Definition of shade

"shade" in the noun sense

1. shade, shadiness, shadowiness

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"

2. shade, tint, tincture, tone

a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color

"after several trials he mixed the shade of pink that she wanted"

3. shade

protective covering that protects something from direct sunlight

"they used umbrellas as shades"

"as the sun moved he readjusted the shade"

4. nuance, nicety, shade, subtlety, refinement

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"

5. shade

a position of relative inferiority

"an achievement that puts everything else in the shade"

"his brother's success left him in the shade"

6. tad, shade

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"

7. ghost, shade, spook, wraith, specter, spectre

a mental representation of some haunting experience

"he looked like he had seen a ghost"

"it aroused specters from his past"

8. shade

a representation of the effect of shadows in a picture or drawing (as by shading or darker pigment)

9. lampshade, lamp shade, shade

a protective ornamental covering for a lamp, used to screen a light bulb from direct view

"shade" in the verb sense

1. shadow, shade, shade off

cast a shadow over

2. shade, fill in

represent the effect of shade or shadow on

3. shade

protect from light, heat, or view

"Shade your eyes when you step out into the bright sunlight"

4. shade

vary slightly

"shade the meaning"

5. shade

pass from one quality such as color to another by a slight degree

"the butterfly wings shade to yellow"

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Quotations for shade

Where there is much light
There is much shade. [ Goethe ]

We shall fight in the shade. [ Leonidas, to the threat of the Persians that their forest of arrows would darken the sun ]

We have been friends together
In sunshine and in shade. [ Caroline E. S. Norton ]

In silence sad.
Trip we after the night's shade;
We the globe can compass soon.
Swifter than the wandering moon. [ William Shakespeare ]

Oh, may I with myself agree,
And never covet what I see.
Content me with an humble shade,
My passions tamed, my wishes laid;
For, while our wishes wildly roll.
We banish quiet from the soul.
It is thus the busy beat the air,
And misers gather wealth and care. [ Dyer ]

We shape ourselves the joy or fear
Of which the coming life is made,
And fill our Future's atmosphere
With sunshine or with shade. [ Whittier ]

Fruit ripens not well in the shade. [ Proverb ]

Death upon his face
Is rather shine than shade,
A tender shine by looks beloved made. [ Mrs. Browning ]

Yet, all beneath the unrivalled rose,
The lowly daisy sweetly blows;
Tho' large the forest's monarch throws
His army shade,
Yet green the juicy hawthorn grows,
Adown the glade. [ Burns ]

What is a sun-dial in the shade good for? [ Proverb ]

Great trees are good for nothing but shade. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

One of those passing rainbow dreams.
Half light, half shade, which fancy's beams
Paint on the fleeting mists that roll,
In trance or slumber, round the soul! [ Moore ]

The stars are forth, the moon above the tops
Of the snow-shining mountains - Beautiful!
I linger yet with nature, for the night
Hath been to me a more familiar face
Than that of man; and in her starry shade
Of dim and solitary loveliness,
I learned the language of another world. [ Byron ]

Of all the phantoms fleeting in the mist
Of time, though meagre all and ghostly thin;
Most unsubstantial, unessential shade
Was earthly fame. [ Pollok ]

In genial spring, beneath the quivering shade,
Where cooling vapors breathe along the mead,
The patient fisher takes his silent stand.
Intent, his angle trembling in his hand;
With looks unmoved, he hopes the scaly breed.
And eyes the dancing cork and bending reed. [ Pope ]

And half in shade and half in sun;
The rose sat in her bower,
With a passionate thrill in her crimson heart. [ Bayard Taylor ]

Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade
Of that which once was great is passed away. [ Wordsworth ]

I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers,
From the seas and the streams;
I bear light shade for the leaves when laid
In their noonday dreams. [ Shelley ]

Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts. [ Browning ]

Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade,
Where heaves the turf in many a mouldering heap,
Each in his narrow cell forever laid,
The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. [ Gray ]

Now began
Night with her sullen wing to double-shade
The desert; fowls in their clay nests were couched.
And now wild beasts came forth, the woods to roam. [ Milton ]

Woman is a flower that exhales her perfume only in the shade. [ Lamennais ]

Beneath closed lids and folds of deepest shade we think we see. [ N. L. Frothingham ]

Half light, half shade, she stood a sight to make an old man young. [ Tennyson ]

With every change his features played, as aspens show the light and shade. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old. [ Lord Chesterfield ]

Poplars and alders ever quivering played, and nodding cypress formed a fragrant shade. [ Pope ]

In her starry shade of dim and solitary loveliness, I learn the language of another world. [ Byron ]

Trees the most lovingly shelter and shade us when, like the willow, the higher soar their summits the lowlier droop their boughs. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

A thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept their pale, unbodied shade, to warn us from fleshless hps. [ Bulwer ]

Now black and deep the night begins to fall, a shade immense; sunk in the quenching gloom, magnificent and vast, are heaven and earth. [ Thomson ]

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade. [ Bovee ]

Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty; as where the sun is brightest the shade is deepest. [ Lander ]

The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight, and the shade of the fast-flying clouds across my book passed with delicate change. [ N. P. Willis ]

What a comfort a dull but kindly person is at times! A ground-glass shade over a gas-lamp does not bring any more solace to our dazzled eyes than such a one to our mind. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

One (poem) courts the shade; another, not afraid of the critic's keen eye, chooses to be seen in a strong light; the one pleases but once, the other will still please if ten times repeated. [ Horace ]

Put a seal upon your lips and forget what you have done. After you have been kind, after love hath stolen forth into the world and done its beautiful work, go back into the shade again and say nothing about it.

Night steals on; and the day takes its farewell, like the words of a departing friend, or the last tone of hallowed music in a minster's aisles, heard when it floats along the shade of elms, in the still place of graves. [ Percival ]

Besides the pleasure derived from acquired knowledge, there lurks in the mind of man, and tinged with a shade of sadness, an unsatisfactory longing for something beyond the present, a striving towards regions yet unknown and unopened. [ Wilhelm von Humboldt ]

Wit throws a single ray, separated from the rest, - red, yellow, blue, or any intermediate shade, - upon an object; never white light; that is the province of wisdom. We get beautiful effects from wit, - all the prismatic colors, - but never the object as it is in fair daylight. [ Holmes ]

The man whose bosom neither riches nor luxury nor grandeur can render happy may, with a book in his hand, forget all his torments under the friendly shade of every tree; and experience pleasures as infinite as they are varied, as pure as they are lasting, as lively as they are unfading, and as compatible with every public duty as they are contributory to private happiness. [ Zimmermann ]

What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that have bequeathed their labors to these Bodleians were reposing here as in some dormitory, or middle state. I do not want to handle, to profane the leaves, their winding-sheets. I could as soon dislodge a shade. I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odor of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of those sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard. [ Charles Lamb ]

I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time. I have no other restriction as regards smoking. I do not know just when I began to smoke, I only know that it was in my father's lifetime, and that I was discreet. He passed from this life early in 1847, when I was a shade past eleven; ever since then I have smoked publicly. As an example to others, and - not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake. It is a good rule. I mean, for me; but some of you know quite well that it wouldn't answer for everybody that's trying to get to be seventy. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

shade in Scrabble®

The word shade is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 9

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters shade:

SADHE
(39)
HEADS
(39)
SHADE
(39)
HADES
(39)
DEASH
(39)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word shade

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In shade

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(39)
HEADS
(39)
SHADE
(39)
HADES
(39)
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(39)
HEAD
(36)
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shade in Words With Friends™

The word shade is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters shade:

HADES
(42)
SADHE
(42)
HEADS
(42)
SHADE
(42)
DEASH
(42)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word shade

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In shade

HADES
(42)
SADHE
(42)
HEADS
(42)
SHADE
(42)
DEASH
(42)
HEAD
(39)
DASH
(39)
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(36)
ASHED
(36)
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(36)
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(36)
HEAD
(33)
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(33)
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(33)
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(32)
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(32)
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SADHE
(32)
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(32)
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Word Growth involving shade

Shorter words in shade

ad had

ha had

Longer words containing shade

deshade deshaded

deshade deshades

eyeshade eyeshades

lampshade lampshades

lightshade lightshades

nightshade nightshades

overshade overshaded

overshade overshades

shaded deshaded

shaded nonshaded

shaded overshaded

shaded undershaded

shaded unshaded

shadeless

shader shaders

shades deshades

shades eyeshades

shades lampshades

shades lightshades

shades nightshades

shades overshades

shades sunshades

shades undershades

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undershade undershaded

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