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fade
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)
- (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)
- (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.
- 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.
- (slang) A fight.
- (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).
- (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.
- 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things
Derived terms
- brake fade
Translations
Verb
fade (third-person singular simple present fades, present participle fading, simple past and past participle faded)
- (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.
- 2011, Gary McCord, Golf For Dummies (page 284)
- (intransitive) To grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.
- The earth mourneth and fadeth away.
- (intransitive) To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color.
- (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
- They say your love will surely fade girl
- (transitive) To cause to fade.
- (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)
- (archaic) Strong; bold; doughty.
Anagrams
- Deaf, EDFA, deaf
Danish
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -a?d?
Adjective
fade
- definite of fad
- plural of fad
Noun
fade n
- indefinite plural of fad
Finnish
Etymology
< Swedish fader (“father”)
Noun
fade
- (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)
- tasteless, insipid
- boring; lukewarm
Synonyms
- (lacking in interesting features): terne, insignifiant
Noun
fade m (plural fades)
- (criminal slang) share of loot / booty
Verb
fade
- inflection of fader:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 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)
- bland, flavorless, stale, boring
- 1922, Rudolf Steiner, Nationalökonomischer Kurs, Erster Vortrag
- 1922, Rudolf Steiner, Nationalökonomischer Kurs, Erster Vortrag
Declension
Further reading
- “fade” in Duden online
- “fade” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
Yola
Pronoun
fade
- 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
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bleach
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -i?t?
Etymology 1
From Middle English bleche (also bleke), from Old English bl??, bl?c, variants of bl?c (“bright, shining, glittering, flashing; bleak, pale, pallid, wan, livid”), from Proto-Germanic *blaikaz (“pale, shining”). More at bleak.
Adjective
bleach (comparative bleacher or more bleach, superlative bleachest or most bleach)
- (archaic) Pale; bleak.
Etymology 2
From Middle English blechen, from Old English bl??an (“to bleach, whiten”), from Proto-Germanic *blaikijan?, from Proto-Indo-European *b?el- (“to shine”). Cognate with Dutch bleken (“to bleach”), German bleichen (“to bleach”), Danish blege, Swedish bleka (“to bleach”). Related to Old English bl?c (“pale”) (English blake; compare also bleak).
Verb
bleach (third-person singular simple present bleaches, present participle bleaching, simple past and past participle bleached)
- (transitive) To treat with bleach, especially so as to whiten (fabric, paper, etc.) or lighten (hair).
- 1538, Thomas Elyot, The Dictionary of Syr Thomas Eliot Knyght, London: Thomas Berthelet,[1]
- Candifacio, to make whyte, to bleache, to make to glowe lyke a burnyng cole.
- 1774, Tobias Smollett, Independence: An Ode, London: J. Murray, p. 8,[2]
- Immortal liberty, whose look sublime
- Hath bleach’d the Tyrant’s Cheek in every varying Clime.
- 1830, Andrew Ure, A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, “BLEACHING,” p. 128,[3]
- The destruction of the colouring matters attached to the bodies to be bleached is effected either by the action of the air and light, of chlorine, or of sulphurous acid.
- 1538, Thomas Elyot, The Dictionary of Syr Thomas Eliot Knyght, London: Thomas Berthelet,[1]
- (intransitive) To be whitened or lightened (by the sun, for example).
- c. 1610, William Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale, Act IV, Scene 3,[4]
- The white sheet bleaching on the hedge,
- With heigh! the sweet birds, O, how they sing!
- 1871, Louisa May Alcott, Little Men, Chapter 15,[5]
- […] when Mrs. Giddy-gaddy came to take out her clothes, deep green stains appeared on every thing, for she had forgotten the green silk lining of a certain cape, and its color had soaked nicely into the pink and blue gowns, the little chemises, and even the best ruffled petticoat. […] “Lay them on the grass to bleach,” said Daisy, with an air of experience.
- 1927, Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, London: The Hogarth Press, 1920, Part 2, p. 198,[6]
- The autumn trees, ravaged as they are, take on the flash of tattered flags kindling in the gloom of cool cathedral caves where gold letters on marble pages describe death in battle and how bones bleach and burn far away in Indian sands.
- c. 1610, William Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale, Act IV, Scene 3,[4]
- (intransitive, biology, of corals) to lose color due to stress-induced expulsion of symbiotic unicellular algae.
- Once coral bleaching begins, corals tend to continue to bleach even if the stressor is removed.
- (transitive, figuratively) To make meaningless; to divest of meaning; to make empty.
- semantically bleached words that have become illocutionary particles
Synonyms
- blanch
Translations
Noun
bleach (countable and uncountable, plural bleaches)
- (uncountable) A chemical, such as sodium hypochlorite or hydrogen peroxide, or a preparation of such a chemical, used for disinfecting or whitening.
- (countable) A variety of bleach.
Derived terms
- bleachfield
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle English bleche, from Old English bl??u, bl??o (“paleness, pallor”), from Proto-Germanic *blaik?? (“paleness”).
Noun
bleach (plural bleaches)
- An act of bleaching; exposure to the sun.
Etymology 4
From Middle English bleche, from Old English bl??e (“irritation of the skin, leprosy; psoriasis”).
Noun
bleach (plural bleaches)
- A disease of the skin.
Anagrams
- Blecha, balche, balché
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