English Dictionary
◊ SHADOWY
shadowy
adj 1: filled with shade; "the shady side of the street"; "the
surface of the pond is dark and shadowed"; "we sat on
rocks in a shadowy cove"; "cool umbrageous woodlands"
[syn: {shady}, {shadowed}, {umbrageous}]
2: lacking clarity or distinctness; "a dim figure in the
distance"; "only a faint recollection"; "shadowy figures
in the gloom"; "saw a vague outline of a building through
the fog"; "a few wispy memories of childhood" [syn: {dim},
{faint}, {vague}, {wispy}]
3: lacking in substance; "strange fancies of unreal and shadowy
worlds"- W.A.Butler; "dim shadowy forms"; "a wraithlike
column of smoke" [syn: {wraithlike}]
English Computing Dictionary
◊ DID YOU MEAN SHADOW?
SHADOW
A {syntax}-directed {compiler} written by Barnett
and Futrelle in 1962. It was the predecessor to {SNOBOL}(?)
[Sammet 1969, p. 448, 605].
(1995-01-16)