { "mean": "(countable) A cover around or above a light bulb, a lampshade.\n1979 August, Graham Burtenshaw and Michael S. Welch, “O.V.S. Bulleid's SR loco-hauled coaches - 1”, in Railway World, page 398:Lighting was unimaginative for the standard stock with naked tungsten filament bulbs and metal reflectors. However, all compartments had individual reading lights above the seats with attractive glass shades." }, { "mean": "(historical) A candle-shade.\n1817, T. Munro, in Life, i. 511\nI am now finishing this letter by candle-light, with the help of a handkerchief tied over the shade.\n1789, Munro's Narrative, 186\nHis tent is furnished with a good large bed, mattress, pillow, &c., a few camp-stools or chairs, a folding table, a pair of shades for his candles, six or seven trunks with table equipage, his stock of linen (at least 24 shirts); some dozens of wine, brandy, and gin; tea, sugar, and biscuit; and a hamper of live poultry and his milch-goat." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive) To shield (someone or something) from light.\nThe old oak tree shaded the lawn in the heat of the day." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, rare) To shield oneself from light.\nWe shaded under a huge oak tree." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To alter slightly.\nYou'll need to shade your shot slightly to the left.\nMost politicians will shade the truth if it helps them." }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To vary or approach something slightly, particularly in color.\nThe hillside was bright green, shading towards gold in the drier areas.\n1886, Edmund Gurney, Phantasms of the Living\nThis small group will be most conveniently treated with the emotional division, into which it shades." }, { "mean": "(intransitive, baseball, of a defensive player) To move slightly from one's normal fielding position.\nJones will shade a little to the right on this pitch count." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To darken, particularly in drawing.\nI draw contours first, gradually shading in midtones and shadows." }, { "mean": "To surpass by a narrow margin.\nBoth parties claimed afterwards that their man did best in the debate, but an early opinion poll suggested Mr Cameron shaded it." }, { "mean": "(transitive, graphical user interface) To reduce (a window) so that only its title bar is visible.\nAntonym: unshade" }, { "mean": "(transitive, slang) To throw shade, to subtly insult someone.\n2021 December 8, Arwa Mahdawi, “Elon Musk is learning a hard lesson: never date a musician”, in The Guardian‎:The lyrics have prompted headlines about her “shading” Musk with a “spicy dig”, but I reckon the guy got off lightly." }, { "mean": "(transitive, obsolete) To shelter; to cover from injury; to protect; to screen.\nc. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Ere in our own house I do shade my head." }, { "mean": "(transitive, obsolete) To present a shadow or image of; to shadow forth; to represent.\n1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 3: in her person cunningly did shade / That part of Justice which is Equity." } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }