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

   • (Can we date this quote by Jeffery かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     Passages that are somewhat fade.

   • (Can we date this quote by De Quincey かつ provide title, author's full name, かつ other details?)

     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 (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the right. See slice, hook, 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.
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.

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. (intransitive) To grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Bible, Isaiah 24:4

     The earth mourneth and fadeth away.

2. (intransitive) To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 3”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     [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.

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

   The milkman's whistling faded into the distance.

   • c. 1596–1598, William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [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.

4. (transitive) To cause to fade.
5. (transitive, gambling) To bet against.

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, deaf