What does fade mean?
Definitions for fade
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Princeton's WordNet
slice, fade, slicingnoun
a golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer
"he took lessons to cure his slicing"
fade, disappearanceverb
gradually ceasing to be visible
fade, meltverb
become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly
"The scene begins to fade"; "The tree trunks are melting into the forest at dusk"
fade, witherverb
lose freshness, vigor, or vitality
"Her bloom was fading"
evanesce, fade, blow over, pass off, fleet, passverb
disappear gradually
"The pain eventually passed off"
languish, fadeverb
become feeble
"The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon"
Wiktionary
fadenoun
A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the right. See slice, hook, draw.
fadenoun
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.
fadeverb
To become fade; to grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.
fadeverb
To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color.
fadeverb
To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.
fadeverb
To cause to fade.
fadeadjective
Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace.
Etymology: From fader, from fade.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To Fadeverb
To wear away; to reduce to languor; to deprive of freshness or vigour; to wither.
This is a man old, wrinkled, faded, withered;
And not a maiden, as thou say’st he is. William Shakespeare.His palms, though under weights they did not stand,
Still thriv’d; no Winter could his laurels fade. Dryden.Restless anxiety, forlorn despair,
And all the faded family of care. Samuel Garth, Dispens.To Fadeverb
Etymology: fade, French, insipid, languid.
The greenness of a leaf ought to pass for apparent, because soon fading into a yellow, it scarce lasts at all, in comparison of the greenness of an emerald. Robert Boyle, on Colours.
The spots in this stone are of the same colour throughout, even to the very edges; there being an immediate transition from white to black, and the colours not fading or declining gradually. John Woodward, on Fossils.
Ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water. Is. i. 30.
Where either through the temper of the body, or some other default, the memory is very weak, ideas in the mind quickly fade. John Locke.
The stars shall fade away, the sun himself
Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years. Joseph Addison, Cato.The glorious beauty on the head of the fat valley shall be a fading flower. Is. xxviii. 4.
The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours, and, if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear. John Locke.
Narcissus’ change, to the vain virgin shows
Who trusts to beauty, trusts the fading rose. John Gay, Fan.
Wikipedia
FADE
FADE (or DEGRADE) is digital rights management software developed by Codemasters. FADE operates by checking whether a game has been pirated; if it has, it initially allows the game to run normally, but deliberately alters gameplay mechanics over time to make the game difficult, if not outright unplayable.
ChatGPT
fade
Fade refers to the gradual loss, reduction, or disappearance of something such as color, light, sound, or strength. It can also refer to the process of transitioning from one scene to another in film or video editing. In terms of hairstyles, a fade refers to a style where the hair is short on the sides and gradually increases in length towards the top.
Webster Dictionary
Fadeadjective
weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace
Fadeadjective
to become fade; to grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant
Fadeadjective
to lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color
Fadeadjective
to sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish
Fadeverb
to cause to wither; to deprive of freshness or vigor; to wear away
Etymology: [OE. faden, vaden, prob. fr. fade, a.; cf. Prov. D. vadden to fade, wither, vaddigh languid, torpid. Cf. Fade, a., Vade.]
Wikidata
Fade
FADE is a point-and-click adventure game developed by the Fade Team and released for the Windows Mobile Professional platform in 2001. The game was critically acclaimed as the first large-scale adventure game for the platform. It is most often compared to Myst, the first immersive graphic adventure games for the PC, and the games in the Zork series. The game was originally created in French, and was translated into English. This has resulted in some lines sounding rather awkward, and French remains in some parts of the game's dialogue. However, this has not posed a problem for many players. The game's story is actually very complex. It has been compared to a similarly themed film, the critically acclaimed Memento. FADE was broken up into chapters and re-released for the iPhone OS under a different name, 1112, on November 24, 2008.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Fade
fād, v.i. to lose strength, freshness, or colour gradually: to vanish.—adj. insipid: weak.—adv. Fā′dedly.—adj. Fade′less.—adv. Fade′lessly.—n. Fā′ding (Shak.), the burden of a song.—adj. Fā′dy, wearing away. [O. Fr. fader—fade—L. vapidum, acc. to Gaston Paris.]
Rap Dictionary
fadenoun
The hairdo (see high top fade).
fadenoun
Means to not listen to, erase, or get rid of (kill). Has mutated into various other meanings as well as has most other hiphop lingo. It (the phrase) started from actually pulling down the fader on a mixer, which of course, results in not listening to whomever was on at the time. So Ice Cube wants you to listen to him always and not fade him or turn him off... "You can't fade me" -- Ice Cube (You can't fade me).
fadenoun
Term from from the dice-game craps, related to losing. The player rolling the dice must have someone to fade them (i.e. to put up money against the money they are gambling). If you are faded, you have lost.
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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
FADE
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Fade is ranked #113791 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Fade surname appeared 154 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Fade.
80.5% or 124 total occurrences were White.
14.2% or 22 total occurrences were Black.
4.5% or 7 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
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Verbs Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'fade' in Verbs Frequency: #737
Anagrams for fade »
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Deaf
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of fade in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of fade in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of fade in a Sentence
Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.
With a lot of desk jobs, you can fade away for a few hours, but those hours have to be made up in some capacity. It starts to compound.
Even within the white supremacist movement, they’re seen as anachronistic, they’re often a small group of people ... and they tend to fade away due to their inability to organize.
It's better to burn out than to fade away.
They say night's beauties fade at dawn, and the children of wine are oft disowned in the morning light.
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- تلاشىArabic
- заглъхвам, избелявам, вехна, увяхвам, блудкав, обезцветявам сеBulgarian
- falmeDanish
- verblassenGerman
- σβήνω, σβήνομαιGreek
- sensukaEsperanto
- insípidoSpanish
- محو شدنPersian
- himmetä, hämärtää, haihtua, hämärtyä, heikentyä, heikentää, haalistua, himmentää, karkottaa, häivyttää, haaltua, karkota, kaikota, haihduttaa, häipyä, kauhtua, kauhduttaa, heiketä, haalistaaFinnish
- faner, fondu, fade, s'évanouir, affadir, flétrirFrench
- मुरझानाHindi
- fakít, fakul, halványul, elhalványul, halványítHungarian
- թառամել, գունաթափվելArmenian
- フェードJapanese
- көркөмүн кетирүү, боёосун кетирүү, түсүн өчүрүү, ыраңын кетирүүKyrgyz
- svekkes, forgå, falmeNorwegian
- verwelken, verzinken, smaakloos, saai, verzwakken, verdwijnen, verslappen, wegkwijnen, verblekenDutch
- więdnąćPolish
- apuneRomanian
- обесцвечивать, вянуть, пропадать, исчезать, выгорать, увядать, затухать, обесцвечиваться, блёкнуть, выцветатьRussian
- เลือนหายไปThai
- зникаютьUkrainian
- וועלקןYiddish
- 褪色Chinese
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