shade
noun
[ ʃeɪd ]
• comparative darkness and coolness caused by shelter from direct sunlight.
• "sitting in the shade"
• a colour, especially with regard to how light or dark it is or as distinguished from one nearly like it.
• "various shades of blue"
• a lampshade.
• "a small lamp with a crimson shade"
• a ghost.
• "the ghost is the shade of Lucy Walters, first mistress of Charles II"
Similar:
ghost,
spectre,
phantom,
apparition,
spirit,
wraith,
phantasm,
shadow,
bodach,
spook,
revenant,
wight,
manes,
eidolon,
shade
verb
• screen from direct light.
• "she shaded her eyes against the sun"
• darken or colour (an illustration or diagram) with parallel pencil lines or a block of colour.
• "she shaded in the outline of a chimney"
• narrowly win or gain an advantage in (a contest).
• "the Welsh side shaded a tight, tough first half"
• make a slight reduction in the amount, rate, or price of.
• "banks may shade the margin over base rate they charge customers"
Origin:
Old English sc(e)adu, of Germanic origin. Compare with shadow.
throw shade
• publicly criticize or express contempt for someone.
• "if she was really so above it all, she wouldn't have to throw shade"
