Shadow
['ʃædəʊ] or ['ʃædo]
Definition
(noun.) refuge from danger or observation; 'he felt secure in his father's shadow'.
(noun.) a premonition of something adverse; 'a shadow over his happiness'.
(noun.) an inseparable companion; 'the poor child was his mother's shadow'.
(noun.) a dominating and pervasive presence; 'he received little recognition working in the shadow of his father'.
(noun.) shade within clear boundaries.
(verb.) follow, usually without the person's knowledge; 'The police are shadowing her'.
(verb.) make appear small by comparison; 'This year's debt dwarfs that of last year'.
(verb.) cast a shadow over.
Checked by Ernest--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Shade within defined limits; obscurity or deprivation of light, apparent on a surface, and representing the form of the body which intercepts the rays of light; as, the shadow of a man, of a tree, or of a tower. See the Note under Shade, n., 1.
(n.) Darkness; shade; obscurity.
(n.) A shaded place; shelter; protection; security.
(n.) A reflected image, as in a mirror or in water.
(n.) That which follows or attends a person or thing like a shadow; an inseparable companion; hence, an obsequious follower.
(n.) A spirit; a ghost; a shade; a phantom.
(n.) An imperfect and faint representation; adumbration; indistinct image; dim bodying forth; hence, mystical representation; type.
(n.) A small degree; a shade.
(n.) An uninvited guest coming with one who is invited.
(n.) To cut off light from; to put in shade; to shade; to throw a shadow upon; to overspead with obscurity.
(n.) To conceal; to hide; to screen.
(n.) To protect; to shelter from danger; to shroud.
(n.) To mark with gradations of light or color; to shade.
(n.) To represent faintly or imperfectly; to adumbrate; hence, to represent typically.
(n.) To cloud; to darken; to cast a gloom over.
(n.) To attend as closely as a shadow; to follow and watch closely, especially in a secret or unobserved manner; as, a detective shadows a criminal.
Typist: Lucinda
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Shade.[2]. Darkness, obscurity, gloom.[3]. Shelter, cover, protection, security.[4]. Type, image, adumbration, representation.
v. a. [1]. Shade.[2]. Darken, obscure, cloud.[3]. Typify, SHADOW FORTH, adumbrate.
Typed by Geoffrey
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Umbration, reflection, image, sham, unsubstantiality, immaterial, phantom,attendant
ANT:Body, substance, materiality, form, principal
Typist: Yvette
Definition
n. shade caused by an object: darkness: shelter: security: favour: the dark part of a picture: an inseparable companion: a mystical representation: faint appearance: a ghost spirit: something only in appearance.—v.t to shade: to cloud or darken: to shade as a painting: to represent faintly: to hide conceal: (coll.) to attend like a shadow watch continuously and carefully.—ns. Shad′ow-fig′ure a silhouette; Shad′owiness the state of being shadowy or unsubstantial; Shad′owing shading: gradation of light and colour.—adj. Shad′owless.—n. Shad′ow-stitch in lace-making a very delicate kind of ladder-stitch used in fine open-work.—adj. Shad′owy full of shadow: dark: obscure: typical: unsubstantial: (rare) indulging in fancies.—Shadow of death approach of death: terrible disaster.
Checker: Max
Examples
- The world of sense is still depreciated and identified with opinion, though admitted to be a shadow of the true. Plato. The Republic.
- Her hands lay on the paddle like slumber, she only wanted to see him, like a crystal shadow, to feel his essential presence. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- While I was reading a shadow fell across the paper. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Their eyes glittered through their tangle of hair, their naked nostrils were full of shadow. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The face of the hostess darkened with some shadow of perplexity, as she replied: 'Gaffer has never been where you have been. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Weary Hannah slept on, and no one but the sisters saw the pale shadow which seemed to fall upon the little bed. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- After a prolonged pause, he again asked, Is the shadow _quite_ gone? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He stood in front of the fire, his long arms hanging by his sides, his cheeks, stubble-shadowed below the cheekbones, hollow in the firelight. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- In the seclusion of their monasteries, they speculated on the mysterious powers of Nature, then partially revealed to them, and shadowed forth images of their possible applications. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Our lives, we see with a growing certitude, are fretted and shadowed and spoilt because there is as yet no worldwide law, no certain justice. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- As yet, little Dora was quite unconscious of my desperate firmness, otherwise than as my letters darkly shadowed it forth. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The Professor conquered, but I cannot say that the laurels of this victory shadowed gracefully his temples. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- This immediately roused a poignant pity and allegiance in Gerald's heart, always shadowed by contempt and by unadmitted enmity. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Have you shadowed her? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- It was as if from some aerial belfry, high up above the stir and jar of the earth, there was a bell continually tolling, 'All are shadows! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- It threw a livid, unnatural circle upon the floor, while in the shadows beyond we saw the vague loom of two figures which crouched against the wall. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The shadows were deepening, darkness was settling in. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- He forced back the gathering shadows of death, as he forced his clenched right hand to remain clenched, and to cover his wound. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- They came down the last two hundred yards, moving carefully from tree to tree in the shadows and now, through the last pines of the steep hillside, the bridge was only fifty yards away. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The sun was low, and tall trees sent their shadows across the grassy walks where Mary was moving without bonnet or parasol. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Shadows, dark and heavy, struck again and again across the place where the heart of the moon had been, obliterating it altogether. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Checker: Polly