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SHADED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Protected from heat and light with shade or shadow
Example:
o'er the shaded billows rushed the night
Classified under:
Similar:
shadowed; shadowy; shady; umbrageous (filled with shade)
Antonym:
unshaded (not darkened or dimmed by shade)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(of pictures or drawings) drawn or painted with degrees or gradations of shadow
Example:
the shaded areas of the face seemed to recede
Classified under:
Similar:
crosshatched; hatched (shaded by means of fine parallel or crossed lines)
Antonym:
unshaded ((of pictures) not having shadow represented)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb shade
Context examples:
About half a mile beyond Highbury, making a sudden turn, and deeply shaded by elms on each side, it became for a considerable stretch very retired; and when the young ladies had advanced some way into it, they had suddenly perceived at a small distance before them, on a broader patch of greensward by the side, a party of gipsies.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
A few steps farther brought them out at the bottom of the very walk they had been talking of; and standing back, well shaded and sheltered, and looking over a ha-ha into the park, was a comfortable-sized bench, on which they all sat down.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
But the hand which I now saw, clearly enough, in the yellow light of a mid-London morning, lying half shut on the bedclothes, was lean, corded, knuckly, of a dusky pallor and thickly shaded with a swart growth of hair.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
On Sunday picnics at Shellmound Park and Schuetzen Park, in the past, he had rested his head on many laps, and, usually, he had slept soundly and selfishly while the girls shaded his face from the sun and looked down and loved him and wondered at his lordly carelessness of their love.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Not that I could see them now, for they were cast down, and shaded by his hand; but I had noticed them a little while before.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
She shut her book and slowly looked up; her hat-brim partially shaded her face, yet I could see, as she raised it, that it was a strange one.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I ask you to picture the shaded sitting-room of the Fazenda St. Ignatio, two miles inland from the town of Manaos.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I remember the first time I became capable of observing outward objects with any kind of pleasure, I perceived that the fallen leaves had disappeared and that the young buds were shooting forth from the trees that shaded my window.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
We could but fall into our places and be content to snail along from Reigate to Horley and on to Povey Cross and over Lowfield Heath, while day shaded away into twilight, and that deepened into night.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mr. Peggotty, looking round upon us while she was so engaged, said in a low voice, which he shaded with his hand: “The old 'un!”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
