shadow
IPA: ʃˈædoʊ
noun
- A dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object.
- Relative darkness, especially as caused by the interruption of light; gloom; obscurity.
- An area protected by an obstacle (likened to an object blocking out sunlight).
- (obsolete or poetic) A reflected image, as in a mirror or in water.
- (figurative) That which looms as though a shadow.
- A small degree; a shade.
- An imperfect and faint representation.
- (UK, law enforcement) A trainee, assigned to work with an experienced officer.
- One who secretly or furtively follows another.
- An inseparable companion.
- (typography) A drop shadow effect applied to lettering in word processors etc.
- An influence, especially a pervasive or a negative one.
- A spirit; a ghost; a shade.
- (obsolete, Latinism) An uninvited guest accompanying one who was invited.
- (Jungian psychology) An unconscious aspect of the personality.
- A surname.
verb
- (transitive) To shade, cloud, or darken.
- (transitive) To block light or radio transmission from.
- (particularly espionage) To secretly or discreetly track or follow another, to keep under surveillance.
- (transitive) To represent faintly and imperfectly.
- (transitive) To hide; to conceal.
- (transitive) To accompany (a professional) during the working day, so as to learn about an occupation one intends to take up.
- (transitive, programming) To make (an identifier, usually a variable) inaccessible by declaring another of the same name within the scope of the first.
- (transitive, computing) To apply the shadowing process to (the contents of ROM).
adjective
- Unofficial, informal, unauthorized, but acting as though it were.
- Having power or influence, but not widely known or recognized.
- (politics) Acting in a leadership role before being formally recognized.
- (Australia, politics) Part of, or related to, the opposition in government.
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Examples of "shadow" in Sentences
- He saw someone's shadow.
- Children like to watch shadow show.
- The shadow of the gnomon was measured.
- The shadow crept closer to the closet.
- Let the cruft wallow in the Wiki shadows.
- Spotlight falls on shadow puppet theatre.
- The flash shadows are obvious and intrusive.
- In the shadows, a new unforeseen threat arose.
- Look for deer and grouse feeding in the shadows.
- A shadow is an incorporeal creature of sentient darkness.
- The woman here, her face lost in shadow, is someone I would like to learn about.
- IV. ii.26 (213,5) Haply, you shall not see me more; or if,/A mangled shadow] _Or if_ you see me more, you will see me _a mangled shadow_, only the external form of what I was.
- "Now those vehicle usage payments - I've heard them described as a shadow toll, I've probably even used the term shadow toll myself in the past - they are not really a direct shadow toll because we don't get an amount of money for every vehicle that uses the road," he said.
- The first time you were with Mr. Yorke; and the second time what you call your shadow was a shape with a white forehead and dark curls, and a sparkling necklace round its neck; but I only just got a glimpse of you and that fairy shadow: I did not wait to hear you converse. '
- As I passed across the edge of the shadow of the trees -- the ground ahead being brilliantly illuminated by the light of the comet -- I suddenly noticed, with an involuntary start, that I was being preceded by a _double shadow_, with a black center, which forked away from my feet.
- Washington having alluded, as he was fond of doing, to the rest he had at last secured for the remnant of his life, as he thought, under the shadow of his own vine and fig-tree, Rochambeau in his answer courteously and sincerely compliments him on the philosophical but not definitive quiet he now enjoys under the shadow of his laurel-tree.
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