English to English
noun
- relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body
It is much cooler in the shade.
There's too much shadiness to take good photographs.
source: WordNet 3.0
- a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color
After several trials he mixed the shade of pink that she wanted.
source: WordNet 3.0
- protective covering that protects something from direct sunlight
They used umbrellas as shades.
As the sun moved he readjusted the shade.
source: WordNet 3.0
- a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude
Without understanding the finer nuances you can't enjoy the humor.
Don't argue about shades of meaning.
source: WordNet 3.0
- a position of relative inferiority
An achievement that puts everything else in the shade.
His brother's success left him in the shade.
source: WordNet 3.0
- a slight amount or degree of difference
A tad too expensive.
Not a tad of difference.
The new model is a shade better than the old one.
source: WordNet 3.0
- a mental representation of some haunting experience
He looked like he had seen a ghost.
It aroused specters from his past.
source: WordNet 3.0
- a representation of the effect of shadows in a picture or drawing (as by shading or darker pigment)
source: WordNet 3.0
- 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.
source: Webster 1913
verb
- cast a shadow over
source: WordNet 3.0
- represent the effect of shade or shadow on
source: WordNet 3.0
- protect from light, heat, or view
Shade your eyes when you step out into the bright sunlight.
source: WordNet 3.0
- vary slightly
Shade the meaning.
source: WordNet 3.0
- pass from one quality such as color to another by a slight degree
The butterfly wings shade to yellow.
source: WordNet 3.0
- To shelter or screen by intercepting the rays of light; to keep off illumination from.
source: Webster 1913
- To undergo or exhibit minute difference or variation, as of color, meaning, expression, etc.; to pass by slight changes; -- used chiefly with a preposition, as into, away, off.
source: Webster 1913
English to Tagalog
noun
- [siéd] Lilim; kanlong
source: Diccionario Ingles-Español-Tagalog
verb
- [siéd] Liliman
source: Diccionario Ingles-Español-Tagalog
