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plural of shade
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1
a property that becomes apparent when light falls on an object and by which things that are identical in form can be distinguished
- a lovely shade of blue
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2
a very small amount
- just a shade taller than his dance partner
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- aces,
- bits,
- crumbs,
- dabs,
- drams,
- driblets,
- glimmers,
- hints,
- licks,
- little,
- mites,
- nips,
- ounces,
- particles,
- peanuts,
- rays,
- scintillas,
- scruples,
- shadows,
- shreds,
- skoshes,
- smacks,
- smells,
- smidgens
- (also smidgeons or smidgins or smidges),
- snaps,
- soupçons,
- sparks,
- spatters,
- specks,
- splashes,
- spots,
- sprinklings,
- strains,
- streaks,
- suspicions,
- touches,
- traces
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- abundances,
- barrels,
- boatloads,
- buckets,
- bundles,
- bushels,
- deals,
- fistfuls,
- gobs,
- heaps,
- lashings
- (also lashins)
- [chiefly British],
- loads,
- lots,
- masses,
- messes,
- mountains,
- much,
- oodles,
- passels,
- pecks,
- piles,
- plenties,
- potfuls,
- profusions,
- quantities,
- rafts,
- reams,
- scads,
- stacks,
- wads,
- wealths
3
the soul of a dead person thought of especially as appearing to living people
- spirits and shades haunting the night
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shades
verbpresent tense third-person singular of shade
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to shelter (something) from light and heat
- the trees shaded us quite nicely from the noonday sun
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