heiligenschein
shadow blister effect
crosslight
drop shadow
skiagram
soft
Cornsweet illusion
umbra
projection
shadow
shadowcasting
autokinesis
flare
hot spot
mirage
halation
backlighting
pillow shading
crizzle
sunbreak
shearography
shadowlike
irisation
nadir
atmospheric
accidental
Hermann grid
orb
adumbrant
chromatic aberration
opacification
camera obscura
glory
semitranslucent
forced perspective
profile
fill in
sunglint
shade
damp haze
diffusion
cardboarding
mirror
pixel shader
scialytic
glimmer
blooming
gleaming
dust-out
glow
lunar eclipse
umbra recta
fog
gleam
light
lambency
semitransparent
translucent
crepuscular ray
muddy
periscian
translucid
diffused
chiaroscuro
scintillescence
overcloud
bloom
antishadow
scug
ding
cloud over
screen
nick
hard
cloud up
in silhouette
adumbration
glance
hyalescent
dent
umbra versa
gouge
overcast
soft focus
gegenschein
cloud-ridden
squinty
cucoloris
jack-a-dandy
silhouette
counterglow
mountain spectre
soft
shadowlike
atmospheric
adumbrant
semitranslucent
scialytic
semitransparent
translucent
muddy
periscian
translucid
diffused
hard
hyalescent
cloud-ridden
squinty
heiligenschein
shadow blister effect
crosslight
drop shadow
skiagram
Cornsweet illusion
umbra
projection
shadow
shadowcasting
autokinesis
flare
hot spot
mirage
halation
backlighting
pillow shading
crizzle
sunbreak
shearography
irisation
nadir
accidental
Hermann grid
orb
chromatic aberration
opacification
camera obscura
glory
forced perspective
profile
sunglint
damp haze
diffusion
cardboarding
mirror
pixel shader
glimmer
blooming
gleaming
dust-out
glow
lunar eclipse
umbra recta
fog
gleam
light
lambency
crepuscular ray
chiaroscuro
scintillescence
bloom
antishadow
scug
ding
screen
nick
adumbration
glance
dent
umbra versa
gouge
soft focus
gegenschein
cucoloris
jack-a-dandy
counterglow
mountain spectre
fill in
shade
overcloud
cloud over
cloud up
overcast
silhouette
noun
- Light that comes from the side, causing shadows that can obscure objects of view or create strong contrasts.
- Illumination directed at the performers or subject matter from opposite sides of the set.
- Light that results from multiple sources and different directions.
- One of differing points of view.
- A traffic light intended principally to allow pedestrian or other traffic from a lesser roadway to cross a busier roadway.
- Multiple perspectives or points of view.
verb
adj
- Made up of nonparallel rays, tending to wrap around a subject and produce diffuse shadows.
- Of a ferromagnetic material; a material that becomes essentially non-magnetic when an external magnetic field is removed, a material with a low magnetic coercivity. (compare hard)
- Expressing gentleness or tenderness; mild; conciliatory; courteous; kind.
- Requiring little or no effort; easy.
- Voiced; sonant; lenis.
- Voiceless.
- Gentle.
- Lacking strength or resolve; not tough, wimpy.
- Low in dissolved calcium compounds.
- Smooth and flexible; not rough, rugged, or harsh.
- Easily giving way under pressure.
- Emulated with software; not physically real.
- Not likely to cause addiction.
- Not containing alcohol.
- Weak in character; impressible.
- Not harsh or offensive to the sight; not glaring or jagged; pleasing to the eye.
- Gentle in action or motion; easy.
- Incomplete, or temporary; not a full action.
- Effeminate.
- Of a market: having more supply than demand; being a buyer's market.
- softcore.
- Palatalized.
- Not bright or intense.
- Physically or emotionally weak.
- Foolish.
- Agreeable to the senses.
- Having a slight angle from straight.
- Quiet.
noun
noun
- The image that a translucent object casts onto another object.
- The action of projecting or throwing or propelling something.
- A forecast or prognosis obtained by extrapolation
- An idempotent linear transformation which maps vectors from a vector space onto a subspace.
- Any of several systems of intersecting lines that allow the curved surface of the earth to be represented on a flat surface. The set of mathematics used to calculate coordinate positions.
- The display of an image by devices such as movie projector, video projector, overhead projector or slide projector.
- A belief or assumption that others have similar thoughts and experiences to one's own. This includes making accusations that would more fittingly apply to the accuser.
- Something which projects, protrudes, juts out, sticks out, or stands out.
- An image of an object on a surface of fewer dimensions.
- A transformation which extracts a fragment of a mathematical object.
- A morphism from a categorical product to one of its (two) components.
- The preservation of the properties of lexical items while generating the phrase structure of a sentence. See Projection principle.
noun
- A dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object.
- That which looms as though a shadow.
- A small degree; a shade.
- An influence, especially a pervasive or a negative one.
- Relative darkness, especially as caused by the interruption of light; gloom; obscurity.
- A area protected by an obstacle (likened to an object blocking out sunlight).
- One who secretly or furtively follows another.
- An inseparable companion.
- A drop shadow effect applied to lettering in word processors etc.
- A spirit; a ghost; a shade.
- An unconscious aspect of the personality.
- A trainee, assigned to work with an experienced officer.
- An imperfect and faint representation.
verb
- To accompany (a professional) during the working day, so as to learn about an occupation one intends to take up.
- To make (an identifier, usually a variable) inaccessible by declaring another of the same name within the scope of the first.
- To hide; to conceal.
- To represent faintly and imperfectly.
- To shade, cloud, or darken.
- To block light or radio transmission from.
- To secretly or discreetly track or follow another, to keep under surveillance.
- To apply the shadowing process to (the contents of ROM).
adj
noun
- an unwanted reflection in an optical system (or the fogging of an image that is caused by such a reflection)
- a shape that spreads outward
- a sudden burst of flame
- a burst of light used to communicate or illuminate
- reddening of the skin spreading outward from a focus of infection or irritation
- a sudden recurrence or worsening of symptoms
- a sudden eruption of intense high-energy radiation from the sun's surface; associated with sunspots and radio interference
- a sudden outburst of emotion
- a device that produces a bright light for warning or illumination or identification
- a short forward pass to a back who is running toward the sidelines
- (baseball) a fly ball hit a short distance into the outfield
verb
noun
- Synonym of heiligenschein (“an optical phenomenon which creates a bright spot around the shadow of the viewer's head, when the surface on which the shadow falls has special optical characteristics”)
- A lively and entertaining place, such as a nightclub.
- A location in which Wi-Fi Internet access is available.
- A dangerous place of violent political unrest.
- The region of a gene in which there is a higher than normal rate of mutation.
- The surface manifestation of a plume of molten material that rises from deep in a celestial body's mantle.
- An area of high radioactive contamination.
- A location which has a higher temperature or amount of radiation than surrounding areas.
- A part of an application that consumes a significant amount of execution time.
- A part of a control (“an interactive interface element”) that responds dynamically as a user moves a pointer over it (for example, a part of an image map that contains a hyperlink which can be clicked on with a cursor).
- A place notable for a high level of activity or danger.
- An infected lesion in dogs or other furry mammals caused by excessive itching
- A part of a forest fire which is burning actively.
noun
- The axis of a projected conical shadow; the direction of the force of gravity at a location; down.
- The lowest point; time of greatest depression.
- The point of the celestial sphere, directly opposite the zenith; inferior pole of the horizon; point of the celestial sphere directly under the place of observation.
verb
noun
- Those fortuitous effects produced by luminous rays falling on certain objects so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow.
- A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally.
- A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note.
- Part of a text that has a mainly structural purpose, such as spelling, punctuation, or capitalization.
adj
- Occurring sometimes, by chance; occasional.
- Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; by accident, unintentional.
- Being a double point with two distinct tangent planes in 4-dimensional projective space.
- Adjusted by one or two semitones, in temporary departure from the key signature.
- Pertaining to accident and not essence; thus, inessential; incidental; secondary.
- Nonessential to something's inherent nature (especially in Aristotelian thought).
noun
- A translucent sphere appearing in flash photography (Orb (optics))
- A spherical body; a sphere, especially one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star
- An orbit of an heavenly body
- Any revolving circular body, such as a wheel
- A sphere of action.
- A blank window or panel.
- A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defence, especially infantry to repel cavalry.
- One of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be enclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions
- The time period of an orbit
- A structural motif or finial in the shape of a sphere
- The eye, seen as a luminous and spherical entity
- A globus cruciger; a ceremonial sphere used to represent royal or imperial power
verb
noun
- An optical phenomenon, consisting of concentric rings and somewhat similar to a rainbow, caused by sunlight or moonlight interacting with the water droplets that compose mist or clouds, centered on the antisolar or antilunar point.
- The manifestation of the presence of God as perceived by humans in Abrahamic religions.
- Victory; success.
- That quality in a person or thing which secures general praise or honour.
- Great beauty and splendor.
- Honour, admiration, or distinction, accorded by common consent to a person or thing; high reputation; renown.
- An emanation of light supposed to shine from beings that are specially holy. It is represented in art by rays of gold, or the like, proceeding from the head or body, or by a disk, or a mere line.
- Worship or praise.
verb
noun
- The shape, view, or shadow of a person's head from the side; a side view.
- A specific page or field in which users can provide various types of personal information in software or Internet systems.
- A summary or collection of information, especially about a person
- The amount by which something protrudes.
- A drawing exhibiting a vertical section of the ground along a surveyed line, or graded work, as of a railway, showing elevations, depressions, grades, etc.
- An exemption from certain types of duties due to injury or disability.
- Reputation, prominence; noticeability.
- A smoothed (e.g., troweled or brushed) vertical surface of an excavation showing evidence of at least one feature or diagnostic specimen; the graphic recording of such as by sketching, photographing, etc.
- Character; totality of related characteristics; signature; status (especially in scientific, technical, or military uses).
- The outermost shape, view, or edge of an object.
- A section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of mouldings etc.
verb
- To measure the performance of various parts of (a program) so as to locate bottlenecks.
- To create a summary or collection of information about (a person, etc.).
- To give a definite form by chiselling, milling, etc.
- To act based on such a summary, especially one that is a stereotype; to engage in profiling.
- To draw in profile or outline.
verb
- represent the effect of shade or shadow on
- cast a shadow over
- protect from light, heat, or view
- vary slightly
- pass from one quality such as color to another by a slight degree
noun
- relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body
- a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color
- protective covering that protects something from direct sunlight
- a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude
- a position of relative inferiority
- a slight amount or degree of difference
- a mental representation of some haunting experience
- a representation of the effect of shadows in a picture or drawing (as by shading or darker pigment)
- a protective ornamental covering for a lamp, used to screen a light bulb from direct view
noun
- The scattering of light by reflection from a rough surface, or by passage through a translucent medium.
- The gradual spread and adoption of goods or services.
- Exchange of airborne media between regions in space in an apparently random motion of a small scale.
- The spread of cultural or linguistic practices, or social institutions, in one or more communities.
- The movement of water vapor from regions of high concentration (high water vapor pressure) toward regions of lower concentration.
- The intermingling of the molecules of a fluid due to random thermal agitation.
- The act of diffusing or dispersing something, or the property of being diffused or dispersed; dispersion.
noun
- A smooth surface, usually made of glass with reflective material painted on the underside, that reflects light so as to give an image of what is in front of it.
- An object, person, or event that reflects or gives a picture of another.
- A disk, website or other resource that contains replicated data.
- A mirror carp.
- A kind of political self-help book, advising kings, princes, etc. on how to behave.
verb
noun
- an appearance of reflected light
- an alert and refreshed state
- light from nonthermal sources
- the phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised
- a feeling of considerable warmth
- a steady even light without flames
- the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface
verb
noun
- A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud. (Compare mist, haze.)
- A mist or film clouding a surface.
- A silver deposit or other blur on a negative or developed photographic image.
- A new growth of grass appearing on a field that has been mowed or grazed.
- Distance fog.
- A state of mind characterized by lethargy and confusion.
- Tall and decaying grass left standing after the cutting or grazing season.
- Moss.
verb
- To become obscured in condensation or water.
- To practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog.
- To cover with or as if with fog.
- To obscure in condensation or water.
- To make dim or obscure.
- To spoil (film) via exposure to light other than in the normal process of taking a photograph.
- To disperse insecticide into (a forest canopy) so as to collect organisms.
- To become dim or obscure.
- To make confusing or obscure.
- To pasture cattle on the fog (of), or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from (a field).
- To become covered with or as if with fog.
- To become covered with the kind of grass called fog.
noun
- The manner in which the light strikes a picture; that part of a picture which represents those objects upon which the light is supposed to fall; the more illuminated part of a landscape or other scene; opposed to shade.
- A low-alcohol lager.
- A source of illumination.
- A cross-light in a double acrostic or triple acrostic.
- A window in architecture, carriage design, or motor car design: either the opening itself or the window pane of glass that fills it, if any.
- A firework made by filling a case with a substance which burns brilliantly with a white or coloured flame.
- A point of view, or aspect from which a concept, person or thing is regarded.
- A cigarette lighter.
- The series of squares reserved for the answer to a crossword clue.
- Open view; a visible state or condition; public observation; publicity.
- Spiritual or mental illumination; enlightenment, useful information.
- The brightness of the eye or eyes.
- A traffic light, or, by extension, an intersection controlled by one or more that will face a traveler who is receiving instructions.
- A flame or something used to create fire.
- A notable person within a specific field or discipline.
- See lights (“lungs”).
- A stone that is not thrown hard enough.
- Visible electromagnetic radiation. The human eye can typically detect radiation (light) in the wavelength range of about 400 to 750 nanometers. Nearby shorter and longer wavelength ranges, although not visible, are commonly called ultraviolet and infrared light.
- The power of perception by vision.
adv
verb
- To start (a fire).
- To illuminate; to provide light for when it is dark.
- To become ignited; to take fire.
- To set fire to; to set burning.
- To make (a bonus) available to be collected by hitting a target, and thus light up the feature light corresponding to that bonus to indicate its availability.
- To attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by means of a light.
- To stop upon (of eyes or a glance); to notice
- To unload a ship, or to jettison material to make it lighter
- To lighten; to ease of a burden; to take off.
- To find by chance.
adj
- Easy to endure or perform.
- Indulging in, or inclined to, levity; lacking dignity or solemnity; frivolous; airy.
- Riding high because of no cargo; by extension, pertaining to a ship which is light.
- Not encumbered; unembarrassed; clear of impediments; hence, active; nimble; swift.
- Having little weight as compared with bulk; of little density or specific gravity.
- Without any piece of equipment attached or attached only to a caboose.
- Not heavily armed; armed with light weapons.
- With low viscosity.
- Easily interrupted by stimulation.
- Not quite sound or normal; somewhat impaired or deranged; dizzy; giddy.
- Pale or whitish in color; highly luminous and more or less deficient in chroma.
- Of short or insufficient weight; weighing less than the legal, standard, or proper amount; clipped or diminished.
- Lightly built; typically designed for speed or small loads.
- Low in fat, calories, alcohol, salt, etc.
- Unimportant, trivial, having little value or significance.
- Served with extra milk or cream.
- Slight, not forceful or intense; small in amount or intensity.
- Having little or relatively little actual weight; not cumbrous or unwieldy.
- Gentle; having little force or momentum.
- Having light; bright; clear; not dark or obscure.
- Not heavy or soggy; spongy; well raised.
- Free from burden or impediment; unencumbered.
adj
- Of light: cloudy, opaque.
- Of an image: blurry or dim.
- Of the air: not fresh; impure, polluted.
- Originally, morally or religiously wrong; corrupt, sinful; now, morally or legally dubious; shady, sketchy.
- Of a colour: not bright: dirty, dull.
- Dirty, filthy.
- Of water or some other liquid: containing mud or (by extension) other sediment in suspension; cloudy, turbid.
- Of or relating to mud; also, having the characteristics of mud, especially in colour or taste.
- Of sound (especially during performance, recording, or playback): indistinct, muffled.
- Covered or splashed with, or full of, mud (“wet soil”).
- Soiled with feces.
- Of speech, thinking, or writing: ambiguous or vague; or confused, incoherent, or mixed-up; also, poorly expressed.
- Not clear.
verb
- To become contaminated or impure.
- To make (something) impure; to contaminate.
- To make (a colour) dirty, dull, or muted.
- To make (a matter, etc.) more complicated or unclear; to make a mess of (something).
- To cover or splash (someone or something) with mud.
- Sometimes followed by up: to become covered or splashed with mud; to become dirty or soiled.
- To make (water or some other liquid) cloudy or turbid by stirring up mud or other sediment.
- To confuse (a person or their thinking); to muddle.
- To damage (a person or their reputation); to sully, to tarnish.
- Of water or some other liquid: to become cloudy or turbid.
noun
adj
noun
- A photographic technique in which one side of the subject, for example a face, is well lit and the other is in shadow.
- A monochrome picture made by using several different shades of the same color.
- An artistic technique developed during the Renaissance, referring to the use of strong contrasts between light and dark in order to create the illusion of volume.
- A woodcut technique in which several woodcut blocks are used to print different shades of a color, or a woodcut print made by this technique.
adj
noun
- An undesirable halo effect that may occur when a very bright region is displayed next to a very dark region of the screen.
- The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.
- A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms.
- A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather.
- Rosy colour; the flush or glow on a person's cheek.
- Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness.
- The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open.
- A bright-hued variety of some minerals.
- The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc.
- A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud.
- Flowers.
- A white area of cocoa butter that forms on the surface of chocolate when warmed and cooled.
- The increase in bullet spread over time as a gun's trigger is kept held.
- The spongy mass of metal formed in a furnace by the smelting process.
verb
- To cause to blossom; to make flourish.
- To bring out the flavor of a spice by cooking it in oil.
- To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant.
- Of a person, business, etc, to flourish; to be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigour; to show beauty and freshness.
- Of a plant, to produce blooms; to open its blooms.
noun
- A dampening or absence of shadow.
- The dampening of subatomic shadow effects due to rescattering.
- Whiteness or brightness, especially where darkness is expected or found.
- An inaccurate shadow in a three-dimensional rendering, caused by a vertex of an object being projected through the point of a light source.
adj
verb
noun
- The viewing surface or area of a movie, or moving picture or slide presentation.
- A collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's protection.
- Searching through a sample for a target; an act of screening
- A dwarf wall or partition carried up to a certain height for separation and protection, as in a church, to separate the aisle from the choir, etc.
- A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.
- A technique used to identify genes so as to study gene functions.
- A stencil upon a framed mesh through which paint is forced onto printed-on material; the frame with the mesh itself.
- The visualised data or imagery displayed on a computer screen.
- An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to make the ball more easily visible.
- The informational viewing area of electronic devices, where output is displayed.
- The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects
- An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- A frame supporting a mesh of bars or wires used to classify fragments of stone by size, allowing the passage of fragments whose a diameter is smaller than the distance between the bars or wires.
- One of the individual regions of a video game, etc. divided into separate screens.
- A disguise; concealment.
verb
- To stand so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
- To determine the source or subject matter of a call before deciding whether to answer the phone.
- To present publicly (on the screen).
- To search chemical libraries by means of a computational technique in order to identify chemical compounds which would potentially bind to a given biological target such as a protein.
- To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewing. To hide the facts.
- To fit with a screen.
- To shelter or conceal.
- To filter by passing through a screen.
- To examine patients or treat a sample in order to detect a chemical or a disease, or to assess susceptibility to a disease.
adj
- Made up of parallel rays, producing clearly defined shadows.
- In a physical form, not digital.
- Having a high energy (high frequency; short wavelength).
- Of silk: not having had the natural gum boiled off.
- Having a comparatively larger or a ninety-degree angle.
- Containing alcohol.
- Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in colour or shading.
- Strong.
- Sexually aroused; having an erect penis.
- Difficult or requiring a lot of effort to do, understand, experience, or deal with.
- Severe, harsh, unfriendly, brutal.
- Unquestionable, unequivocal.
- Rigid in the drawing or distribution of the figures; formal; lacking grace of composition.
- Tough and muscular.
- High in dissolved chemical salts, especially those of calcium.
- Having the capability of being a permanent magnet by being a material with high magnetic coercivity (compare soft).
- Demanding a lot of effort to endure.
- Far, extreme.
- Velarized or plain, rather than palatalized.
- Of a market: having more demand than supply; being a seller's market.
- Using a manual or physical process, not by means of a software command.
- Hardened; having unusually strong defences.
- Having muscles that are tightened as a result of intense, regular exercise.
- Resistant to pressure.
- hardcore
- Plosive.
- Unvoiced.
adv
noun
prep_phrase
noun
- The state of being in shadow or shade; (countable) a shadow.
- The outline of a charge (“image displayed on an escutcheon”), sometimes filled in with a darker shade than the field.
- The form of an object as seen by an observer.
- A rough or symbolic representation; a vague indication of what is to come, a foreshadowing.
- A faint sketch; a brief representation, an outline.
noun
- A sudden flash of light or splendour.
- An incidental or passing thought or allusion.
- Any of various sulphides, mostly dark-coloured, which have a brilliant metallic lustre.
- A brief or cursory look.
- A stroke in which the ball is deflected to one side.
- A deflection.
- Glance coal.
verb
- To look briefly (at something).
- To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be visible only for an instant at a time; to move interruptedly; to twinkle.
- A type of interaction between parent fish and offspring in which juveniles swim toward and rapidly touch the sides of the parent, in most cases feeding on parental mucus. Relatively few species glance, mainly some Cichlidae.
- To sparkle.
- To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to hint; often with at.
- To hit lightly with the head, make a deft header.
- To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart aside.
- To graze at a surface.
verb
noun
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