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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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prefaded
English
Verb
prefaded
- simple past tense and past participle of prefade
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