Word Type
Shade can be a noun or a verb.
shade used as a noun:
- Darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is blocked.
"The old oak tree gave shade in the heat of the day." - Something that blocks light, particularly in a window.
"Close the shade, please, it's too bright in here." - A variety of a colour/color, in particular one obtained by adding black (compare tint).
"I've painted my room in five lovely shades of pink and chartreuse." - A subtle variation in a concept.
"shades of meaning" - A ghost.
"Too long have I been haunted by that shade." - A creature that is partially human and partially angel.
"He was attacked by a Shade." - A postage stamp showing an obvious difference in colour/color to the original printing and needing a separate catalogue/catalog entry.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
shade used as a verb:
- To shield from light.
"The old oak tree shaded the lawn in the heat of the day." - To alter slightly.
"You'll need to shade your shot slightly to the left." - To vary slightly, particularly in color.
"The hillside was bright green, shading towards gold in the drier areas." - When a defensive player moves slightly from his normal fielding position.
"Jones will shade a little to the right on this pitch count." - To darken, particularly in drawing.
"I draw contours first, gradually shading in midtones and shadows."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is shade?
- Noun usage: The old oak tree gave shade in the heat of the day.
- Noun usage: Close the shade, please, it's too bright in here.
- Noun usage: I've painted my room in five lovely shades of pink and chartreuse.
- Noun usage: shades of meaning
- Noun usage: Too long have I been haunted by that shade.
- Noun usage: He was attacked by a Shade.
- Verb usage: The old oak tree shaded the lawn in the heat of the day.
- Verb usage: You'll need to shade your shot slightly to the left.
- Verb usage: Most politicians will shade the truth if it helps them.
- Verb usage: The hillside was bright green, shading towards gold in the drier areas.
- Verb usage: Jones will shade a little to the right on this pitch count.
- Verb usage: I draw contours first, gradually shading in midtones and shadows.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of shade are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of shade, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).