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Revision as of 23:00, 15 October 2009 by 99.182.228.164 (talk)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Shade commonly refers to the shadow cast when something obscures light (specifically sunlight outdoors, as in the shade of a tree). It can also mean:
- A shade, a mixture of a color with black
- Shading, a process used in art and graphic design
- Shade (mythology), mythological creatures - hence (poetic) any spirit of the dead
- Price shading, variable pricing of a product to different consumers
- Sunglasses, often referred to as shades, eye protection wear
- WindowShade, a control panel in Mac OS 7.5
- A type of versatile infantry unit found in Shattered Galaxy
- Shade Gap, Pennsylvania, a borough in Pennsylvania
- Shade Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, a township in Pennsylvania
- 'In the shade' - a colloquial English term, referring to temperatures taken inside a Stevenson screen, rather than in direct sunlight
Creative arts
- Shade (film), a 2003 crime film directed by Damian Nieman, starring Sylvester Stallone, Melanie Griffith, Gabriel Byrne, Hal Holbrook & Thandie Newton
- Shades (film), a 1999 film by Erik Van Looy
- The Shade, a 1998 film by Raphael Nadjari
- Shade (2006 film), starring Kimberly Williams and Patrick Dempsey
- Shade (interactive fiction), a game by Andrew Plotkin
- Shade (novel), by Neil Jordan
- Shade (Murray Head album), a 1983 album by Murray Head
- Shade's Children, a science-fiction novel
- "Shades (story)", a short story by Bolesław Prus
- Shades (music single), a music single accompanying commercials for Crown Paints, from 1985
- Shade (Silverchair song), a single by Silverchair
- Shades (album), by musician J. J. Cale
- Shade, disc two of Mike Oldfield's Light & Shade album
- Shades of Yale, Yale University's youngest co-ed a cappella group
- Shade: Wrath of Angels, a 2004 Computer and Xbox game developed by Black Element Software
- Shades, a Deep Purple compilation album
- SHADES, a MUD game that existed in the 1980s
- Shades(album), Ashanti upcoming album releasing in mid 2010
Characters in fiction
- Shade (Silverwing character), the main character in Kenneth Oppel's Silverwing
- Shade, the shadow spirit from Beyond Oasis
- Shades, random event creatures that appear in the mmorpg game Runescape
- Shade (Dungeons & Dragons), creatures in the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons
- Shade (Sonic the Hedgehog), a new character from the series who appears in Sonic Chronicles
- Shade is one of the eight elemental spirits featured in the Mana series. Unsurprisingly, he represents the darkness element.
- A creature from the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini
- Two characters in DC Comics' titles:
- Shade (comics), an ambiguous villain in the DC universe
- Shade, the Changing Man, a character in the Vertigo Comics imprint
- Hazel Shade and John Shade, fictional characters from Pale Fire
Surnames
- Absalom Shade, a Canadian businessman
- Joseph Shade, a British actor
- Will Shade, a musician
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