Shade vs Eidolon - What's the difference?
shade | eidolon |
(label) Darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is blocked.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:
(label) Something that blocks light, particularly in a window.
(label) A variety of a colour/color, in particular one obtained by adding black (compare tint).
* (John Locke) (1632-1705)
(label) A subtle variation in a concept.
* (Thomas De Quincey) (1785-1859)
* (1800-1859)
(label) An aspect that is reminiscent of something.
* Agatha Christie, Miss Marple Tells a Story
A ghost.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
(label) A creature that is partially human and partially angel.
(label) A postage stamp showing an obvious difference in colour/color to the original printing and needing a separate catalogue/catalog entry.
Subtle insults.
To shield from light.
To alter slightly.
To vary slightly, particularly in color.
(intransitive, baseball, of a defensive player) To move slightly from one's normal fielding position.
To darken, particularly in drawing.
(obsolete) To shelter; to cover from injury; to protect; to screen.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To present a shadow or image of; to shadow forth; to represent.
* Spenser
An image or representation of an idea; a representation of an ideal form; an apparition of some actual or imaginary entity, or of some aspect of reality.
* 1936 , (Henry Miller), Black Spring :
*1974 , (Lawrence Durrell), Monsieur , Faber & Faber 1992, p. 21:
*:It was not hard to forge her image, her "eidolon ", in the grey gloom of the little church.
* 2006 , (Thomas Pynchon), Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 697:
A phantom, a ghost or elusive entity.
As nouns the difference between shade and eidolon
is that shade is (label) darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is blocked while eidolon is .As a verb shade
is to shield from light.shade
English
(wikipedia shade)Etymology 1
From (etyl) sceadu.Noun
- Thus light and colours, as white, red, yellow, blue, with their several degrees or shades , and mixtures, as green, scarlet, purple, sea-green, and the rest, come in only by the eyes
- new shades and combinations of thought
- Every shade of religious and political opinion has its own headquarters.
- Mrs. Rhodes who (so I gathered from Mr. Petherick's careful language) was perhaps just a shade of a hypochondriac, had retired to bed immediately after dinner.
- Swift as thought the flitting shade / Thro' air his momentary journey made.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) sceadwian.Verb
(shad)- The old oak tree shaded the lawn in the heat of the day.
- You'll need to shade your shot slightly to the left.
- Most politicians will shade the truth if it helps them.
- The hillside was bright green, shading towards gold in the drier areas.
- Jones will shade a little to the right on this pitch count.
- I draw contours first, gradually shading in midtones and shadows.
- Ere in our own house I do shade my head.
- [The goddess] in her person cunningly did shade / That part of Justice which is Equity.
Derived terms
* (l)Derived terms
* lampshade * made in the shade * nightshade * shader * shading * shadyAnagrams
* 1000 English basic wordseidolon
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Alternative forms
*Noun
(en-noun)- As a species it is extinct; as an eidolon it retains its corporeality – but only if maintained in a state of equipoise.
- Kit was sitting up staring into the dark at this eidolon , inelegantly turned out contrary to a whole raft of public-decency statutes, which had come monitory and breathing in to violate Kit's insomnia.