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Shading   /ʃˈeɪdɪŋ/   Listen
Shading

noun
1.
Graded markings that indicate light or shaded areas in a drawing or painting.
2.
A gradation involving small or imperceptible differences between grades.  Synonym: blending.


Shade

verb
(past & past part. shaded; pres. part. shading)
1.
Cast a shadow over.  Synonyms: shade off, shadow.
2.
Represent the effect of shade or shadow on.  Synonym: fill in.
3.
Protect from light, heat, or view.
4.
Vary slightly.
5.
Pass from one quality such as color to another by a slight degree.



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"Shading" Quotes from Famous Books



... of his men!" exclaimed Prather, shading his eyes to watch the file of figures now passing under the cotton-woods. It seemed to relieve him. "I suppose he came on my account," he ...
— Over the Pass • Frederick Palmer
... very large pincushion. Then the window—an unusually large window. Then a dark old picture, which the feeble candle dimly showed me. It was a picture of a fellow in a high Spanish hat, crowned with a plume of towering feathers. A swarthy, sinister ruffian, looking upward, shading his eyes with his hand, and looking intently upward—it might be at some tall gallows at which he was going to be hanged. At any rate, he had the appearance ...
— After Dark • Wilkie Collins
... was sewing busily, occasionally moving a cradle gently with her foot. On the steps of the piazza was seated a man, who now and then read aloud some paragraph from a newspaper. From time to time, the woman raised her eyes from her work, and, shading them from the sunshine with her hand, looked out wistfully upon the sea of splendor, everywhere waving in flowery ripples to the soft breathings of the balmy air. At length ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 11, No. 65, March, 1863 • Various
... approached the cabin a slovenly looking woman, accompanied by three children, one a girl that the Overlanders judged to be about fourteen years of age, the other two girls being much younger, one a mere toddler, came out and, shading her eyes with a hand, eyed ...
— Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among the Kentucky Mountaineers • Jessie Graham Flower
... no more; so he shook his rein and rode his ways; but looked over his shoulder presently and saw her standing yet barefoot on the dusty highway shading her eyes from the afternoon sun and looking after him, and he waved his hand to her and so went his ways between the houses ...
— The Well at the World's End • William Morris


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