fadeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

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”).

形容詞

fade (comparative fader, superlative fadest)

1. (archaic) Weak; insipid; tasteless.

   Synonym: dull

   • 1825, Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey, review of Theodric by Thomas Campbell

     Passages that are somewhat fade.

   • 1827, Thomas De Quincey, “The Last Days of Kant”, in Blackwood's Magazine:

     His masculine taste gave him a sense of something fade and ludicrous.

名詞

fade (複数形 fades)

1. (golf) A golf shot that curves intentionally to the player's right (if they are right-handed) or to the left (if left-handed).

   Coordinate terms: slice, hook, draw

   • 2011, James Lythgoe, The Golf Swing: It's all in the hands, page 88:

     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 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.

   Synonym: skin fade

3. (slang) A fight.
4. (music, cinematography) 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 または starting a new song).
5. (slang) The act of disappearing from a place so as not to be found; covert departure.
   • 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:

     Ace could have done a fade. Instead, he gathered all his courage — which was not inconsiderable, even in his middle age — and went to see the Flying Corson Brothers.

派生語

動詞

fade (三人称単数 現在形 fades, 現在分詞 fading, 過去形および過去分詞形 faded)

1. (transitive, golf) To hit the ball with the shot called a fade.
   • 2011, Gary McCord, Golf For Dummies, page 284:

     The Golden Bear faded the ball from left to right with great consistency, so he seldom had to worry about trouble on the left.

2. (intransitive) To grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 24:4:

     The earth mourneth and fadeth away.

3. (intransitive) To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book III”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     [flowers] that never fade

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess‎^[1]:

     The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.

4. (intransitive) To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.

   The milkman's whistling faded into the distance.

   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

     He makes a swanlike end, / Fading in music.

   • 1856, Eleanor Marx-Aveling (translator), Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter XI,

     A strange thing was that Bovary, while continually thinking of Emma, was forgetting her. He grew desperate as he felt this image fading from his memory in spite of all efforts to retain it. Yet every night he dreamt of her; it was always the same dream. He drew near her, but when he was about to clasp her she fell into decay in his arms.

   • 1968 December 8, Henry Cosby, Sylvia Moy, Stevie Wonder (lyrics かつ music), “I’d Be a Fool Right Now”, in For Once in My Life, performed by Stevie Wonder:

     They say your love will surely fade girl
     When things go wrong and trouble calls

   • 2021 December 29, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Problems galore in 2021...”, in RAIL, number 947, page 3:

     And with that, I think we'll leave 2021's tail lamp to fade into the distance.

5. (transitive) To cause to fade.
6. (transitive, gambling) To bet against (someone).
   • 2016, Johnny Hughes, A Texas Beauty, Smart and Strong:

     I tried to get some bets that y'all were fixin' to get married but nobody would fade me.

派生語

別の表記

• vade (廃れた用法)

同意語

• (grow weak, lose strength): weaken, wither
• (lose freshness, color, または brightness): blanch, bleach
• (sink away): decrease, diminish, wane

語源 2

From Middle English fade, fede, of uncertain origin. Compare 古期英語 ġefæd (“orderly, tidy, discreet, well-regulated”). See also fad.

形容詞

fade (comparative fader または more fade, superlative fadest または most fade)

1. (archaic) Strong; bold; doughty.

アナグラム

• Deaf, EDFA, FDEA, deaf