| Main Entry: | overhang |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bulge, hang over |
Synonyms: |
be imminent, be suspended, beetle, cast a shadow, command, dangle over, droop over, endanger, extend, flap over, impend, jut, loom, menace, overtop, poke, portend, pouch, project, protrude, rise above, stand out, stick out, swing over, threaten, tower above |
| Main Entry: | shade |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | shut out the light |
Synonyms: |
adumbrate, be overcast, blacken, cast a shadow, cloud, cloud over, cloud up, conceal, cover, darken, deepen, dim, eclipse, gray, hide, inumbrate, mute, obscure, overshadow, protect, screen, shadow, shelter, shield, shutter, tone down, umbrage, veil |
| Notes: | color refers to the wavelength composition of light, shade is a gradation of color referring to its degree of darkness, tint is a gradation referring to its degree of lightness, and hue indicates a modification of a basic color hue is the quality of a color that makes it possible to call it bluish green, etc. (the color of a color); shade is a color variation having to do with the value of a hue (lightness or darkness), and tint is a pale variation of a color |
Antonyms: |
open |
| Main Entry: | shadow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make dark |
Synonyms: |
adumbrate, becloud, bedim, cast a shadow, cloud, darken, dim, gray, haze, inumbrate, obscure, overcast, overcloud, overhang, overshadow, screen, shade, shelter, shield, umbrage, veil |
Antonyms: |
brighten, lighten |
| Concept: | Shade. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; light; light in general |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
shade; awning (cover); parasol, sunshade, umbrella; chick; portiere; screen, curtain, shutter, blind, gauze, veil, mantle, mask; cloud, mist, gathering. of clouds., umbrage, glade; shadow.
-verbs
draw a curtain; put up a shutter, close a shutter; veil; cast a shadow (darken).
-adjectives
shady, umbrageous.
-phrases
"welcome ye shades! ye bowery thickets hail" [Thomson]
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Antonyms: |
luminary |
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