Shade

Definition

shade /ʃeÇd/ n ၁။ [U] ~ (from sth) အရိပ္အာဝါသ။ a temperature of 35°C in the shade ❍ sit in the shade of a tree/wall ❍ The trees give some welcome shade from the sun. Compare SHADOW ၂။ [C] (often in compounds) ေနကာ။ အလင္းကာ။ အုပ္ေဆာင္း။ an eye-shade ❍ a new shade for the lamp. See also LAMPSHADE, SUNSHADE ၃။ shades [pl] the ~s of sth ( rhet ) အေမွာင္။ အေမွာင္ရိပ္။ the shades of evening/night. ၄။ shades [pl] ( infml esp US ) = SUN-GLASSES ၅။ [U] (ပန္းခ်ီ၊ ဓာတ္ပံု စသည္တြင္) အေမွာင္။ There is not enough light and shade in your drawing. ၆။ [C] (အေရာင္) အႏု၊ အရင့္။ material in several shades of blue ❍ choose a lighter shade. ၇။ (က) [C] ~ of sth (အနက္၊ သေဘာထား) အေထြေထြအလာလာ။ a word with many shades of meaning ❍ people with all shades of opinion. (ခ) [sing] a ~ (better,worse, etc) စိုးစဥ္း။ အနည္းငယ္။ I think it's a shade warmer today. ❍ She feels a shade better than yesterday. ၈။ shades [pl] ~s of sb/sth ( infml ) ပံုစံ။ ‘Shades of Hitler!’ I thought, as I listened to him haranguing the crowd. ❍ shades of the 1950s. v ၁။ ~ sb/sth (from sth ) (အလင္း)ကာသည္။ (အရိပ္)ထိုးသည္။ shaded terraces ❍ She shaded her eyes (from the sun) with her hand. ၂။ (အုပ္ေဆာင္း)အုပ္သည္။ There was a small shaded light by the bed. ၃။ ~ sth (in) အလင္းအေမွာင္ သြင္းသည္။ (ခဲ )ထိုးသည္။ the shaded areas on the map ❍ shade in a drawing. ၄။ ~ from sth into sth; ~ (off) into sth တစ္စတစ္စကူးသည္။ scarlet shading (off) into pink ❍ ( fig ) distrust of foreigners shading into racism. ❏ put sb/sth in the shade [ IDM ] လႊမ္းမိုးလိုက္သည္။ I can paint reasonably well, but her work puts mine in the shade. ❏ shading n [U] အလင္းအေမွာင္သြင္းျခင္း။ ခဲထိုးျခင္း။

Examples

1. He pulled a wicker chair into the shade.
2. [shade of] : I spent the afternoon reading under the shade of an umbrella.
3. [in the shade] : We sat in the shade and ate our lunch.
4. An eye shade
5. The painter used different textures and shades to represent the seasons.
6. A brilliant shade of red
7. All shades of political opinion were represented.
8. [shade of] : Look at all these kids’ games – shades of my childhood.
9. A shade less than 50 per cent approve of the idea.