Lexic.us

Definition of Fade out

1. Verb. Become weaker. "The sound faded out"

Definition of Fade out

1. Noun. A type of transition used in movies usually at the end of a scene, in which the transition fades to black from the cut. ¹

2. Verb. (idiomatic) To slowly disappear. ¹

3. Verb. To fade from a cut to black in a movie. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fade Out

Literary usage of Fade out

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The First Carlisle: Sir James Hay, First Earl of Carlisle, as Courtier by Roy E. Schreiber (1984)
"fade out During the final years of Carlisle's life, as successive instructions to French ambassadors in England prove, he was acknowledged as one of the ..."

2. Behind the Motion-picture Screen by Austin Celestin Lescarboura (1919)
"Most cameras are now provided with automatic devices that can be set to fade-in or fade-out a scene in 5, 10, or 20 feet, according to requirements. ..."

3. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll by Robert Green Ingersoll (1901)
"With a consistency perfectly charming, they say it would have been much better had we allowed the Treasury notes to fade out. Why allow fiat money to fade ..."

4. Incidents of My Life: Professional--literary--social, with Services in the by Thomas Addis Emmet (1911)
"... the only survivor of the signers—This caused in time the signatures to fade out—Discovered during the Civil War, and the circumstance was accepted by ..."

5. How Motion Pictures are Made by Homer Croy (1918)
"By the simple process of fade-in and fade-out additional trick and art effects were opened up to motion- picture photography. ..."

6. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1920)
"Finally the center began to fade out, rather suddenly, to a good gray surface. ... The surface began to fade out from the periphery, all the time going ..."

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