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Definition: Shadow |
ShadowNoun1. Shade within clear boundaries. 2. An unilluminated area; "he moved off into the darkness". 3. Something existing in perception only: "a ghostly apparition at midnight". 4. A premonition of something adverse; "a shadow over his happiness". 5. A clue that something has been present; "there wasn't a trace of evidence for the claim". 6. Refuge from danger or observation; "he felt secure in his father's shadow". 7. A spy employed to follow someone and report their movements. 8. An inseparable companion; "the poor child was his mother's shadow". Verb1. Follow, usually without the person's knowledge; "The police are shadowing her". 2. Cast a shadow over. 3. Cast a shadow. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "shadow" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | SHADOW |
Aerospace | Darkness in a region, caused by an obstruction between the source of light and the region.By extension, the term is applied to a similar condition when any form of radiant energy is cut off by an obstruction, as a radar shadow. The darkest part of a shadow in which light is completely cut off is called the umbra; a lighter part surrounding the umbra, in which the light is only partly cut off, is called the penumbra. (references) |
Bible | Shadow used in Col. 2:17; Heb. 8:5; 10:1 to denote the typical relation of the Jewish to the Christian dispensation. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Economics | Price, pricing, wage-rates. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | Wave on the internal surface caused mainly by annular thickening, generally in the lowest third. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Shadow A ghost. Macbeth says to the ghost of Banquo - "Hence, horrible shadow! unreal mockery, hence!" Shakespeare: Macbeth, iii. 4. He would quarrel with his own shadow. He is so irritable that he would lose his temper on the merest trifle. (See Schlemihl.) Gone to the bad for the shadow of an ass. Demosthenes says a young Athenian once hired an ass to Megara. The heat was so great and the road so exposed, that he alighted at midday to take shelter from the sun under the shadow of the poor beast. Scarcely was he seated when the owner passed by, and laid claim to the shadow, saying he let the ass to the traveller, but not the ass's shadow. After fighting for a time, they agreed to settle the matter in the law courts, and the suit lasted so long that both were ruined. "If you must quarrel, let it be for something better than the shadow of an ass." May your shadow never be less. When students have made certain progress in the black arts, they are compelled to run through a subterranean hall with the devil after them. If they run so fast that the devil can only catch their shadow, or part of it, they become firstrate magicians, but lose either all or part of their shadow. Therefore, the expression referred to above means, May you escape wholly and entirely from the clutches of the foul fiend. A servant carnestly desireth the shadow (Job vii. 2) - the time of leaving off work. The people of the East measure time by the length of their shadow, and if you ask a man what o'clock it is, he will go into the sun, stand erect, and fixing his eye where his shadow terminates; will measure its length with his feet; having done so, he will tell you the hour correctly. A workman earnestly desires his shadow, which indicates the time of leaving off work. Shadow (To). To follow about like a shadow. This is done by some person or persons appointed to watch the movements and keep au fait with the doings of suspicious characters. "He [Jesus] was shadowed by spies, who were stirring up the crowd against Him." - Longman's Magazine, 1891, p. 238. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Physics | Relative darkness caused by the interception of an opaque body between the image and the source of light. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A shadow is a dark shape, e.g. on the ground or a wall, caused by an object (or person, etc.) blocking light. Like a silhouette, the shape of the shadow is a two-dimensional projection of the object, but:
If the surface is curved there are further distortions.
- the smaller the angle between an elongated object and the direction of the light is, the shorter the shadow is;
- the smaller the angle between the direction of the light and the surface on which the shadow occurs is, the longer the shadow is;
- if the object is close to the light source, the shadow is large.
For non-point sources of light, the shadow is divided into the umbra and penumbra. The wider the light source, the more blurred the shadow.
If there are multiple light sources there are multiple shadows, with overlapping parts darker. For a person or object touching the surface, like a person standing on the ground, or a pole in the ground, these converge at the point of touch.
If white light is produced by separate colored light sources, the shadows are colored.
When the Earth casts a shadow on the Moon or conversely this is an eclipse.
Fiction: In Peter Pan the main character loses his shadow: it snaps off when he leaps out of the window, which is slammed closed behind him. It is put in a drawer and later sewed back on by Wendy.
See also shade.
More generally the term shadow is also used with regard to other things than light, for example rain: a rain shadow is a dry area, which, with respect to the prevailing wind direction, is beyond a mountain range; it is dry because air masses lose part of their water when they move over these mountains.
In Jungian psychology, the shadow is a part of the unconscious mind which is mysterious and often disagreeable to the conscious mind, but which is also relatively close to the conscious mind. It may be (in part) one's original self, which is superseded during early childhood by the conscious mind; afterwards it comes to contain thoughts that are repressed by the conscious mind. The shadow is instinctive and irrational, but is not necessarily evil even when it might appear to be so. It can be both ruthless in conflict and empathatic in friendship. It is important as a source of hunches, for understanding of one's own more inexplicable actions and attitudes (and of others' reactions), and for learning how to cope with the more problematic or troubling aspects of one's personality.
The shadow may appear in dreams and visions in various forms, often as a feared or despised person or being, and may act either as an adversary or as a friend. It typically has the same apparent gender as one's persona. It is possible that it might tend to appear with dark skin to a person of any race, since it represents an old ancestral aspect of the mind. The shadow's appearance and role depend greatly on individual idiosyncrasies, because the shadow develops in the individual's mind rather than simply being inherited in the collective unconscious.
Interactions with the shadow in dreams may shed light on one's state of mind. A disagreement with the shadow may indicate that one is coping with conflicting desires or intentions. Friendship with a despised shadow may mean that one has an unacknowledged resemblance to whatever one hates about that character. These examples refer to just two of many possible roles that the shadow may adopt, and are not general guides to interpretation. Also, it can be difficult to identify characters in dreams, so that a character who seems at first to be a shadow might represent some other complex instead.
According to Jung, the shadow sometimes takes over a person's actions, especially when the conscious mind is shocked, confused, or paralyzed by indecision.
The shadow might be the basis of the rank of Corax (raven) in the ancient religion of Mithraism.
In politics, the word "shadow" can refer to an opposition group, such as the Shadow Cabinet, or an alternative, secret shadow government.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Shadow."
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The Shadow Cabinet (also called the Opposition Front Bench) is a senior group of opposition spokespeople in the Westminster System of government who together under the leadership of the Leader of the Opposition (or the leader of other smaller opposition parties) form an alternative cabinet to the government's, whose members shadow or mark each individual member of the government. Members of a shadow cabinet are often but not always appointed to a Cabinet post if and when their party gets into government.In the United Kingdom and Canada the major opposition party and specifically its shadow cabinet is often called Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition. The adjective "loyal" is used because while there are policy differences, everyone acknowledges the role of the opposition in the system.
In the UK, the Parliamentary Labour Party elects most members of the Shadow Cabinet when in opposition, but when in government, the choice of Cabinet members is left wholly to the Prime Minister.
The official Shadow Cabinet in the UK is
This number of posts represents a major cutback. Traditionally shadow cabinets have had the same number of members as the real cabinet, but this has just half.
- Leader of the Opposition - Michael Howard
- Shadow Chancellor - Oliver Letwin
- Deputy Leader and Shadow Foreign Secretary - Michael Ancram
- Shadow Home Secretary and Culture Secretary - David Davis
- Shadow Health Secretary and Education Secretary - Tim Yeo
- Shadow Leader of the House of Lords - Lord Strathclyde
- Shadow Regions Secretary - David Curry
- Shadow Transport Secretary and Environment Secretary - Theresa May
- Chairman - Liam Fox and Maurice Saatchi
- Chief Whip - David Maclean
- Head of Policy Co-ordination - David Willetts
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Shadow Cabinet."
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Shadow the Hedgehog is an evil "clone" of the fictional Sonic the Hedgehog.Shadow has the power of chaos control, which enables him to warp time and space. Shadow was created on the space colony ark by Doctor Eggman's grandfather, Gerald Robotnik. Shadow at first thought that he had made a promise to his childhood friend Maria to destroy the Earth and all the humans and then later realizes that wasn't Maria's actual goal. His encounter with Maria may or may not have been real, but it is certain that Gerald tweaked his memories to make him think that Maria wanted the Earth destroyed. Shadow nearly dies by attempting suicide in Sonic Adventure 2, his first outing, but somehow lives to come on the upcoming Sonic Heroes.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Shadow the Hedgehog."
Synonyms: ShadowSynonyms: apparition (n), dark (n), darkness (n), phantom (n), shadower (n), tail (n), trace (n), vestige (n), dwarf (v), overshadow (v), shade (v), shade off (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Accompaniment | Concomitant, accessory, coefficient; companion, buddy, attendant, fellow, associate, friend, colleague; consort, spouse, mate; partner, co-partner; satellite, hanger on, fellow-traveller, shadow; escort, cortege; attribute. |
Copy | Duplicate, reproduction; cast, tracing; reflex, reflexion, reflection; shadow, echo. |
Demon | Ghost, revenant, specter, apparition, spirit, shade, shadow, vision; hobglobin, goblin, orc; wraith, spook, boggart, banshee, loup-garou, lemures; evil eye. |
Imagination | Conceit, maggot, figment, myth, dream, vision, shadow, chimera; phantasm, phantasy; fantasy, fancy; whim, whimsey, whimsy; vagary, rhapsody, romance, gest, geste, extravaganza; air drawn dagger, bugbear, nightmare. |
Narrowness Thinness | Having, slip; (filament); thread paper, skeleton, shadow, anatomy, spindleshanks, lantern jaws, mere skin and bone. |
Pursuit | Verb: pursue, prosecute, follow; run after, make after, be after, hunt after, prowl after; shadow; carry on; (do); engage in; (undertake); set about; (begin); endeavor; court; (request) seek; (search); aim at; (intention); follow the trail; (trace); fish for; (experiment); press on; (haste); run a race; (velocity). |
Sequence | Follower, attendant, satellite, shadow, dangler, train. |
Smallness | Small quan modicum, trace, hint, minimum; vanishing point; material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace; minutiae, details; look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow; spark, scintilla, gleam; touch, cast; grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture; inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive; snip, snippet; snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag; chip, chipping; shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair. |
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Screenplays | You're nothing but a shadow on film just a shadow (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green) Full of darkness and danger they were And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow Even darkness must pass (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) And uhye Lord, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of no food, I shall fear no hunger (Sister Act; writing credit: Joseph Howard) I looked over and saw the shadow of two curious shoes under the kitchen door (Jerry Maguire; writing credit: Cameron Crowe) Our thoughts are not the substance of reality, but its shadow. (2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle; writing credit: Catherine Vimenet; Jean-Luc Godard) | |
Lyrics | Only your shadow can prevent (Your Shadow, My Shelter; performing artist: Surface) No shadow the night yeah it was she (Sunshine; performing artist: Aerosmith) And I swear like the shadow that's by your side (I Swear; performing artist: All-4-One) It must have been cold there in my shadow, (Wind beneath my wings; performing artist: BETTE MIDLER) Your love is like a shadow on me all of the time (TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART; performing artist: Bonnie Tyler) | |
Clever | To light a candle is to cast a shadow. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Shadow House (1972) The Wold Shadow (1972) Shadow Game (1969) The Long Red Shadow (1968) To Track a Shadow (1967) | |
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 | Light and Shadow in the Carina Nebula. Credit: NASA. |  | This mosaic shows the Caloris Basin (located half-way in shadow on the terminator).Caloris is Latin for heat and the basin is named this because it is nearthe subsolar point (the point closest to the sun) when Mercury is at perihelion (theclosest point in its orbit to the sun). Credit: NASA. |
 | "The shadow of Mount Erebus on the clouds." In: "Scott's Last Expedition ....", 1913. Dodd, Mead, and Company. New York. Volume II. Page 200. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Shadow bands in the pinkish glow of a Southeast Alaska sunset. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | The shadow of obesity hangs over this boy's childhood. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by P. Almasy.. |  | [showing a young man standing with one foot on a soccer ball and his shadow as ayoung man with polio]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Underway on 22 December 1944. Photographed from a Naval Air Station, New York, aircraft, flying at an altitude of 600 feet. Note ship's shadow on the water off her port side. Credit: NAVY. |  | In the shadow. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Bushes in shadow with blooms. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Valley of the shadow. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Porch shadow" by Stephanie Brim Commentary: "A shadow on my front porch." | "Camera shadow" by Peter Gustafson Commentary: "This is the shadow of my camera on the wall." |
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| Author | Quotation |
G. Macdonald | Ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration. |
Horace | We are but dust and shadow. |
John Gay | Shadow owes its birth to light. |
Lord Alfred Tennyson | The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow. |
Lucan | There stands the shadow of a glorious name. |
| Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. | |
Marcus T. Cicero | Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. |
Pindar | Men are the dreams of a shadow. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man. |
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John Locke | 1690 | And what will become of this paternal power in that part of the world, where one woman hath more than one husband at a time? or in those parts of America, where, when the husband and wife part, which happens frequently, the children are all left to the mother, follow her, and are wholly under her care and provision? If the father die whilst the children are young, do they not naturally every where owe the same obedience to their mother, during their minority, as to their father were he alive? and will any one say, that the mother hath a legislative power over her children? that she can make standing rules, which shall be of perpetual obligation, by which they ought to regulate all the concerns of their property, and bound their liberty all the course of their lives? or can she inforce the observation of them with capital punishments? for this is the proper power of the magistrate, of which the father hath not so much as the shadow. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by the Allied victory. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1963 | Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1890) |
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A Grief Observed | C.S. Lewis | Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | It was not in impenetrable shadow as the other objects in the yard were, but had a dismal light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark cellar |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | There was some shadow of an attempt of this kind in the mode of celebrating the day on which the political year of the colony commenced |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | No young ambition was foolish enough to ripen in his shadow. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The white spray nodded to her dancing and when she was in shadow the glow was deeper on her cheek |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Shine out, fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | A huge red billboard stood beside the road ahead, and it threw a great oblong shadow. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | As I walked on the railroad causeway, I used to wonder at the halo of light around my shadow, and would fain fancy myself one of the elect |
Hamlet | William Shakespeare | I hold ambition of so light a quality that it is but a shadow's shadow. |
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Business | This is particularly necessary for trunk roads that generate shadow tolls. (references) | |
Economic History | Georgia | In addition, a significant percentage of the Georgian labor market is believed to be employed in the shadow economy. (references) |
Armenia | The lack of a legal infrastructure to fight the shadow economy, especially in the area of trade, often undermines fair competition. (references) | |
Ukraine | The looming shadow economy continues to deprive the budget of needed funds and leadership the information it needs to make effective policy. (references) | |
Political Economy | BULGARIA | The shadow economy fosters child labor violations. (references) |
POLAND | Government estimates indicate the shadow "gray economy" now generates around 15-16 percent of GDP. (references) | |
UKRAINE | This significantly raises the cost of doing business in Ukraine and encourages the maintenance of the shadow economy. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Ukraine | Activity in the shadow economy tends to be concentrated in retail trade and services but touches every sector and provides a means for individuals to supplement their often meager salaries. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LOOKING-:GLASS:, n. A vitreous plane upon which to display a fleeting show for man's disillusion given. The King of Manchuria had a magic looking-glass, whereon whoso looked saw, not his own image, but only that of the king. A certain courtier who had long enjoyed the king's favor and was thereby enriched beyond any other subject of the realm, said to the king: "Give me, I pray, thy wonderful mirror, so that when absent out of thine august presence I may yet do homage before thy visible shadow, prostrating myself night and morning in the glory of thy benign countenance, as which nothing has so divine splendor, O Noonday Sun of the Universe!" Please with the speech, the king commanded that the mirror be conveyed to the courtier's palace; but after, having gone thither without apprisal, he found it in an apartment where was naught but idle lumber. And the mirror was dimmed with dust and overlaced with cobwebs. This so angered him that he fisted it hard, shattering the glass, and was sorely hurt. Enraged all the more by this mischance, he commanded that the ungrateful courtier be thrown into prison, and that the glass be repaired and taken back to his own palace; and this was done. But when the king looked again on the mirror he saw not his image as before, but only the figure of a crowned ass, having a bloody bandage on one of its hinder hooves -- as the artificers and all who had looked upon it had before discerned but feared to report. Taught wisdom and charity, the king restored his courtier to liberty, had the mirror set into the back of the throne and reigned many years with justice and humility; and one day when he fell asleep in death while on the throne, the whole court saw in the mirror the luminous figure of an angel, which remains to this day. |
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Jon Stewart | That's what I'm saying, because you know our government goes away, meat will still be inspected, to a certain extent. Maybe not pork, maybe they are just going with beef, maybe chicken, maybe turkey, maybe they pick one meat. It is a shadow government. |
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Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | For four long years, much of Europe had been under a terrible shadow. |
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| "Shadow" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.78% of the time. "Shadow" is used about 2,684 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 92.78% | 2,490 | 3,628 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.46% | 93 | 34,067 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.23% | 60 | 43,597 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.3% | 35 | 58,339 |
| Noun (common) | 0.22% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,684 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "shadow" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Shadow | Last name | 170 | 54,282 |
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| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "shadow". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Abital | N/A | Biblical | Of the shadow |
| Bezaleel | N/A | Biblical | In the shadow of God |
| Hamutal | N/A | Biblical | The shadow of his heat |
| Secacah | N/A | Biblical | Shadow |
| Telem | N/A | Biblical | Their shadow |
| Zalaph | N/A | Biblical | Shadow |
| Zalmunna | N/A | Biblical | Shadow |
| Zelek | N/A | Biblical | The shadow or noise of him that licks or laps |
| Zillah | N/A | Biblical | Shadow |
| Zilthai | N/A | Biblical | My shadow |
| Zilla | N/A | English | Shadow |
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1. Shadow, VA |
Expressions using "shadow": cast a shadow ♦ cast a shadow over ♦ earth shadow ♦ earth's shadow ♦ eye shadow ♦ not a shadow of ♦ not the shadow of a doubt ♦ pass away like a shadow ♦ shadow band ♦ shadow boxing ♦ shadow cabinet ♦ shadow economy ♦ shadow factor ♦ shadow factory ♦ shadow fading ♦ shadow fighting ♦ shadow forth ♦ Shadow Hills ♦ shadow key ♦ shadow naming context ♦ shadow of death ♦ shadow of the moon ♦ shadow out ♦ shadow photography ♦ shadow picture ♦ shadow play ♦ shadow point ♦ shadow printing ♦ shadow ram ♦ shadow show ♦ Shadow sound therapy ♦ shadow stripes ♦ take the shadow for the substance ♦ the shadow of a shade ♦ the shadow of death ♦ there is no shadow of truth in it ♦ thermal shadow ♦ wear to a shadow ♦ wind shadow drift ♦ wind shadow dune ♦ without a shadow of turning. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "shadow": shadow-beam, shadow-box, shadow-boxed, shadow-boxing, Shadow-bride, shadow-brother, shadow-check, shadow-corners, shadow-dappled, shadow-elms, shadow-filled, shadow-free, shadow-horror, shadow-hung, shadow-land, shadow-like, Shadow-line, shadow-loving, shadow-masked, shadow-play, shadow-pools, shadow-puppet, shadow-puppets, shadow-robed, shadow-screen, shadow-stained, shadow-voices, shadow-world. | |
Ending with "shadow": eye-shadow, wind-shadow. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
shadow | 1,993 | shadow through undrentide walk | 139 |
white shadow | 1,043 | shadow warrior | 137 |
book of shadow | 998 | military shadow box | 128 |
dark shadow | 816 | shadow of destiny | 122 |
honda shadow | 662 | honda shadow spirit | 117 |
white shadow nasty story | 606 | neverwinter night shadow undrentide | 108 |
shadow box | 598 | shadow lane | 108 |
white shadow story | 500 | familys in shadow | 101 |
eye shadow | 469 | moonlight shadow | 92 |
shadow undrentide | 341 | honda shadow ace | 88 |
shadow hearts | 338 | shadow master | 85 |
dj shadow | 322 | honda shadow spirit 750 | 83 |
shadow fall | 301 | white shadow pornopartners | 80 |
dodge shadow | 188 | honda shadow 750 ace | 77 |
hedgehog shadow | 182 | mountain shadow | 75 |
shadow man | 171 | shadow of amn | 75 |
book charmed shadow | 164 | shadow skill | 73 |
white shadow nasty | 150 | shadow box frame | 72 |
mr shadow | 149 | shadow sonic | 72 |
shadow people | 142 | standing in the shadow of motown | 71 |
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| Language | Translations for "shadow"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | skadu (shade), afskaduwing (adumbration). (various references) | |
Albanian | hije (apparition, background, cloud, color, colour, dark, ghost, loom, phantasm, phantom, propriety, reflection, reflexion, shade, spirit, spook, umbra, wraith). (various references) | |
Arabic | فيء (shade), تعقب سرا, تعقب خلسة, طيف (ghost, idol, phantom, shade, spectrum, vision, wraith), صورة منعكسة, خيال (conceit, fantasy, fiction, ghost, illusion, imagination, phantasy, shade, shape, silhouette, spectrum, spook, wraith), ظلمة (darkness, gloominess, mirk, murk, night, opacity, sombreness, umbra), ظلم (abuse, aggrieve, darken, eclipse, extortion, gloom, grind, grow dark, inequality, inequity, iniquity, injustice, oppress, oppression, tyrannize, unfairness, wrong), ظل (ghost, keep, lie, remain, shade, umbra, umbrage), شبح (apparition, bogey, evil spirit, ghost, gremlin, idol, phantom, shade, shape, spectre, spectrum, spirit, spook, sprite, wraith), بوليس سري (dick, emissary, sleuth, snoop). (various references) | |
Basque | itzal. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | нещо недействително (vapor, vapour), детектив (beagle, detective, eye, gumshoe, investigator, operative, tec, tracker, trap), подобие (analogue, analogy, effigy, likeness, parity, portrait, propinquity, replica, semblance, similarity, similitude, simulacrum), помрачавам (alloy, bedim, cloud, darken, dim, dull, dusk, eclipse, nip, obfuscate, obscure, overshadow, shade, trouble), покровителство (aegis, auspices, favour, patronage, protection, protectorship), призрак (appearance, bogy, eidolon, ghost, phantasm, phantom, shade, shape, spectre, spirit, spook, vision, wraith), предвещавам (adumbrate, augur, betoken, bode, forerun, foreshadow, portend, presage, prognosticate, spell, threaten), загатвам за (connotate, connote, indicate, prelude, purport), дебна (ambush, be on the lurk, be on the prowl, mouse, prowl, skulk, slink about, sneak, stalk, trail, watch, waylay), затъмнявам (adumbrate, becloud, black out, cloud, darken, eclipse, obscure, occult, outshine, out-top, shade), сянка (cloud, ghost, reflection, shade, umbrage), неразделен другар, неразделен спътник, вървя по следите на (trace), готов в случай на нужда, хвърлям (aim, broadcast, cast, cob, dart, dash, draw, fling, fling down, flung, heave, hurl, hurtle, jerk, launch, pass, pitch, plunk, pounce, precipitate, project, send, shed, shoot, shoot out, sling, sock, throw, throw off, throw out, toss, toss about, whop), следа (footprint, ghost, odor, odour, print, rag, relic, relish, remnant, rudiment, savor, savour, scar, scent, scintilla, show, shred, sign, spice, tang, touch, trace, track, trail, train, trait, vestige, whiff), следя (gumshoe, keep an eye on, mouse, observe, ride herd on, stag, tail, track, trail, watch), сенки (shadows), закрила (aegis, cover, guardianship, keeping, palladium, protection, shield). (various references) | |
Catalan | ombra (shade). (various references) | |
Chinese | 陰影 , 阴影, 暗影 (umbra), 影子 (reflection), 影 (image, picture, reflection). (various references) | |
Czech | stínit (shade), stín (savor, shade), sledovat (follow, follow up, observe, pursue, retrace, tail, teleview, trace, track, trail, watch), rýsovat (draw, protract, shadow forth), přítmí. (various references) | |
Danish | skygge (shade). (various references) | |
Dutch | schaduwen (hatch, shade, tail), schaduw (shade). (various references) | |
Esperanto | ombro (shade), kruda skizo (adumbration), gvatsekvi (tail). (various references) | |
Faeroese | skuggi (shade). (various references) | |
Farsi | پنهان کردن (Cache, Cloak, Closet, Conceal, Cover, Disguise, Dissemble, Dissimulate, Eloign, Hide, Mask, Secrete, Wrap), سایه افکندن بر (Adumbrate, Overshadow), سایه (Auspices, Shade, Sunshade, Umber, Umbra, Umbrage), ردپای کسی راگرفتن (Sleuth, Spoor), ظل (Aegis). (various references) | |
Finnish | varjo (cloak, pretext, shade, under pretence of, under the cloak of friendship). (various references) | |
French | ombre (shade). (various references) | |
Frisian | skaad (shade). (various references) | |
German | Schatten (cloud, ghost, shade, shades, shadows, shaped, tail, umbrage, umbrages). (various references) | |
Greek | σκιά (canopy, shade, sunshade, umbra). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | hije (shade). (various references) | |
Hebrew | צלה (shade), צל (ghost, protection, shade, shelter). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szellem (appearance, cock of the walk, genious, ghost, intellect, jinn, jinnee, jinni, mind, moral, morale, poltergeist, shade, soul, specter, spectre, spirit, spook, wit), sötét rész, titkosrendőr (gumshoe, plainclothes man, spotter), tükörkép (image, reflection, reflexion), oltalom (defence, protection, shelter, shielding), kísértet (apparition, appearance, bogey, boggle, bogy, eidolon, ghost, phantasm, phantom, poltergeist, specter, spectre, spook, vampire, wraith), követõ repülõgép (trailer aircraft), homály (blur, darkness, dimness, dimwit, gloom, gloominess, mirk, mist, murk, obscureness, obscurity, shade, shades, twilight), beárnyékol (darken, overshadow, shade in, to adumbrate, to darken, to overshadow, to shadow, to up-stage), árnykép (silhouette), árnyékot vet (shade, to shadow), árnyék (adumbration, cast shadow, cloud, shade, umbra, umbrage), árny (phantasm, shade, simulacra, simulacrum), állandó kísérő, állandó követő. (various references) | |
Icelandic | skuggi (shade). (various references) | |
Indonesian | naung (protection, shade), mengiringi (accompany, convoy, escort, follow), membayangi, bayangan (estimation, imagination, reflection), bayang (image, imagination). (various references) | |
Italian | ombra (darkness, ghost, obscurity, shade). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 尾行 (follow, tail). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | くもり (cloudiness, cloudy weather), びこう (beautiful port, faint light, follow, muzzle of a dog, N.B., nose and mouth, nostril, nostrils, note, provision for famine, remarks, tail, the nasal cavity, traveling incognito), ひかげ (shade, sunshine), かげ (backing, other side, shade, your assistance), いんえい (gloom, impression of a seal, shading), あんえい (gloom), シャドー , シャドウ . (various references) | |
Korean | 그림자. (various references) | |
Manx | scadoo, scaaghey (darken, overshadow, shade), scaa-doo, scaa (a very thin person, adumbration, apparition, blight; thirds, cover, fence, fencing, fire guard, ghost, guise, hood, pretence, screen, shade, shadiness, timidity). (various references) | |
Norwegian | skygge. (various references) | |
Occitan | ombra. (various references) | |
Papiamen | sombra (shade). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | adowshay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sombra (cloud, dusk, ghost, shade, umbra, umbrage). (various references) | |
Romanian | stafie (apparition, ghost, spectre, spook), spirit (apparition, crack, essence, genius, ghost, intellect, mind, quirk, score, shade, soul, spectre, spirit, spirituousness, sprite, vision, wit), singurãtate (desolation, isolation, loneliness, retiredness, retirement, retiring, seclusion, secrecy, solitude), urmã (atom, clew, clue, footmark, footprint, furrow, impress, impression, imprint, indent, jot, Mark, patent office, print, pug, rear, rearward, relic, remnant, rut, scent, seal, sign, slot, spoor, stamp, step, trace, track, trail, vestige, wake), umbrã (cloud, dark, ghost, gloom, shade, shading), nuanţã (cast, color, colour, hue, key, nuance, savor, savour, shade, tincture, tinge, tint, tone, touch), fila (spin, surge), fantomã (apparition, Bogle, chimera, fetch, ghost, phantasm, phantom, shade, spectre, spook, wraith, zombie), agent de poliţie (beagle, detective, Dick, nark, nose, policeman, slop, trap), adãpost (bunker, burrow, cot, cover, covert, coverture, flight, Harbor, harbour, haven, home, house, housing, kennel, lair, lodgment, nest, niche, penthouse, port, recourse, refuge, retreat, roofing, safeguard, sanctuary, sconce, screen, shelter, shield, shroud, stall, support), acoperi cu umbrã, întuneric (blackness, dark, darkness, murk, night, nigritude, obscurity, opacity, twilight), închipui (concoct, fabricate, i |
