Definitions of shade
British English : shade If you say that a place or person is shaded by objects such as trees, you mean that the place or person cannot be reached, harmed, or bothered by strong sunlight because those objects are in the way. VERB...a health resort whose beaches are shaded by palm trees.
noun
- relative darkness produced by the blocking out of light
- a place made relatively darker or cooler than other areas by the blocking of light, esp sunlight
- a position of relative obscurity
- something used to provide a shield or protection from a direct source of light, such as a lampshade
- a darker area indicated in a painting, drawing, etc, by shading
- a colour that varies slightly from a standard colour due to a difference in hue, saturation, or luminosity ⇒ a darker shade of green
- a slight amount ⇒ a shade of difference
- (literary ) a ghost
- an archaic word for shadow
- See put in the shade
verb (mainly transitive)
- to screen or protect from heat, light, view, etc
- to make darker or dimmer
- to represent (a darker area) in (a painting, drawing, etc), by means of hatching, using a darker colour, etc
- (also intransitive) to change or cause to change slightly
- to lower (a price) slightly