0 slight darkness caused by something blocking the direct light from the sun:
1 a type or degree of a colour:
Their kitchen is painted an unusual shade of yellow/an unusual yellow shade.
The room has been decorated in pastel shades (= soft and light colours) throughout.
Our new car cost us a shade more/less than we were expecting it to.
In his speech he said - shades of Martin Luther King Jr. - that he had a dream.
4 darkness and cooler temperatures caused by something blocking the direct light from the sun:
6 to make part of something slightly darker:
Students shade the ovals on multiple-choice tests.
7 to gradually change something, or to gradually change from one thing to another:
We sat in the shade of a tree, sipping tea and eating scones.
The vines were trained over an arch, providing shade as well as fruit.
Few shading experiments have provided the absolute measures of both incident radiation and crop structure necessary to develop a predictive approach.
The height of the surrounding canopy was significantly different throughout ontogeny for gap and shade species.
In tropical moist forest, advance regeneration in the form of shade-suppressed seedlings is a major component of regrowth in new gaps.
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