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单词 fading
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fadingn.1

/ˈfeɪdɪŋ/
Etymology: < fade v.1 + -ing suffix1.
1. The action of fade v.1; (also) the period of decay. fading out: a gradual dying out.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [noun] > ceasing to exist
deathOE
out-burninga1382
fading1578
desition1612
desistency1615
expiration1649
quietus1744
nothingness1813
defunctness1883
unbecoming1883
dead-and-goneness1891
the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > worse > [noun] > making or becoming
impairingc1380
failinga1382
aggrievance1502
decaying1530
fading1578
worsinga1583
rusting1597
degeneration1607
degenerating1611
improvementa1617
going back1631
aggravidizationa1641
disimprovement1649
decidence1655
deterioration1658
pejoration1658
exaggeration1661
marasmus1681
sinking1701
unimprovement1760
worsening1811
worsering1883
1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 77 The fadinge of our dayes.
a1617 S. Hieron Penance for Sinne in Wks. (1620) II. 233 Persons..discontinuing their attendance herein..presently manifest a kind of slaking and fading in good duties.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 95. ⁋1 That fading in her Countenance.
1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. v. 90 We may call it an attenuation, a fading-out.
2. Cinematography. See fade v.1 9 Also participial adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > special effect > [noun] > fading
fade1918
fade-out1918
fading1918
lap-dissolve1927
cross-fading1931
cross-fade1937
1918 H. Croy How Motion Pictures are Made vii. 176 Fading in or out is accomplished by four different methods.
1922 L. C. Macbean Kinematogr. Studio Technique viii. 65 The operations of ‘fading in’ and ‘fading out’..are..effected with the diaphragm.
1922 L. C. Macbean Kinematogr. Studio Technique viii. 82 The film is then wound back to the beginning of the ‘fading’, with the lens closed.
1935 D. C. Ottley Cine-Amateur's Workshop vi. 26 The author advises a supplementary iris if fading and like effects are required.
3. Irregular fluctuations in the intensity of received radio signals as a result of varying atmospheric conditions.
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society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > [noun] > signal > obstruction or poor reception
blind spot1864
screening1902
fading1912
night effect1914
night error1921
wipeout1921
skip1925
radio fade-out1927
fade-out1937
1912 L. de Forest Let. 13 Sept. in Proc. IRE (1930) 18 1600 I think you have not considered with sufficient care what a variety of imaginable atmospheric conditions might be conceived to explain the phenomena of ‘fading’.
1923 Wireless Rev. 23 June 128/2 Manchester and Newcastle both appear to be suffering very badly from fading.
1927 Glasgow Herald 1 Jan. 9 A site where interference and what is technically known as ‘fading’ would be reduced to a minimum.
1931 J. A. Moyer & J. F. Wostrel Radio Handbk. iv. 178 Fading is probably due to the interference between radio waves which arrive at the receiver along different paths.
1953 F. Langford-Smith Radio Designer's Handbk. (ed. 4) xxii. 901 Where night-time fading of signals is encountered, straight vertical aerials should be used.
1968 B. P. Lathi Communication Syst. iii. 195 The fading is also sensitive to frequencies... Thus the carrier and each of the sidebands undergo different amounts of fading.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

fadingfaddingn.2

Etymology: Etymology unknown; the Irish feadán /ˈfadɔːn/ pipe, whistle, has been suggested; but compare fade v.3
Obsolete.
The name of a dance, apparently Irish. ‘With a fading’ was the refrain of a popular song of an indecent character.
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society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > other dances > [noun]
dance of Macabre?c1430
springc1450
lege de moya1529
bobc1550
lusty gallant1569
duret1613
fading1613
huckler1617
ground-measure1621
entry1631
slatter de pouchc1640
ballo1651
Irish trot1651
omnium gatheruma1652
clutterdepouch1652
upspring1654
passacaglia1659
shuffle1659
passacaille1667
flip-flap1676
chaconne1685
charmer1702
Cheshire-round1706
Louvre1729
stick dance1730
white joke1730
baby dance1744
Nancy Dawson1766
fricassee1775
bumpkin1785
Totentanz1789
Flora('s) dance1790
goombay1790
egg-dance1801
supper dance1820
Congo dance1823
slip-jig1829
bran-dance1833
roly-poly1833
Congo1835
mazy1841
furry1848
bull-dance1855
stampede1856
double-shuffling1859
frog dance1863
hokee-pokee1873
plait dance1876
slow dancing1884
snake dance1895
beast dance1900
soft-shoe1900
cakewalk1902
floral dance1911
snake dance1911
apache dance1912
grizzly bear1912
jazz dance1917
jazz dancing1917
jazz1919
wine-dance1920
camel-walk1921
furry dance1928
snake-dance1931
pas d'action1936
trance dancing1956
touch dance1965
hokey-cokey1966
moonwalk1969
moonwalking1983
Crip Walk1989
mapantsula1990
1613 F. Beaumont Knight of Burning Pestle iv. sig. G4v I will haue him dance Fading; Fading is a fine Iigge.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iv. 196 He has the prettiest Loue-songs..with such delicate burthens of Dildo's and Fadings.
1616 B. Jonson Epigrammes xcvii, in Wks. I. 797 See you yond' Motion? Not the old Fa-ding..But one more rare.
1633 J. Shirley Bird in Cage iv. i Under her coats the Ball will be found, With a fading.
1672 T. Jordan London Triumphant 13 To the tune of—With a Fadding.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

fadingadj.

/ˈfeɪdɪŋ/
Etymology: < fade v.1 + -ing suffix2.
a. That fades, in various senses of the verb.
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1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. xxviii. A The faydinge floure.
1576 A. Fleming tr. G. Macropedius in Panoplie Epist. 364 Vadeing shadowes.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. i. 18 Wonder not that he..should wish for fading Water.
1658 T. Goodwin Fair Prospect 37 Like a Cupboard of glasses, fair to the eye, but very brittle and fadeing.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. x. 66 The Pictures drawn in our Minds, are laid in fading Colours.
1804 J. Grahame Sabbath 5 The fading flowers, That yester-morn bloom'd waving in the breeze.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. vii. 57 The fading light warned me that it was time to return.
1922 L. C. Macbean Kinematogr. Studio Technique ix. 78 ‘Mixing’ from a ‘Fading-in’ Title.
b. Botany. Of the petals: Withering before fertilization is completed.
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1776 W. Withering Brit. Plants (1796) I. 318 Petals..permanent, but fading.

Derivatives

ˈfadingly adv.
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a1821 J. Keats To —— in Poems (1889) 346 Do not look so sad..and fadingly.
1838 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 5 36 The cold moonshine fadingly struggled.
ˈfadingness n. tendency to fade.
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the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > worse > [noun] > tendency
fadingness1654
degenerescence1882
1654 W. Montagu Miscellanea Spiritualia: 2nd Pt. xi. §3 Beautie, the fadingness whereof is the great detector of our frailtie.
1735 J. Barrow Dict. Polygraphicum I. Fadingness is represented in painting, by a lady clad in green [etc.].
1909 Times Lit. Suppl. 3 June 202/2 The quick fadingness of grass.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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