shadow

  1. Noun.  A dark image projected onto a surface where light is blocked by the shade of an object.
  2. Noun.  Relative darkness, especially as caused by the interruption of light; gloom, obscurity.
  3. Noun.  That which looms as though a shadow.
  4. Noun.  Merely a hint of substance.
  5. Noun.  One who secretly or furtively follows another.
  6. Noun.  A type of lettering form of word processors that makes a cubic effect.
  7. Verb.  To block light or radio transmission.
  8. Verb.  (espionage) To secretly or discreetly track or follow another, to keep under surveillance.
  9. Verb.  (programming) To make an identifier, usually a variable, inaccessible by declaring another of the same name within the scope of the first.

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