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shading
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. graded markings that indicate light or shaded areas in a drawing or painting a gradation involving small or imperceptible differences between grades [syn: blending ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of shade English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shade \Shade\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shaded ; p. pr. & vb. n. Shading .] To shelter or screen by intercepting the rays of light; to keep off illumination from. --Milton. I went to crop the sylvan scenes, And shade our altars with their leafy greens. --Dryden. ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Counties with low population density have sparse shading while counties with high population density have dark shading. ▪ His lower body is lime green with a rich shading of deep red across the upper half. ▪ Light shading indicates ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Shading refers to depicting depth perception in 3D models or illustrations by varying levels of darkness .
Usage examples of shading.
His eyes, Aerian to the core, were shading to blue, which was never a good sign.
Ohmsfords, when the stranger reached up and pulled back the cowl of his cloak to reveal clearly the dark face, now framed by long black hair, cut nearly shoulder length and shading the deep-set eyes, which still showed only as black slits in the shadows beneath the heavy brows.
I lay fingering the bruises blooming on my cheek, shading from purple to green, watching the shadows of the pines behind the curtain, dancing in the wind like Balinese shadow puppets behind a screen, moving to gamelan music.
Next, here are two examples of the gradated shading expressive of the forms within the outline, by two masters of the chiaroscuro school.
Only by shading his eyes with his hand and staring hard could Kelder make out an upright pike at the back corner of the last wagon and a bloody head impaled upon it.
His truthsense, awareness of tone shadings, told him that Kynes was lying and telling half-truths.
She saw the cat say something to Zach and the luthier straightened, shading his eyes as he looked in her direction.
Serpentine continent, shading to cold-temperate and subarctic conditions on the northern shores.
Jessica wondered, getting to her feet and shading her eyes to stare out to sea.
In its normal form the burgonet was a large roomy cap with a brim shading the eyes, cheek-pieces or flaps, a comb, and a guard for the back of the neck.
It was so beautiful at times it took your breath away - saltbush, bluebush, a whole world of native shrubs and grasses, all tough enough to exist in the harsh arid heat of this outback country, and the mallee and the ghost gums shimmering their leaves in the wind, shading the ground from the sun.
But while we may be missing certain subtle shadings of meaning I do not believe anything is being misconveyed by your unit.
Chinese music has always been monodic, and they use a great variety of melodic shadings composed of intervals of small fractions of a step.
Tiny shading the flashlight with one hand while I held the map and Porta licked the end of a pencil stub and laboriously marked in all the Russian positions between point X and Yersovka.
Growing out of the coral cliff was a lovely fernlike structure, graceful sweeps, branching and rebranching, pale pink shading to crimson.