shade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: shād
ipa: /ʃeɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: shades
form: shading
form: shaded
form: shaded
Etymology: From Middle English schaden, from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: The old oak tree shaded the lawn in the heat of the day.
glosses: To shield (someone or something) from light.
examples: text: We shaded under a huge oak tree.
glosses: To shield oneself from light.
examples: text: You'll need to shade your shot slightly to the left.
text: Most politicians will shade the truth if it helps them.
glosses: To alter slightly.
examples: text: The hillside was bright green, shading towards gold in the drier areas.
text: This small group will be most conveniently treated with the emotional division, into which it shades.
ref: 1886, Edmund Gurney, Phantasms of the Living:
glosses: To vary or approach something slightly, particularly in color.
examples: text: Jones will shade a little to the right on this pitch count.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To move slightly from one's normal fielding position.
raw_tags: of a defensive player
examples: text: I draw contours first, gradually shading in midtones and shadows.
glosses: To darken, particularly in drawing.
examples: text: Both parties claimed afterwards that their man did best in the debate, but an early opinion poll suggested Mr Cameron shaded it.
text: It was Alexis Mac Allister who lit the touchpaper at the start of the second half, scoring from the penalty spot to cancel out John Stones’s opener for City midway through a first half that the defending champions had shaded.
ref: 2024 March 10, David Hytner, “Doku involved at both ends as Liverpool and Manchester City share spoils”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To win by a narrow margin.
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
antonyms: unshade
glosses: To reduce (a window) so that only its title bar is visible.
examples: text: The lyrics have prompted headlines about her “shading” Musk with a “spicy dig”, but I reckon the guy got off lightly.
ref: 2021 December 8, Arwa Mahdawi, “Elon Musk is learning a hard lesson: never date a musician”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To throw shade, to subtly insult someone.
examples: text: Ere in our own house I do shade my head.
ref: c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
glosses: To shelter; to cover from injury; to protect; to screen.
examples: text: His [Osiris’s] wife was Iſis, whom they likewiſe made / A Goddeſſe of great powre and ſouerainty, / And in her perſon cunningly did ſhade / That part of Iuſtice, which is Equity, […]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 3, page 268:
glosses: To present a shadow or image of; to shadow forth; to represent.
Derived terms: beshade
shader
shade up
shading
unshade
unshaded
Related terms: shadow
shed