The meaning of SHADE is comparative darkness or obscurity produced when something blocks the light of the sun. How to use shade in a sentence.
She left the midday sun for the cool of the shade. This plant grows best in the shade. We pitched our tent in the shade. 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.
Red, green and blue are colours: a particular form of a colour, especially when describing how light or dark it is. Sky blue is a shade of blue: a shade or small amount of a particular colour; a faint colour covering a surface:
Shade is an area of darkness under or next to an object such as a tree, where sunlight does not reach. Temperatures in the shade can reach forty-eight degrees Celsius at this time of year. Alexis walked up the coast, and resumed his reading in the shade of an overhanging cliff.
shade (third-person singular simple present shades, present participle shading, simple past and past participle shaded) (transitive) To shield (someone or something) from light.
shade′less, adj. shade′less ness, n. 1. obscurity, gloom, dusk. Shade, shadow imply partial darkness or something less bright than the surroundings. Shade indicates the lesser brightness and heat of an area where the direct rays of light do not fall: the shade of a tree.
SHADE definition: the comparative darkness caused by the interception or screening of rays of light from an object, place, or area. See examples of shade used in a sentence.