Crossword-Solution: SHADE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Shade | n. | Comparative obscurity owing to interception or interruption of the rays of light; partial darkness caused by the intervention of something between the space contemplated and the source of light. |
| Shade | n. | Darkness; obscurity; -- often in the plural. |
| Shade | n. | An obscure place; a spot not exposed to light; hence, a secluded retreat. |
| Shade | n. | That which intercepts, or shelters from, light or the direct rays of the sun; hence, also, that which protects from heat or currents of air; a screen; protection; shelter; cover; as, a lamp shade. |
| Shade | n. | Shadow. |
| Shade | n. | The soul after its separation from the body; -- so called because the ancients it to be perceptible to the sight, though not to the touch; a spirit; a ghost; as, the shades of departed heroes. |
| Shade | n. | The darker portion of a picture; a less illuminated part. See Def. 1, above. |
| Shade | n. | Degree or variation of color, as darker or lighter, stronger or paler; as, a delicate shade of pink. |
| Shade | n. | A minute difference or variation, as of thought, belief, expression, etc.; also, the quality or degree of anything which is distinguished from others similar by slight differences; as, the shades of meaning in synonyms. |
| Shade | v. t. | To shelter or screen by intercepting the rays of light; to keep off illumination from. |
| Shade | v. t. | To shelter; to cover from injury; to protect; to screen; to hide; as, to shade one's eyes. |
| Shade | v. t. | To obscure; to dim the brightness of. |
| Shade | v. t. | To pain in obscure colors; to darken. |
| Shade | v. t. | To mark with gradations of light or color. |
| Shade | v. t. | To present a shadow or image of; to shadow forth; to represent. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SHADE | anagram | ASHED, DESHA, HADES, HEADS, SADHE, SHEDA |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with SHADE (5)
With him dwelt his dark-eyed daughter, Wayward as the Minnehaha, With her moods of shade and sunshine, Eyes that smiled and frowned alternate, Feet as rapid as the river, Tresses flowing like the water, And as musical a laughter: And he named her from the river, From the water-fall he named her, Minnehaha, Laughing Water.
That day I oft remember, when from sleep I first awak’t, and found my self repos’d Under a shade on flours, much wondring where And what I was, whence thither brought, and how.
They would not come in, but sat in the shade of the bank outside while Alexandra and Ivar talked about the birds and about his housekeeping, and why he never ate meat, fresh or salt.
Box 286, Belize City); telephone [501] 77161 through 77163 _#_Flag: blue with a narrow red stripe along the top and the bottom edges; centered is a large white disk bearing the coat of arms; the coat of arms features a shield flanked by two workers in front of a mahogany tree with the related motto SUB UMBRA FLOREO (I Flourish in the Shade) on a scroll at the bottom, all encircled by a green garland _*_Economy _#_Overview: The economy is based primarily on agriculture and merchandising.
Between this half-wooded, half-naked hill, and the vague, still horizon its summit indistinctly commanded, was a mysterious sheet of fathomless shade—the sounds only from which suggested that what it concealed bore some humble resemblance to features here.
Quotes with SHADE (3)
I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair. Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps. I hunger for your sleek laugh, your hands the color of a savage harvest, hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails, I want to eat your skin like a whole almond. I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body, the sovereign nose of your arrogant face, I want to eat the fleeting…
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines, And too often is his gold complexion dimm'd: And every fair from fair sometimes declines, By chance or natures changing course untrimm'd; By thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his…
Thine are these orbs of light and shade; Thou madest Life in man and brute; Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot Is on the skull which thou hast made.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 299 times in crossword archives (1950–2025).