SHADED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shaded mean? 

• SHADED (adjective)
  The adjective SHADED has 2 senses:

1. protected from heat and light with shade or shadow

2. (of pictures or drawings) drawn or painted with degrees or gradations of shadow

  Familiarity information: SHADED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHADED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Protected from heat and light with shade or shadow

Context example:

o'er the shaded billows rushed the night

Similar:

mirky; murky (dark or gloomy)

shadowed; shadowy; shady; umbrageous (filled with shade)

Antonym:

unshaded (not darkened or dimmed by shade)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(of pictures or drawings) drawn or painted with degrees or gradations of shadow

Context example:

the shaded areas of the face seemed to recede

Similar:

crosshatched; hatched (shaded by means of fine parallel or crossed lines)

Antonym:

unshaded ((of pictures) not having shadow represented)

 Context examples 

When I had done, he shaded his face, and continued silent.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The seaman shaded his eyes with his hand, and gazed earnestly through the haze and spray.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I hastened before Bessie; I softly opened the door: a shaded light stood on the table, for it was now getting dark.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She was very stout, with a face that was of so dark a red that it shaded away into purple over the nose and cheeks.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This may be to help the plant to collect more light, particularly if it is growing in partly shaded environments.

(Rare mineral discovered in plants for first time, University of Cambridge)

I gradually saw plainly the clear stream that supplied me with drink and the trees that shaded me with their foliage.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

She was seated in a low settee under the shaded standard lamp by the piano.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He went up the frozen bed of the stream, where the snow, shaded by the trees, was yet hard and crystalline.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

"Well, yes, but isn't it rather warm for such a long walk?" he answered slowly, for the shaded salon looked inviting after the glare without.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Io’s thin atmosphere, which consists primarily of sulfur dioxide (SO2) gas emitted from volcanoes, collapses as the SO2 freezes onto the surface as ice when Io is shaded by Jupiter, then is restored when the ice warms and sublimes (i.e. transforms from solid back to gas) when the moon moves out of eclipse back into sunlight.

(New Research Reveals Fluctuating Atmosphere of Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon, NASA)