'Shading' definitions:
Definition of 'shading'
(from WordNet)
noun
Graded markings that indicate light or shaded areas in a drawing or painting
noun
A gradation involving small or imperceptible differences between grades [syn: shading, blending]
Definition of 'Shading'
From: GCIDE
- Shade \Shade\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Shading.]
- 1. To shelter or screen by intercepting the rays of light; to keep off illumination from. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- I went to crop the sylvan scenes, And shade our altars with their leafy greens. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To shelter; to cover from injury; to protect; to screen; to hide; as, to shade one's eyes. [1913 Webster]
- Ere in our own house I do shade my head. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To obscure; to dim the brightness of. [1913 Webster]
- Thou shad'st The full blaze of thy beams. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To pain in obscure colors; to darken. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To mark with gradations of light or color. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To present a shadow or image of; to shadow forth; to represent. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- [The goddess] in her person cunningly did shade That part of Justice which is Equity. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Shading'
From: GCIDE
- Shading \Shad"ing\, n.
- 1. Act or process of making a shade. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That filling up which represents the effect of more or less darkness, expressing rotundity, projection, etc., in a picture or a drawing. [1913 Webster]