What does vanish mean?

Definitions for vanish
ˈvæn ɪʃvan·ish

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. disappear, vanish, go awayverb

    get lost, as without warning or explanation

    "He disappeared without a trace"

  2. vanish, disappear, go awayverb

    become invisible or unnoticeable

    "The effect vanished when day broke"

  3. fly, fell, vanishverb

    pass away rapidly

    "Time flies like an arrow"; "Time fleeing beneath him"

  4. vanish, disappearverb

    cease to exist

    "An entire civilization vanished"

  5. vanish, fly, vaporizeverb

    decrease rapidly and disappear

    "the money vanished in las Vegas"; "all my stock assets have vaporized"

Wiktionary

  1. vanishverb

    To become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed.

  2. vanishverb

    To become equal to zero.

    The function f(x)=x^2 vanishes at x=0.

ChatGPT

  1. vanish

    To vanish means to disappear suddenly and completely, often without explanation or visibly going away. It can also refer to gradually ceasing to exist or dying out over time. In mathematics, it refers to becoming zero or negligible.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Vanishverb

    to pass from a visible to an invisible state; to go out of sight; to disappear; to fade; as, vapor vanishes from the sight by being dissipated; a ship vanishes from the sight of spectators on land

  2. Vanishverb

    to be annihilated or lost; to pass away

  3. Vanishnoun

    the brief terminal part of vowel or vocal element, differing more or less in quality from the main part; as, a as in ale ordinarily ends with a vanish of i as in ill, o as in old with a vanish of oo as in foot

  4. Etymology: [OE. vanissen, OF. vanir (in comp.): cf. OF. envanir, esvanir, esvanur, F. s'vanouir; fr. L. vanus empty, vain; cf. L. vanescere, evanescere, to vanish. See Vain, and cf. Evanescent,-ish.]

Wikidata

  1. Vanish

    Vanish may refer to either of two unrelated brands, one by S.C. Johnson and one by Reckitt Benckiser.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Vanish

    van′ish, v.i. to pass away from a place, leaving it vacant or empty: to disappear: to be annihilated or lost: (math.) to become zero: (Shak.) to exhale.—n. Van′isher.—adv. Van′ishingly.—n. Van′ishment.—Vanishing point, the point of disappearance of anything. [Through Fr. from L. vanescĕre, to pass away—vanus, empty.]

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. VANISH

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Vanish is ranked #78040 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Vanish surname appeared 245 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Vanish.

    61.6% or 151 total occurrences were White.
    31.4% or 77 total occurrences were Black.
    3.6% or 9 total occurrences were Asian.

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British National Corpus

  1. Verbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'vanish' in Verbs Frequency: #832

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of vanish in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of vanish in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of vanish in a Sentence

  1. Sren Aaby Kierkegaard:

    Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

  2. Thomas Jefferson:

    Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day.

  3. Holger Schmieding:

    What we are seeing is the service sector holding up comfortably well while the industrial slump has got more room to run and even possibly deepen, this data is not going make recessionary concerns worse, but it also won't make them vanish anytime soon. We are still far away from any stabilization and it could possibly drag on till we see at least a partial trade deal between the U.S. and China.

  4. Jack Mozloom:

    They will bring the work in house and the subcontracting jobs will vanish -- that's really a concern for our members.

  5. Percy B. Shelley:

    Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love replused - but it returneth

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