Associations to the word «Fade»

FADE, adjective. (archaic) Strong; bold; doughty

FADE, adjective. (archaic) Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace.

FADE, noun. (golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the right. See slice, hook, draw.

FADE, noun. 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.

FADE, noun. (slang) A fight

FADE, noun. (cinematography) A gradual decrease in the brightness of a shot (as a means of cutting to a new scene)

FADE, verb. (intransitive) To become faded; to grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.

FADE, verb. (intransitive) To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color.

FADE, verb. (intransitive) To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.

FADE, verb. (transitive) To cause to fade.

FADE AWAY, verb. To lose strength, become weaker; to wane

FADE IN, noun. A type of transition used in visual media, in which the transition is at first black, fading to a visual image.

FADE IN, verb. To fade from black to a visual image in visual media.

FADE OUT, noun. A type of transition used in movies usually at the end of a scene, in which the transition fades to black from the cut.

FADE OUT, verb. (idiomatic) To slowly disappear.

FADE OUT, verb. To fade from a cut to black in a movie.

FADE TO BLACK, verb. (cinema) To end a film or a scene of a film by causing the image to disappear and become black.

FADE TO WHITE, verb. A film punctuation in which the picture brightens until it is completely white.

FADE, noun. A golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer; "he took lessons to cure his slicing".

FADE, noun. Gradually ceasing to be visible.

FADE, verb. 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, verb. Lose freshness, vigor, or vitality; "Her bloom was fading".

FADE, verb. Disappear gradually; "The pain eventually passed off".

FADE, verb. Become feeble; "The prisoner has be languishing for years in the dungeon".