shadeとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Noun from Middle English schade, from 古期英語 sċeadu, sċadu (“shadow; shade”), from Proto-West Germanic *skadu, from Proto-Germanic *skadwaz (“shadow; shade”). More at shadow.

Verb from 古期英語 sceadwian, derived from sċeadu, above.

名詞

shade (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 shades)

1. (uncountable) Darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is blocked.

   The old oak tree gave shade in the heat of the day.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter 8, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:

     Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: […] .

2. (countable) Something that blocks light, particularly in a window.

   Close the shade, please: it's too bright in here.

3. (countable) 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.

   • 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], OCLC 153628242:

     Thus light and colours, as white, red, yellow, blue, with their several degrees or shades, and mixtures, as green, scarlet, purple, sea-green, and the rest, come in only by the eyes […]

4. (figuratively) A subtle variation in a concept.

   shades of meaning

   • 1823, Thomas De Quincey, Letters to a Young Man whose Education has been Neglected. No. V. On the English Notices of Kant

     new shades and combinations of thought

   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 3, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:

     Every shade of religious and political opinion had its own headquarters.

5. (figuratively) An aspect that is reminiscent of something.

   shades of Groucho

6. A very small degree of a quantity, or variety of meaning
   • 1934, Agatha Christie, Miss Marple Tells a Story

     Mrs. Rhodes who (so I gathered from Mr. Petherick's careful language) was perhaps just a shade of a hypochondriac, had retired to bed immediately after dinner.

7. (chiefly literary and fantasy) A ghost or specter; a spirit.

   Too long have I been haunted by that shade.

   The adventurer was attacked by a shade.

   • 1700, [John] Dryden, “Ceyx and Alcyone”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 228732415:

     Swift as thought the flitting shade / Thro' air his momentary journey made.

   • 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 39:

     Still, Birch House (a sop to the shade of the murdered Perak Resident) had no more than its normal share of flagellation[.]

8. (countable) A postage stamp showing an obvious difference in colour/color to the original printing and needing a separate catalogue/catalog entry.
9. (uncountable, originally gay slang) Subtle insults.

   throw shade

   Why did you paint your room chartreuse? No shade; I'm genuinely curious.

   • 1990, Jennie Livingston, director, Paris Is Burning, spoken by Dorian Corey:

     Shade is: "I don't tell you you're ugly, but I don't have to tell you because you know you're ugly." And that's shade.

10. (countable) A cover around or above a light bulb, a lampshade.
    • 1979 August, Graham Burtenshaw and Michael S. Welch, “O.V.S. Bulleid's SR loco-hauled coaches - 1”, in Railway World, page 398:

      Lighting was unimaginative for the standard stock with naked tungsten filament bulbs and metal reflectors. However, all compartments had individual reading lights above the seats with attractive glass shades.

派生語

• lampshade
• sunshade
• made in the shade
• nightshade
• shade carrier
• shadeful
• shadeless
• shadelessly
• shadiness
• shady

動詞

shade (三人称単数 現在形 shades, 現在分詞 shading, 過去形および過去分詞形 shaded)

1. (transitive) To shield (someone または something) from light.

   The old oak tree shaded the lawn in the heat of the day.

2. (intransitive, rare) To shield oneself from light.

   We shaded under a huge oak tree.

3. (transitive) To alter slightly.

   You'll need to shade your shot slightly to the left.

   Most politicians will shade the truth if it helps them.

4. (intransitive) To vary or approach something slightly, particularly in color.

   The hillside was bright green, shading towards gold in the drier areas.

   • 1886, Edmund Gurney, Phantasms of the Living

     This small group will be most conveniently treated with the emotional division, into which it shades.

5. (intransitive, baseball, of a defensive player) To move slightly from one's normal fielding position.

   Jones will shade a little to the right on this pitch count.

6. (transitive) To darken, particularly in drawing.

   I draw contours first, gradually shading in midtones and shadows.

7. To surpass by a narrow margin.

   Both parties claimed afterwards that their man did best in the debate, but an early opinion poll suggested Mr Cameron shaded it.

8. (transitive, graphical user interface) To reduce (a window) so that only its title bar is visible.

   Antonym: unshade

9. (transitive, obsolete) To shelter; to cover from injury; to protect; to screen.
   • c. 1608–1609, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i]:

     Ere in our own house I do shade my head.

10. (transitive, obsolete) To present a shadow or image of; to shadow forth; to represent.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book V, canto VII, stanza 3:

      [The goddess] in her person cunningly did shade / That part of Justice which is Equity.

派生語

• beshade
• shader
• shading
• unshade
• unshaded