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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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