different between depart vs fade

English

Etymology

From Old French departir, from Late Latin departi? (“to divide”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: d?-pät', IPA^(key): /d??p??t/
• (General American) enPR: d?-pärt', IPA^(key): /d??p??t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Verb

depart (third-person singular simple present departs, present participle departing, simple past and past participle departed)

1. (intransitive) To leave.
   • c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act IV, Scene 3,^[1]

     [...] he which hath no stomach to this fight,

     Let him depart;

   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, 1 Samuel 4.21,^[2]

     The glory is departed from Israel.

   • 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, Chapter 56,^[3]

     With very little excuse for departing so abruptly, Ralph left him [...]

   • 2009, George Monbiot, The Guardian, 7 September:

     The government maintains that if its regulations are too stiff, British bankers will leave the country. It's true that they have been threatening to depart in droves, but the obvious answer is: "Sod off then."

2. (intransitive) To set out on a journey.
   • 1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Chapter 28,^[4]

     Elizabeth saw her friend depart for Port-Bredy [...]

   • 1904, Joseph Conrad, Nostromo, Part 2, Chapter 4,^[5]

     Distant acclamations, words of command yelled out, and a roll of drums on the jetty greeted the departing general.

3. (intransitive) To die.
   • c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act I, Scene 1,^[6]

     [...] his tongue

     Sounds ever after as a sullen bell,

     Rememb’red tolling a departing friend.

   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Luke 2.29,^[7]

     Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace.

4. (intransitive, figuratively) To disappear, vanish; to cease to exist.
   • 1846, Charlotte Brontë, “The Teacher’s Monologue” in Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell,^[8]

     For youth departs, and pleasure flies,

     And life consumes away,

   • 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days, Chapter 15,^[9]

     An extraordinary joie de vivre had come over them all as soon as the shaky feeling departed from their legs.
5. (intransitive) To deviate (from), be different (from), fail to conform.

   His latest statements seemed to depart from party policy somewhat.

   to depart from a title or defence in legal pleading

   • 1788, James Madison, “Number 39,” in Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison, The Federalist, On the New Constitution, Philadelphia: Benjamin Warner, 1818, p. 204,^[10]

     If the plan of the convention, therefore, be found to depart from the republican character, its advocates must abandon it as no longer defensible.

   • 1960, Muriel Spark, The Bachelors, Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1961, Chapter 12, p. 201,^[11]

     [...] he compared the precise points at which the handwriting of the letter departed from examples of Freda Flower’s handwriting and coincided with examples of Patrick Seton’s [...]
6. (transitive) To go away from; to leave.
   • 1589, John Eliot (translator), Aduise giuen by a Catholike gentleman, to the nobilitie & commons of France, London: John Wolfe, p. 27,^[12]

     [...] he [...] did pray them only to do no thing against the honor of God, & rather to depart the territories of his empire, then to suffer their consciences to be forced.

   • 1989, Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day, Vintage Canada, 2014, “Day Two: Morning,”^[13]

     At one stage, when I happened to depart the room in the midst of an address by one of the German gentlemen, M. Dupont suddenly rose and followed me out.

   • 1997, Richard Flanagan, The Sound of One Hand Clapping, New York: Grove, 2001, Chapter 64, p. 323,^[14]

     She felt what Mrs Maja Picotti had suspected in her prayers, that her soul had departed her body.

   • 2009, The Guardian, Sport Blog, 9 September:

     The build-up to Saturday's visit of Macedonia and this encounter with the Dutch could be construed as odd in the sense that there seemed a basic acceptance, inevitability even, that Burley would depart office in their immediate aftermath.

7. (obsolete, transitive) To divide up; to distribute, share.

   • and so all the worlde seythe that betwyxte three knyghtes is departed clerely knyghthode, that is Sir Launcelot du Lake, Sir Trystrams de Lyones and Sir Lamerok de Galys—thes bere now the renowne.

   • 1595, Arthur Golding (translator), Politicke, Moral, and Martial Discourses by Jacques Hurault, London: Adam Islip, Book 3, Chapter 17, p. 458,^[15]

     Then fortified hee his trenches, and departed them in foure quarters, wherein he made good store of fires, in such distance one from another, as are woont to be made in a campe.

   • 1597, Thomas Dawson, The Second part of the good Hus-wiues Iewell, London: Edward White,^[16]

     Fyrst on that day yee shall serue a calfe sodden and blessed, and sodden egs with greene sauce, and set them before the most principall estate, and that Lorde because of his high estate, shal depart them al about him [...]

   • 1602, Patrick Simon (translator), The Estate of the Church with the Discourse of Times, from the Apostles untill This Present, London: Thomas Creede, “Extract out of the Acts of the Councell of Nice,” p. 102,^[17]

     That Deacons be not preferred before Priests, nor sit in their ranke, nor in their presence do distribute the Sacraments but only minister vnto them, and assist when they do distribute: but when there are no Priests there, in that case they may depart them.

8. (obsolete, transitive) To separate, part.
   • Syr knyght[,] said the two squyers that were with her[,] yonder are two knyghtes that fyghte for thys lady, goo thyder and departe them […].

   • 1550, Thomas Nicholls (translator), The Hystory Writtone by Thucidides the Athenyan, London, Book 3, Chapter 2, p. 74,^[18]

     Thies be than the causes [...] for the whiche we depart our selues from the Athenyans [...]

   • 1582, Stephen Batman (translator), Batman vppon Bartholome his booke De proprietatibus rerum, London: Thomas East, Book 5, Chapter 26, “Of the shoulders,”^[19]

     The twisted forkes [i.e. fork-shaped bones] be néedfull to binde the shoulders, and to depart them from the breast.

   • 1617, Thomas Taylor, Dauids Learning, London: Henry Fetherstone, Dedicatory epistle,^[20]

     Great is the affinitie of soule and body, neerely coupled and wedded by God, like Husband & Wife, for better and worse till death depart them.

Usage notes

The past participle, departed, unlike that of the majority of English verbs, has an active, rather than a passive sense when used adjectivally:

• not even a legible inscription to record its departed greatness (Charles Dickens, American Notes, Chapter 8,^[21])
• As soon as they had left, Mrs. Gibson began her usual comments on the departed visitors. (Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters, Chapter 16,^[22])
• the sky still clung to and retained some lingering skirts of light from the departed day (Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, Chapter 7,^[23])

Synonyms

• (to leave): See Thesaurus:leave
• (to die): See Thesaurus:die
• (to deviate): deviate, digress, diverge, sidetrack, straggle, vary
• (to go away from): leave

Antonyms

• (to leave): arrive, come, stay
• (to die): live
• (to deviate): conform

Related terms

• departure
• dearly departed

Translations

Noun

depart

1. (obsolete) Division; separation, as of compound substances.
2. (obsolete) A going away; departure.
   • c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act I, Scene 1,^[24]

     at my depart for France

   • 1633, John Donne, “To M. I. L.” in Poems, London: John Marriot, p. 101,^[25]

     Of that short Roll of friends writ in my heart

     Which with thy name begins, since their depart,

     Whether in the English Provinces they be,

     Or drinke of Po, Sequan, or Danubie,

Anagrams

• detrap, drapet, parted, petard, prated, rapted, tarped, traped

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe?d/
• Rhymes: -e?d

Etymology 1

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”).

Adjective

fade (comparative fader, superlative fadest)

1. (archaic) Weak; insipid; tasteless.

   Synonym: dull

   • 1825, Francis Jeffery, review of Theodric by Thomas Campbell

     Passages that are somewhat fade.

   • 1827, Thomas De Quincey, The Last Days of Kant (published in Blackwood's Magazine)

     His masculine taste gave him a sense of something fade and ludicrous.

Translations

Noun

fade (plural fades)

1. (golf) A golf shot that curves intentionally to the player's right (if they are right-handed) or to the left (if left-handed).

   Coordinate terms: slice, hook, draw

   • 2011, James Lythgoe, The Golf Swing: It's all in the hands (page 88)

     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.

2. 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.
3. (slang) A fight.
4. (music, cinematography) 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).
5. (slang) The act of disappearing from a place so as not to be found; covert departure.
   • 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things

     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.

Derived terms

• brake fade

Translations

Verb

fade (third-person singular simple present fades, present participle fading, simple past and past participle faded)

1. (transitive, golf) To hit the ball with the shot called a fade.
   • 2011, Gary McCord, Golf For Dummies (page 284)

     The Golden Bear faded the ball from left to right with great consistency, so he seldom had to worry about trouble on the left.

2. (intransitive) To grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.

   • The earth mourneth and fadeth away.

3. (intransitive) To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color.
4. (intransitive) To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.

   The milkman's whistling faded into the distance.

   • 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.

   • They say your love will surely fade girl
     When things go wrong and trouble calls

5. (transitive) To cause to fade.
6. (transitive, gambling) To bet against.

Synonyms

• (grow weak, lose strength): weaken, wither
• (lose freshness, color, or brightness): blanch, bleach
• (sink away): decrease, diminish, wane

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English fade, fede, of uncertain origin. Compare Old English ?efæd (“orderly, tidy, discreet, well-regulated”). See also fad.

Adjective

fade (comparative fader or more fade, superlative fadest or most fade)

1. (archaic) Strong; bold; doughty.

Anagrams

• Deaf, EDFA, deaf

Danish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?d?

Adjective

fade

1. definite of fad
2. plural of fad

Noun

fade n

1. indefinite plural of fad

Finnish

Etymology

< Swedish fader (“father”)

Noun

fade

1. (slang) father

Declension

Synonyms

• isä (standard)

French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *fatidus, blend of Latin fatuus and vapidus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fad/

Adjective

fade (plural fades)

1. tasteless, insipid
2. boring; lukewarm

Synonyms

• (lacking in interesting features): terne, insignifiant

Noun

fade m (plural fades)

1. (criminal slang) share of loot / booty

Verb

fade

1. inflection of fader:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “fade” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Alternative forms

• fad (particularly in southern Germany and Austria)

Etymology

From French fade, from Vulgar Latin fatidus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fa?d?/
• Homophone: Pfade (only according to a regional pronunciation of this word)
• Rhymes: -a?d?

Adjective

fade (comparative fader, superlative am fadesten or am fadsten)

1. bland, flavorless, stale, boring
   • 1922, Rudolf Steiner, Nationalökonomischer Kurs, Erster Vortrag

Declension

Further reading

• “fade” in Duden online
• “fade” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Yola

Pronoun

fade

1. Alternative form of faade

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN, page 23