SHADING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shading mean? 

• SHADING (noun)
  The noun SHADING has 2 senses:

1. graded markings that indicate light or shaded areas in a drawing or painting

2. a gradation involving small or imperceptible differences between grades

  Familiarity information: SHADING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHADING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Graded markings that indicate light or shaded areas in a drawing or painting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("shading" is a kind of...):

marking (a pattern of marks)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "shading"):

crosshatch; hachure; hatch; hatching (shading consisting of multiple crossing lines)

Derivation:

shade (represent the effect of shade or shadow on)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A gradation involving small or imperceptible differences between grades

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

blending; shading

Hypernyms ("shading" is a kind of...):

gradation; graduation (the act of arranging in grades)

 Context examples 

“I can also see it,” said Alleyne, shading his eyes with his hand.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The twilight was by this time shading down into darkness; and dimly as they saw each other, they could not have done that without the aid of the fire.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner,” observed Holmes, shading his eyes.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a dark, handsome, clear-cut face which confronted Milverton—a face with a curved nose, strong, dark eyebrows shading hard, glittering eyes, and a straight, thin-lipped mouth set in a dangerous smile.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I see, too, the figures at the garden gate: my mother, with her face turned away and her handkerchief waving; my father, with his blue coat and his white shorts, leaning upon his stick with his hand shading his eyes as he peered after us.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“To who, sir?” said Uriah, stretching out his neck, and shading his ear with his hand.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“Surely I see the red pile of Chandos at the head of yonder squadron!” cried Sir Richard Causton, shading his eyes with his hand.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I observed that several gentlemen were shading their eyes, each with one hand, as if they had just come into church.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“I see something,” answered Johnston, shading his eyes with his hand; “but it is a very long shoot.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“It is the Seneschal of Toulouse, with his following,” said Johnston, shading his eyes with his hand.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)