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shade
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: sh?d, IPA(key): /?e?d/
- Rhymes: -e?d
Etymology 1
From Middle English schade, from Old English s?eadu, s?adu (“shadow; shade”), from Proto-West Germanic *skadu, from Proto-Germanic *skadwaz (“shadow; shade”). More at shadow.
Noun
shade (countable and uncountable, plural shades)
- (uncountable) Darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is blocked.
- (countable) Something that blocks light, particularly in a window.
- (countable) A variety of a colour/color, in particular one obtained by adding black (compare tint).
- 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 […]
- (figuratively) A subtle variation in a concept.
- 1823, Thomas De Quincey, Letters to a Young Man whose Education has been Neglected. No. V. On the English Notices of Kant
- new shades and combinations of thought
- 1823, Thomas De Quincey, Letters to a Young Man whose Education has been Neglected. No. V. On the English Notices of Kant
- (figuratively) An aspect that is reminiscent of something.
- A very small degree of a quantity, or variety of meaning
- 1934, Agatha Christie, Miss Marple Tells a Story
- Mrs. 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.
- 1934, Agatha Christie, Miss Marple Tells a Story
- (chiefly literary and fantasy) A ghost or specter; a spirit.
- Swift as thought the flitting shade / Thro' air his momentary journey made.
- (countable) A postage stamp showing an obvious difference in colour/color to the original printing and needing a separate catalogue/catalog entry.
- (uncountable, originally gay slang) Subtle insults.
Derived terms
- lampshade
- sunshade
- made in the shade
- nightshade
- shade carrier
- shadeful
- shadeless
- shadelessly
- shadiness
- shady
Translations
Etymology 2
From Old English sceadwian, derived from s?eadu (see above).
Verb
shade (third-person singular simple present shades, present participle shading, simple past and past participle shaded)
- (transitive) To shield from light.
- The old oak tree shaded the lawn in the heat of the day.
- (transitive) To alter slightly.
- You'll need to shade your shot slightly to the left.
- Most politicians will shade the truth if it helps them.
- (intransitive) To vary or approach something slightly, particularly in color.
- The hillside was bright green, shading towards gold in the drier areas.
- 1886, Edmund Gurney, Phantasms of the Living
- This small group will be most conveniently treated with the emotional division, into which it shades.
- (intransitive, baseball, of a defensive player) To move slightly from one's normal fielding position.
- Jones will shade a little to the right on this pitch count.
- (transitive) To darken, particularly in drawing.
- I draw contours first, gradually shading in midtones and shadows.
- To surpass by a narrow margin.
- Both parties claimed afterwards that their man did best in the debate, but an early opinion poll suggested Mr Cameron shaded it.
- (transitive, graphical user interface) To reduce (a window) so that only its title bar is visible.
- Antonym: unshade
- (transitive, obsolete) To shelter; to cover from injury; to protect; to screen.
- (transitive, obsolete) To present a shadow or image of; to shadow forth; to represent.
Derived terms
- beshade
- shader
- shading
- unshade
- unshaded
Translations
Related terms
- shadow
- shed
Anagrams
- Da'esh, Daesh, Desha, Hades, Shead, ashed, deash, hades, heads, sadhe
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sanctuary
English
Etymology
From Middle English sanctuary, from Old French saintuaire, from Late Latin sanctuarium (“a sacred place, a shrine, a private cabinet, in Medieval Latin also temple, church, churchyard, cemetery, right of asylum”), from Latin sanctus (“holy, sacred”); see saint.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?sæ?ktj???i/, /?sæ?kt?????i/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?sæ?kt??u???i/
- Hyphenation: sanc?tu?ary
Noun
sanctuary (plural sanctuaries)
- A place of safety, refuge, or protection.
- My car is a sanctuary, where none can disturb me except for people who cut me off.
- An area set aside for protection.
- The bird sanctuary has strict restrictions on visitors so the birds aren't disturbed.
- A state of being protected, asylum.
- The government granted sanctuary to the defector, protecting him from his former government.
- The consecrated (or sacred) area of a church or temple around its tabernacle or altar.
Synonyms
- haven
- presbytery
- refuge
- zoar
- shelter
Translations
Further reading
- sanctuary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- sanctuary in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Derived terms
- privileged sanctuary
- sanctuary city
- sanctuarylike
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