Shade
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- n.阴影; 细微差别
- ［英］ n.阴影;细微差别 ( a minute difference;nuance)
- ［例］ delicate shades of meaning ( 意义上细微的差别)
[编辑] Webster Collegiate
I. noun
- Etymology: Middle English, from Old English sceadu; akin to Old High German scato shadow, Greek skotos darkness
- Date: before 12th century
- 1.
- a. comparative darkness or obscurity owing to interception of the rays of light
- b. relative obscurity or retirement
- 2.
- a. shelter (as by foliage) from the heat and glare of sunlight
- b. a place sheltered from the sun
- 3. an evanescent or unreal appearance
- 4. plural
- a. the shadows that gather as darkness comes on
- b. netherworld, Hades
- 5.
- a. a disembodied spirit ; ghost
- b. — used to signal the similarity between a previously encountered person or situation and one at hand; usually used in plural<shades of my childhood>
- 6. something that intercepts or shelters from light, sun, or heat: as
- a. a device partially covering a lamp so as to reduce glare
- b. a flexible screen usually mounted on a roller for regulating the light or the view through a window
- c. plural sunglasses
- 7.
- a. the reproduction of the effect of shade in painting or drawing
- b. a subdued or somber feature
- 8.
- a. a color produced by a pigment or dye mixture having some black in it
- b. a color slightly different from the one under consideration
- 9.
- a. a minute difference or variation ; nuance
- b. a minute degree or quantity
- 10. a facial expression of sadness or displeasure
- ? shadeless adjective
II. verb (shaded; shading)
- Date: 14th century
- transitive verb
- 1.
- a. to shelter or screen by intercepting radiated light or heat
- b. to cover with a shade
- 2. to hide partly by or as if by a shadow
- 3. to darken with or as if with a shadow
- 4. to better or exceed by a shade ; surpass, eclipse
- 5.
- a. to represent the effect of shade or shadow on
- b. to add shading to
- c. to color so that the shades pass gradually from one to another
- 6. ［trn］ to
- 1.
