• Dutch: verbleken, verwelken
• Finnish: haalistua
• German: verblassen

• Dutch: verzinken, verdwijnen, wegkwijnen
• Finnish: haihtua, kaikota
• French: s'évanouir

French

Etymology

From *fatidus, blend of fatuus and vapidus.

Adjective

1. without taste

German

Pronunciation

• ˈfaːdə

Adjective

1. fade
   • 1922, Rudolf Steiner, Nationalökonomischer Kurs, Erster Vortrag

     Solch eine Volkswirtschaftslehre würde der Engländer fade gefunden haben. Man denkt doch über solche Dinge nicht nach, würde er gesagt haben.

     An Englishman would have thought of such an economical theory as bland. He would have said, "One doesn’t think about such things."

Fade or Fade out can refer to:

• "Fade" (Blue Angel song), an obscure song by the band Blue Angel
• "Fade" (Staind song), a song from Break the Cycle by alt-rock band Staind
• Fade (film), a cinematographic technique used in film
• Fade (audio engineering), the gradual increase or decrease in sound volume
• Fade (lighting), the gradual increase or decrease in intensity of a light source
• Fade (radio), the loss of signal strength at a radio receiver
• Fade (novel), a novel by Robert Cormier
• Fade (computer game), a point-and-click adventure game for the Pocket PC/Windows Mobile platform
• Brake fade, the condition where mechanical brakes lose stopping ability due to heating
• Fade margin in telecommunications
• FADE, an anti-piracy method first used in the PC game Operation Flashpoint
• Street Spirit (Fade Out), Radiohead song

Fade may also be:

• A shot in golf in which the ball curves slightly left to right in flight for a right-handed player, and vice versa for a left-handed player
• A hairstyle characterized by a gradual decrease in the length of hair on the sides and back of the head, i.e. a hi-top fade

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