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shading

Rhymes with -eɪdɪŋ

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of shade

noun shadings

  1. countable, uncountable The act or result of something being shaded. the delicate shadings of colour in the painted sunset
  2. countable, uncountable Something providing shade. We placed ourselves on a rustic bench under the shading of a fine old elm; ...

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Closest in meaning: blending, darkness, shred, nuance, umbrage, passing, coloring, shadow, hatch, grey, grayling, phong, shadowed, hatching, stippling, chiaroscuro

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noun act or result of a thing being shaded

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@misc{shading_2026,
  title = {shading},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/shading},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}