Implication and Shadow

implication

Something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied. )
- usage: "his resignation had political implications"
- synonyms: deduction, entailment
A meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred.
- usage: "the significance of his remark became clear only later"; "the expectation was spread both by word and by implication"
- synonyms: significance, import
An accusation that brings into intimate and usually incriminating connection.
A logical relation between propositions p and q of the form `if p then q'; if p is true then q cannot be false.
- synonyms: logical implication, conditional relation
A relation implicated by virtue of involvement or close connection (especially an incriminating involvement. )
- usage: "he was suspected of implication in several robberies"

(n.) An implying or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words.
(n.) The act of implicating or the state of being implicated.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

shadow

Shade within clear boundaries.
An unilluminated area.
- usage: "he moved off into the darkness"
- synonyms: darkness, dark
Something existing in perception only.
- usage: "a ghostly apparition at midnight"
- synonyms: apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm
A premonition of something adverse.
- usage: "a shadow over his happiness"
An indication that something has been present.
- usage: "there wasn't a trace of evidence for the claim"; "a tincture of condescension"
- synonyms: trace, vestige, tincture
Refuge from danger or observation.
- usage: "he felt secure in his father's shadow"
A dominating and pervasive presence.
- usage: "he received little recognition working in the shadow of his father"
A spy employed to follow someone and report their movements.
- synonyms: tail, shadower
An inseparable companion.
- usage: "the poor child was his mother's shadow"

Follow, usually without the person's knowledge.
- usage: "The police are shadowing her"
Cast a shadow over.
- synonyms: shade, shade off
Make appear small by comparison.
- usage: "This year's debt dwarfs that of last year"
- synonyms: overshadow, dwarf

(n.) To protect; to shelter from danger; to shroud.
(n.) To attend as closely as a shadow; to follow and watch closely, especially in a secret or unobserved manner; as, a detective shadows a criminal.
(n.) A shaded place; shelter; protection; security.
(n.) An imperfect and faint representation; adumbration; indistinct image; dim bodying forth; hence, mystical representation; type.
(n.) To mark with gradations of light or color; to shade.
(n.) To cloud; to darken; to cast a gloom over.
(n.) Shade within defined limits; obscurity or deprivation of light, apparent on a surface, and representing the form of the body which intercepts the rays of light; as, the shadow of a man, of a tree or of a tower. See the Note under Shade, n., 1.
(n.) An uninvited guest coming with one who is invited.
(n.) A reflected image, as in a mirror or in water.
(n.) To cut off light from; to put in shade; to shade; to throw a shadow upon; to overspead with obscurity.
(n.) A small degree; a shade.
(n.) To represent faintly or imperfectly; to adumbrate; hence, to represent typically.
(n.) To conceal; to hide; to screen.
(n.) Darkness; shade; obscurity.
(n.) That which follows or attends a person or thing like a shadow; an inseparable companion; hence, an obsequious follower.
(n.) A spirit; a ghost; a shade; a phantom.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Shadow is either masculine or feminine given name