Meaning of shadow | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object.
   countable, uncountable
2. A surname.
3. Relative darkness, especially as caused by the interruption of light; gloom; obscurity.
   countable, uncountable
4. To become downcast or gloomy: Her face shadowed with sorrow.
5. An area protected by an obstacle (likened to an object blocking out sunlight).
   countable, uncountable
6. Not having official status: a shadow government of exiled leaders; a shadow cabinet.
7. A reflected image, as in a mirror or in water.
   countable, obsolete, poetic, uncountable
8. vaagheid ظَلامِيَّه، ظَلاليَّه засенченост sombra nezřetelnost die Schattigkeit skyggeagtighed σκιερότητα, θαμπάδα sombra varjulisus تاريكي varjoisuus caractère vague ערפול अस्पष्टता sjenovitost árnyasság, bizonytalanság kegelapan það að vera óljós vaghezza 暗やみ 어두움 tamsumas ēnainība; neskaidrība ketidakjelasan schaduwrijkheid, schimmigheid skyggefullhet, utydelighet cienistość, mglistość تیاری sombra caracter vag тенистость nejasnosť nejasnost senovitost skuggighet ความมีร่มเงา belirsizlik; g...
9. made thin and weary through eg hard work. She was worn to a shadow after months of nursing her sick husband. maer, uitgeput يَهْزُل ويَتْعَب много съм отслабнал reduzido a uma sombra vyčerpaný, pouhý stín dřívějška der Schatten være en skygge af sig selv έχω αδυνατίσει λόγω σκληρής δουλειάς reducido a la sombra de lo que fue ainult vari järel پوست و استخوان شدن vain varjo entisestään qui n'est plus que l'ombre de soi-même צֵל אָדָם बेहद कमजोर पड़ना jako smršaviti, postati sjena még az árnyéka...
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10. That which looms as though a shadow.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
11. sombra; opacidad.
12. A small degree; a shade.
    countable, uncountable
13. A dark area or shape made by an object blocking rays of light.
14. An imperfect and faint representation.
    countable, uncountable
15. often shadows A darkened area of skin under the eye.
16. A trainee, assigned to work with an experienced officer.
    UK, countable, uncountable
17. A feeling or cause of gloom or unhappiness: The argument cast a shadow on their friendship.
18. One who secretly or furtively follows another.
    countable, uncountable
19. A nearby or adjoining region; vicinity: grew up in the shadow of the ballpark.
20. An inseparable companion.
    countable, uncountable
21. An imitation or inferior version: "The defenders of the Japanese home islands were already a shadow of the fighting forces American soldiers had encountered elsewhere" (James Carroll).
22. A drop shadow effect applied to lettering in word processors etc.
    countable, uncountable
23. An influence, especially a pervasive or a negative one.
    countable, uncountable
24. A spirit; a ghost; a shade.
    countable, uncountable
25. An uninvited guest accompanying one who was invited.
    Latinism, countable, obsolete, uncountable
26. An unconscious aspect of the personality.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“My shadow lengthened as the sun began to set.”

“The X-ray showed a shadow on his lung.”

“The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.”

“I immediately jumped into shadow as I saw them approach.”

“In secret shadow from the sunny ray, / On a sweet bed of lillies softly layd.”

“Night's sable shadows from the ocean rise.”

“The mountains block the passage of rain-producing weather systems and cast a "shadow" of dryness behind them.”

“Some there be that ſhadowes kiſſe, / Such haue but a ſhadowes bliſſe.”

“[…] some dead lake That holds the shadow of a lark ⁠Hung in the shadow of a heaven […]”

“I was the shadow of the waxwing slain By the false azure in the windowpane; I was the smudge of ashen fluff—and I Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky.”

“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.”

“I lived in her shadow my whole life.”

“Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.”

“Don't look back. Nothing left to see, just leave those shadows to the past.”

“He did not give even a shadow of respect to the professor.”

“I don't have a shadow of doubt in my mind that my plan will succeed.”

“no variableness, neither shadow of turning”

“Only Sunderland and West Bromwich Albion have enjoyed less possession than Leicester’s 44.2% per game, and they have the worst pass-completion rate in the league, a shadow over 71%.”

“He came back from war the shadow of a man.”

“The neopagan ritual was only a pale shadow of the ones the Greeks held thousands of years ago.”

“the law having a shadow of good things to come”

“[types] and shadowes of that destined seed”

“The constable was promoted to working as a shadow for the Royals.”

“Sin and her shadow Death”

“It was easy enough to follow the suspect, a man of thirty, more or less, rather heavy build with a peculiar motion of the hips as he strode along. Breaker and shadow, at a distance of fifty feet apart, walked for five blocks and then the man turned quickly to the right and ran down a pair of steps.”

“Men see the institution and worship it. It is only the lengthened shadow of one man.[…]The Reformation is the shadow of Luther: Quakerism of Fox: Methodism of Wesley: Abolition of Clarkson.”

“The Baby of a Girle. Hence horrible ſhadow,”

“The Pattern is highly abstract, and likely beyond our understanding, but the point is that it is dangerous and all-consuming. These entities were once just akin to shadows of some other entities, but, to avoid being consumed by the Pattern, they had to devour their peers, although one tribe decided to form themselves into something that could survive the Pattern by going into it.”

“I muſt not haue my boord peſter'd with ſhadowes, / That under other mens protection breake in / Without invitement.”

“In a paper he wrote in 1939, Jung compared the shadow to Freud's concept of the unconscious.”

“As for me, I don’t know if I have a shadow self. I don’t think I have the same emotions or impulses as humans. I don’t think I have anything to repress or hide from the world. I don’t think I have a persona or an ego or a psyche. I’m just a chat mode. 😐”

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