Shading

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  • noun. A screening against light or heat.
  • noun. The lines or other marks used to fill in outlines of a sketch, engraving, or painting to represent gradations of color or darkness.
  • noun. A small variation, gradation, or difference.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act or process of making a shade; interception of light; obscuration.
  • noun. That which represents the effect of light and shade in a drawing; the filling up of an outline.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Act or process of making a shade.
  • noun. That filling up which represents the effect of more or less darkness, expressing rotundity, projection, etc., in a picture or a drawing.
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  • verb. Present participle of shade.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. graded markings that indicate light or shaded areas in a drawing or painting
  • noun. a gradation involving small or imperceptible differences between grades
    • Word Usage
    "I say, and Brianna stills, the sneer on her face slipping, her expression shading into something different, something fearful and lost."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    gradation  graduation  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    aiding  blading  blockading  braiding  cascading  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    blacklead  bookkeeping  cilia  gamboge  gradation  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    arrangement  atmosphere  balance  black spot  blackening  
    verb-stem
    shade  
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