fade
Forms
- Plural
- fades
- present (v1)
- fade
- past (v2)
- faded
- past participle (v3)
- faded
- present participle
- fading
- 3rd person singular
- fades
Definitions
1.A golf shot that curves intentionally to the player's right (if they are right-handed) or to the left (if left-handed).
- 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.
2.A fight.(slang)
3.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).
4.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.
1.To grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.
- The earth mourneth and fadeth away.
2.To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color.
3.To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.
- He makes a swanlike end, / Fading in music.
- The milkman's whistling faded into the distance.
- And with that, I think we'll leave 2021's tail lamp to fade into the distance.
4.To hit the ball with the shot called a fade.
- The Golden Bear faded the ball from left to right with great consistency, so he seldom had to worry about trouble on the left.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3394
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Uncommon
Etymology
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”).