Shades

Definition: Shades

Shades

Noun

1. Spectacles that are darkened or polarized to protect the eyes from the glare of the sun; "he was wearing a pair of mirrored shades".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "shades" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Shades

Death

Death warrant, death watch, death rattle, death bed; stroke of death, agonies of death, shades of death, valley of death, jaws of death, hand of death; last breath, last gasp, last agonies; dying day, dying breath, dying agonies; chant du cygne; rigor mortis; Stygian shore.

Hell

Tartarus, Hades, Avernus, Styx, Stygian creek, pit of Acheron, Cocytus; infernal regions, inferno, shades below, realms of Pluto.

Jupiter

Phrase: "you moonshine revelers and shades of night".

Crosswords: Shades

Don't you just love how Stokely accessorize with different shades of black (The Faculty; writing credit: David Wechter; Bruce Kimmel)

The head of the sexually aroused adult gobbler can change into a variety of shades of red, white and blue (The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys; writing credit: Jeff Stockwell)

She turned three different shades of green (Wonder Woman; writing credit: Sandra Paretti)

I said take the shades off. (Out of Bounds; writing credit: Tony Kayden)

Take the shades off. (Out of Bounds; writing credit: Tony Kayden)

When the shades have been pulled shut (Stay Together For The Kids; performing artist: Blink-182)

Between the shades, assination standing still (A View to a Kill; performing artist: Duran Duran)

All the shades were pulled and drawn way down tight (Silhouettes; performing artist: Herman's Hermits)

Yeah, well, everyone here hides shades of shame (Back 2 good; performing artist: Matchbox 20)

In shades of mediocrity (Homeward Bound; performing artist: Simon and Garfunkel)

The House with the Drawn Shades (1915)

Toyo Miyatake: Infinite Shades of Gray (2002)

18 Shades of Dust (1999)

Painful Cheeks: Shades of Red (1994)

Shades of LA (1990)

OH HOW HAPPY  (performing artist: Shades Of Blue )

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References

• The 2001 Report on Replacement Shades Luminaires: World Market Segmentation by City (reference)

• The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Shades Luminaires (reference)

• The World Market for Textile Curtains, Drapes, Interior Blinds, Roller Shades, and Bed Valences: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

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Books

• Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades (reference)

• Raising the Shades (reference)

• Shades of Black: A Celebration of Our Children (reference)

• Shades of Twilight (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Shades of Darkness (reference)

• Two Shades of Blue (reference)

• Beauty and the Beast: Shades of Grey (reference)

• Billy Joel: Shades of Grey (reference)

• Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Shades Of Blue (reference)

• Shades of Deep Purple (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Canon Elph Shades Glacier APS Camera Kit (reference)

• Palm III Color Shades (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Seen is melanoma, with coloring of different shades of brown, black, or tan. Part of the ABCDs for detection of melanoma. See artwork: WYNTK-15b. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Seen is a normal mole, with no difference in shades of brown, black, or tan. Part of the ABCDs for detection of melanoma. See artwork: WYNTK-15b. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Shades of Mark A. Hanna and Arthur P. Gorman!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mute shades without credentials. Credit: Library of Congress.

Liberal shades. Credit: Library of Congress.

Man holding up card with different shades in front of smokestack, in order to identify the extent of air pollution. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mot Tucker in kitchen of his corncrib home. Note nitrate of soda sacks used for shades in windows. Antioch, Mississippi. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

For in these sacred shades there is latent light

The various shades of the sand are singularly rich and agreeable, embracing the different iron colors, brown, gray, yellowish, and reddish

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Health

Color variegation refers to a lesion with shades of brown, tan, red, white, or blue/black, or combinations thereof. (references)

Shades are preferred over venetian blinds because they do not trap dust. Curtains can be used if they are washed periodically in hot water to kill the dust mites. (references)

Business

The trends are mostly gray shades and royal blue. Plain fabrics without decor sell more easily in Germany (of the total upholstery fabrics sales, only 20 percent have have clearly defined patterns). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "shades": grey shades ♦ put into the shades ♦ realm of shades ♦ shades below ♦ shades of ♦ the shades. Additional references.

Ending with "shades": eye-shades, lamp-shades, light-shades.

Bulgarian 

тъмнина (blackness, dark, darkness, obscurity, shadows, the opaque), тъмни очила (tinted glasses), мрак (dark, darkness, gloom, mirk, murk, night, obscurity, opacity, opaqueness, shadows, the opaque). (various references)

Chinese 

树荫 (shade). (various references)

Danish

agatugle (angle shades moth). (various references)

Dutch

agaatvlinder (angle shades moth). (various references)

Finnish

synonyymienkin merkityksissä on usein vivahduseroja (even synonyms often have different shades of meaning). (various references)

French

tons gris intermédiaires (intermediate shades of grey), froides régions de l'opposition (shades of the opposition). (various references)

German

schattiert. (various references)

Hebrew 

משקפי שמש (sun glasses). (various references)

Hungarian

szálloda bárja, pokol (bottomless pit, Gehenna, hell, inferno, pandemonium, pit, place below, tartarus), kocsma (alehouse, boozer, dram-shop, grocery, jerry, jerry shop, jerry-shop, pot house, pub, public house, saloon, tavern), homály (blur, darkness, dimness, dimwit, gloom, gloominess, mirk, mist, murk, obscureness, obscurity, shade, shadow, twilight), alvilág (devildom, gangland, Hades, inferno, nether regions, nether world, underworld). (various references)

Italian

occhiali da sole (sunglasses). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

冥境 (shades of the dead), 夜陰 (dead of night, shades of evening), 夜色 (night scene, shades of night), 夜暗 (dead of night, shades of night). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

めいきょう (clear mirror, shades of the dead), やしょく (night meal, night scene, shades of night, supper), やいん (dead of night, shades of evening), やあん (dead of night, shades of night). (various references)

Korean 

그늘 (shade). (various references)

Pig Latin

adesshay.(various references)

Romanian

infern (abyss, hell, inferno, the bottomless pit, the shades, underworld), iad (hell, inferno, lower world, nether world, pandemonium, the shades), cramã (the shades, wine cellar, wine vault). (various references)

Russian 

градация яркости (shades of gray), блеклые краски (pastel shades). (various references)

Spanish

sombras, tinieblas (dark, darkness, dissolution, dusk, duskiness, mirk, murk, obscurity), averno. (various references)

Swedish

tandfly (angle shades moth), gråskalor (grey shades, greyshades). (various references)

Turkish

iz (birthmark, chip, clew, clue, dint, evidence, footprint, ghost, hint, ichno-, impress, impression, inkling, odor, odour, print, scar, shadow, sign, smack, stamp, stigma, streak, suggestion, suspicion, taint, tincture, tinge, touch, trace, track, trail, vestige, weal, wheal), hayalet (apparition, ghost, phantasm, phantom, shade, shadow, specter, spectre, spirit, spook, sprite, wraith), hava (aerial, aero-, air, airs, ambiance, ambience, aroma, atmosphere, atmospheric, aura, climate, Flavor, flavour, mood, ostentation, showing off, side, sky, splash, splurge, strain, swank, vanity, weather, wind), hatırlatan kimse, andıran kimse. (various references)

Ukrainian

схованка (cache, den, hideaway, hiding place, kennel, lurking place, niche), присмерк (dusk, duskiness, nightfall, twilight). (various references)

Brotolomia meticulosa, mane, maneque, manibus, manum, manumque, Phlogophora meticulosa, Trigonophora meticulosa. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words ending with "shades": eyeshades, nightshades, sunshades. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Shades" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hadees, sades, Sahadeo, Scades, Schaden, Shaadi, Shadai, Shaddai, shaddap, Shaddup, shader, shaders, Shadey, shadon, Shadoo, Shadreck, shadwe, Shaida, Shalden, Shanes, Shawes, shazdeh, shazes, Shedee, sheeds, Shewes, shides, shrade, suades. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: dashes, sadhes, sashed.

-1 letter: ashed, ashes, assed, deash, hades, heads, sades, sadhe, shade, shads, sheas, sheds.

-2 letters: dahs, dash, edhs, hade, haed, haes, head, sade, sash, seas, shad, shea, shed, shes.

-3 letters: ads, ash, ass, dah, edh, eds, ess, had, hae, has, hes, sad, sae, sea, sha, she.

-4 letters: ad, ae, ah, as, de, ed, eh, es, ha.

+1 letter: chassed, dashers, deashes, hassled, shaders, slashed, smashed, stashed, swashed.

+2 letters: airsheds, chadless, dasheens, dashiest, handless, handsels, handsets, harassed, hardness, hayseeds, headless, headsets, hydrases, radishes, sandshoe, sapheads, sashayed, shadiest, shandies, splashed, squashed, subheads, sunshade.

+3 letters: adhesions, adhesives, asphodels, beshadows, bethesdas, chastised, chresards, coalsheds, crosshead, deanships, deathless, diaphyses, diatheses, diathesis, dishwares, dustheaps, eyeshades, handiness, handpress, hardiness, hardnoses, harnessed, hashheads, headdress, headiness, headrests, headsails, headships, headstays, hogsheads, kaddishes, madhouses, mastheads, misshaped, redshanks, rhapsodes, sandshoes, shadeless, shadflies, shadiness, shadowers, shetlands, showcased, skinheads, softheads, soreheads, spadefish, sunshades, swanherds, unwasheds.