Shade - English meaning

noun

A ghost or ghostlike image of a person.

Usage examples:

A headless apparition

noun

Something you believe, imagine, or dream you see, esp. the form of a person; ghost

phrasal verb

Prevent a vehicle from being driven away, typically by parking another vehicle too close.

Usage examples:

He blocked in vera's mini

phrasal verb

Paint something with solid areas of colour.

Usage examples:

The sunflowers are blocked in with yellow

phrasal verb

To put a vehicle so close to another vehicle that it cannot drive away

Usage examples:

Another car had parked behind me and blocked me in.

noun

A man, especially a peasant or an old man.

Usage examples:

As for spines, you'll be amazed at some of the positions some of us old bodachs can get into.

noun

The property possessed by an object of producing different sensations on the eye as a result of the way it reflects or emits light.

Usage examples:

The lights flickered and changed colour

verb

Pigmentation of the skin, especially as an indication of someone's race.

Usage examples:

Discrimination on the basis of colour

noun

Red, blue, green, yellow, etc.

Usage examples:

What's your favourite colour?, she wears a lot of bright colours., what colour are your eyes?, in a…

adjective

Of or at a fairly low temperature.

Usage examples:

It'll be a cool afternoon

noun

A fairly low temperature.

Usage examples:

The cool of the night air

verb

Become or make less hot.

Usage examples:

We dived into the river to cool off

noun

The quality or condition of being at a fairly low temperature.

Usage examples:

The coolness of the breeze

noun

The state or quality of being slightly cold

Usage examples:

There’s a slight coolness in the air., grace had felt some coolness between them., she’s known for …

verb

Put something on top of or in front of (something), especially in order to protect or conceal it.

Usage examples:

The table had been covered with a checked tablecloth

noun

A thing which lies on, over, or around something, especially in order to protect or conceal it.

Usage examples:

A seat cover

verb

To put or spread something over something, or to lie on the surface of something

Usage examples:

Once the rice comes to a boil, turn down the flame and cover the pot., she covered the child with a…

verb

If two groups of parallel lines cross-hatch, or you cross-hatch them, they are close together and cross each other, often in order to show differences of light and darkness on a picture

Usage examples:

Cross-hatch the stripes to make them darker., the location was in one of those narrow little lanes …

verb

Make or become dark or darker.

Usage examples:

The sky was darkening rapidly

verb

To become or make something dark

Usage examples:

[ i ] the sky darkened as thick smoke billowed from the refinery., [ t ] she pulled down the shades…

adjective

(of a light, colour, or illuminated object) not shining brightly or clearly.

Usage examples:

The dim glow of the fire

verb

Make or become less bright or distinct.

Usage examples:

A smoky inferno that dimmed the sun

abbreviation

Diminuendo.

noun

An idealized person or thing.

Usage examples:

The subjectification of the beloved in petrarchan lyric entails the internalization of a feminine i…

noun

An apparition of a dead person which is believed to appear or become manifest to the living, typically as a nebulous image.

Usage examples:

The building is haunted by the ghost of a monk

verb

Act as ghostwriter of (a work).

Usage examples:

His memoirs were smoothly ghosted by a journalist

noun

The spirit of a dead person imagined as visiting the living and usually appearing as a pale, almost transparent form

Usage examples:

There are lots of stories about ghosts.

noun

A colour or shade.

Usage examples:

The water is the deepest hue of aquamarine

proper noun

A city in central vietnam; population 233,800 (est. 2009).

noun

A color, or the particular degree of light or dark of a color

Usage examples:

In the waters of the caribbean there are fish of every hue.

noun

The quality of being intense.

Usage examples:

The pain grew in intensity

noun

The quality of being extreme in strength or force

Usage examples:

Simone sings with emotional intensity., the light hit us with such intensity that we ducked.

noun

A growth of long hair on the neck of a horse, lion, or other mammal.

Usage examples:

The horse was rushing about in the field, tossing its mane

plural noun

(in ancient roman belief) the souls of dead ancestors, worshipped as benevolent spirits.

Usage examples:

There is no greater sinner than that man who, though not worshipping the gods or the manes seeks to…

noun

The long, thick hair that grows along the top of a horse’s neck or around the face and neck of a male lion

noun

An illusion, apparition, or ghost.

Usage examples:

The cart seemed to glide like a terrible phantasm

noun

Something that is seen or imagined but is not real

noun

A ghost.

Usage examples:

A phantom who haunts lonely roads

noun

Something that appears or seems to exist but is not real or is imagined

noun

A person who has returned, especially supposedly from the dead.

Usage examples:

He was three hundred years old, a terrible living revenant

noun

Someone who has returned, especially someone who returns to life after being dead

Usage examples:

The dead son becomes a ghostly revenant.

noun

A fixed or movable upright partition used to divide a room, give shelter from draughts, heat, or light, or to provide concealment or privacy.

Usage examples:

The special branch man remained hidden behind the screen for prosecution witnesses

verb

Conceal, protect, or shelter (someone or something) with a screen or something forming a screen.

Usage examples:

Her hair swung across to screen her face

noun

A flat surface in a theater, on a television, or on a computer system on which pictures or words are shown

Usage examples:

I spend most of the day working in front of a computer screen., her ambition is to write for the sc…

noun

A dark area or shape produced by a body coming between rays of light and a surface.

Usage examples:

Trees cast long shadows

verb

Short for eyeshadow.

noun

An area of darkness caused when light is blocked by something, usually in a shape similar to the object that is blocking the light

Usage examples:

[ c ] chloë kept jumping on tyler’s shadow., [ u ] this corner of the room is always in shadow., [ …

noun

A dark area or shape produced by a body coming between rays of light and a surface.

Usage examples:

Trees cast long shadows

verb

Short for eyeshadow.

noun

An area of darkness caused when light is blocked by something, usually in a shape similar to the object that is blocking the light

Usage examples:

[ c ] chloë kept jumping on tyler’s shadow., [ u ] this corner of the room is always in shadow., [ …

noun

A place giving temporary protection from bad weather or danger.

Usage examples:

Huts like this are used as a shelter during the winter

verb

Protect or shield from something harmful, especially bad weather.

Usage examples:

The hut sheltered him from the cold wind

noun

Something that gives protection, such as a building or tent, or the protection provided

Usage examples:

[ c ] we took the stray dog to an animal shelter., [ u ] the wall gave us some shelter from the win…

noun

A ghost.

Usage examples:

A dread of spectres and witches affected every aspect of daily life

noun

The non-physical part of a person which is the seat of emotions and character; the soul.

Usage examples:

We seek a harmony between body and spirit

verb

Convey rapidly and secretly.

Usage examples:

Stolen cows were spirited away some distance to prevent detection

noun

A state of mind or attitude

Usage examples:

It’s very important to play the game in the right spirit., rock music in the 1960s expressed the sp…

noun

A ghost.

Usage examples:

Judge steve evans takes on these unspooky spooks and non-existent ghosts - and he doesn't mind one …

verb

Frighten; unnerve.

Usage examples:

They spooked a couple of grizzly bears

verb

Colour slightly.

Usage examples:

A mass of white blossom tinged with pink

noun

A trace of a colour.

Usage examples:

There was a faint pink tinge to the sky

noun

A shade or variety of a colour.

Usage examples:

The sky was taking on an apricot tint

verb

Colour (something) slightly; tinge.

Usage examples:

Her skin was tinted with delicate colour

verb

To color something slightly

Usage examples:

Here, the ocean is gray with a blue tint.

noun

A musical or vocal sound with reference to its pitch, quality, and strength.

Usage examples:

They were speaking in hushed tones

verb

Give greater strength or firmness to (the body or a muscle).

Usage examples:

Push-ups help tone your abs

noun

A person of a specified kind.

Usage examples:

He always was an unlucky wight

proper noun

A shipping forecast area covering the english channel roughly between the strait of dover and the meridian of poole.

noun

A ghost, or a dead person who has come back to life

noun

A ghost or ghostlike image of someone, especially one seen shortly before or after their death.

Usage examples:

In keeping with the batman myth established in the 30's comics, wayne senior is killed in a random …

noun

A spirit of a dead person, sometimes represented as a pale, transparent image of that person

Usage examples:

He watched the misty wraiths of moisture making patterns on the window pane., her wraith of a voice…