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shade
1. a darker area indicated in a painting, drawing, etc., by shading
2. a colour that varies slightly from a standard colour due to a difference in hue, saturation, or luminosity

shade [shād]
(optics)
The color of a mixture of pigments or dyes which has some black pigment or dye in it.

shade
1. A material hung from, and coiled on, a ratcheted spring-activated roller; used to provide privacy, to darken a room, or to reduce the amount of sunlight striking a window.
2. The result of the addition of a black dispersion to a mixture of white and color.


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The shade of the trees fell heavily upon the water, and seemed to bury itself therein, impregnating the depths of the element with darkness.
As they rested under its shade, one of the Travelers said to the other, "What a singularly useless tree is the Plane
ONE pleasant day in the latter part of eternity, as the Shades of all the great writers were reposing upon beds of asphodel and moly in the Elysian fields, each happy in hearing from the lips of the others nothing but copious quotation from his own works (for so Jove had kindly bedeviled their ears), there came in among them with triumphant mien a Shade whom none knew.
 
 
 
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