fade
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: broadcasting
cinematography
entertainment
film
gambling
games
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
media
music
sports
television
Etymology: From Middle English fade, vad, vade (“faded, pale, withered, weak”), from Middle Dutch vade (“weak, faint, limp”), from Old French fade (“weak, witless”), of obscure origin. Probably from Vulgar Latin *fatidus, from Latin fatuus (“insipid”).
Inflected forms:
form: fades
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fades
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fading
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: faded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: faded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: vade
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A golf shot that curves intentionally to the player's right (if they are right-handed) or to the left (if left-handed).
pos: noun
examples: If you confine yourself to hitting straight shots while you are developing your golf swing, you are less likely to develop a preference for hitting a fade or a draw.
gloss: A haircut where the hair is short or shaved on the sides of the head and longer on top. See also high-top fade and low fade.
pos: noun
gloss: A fight.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A gradual decrease in the brightness of a shot or the volume of sound or music (as a means of cutting to a new scene or starting a new song).
pos: noun
gloss: The act of disappearing from a place so as not to be found; covert departure.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Ace could have done a fade. Instead, he gathered all his courage — which was not inconsiderable, even in his middle age — and went to see the Flying Corson Brothers.
gloss: To hit the ball with the shot called a fade.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The Golden Bear faded the ball from left to right with great consistency, so he seldom had to worry about trouble on the left.
gloss: To grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The earth mourneth and fadeth away.
gloss: To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: [flowers] that never fade
The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.
gloss: To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The milkman's whistling faded into the distance.
He makes a swanlike end, / Fading in music.
1856, Eleanor Marx-Aveling (translator), Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter XI,
A strange thing was that Bovary, while continually thinking of Emma, was forgetting her. He grew desperate as he felt this image fading from his memory in spite of all efforts to retain it. Yet every night he dreamt of her; it was always the same dream. He drew near her, but when he was about to clasp her she fell into decay in his arms.
So many people have come and gone
Their faces fade as the years go by
They say your love will surely fade girl
When things go wrong and trouble calls
And with that, I think we'll leave 2021's tail lamp to fade into the distance.
gloss: To cause to fade.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To bet against (someone).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I tried to get some bets that y'all were fixin' to get married but nobody would fade me.
Derived words: antifade
anti-fade
autofade
brain fade
brake fade
Brooklyn fade
catch a fade
color fade
drop fade
fadable
fadeable
fade-away
fadeless
fade-out
fadeproof
fadesome
fade time
fady
Philly fade
quality fade
taper fade
temple fade
crossfade
fade in
antifader
beauty fades, dumb is forever
fade away
fadeometer
fade out
fade to black
fade to white
fadometer
neverfade
prefade
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