Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - fade
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v. & n. --v. 1 intr. & tr. lose or cause to lose colour. 2 intr. lose freshness or strength; (of flowers etc.) droop, wither. 3 intr. a (of colour, light, etc.) disappear gradually; grow pale or dim. b (of sound) grow faint. 4 intr. (of a feeling etc.) diminish. 5 intr. (foll. by away, out) (of a person etc.) disappear or depart gradually. 6 tr. (foll. by in, out) Cinematog. & Broadcasting a cause (a picture) to come gradually in or out of view on a screen, or to merge into another shot. b make (the sound) more or less audible. 7 intr. (of a radio signal) vary irregularly in intensity. 8 intr. (of a brake) temporarily lose effectiveness. 9 Golf a intr. (of a ball) deviate from a straight course, esp. in a deliberate slice. b tr. cause (a ball) to fade. --n. the action or an instance of fading. Phrases and idioms do a fade sl. depart. fade away colloq. languish, grow thin. fade-in Cinematog. & Broadcasting the action or an instance of fading in a picture or sound. fade-out 1 colloq. disappearance, death. 2 Cinematog. & Broadcasting the action or an instance of fading out a picture or sound. Derivatives fadeless adj. fader n. (in sense 6 of v.). Etymology: ME f. OF fader f. fade dull, insipid prob. ult. f. L fatuus silly + vapidus VAPID
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I. verb (~d; fading) Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French *~r, from ~ feeble, insipid, from Vulgar Latin *fatidus, alteration of Latin fatuus fatuous, insipid Date: 14th century intransitive verb to lose freshness, strength, or vitality ; wither , to lose freshness or brilliance of color, to sink away ; vanish , to change gradually in loudness, strength, or visibility, to lose braking power gradually, to move back from the line of scrimmage, to move in a slight to moderate slice, transitive verb to cause to ~, ~r noun II. noun Date: 1918 1. ~-out, a gradual changing of one picture to another in a motion-picture or television sequence, a fading of an automobile brake, a slight to moderate and usually intentional slice in golf, a hairstyle similar to a crew cut in which the hair on top of the head stands high, III. adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French Date: 15th century insipid, commonplace ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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