shading

• Rhymes: -eɪdɪŋ

shading

1. present participle and gerund of shade

shading (countable and uncountable, plural shadings)

1. The act or result of something being shaded.

   the delicate shadings of colour in the painted sunset

2. Something providing shade.
   • 1843, W. H. Maxwell, The Fortunes of Hector O’Halloran, and His Man Mark Antony O’Toole‎^[1], page 49:

     We placed ourselves on a rustic bench under the shading of a fine old elm; ...

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