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fade-out
[feyd-out]
noun
Movies, Television.a gradual decrease in the visibility of a scene.
Broadcasting, Recording.a gradual decrease in the volume of sound, especially of recorded or broadcast music, dialogue, or the like, usually ending in complete inaudibility.
a gradual disappearance or reduction.
the fade-out of a brilliant career.
fade-out
noun
films an optical effect in which a shot slowly disappears into darkness
a gradual reduction in signal strength in a radio or television broadcast
a gradual and temporary loss of a received radio or television signal due to atmospheric disturbances, magnetic storms, etc
a slow or gradual disappearance
verb
to decrease or cause to decrease gradually, as vision or sound in a film or broadcast
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of fade-out1
Idioms and Phrases
Gradually disappear or become inaudible; also, cause to disappear or become inaudible gradually. For example, He let the final chord fade out completely before he played the next movement . The antonym is fade in , “to appear gradually or become audible,” as in The images on the screen faded in until they could be seen clearly . These terms originated in the motion-picture and broadcasting industries, where they apply to images and sounds. [c. 1915]
Also, fade away . Quietly depart, as in “Florence Scape, Fanny Scape and their mother faded away to Boulogne” (William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair , 1848). [Mid-1800s]
Example Sentences
“He mastered the close-up, the fade-out. No one ever called him David because everyone had the greatest respect for him. He was always Mr. Griffith.”
It seemed an appropriate sort of fade-out for the deluge of Friday.
There is a sense of resignation or fade-out in the script’s formation, as if the word were not worth completing, the gods having long since departed.
Just to keep things off- balance, every now and then the band adds an extra beat, while a long, gradual fade-out suggests she’s still a little reluctant to move on.
For Scully, who died Tuesday at 94, there was never any fall from grace, never any fade-out into some new technology.
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