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Shades of black
Shades of black, also called off-black, are the distinct materials and formulations that all read as black but differ in composition, opacity, and light absorption.
Shades of blue
Shades of blue, also called variations of blue, are the many color variants within and around blue's 450 to 490 nanometer wavelength band, from pale azure to near-black navy.
Shades of Blue (TV series)
Shades of Blue is an American NBC crime drama (2016-2018) created by Adi Hasak, loosely based on Michael Rudolph's novel, starring Jennifer Lopez as informant Harlee Santos and Ray Liotta as Lt. Matt Wozniak across three seasons and 36 episodes.
Shades of brown
Shades of brown are colors perceived as a dark orange or yellow that exists only in contrast with brighter surroundings; no isolated light can look brown.
Shades of Deep Purple
Shades of Deep Purple is the debut album by the rock band Deep Purple, released in 1968. Its cover of "Hush" became a US hit, reaching number 4.
Shades of gray
Shades of gray, also known as variations of gray, covers gray in perception and colorimetry: humans distinguish about 1,000 shades, while 8-bit displays encode 256 levels.
Shades of green
Shades of green, also called variations of green, are the colors between yellow and cyan in the visible spectrum, produced in nature chiefly by chlorophyll.
Shades of magenta
Shades of magenta are the family of colors between red and violet on the color wheel, named after an aniline dye that took its name from the 1859 Battle of Magenta.
Shades of orange
Shades of orange, also known as Variations of Orange, are the named variants of the color orange, the hue between red and yellow, spanning roughly 575 to 595 nm.
Shades of pink
Shades of pink: the range of light reds from pale blush to hot pink, anchored by CSS pink #FFC0CB, eight CSS named pinks, ISCC-NBS and ORCN naming, print behavior, and the color's shifting gender history.
Shades of purple
Shades of purple, or variations of purple, are the family of colors between blue and red, including violet, lavender, lilac, and mauve; purple is nonspectral.
Shades of red
Shades of red, also called a list of shades of red, range from pale pink through scarlet and crimson to dark maroon, with red light spanning 620 to 750 nm.
Shades of violet
Shades of violet are the colors at the short-wavelength end of the visible spectrum, around 380–420 nm, distinct from purple, a mixture of red and blue.
Shades of white
Shades of white: the range from pure white (#FFFFFF) to tinted off-whites like ivory (#FFFFF0), cream, and eggshell, covering color naming, white pigments from chalk and lead white to titanium white, and practical uses in design.
Shades of yellow
Shades of yellow, also called variations of yellow, covers the yellow band of light from 560 to 600 nm, from pale lemon tones to deep golden hues.
Shadhiliyya
The Shadhiliyya (الشاذلية) is a Sufi order founded by Abu al-Hasan al-Shadhili, a Moroccan-born master who taught in Tunis and Egypt in the 13th century.
Shadhiliyya-Yashrutiyya
The Shadhiliyya-Yashrutiyya (الطريقة الشاذلية اليشرطية) is a Sufi order, a branch of the Shadhiliyya, founded in Palestine in the mid-nineteenth century by the Tunisian shaykh Ali Nur al-Din al-Yashruti, who arrived in Acre in 1850.
Shadkala Govinda Marar
Shadkala Govinda Marar (ഷഡ്കാല ഗോവിന്ദ മാറാർ) was a Carnatic vocalist from Kerala, born in 1798, who served Swati Tirunal and sang Pallavis in six tempos.
Shadmehr Demehri
Shadmehr Demehri, who publishes as Shawn Demehri, is an American dermatologist and physician-scientist, Professor of Dermatology at Harvard Medical School and director of MGH's High Risk Skin Cancer Clinic.
Shadoe Stevens
Shadoe Stevens (Terry Ingstad, born 1947), American radio host and actor; second host of American Top 40 (1988–1995) after Casey Kasem, also Fred Rated spokesman, Hollywood Squares announcer, Dave's World regular, Radio Hall of Fame 2023.
Shadoof
A shadoof, also spelled shaduf or shadouf (شادوف), is a human-powered water-lifting lever with a counterweight and bucket, used since ancient times to raise Nile water for irrigation.
Shadow
A shadow is a region where light from a source is blocked by an opaque object, with a dark central umbra, a partial penumbra, and, in eclipses, an antumbra.
Shadow (psychology)
Shadow (psychology): in Jung's analytical psychology, the archetype of repressed, ego-unacceptable traits; encountered through projection, integrated during individuation via shadow work.
Shadow (影) (2018 film)
Shadow (影) is Zhang Yimou's 2018 Chinese wuxia action-drama about a commander's body double, starring Deng Chao in a dual role with Sun Li. Known for its near-black-and-white ink-wash visuals, Venice premiere, Douban 7.7, and four Golden Horse Awards including Best Director.
Shadow and Bone
Shadow and Bone (2012) is Leigh Bardugo's debut young adult fantasy novel, book one of the Shadow and Bone Trilogy set in Russia-inspired Ravka, where soldier Alina Starkov discovers light-summoning powers; adapted by Netflix in 2021.
Shadow and Bone (TV series)
Shadow and Bone is a Netflix fantasy series (2021-2023, 2 seasons, 16 episodes) adapting Leigh Bardugo's Grishaverse novels, showrun by Eric Heisserer, merging the Shadow and Bone trilogy with Six of Crows, canceled November 2023.
Shadow and Flame
Shadow and Flame is the eighth and final episode of season two of The Rings of Power (2024), a Prime Video fantasy series; it closes the siege of Eregion, kills Celebrimbor, and reveals Gandalf.
Shadow banking system
The shadow banking system, also called market-based finance, is credit intermediation outside the regular banking system, funded wholesale rather than by insured deposits, reaching $256.8 trillion in 2024.
Shadow banning
Shadow banning, also known as hell banning or stealth banning, is a content moderation practice in which platforms secretly limit a user's visibility without notifying them, first described in 2001.
Shadow Blow
Shadow Blow, born José Ariel Fernández Soto in Santo Domingo in 1983, is a Dominican urban artist and producer blending hip-hop, R&B, and dembow, known for "Mensaje Directo".