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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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droop
English
Etymology
From Middle English droupen, from Old Norse drúpa (“to droop”), from Proto-Germanic *dr?pan?, *drup?n? (“to hang down, drip, drop”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?rewb- (“to drip, drop”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: dr?p, IPA(key): /?d?u?p/
- Rhymes: -u?p
- Homophone: drupe
Verb
droop (third-person singular simple present droops, present participle drooping, simple past and past participle drooped)
- (intransitive) To hang downward; to sag.
- 1866, John Keegan Casey, “Maire My Girl” in A Wreath of Shamrocks, Dublin: Robert S. McGee, p. 20,[1]
- On the brown harvest tree
- Droops the red cherry.
- a. 1992, quote attributed to Sylvester Stallone
- I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works.
- 1866, John Keegan Casey, “Maire My Girl” in A Wreath of Shamrocks, Dublin: Robert S. McGee, p. 20,[1]
- (intransitive) To slowly become limp; to bend gradually.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act III, Scene 2,[2]
- Good things of day begin to droop and drowse;
- While night’s black agents to their preys do rouse.
- 1676, Thomas Hobbes (translator), Homer’s Iliads in English, London: William Crook, Book 18, p. 289,[3]
- The Grapes that on it hung were black, and all
- The Vines supported and from drooping staid
- With silver Props, that down they could not fall […]
- Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth […].
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act III, Scene 2,[2]
- (intransitive) To lose all energy, enthusiasm or happiness; to flag.
- c. 1596, William Shakespeare, King John, Act V, Scene 1,[4]
- But wherefore do you droop? why look you sad?
- 1685, John Dryden, Threnodia Augustalis, London: Jacob Tonson, XII, p. 17,[5]
- Amidst the peaceful Triumphs of his Reign,
- What wonder if the kindly beams he shed
- Reviv’d the drooping Arts again […]
- 1711, Jonathan Swift, “The Accomplishment of the First of Mr. Bickerstaff’s Predictions” in Miscellanies, London: John Morphew, p. 284,[6]
- I saw him accidentally once or twice about 10 Days before he died, and observed he began very much to Droop and Languish […]
- 1713, Joseph Addison, Cato, a Tragedy, London: J. Tonson, Act I, Scene 2, p. 5,[7]
- I’ll animate the Soldier’s drooping Courage,
- With Love of Freedom, and Contempt of Life.
- c. 1596, William Shakespeare, King John, Act V, Scene 1,[4]
- (transitive) To allow to droop or sink.
- c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act II, Scene 5,[8]
- […] pithless arms, like to a wither’d vine
- That droops his sapless branches to the ground;
- 1892, Arthur Christopher Benson, “Knapweed” in Le Cahier Jaune: Poems, Eton: privately printed, p. 62,[9]
- Down in the mire he droops his head;
- Forgotten, not forgiven.
- c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act II, Scene 5,[8]
- To proceed downward, or toward a close; to decline.
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 11, lines 175-178,[10]
- […] let us forth,
- I never from thy side henceforth to stray,
- Wherere our days work lies, though now enjoind
- Laborious, till day droop […]
- 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “The Princess” in The Princess; a Medley, London: Edward Moxon, p. 46,[11]
- […] and now when day
- Droop’d, and the chapel tinkled, mixt with those
- Six hundred maidens clad in purest white […]
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 11, lines 175-178,[10]
Derived terms
- droopage
Translations
Noun
droop (plural droops)
- Something which is limp or sagging.
- A condition or posture of drooping.
- (aviation) A hinged portion of the leading edge of an aeroplane's wing, which swivels downward to increase lift during takeoff and landing.
Coordinate terms
(part of aeroplane wing):
- slat
Translations
Derived terms
- brewer's droop
- droop nose
- droop snoot
Related terms
- drooped
- drooping
- droopy
References
- droop at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Podor
Dutch
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -o?p
Verb
droop
- singular past indicative of druipen
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