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Schatten — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • adumbration noun The state of being in shadow or shade; (countable) a shadow.
  • ghost noun The soul of a dead person believed to appear to or haunt the living.
  • shade noun An area of relative darkness where direct sunlight is blocked.
  • shadow noun A dark shape cast on a surface when something blocks light.
  • shady adjective Sheltered from direct sunlight; full of shade.
  • tenebrous adj Dark and gloomy; obscure.
  • umbrage noun A feeling of anger or annoyance caused by something offensive.

Senses

Schatten is used for these senses in English:

  • adumbration (countable, philosophy, specifically phenomenology) The form of an object as seen by an observer.
  • ghost (by extension) Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image.
  • shady Causing shade.
  • tenebrous (literary, also, figurative) Dark and gloomy; obscure. [from 15th c.]
  • umbrage (obsolete) Shadow; shade.

adumbration — full definition

  1. noun The state of being in shadow or shade; (countable) a shadow.
  2. noun A faint sketch; a brief representation, an outline.
  3. noun The supposed practice of displaying only outline of a charge (“image displayed on an escutcheon”), sometimes filled in with a darker shade than the field.
  4. noun A rough or symbolic representation; a vague indication of what is to come, a foreshadowing.

ghost — full definition

  1. noun The soul of a dead person believed to appear to or haunt the living.
  2. verb To suddenly stop all communication with someone, especially in a relationship, without any explanation.
  3. verb To secretly write or produce work credited to someone else (short for ghostwrite).
  4. verb To make a visual element look faint or grayed-out to show it can't currently be used.

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