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say it: shayd
shade is a noun and verb meaning "relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body". It carries 14 recorded senses.
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”
a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color
“after several trials he mixed the shade of pink that she wanted”
protective covering that protects something from direct sunlight
“they used umbrellas as shades”
“as the sun moved he readjusted the shade”
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”
a position of relative inferiority
“an achievement that puts everything else in the shade”
“his brother's success left him in the 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”
a representation of the effect of shadows in a picture or drawing (as by shading or darker pigment)
a protective ornamental covering for a lamp, used to screen a light bulb from direct view
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for shade come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.