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Fading Away

Definition: Fading Away

Fading Away

Noun

1. Gradually diminishing in brightness or loudness or strength.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Modern Usage: Fading Away

DomainUsage

Lyrics

Ain't gonna spend the rest of my life, Quietly fading away ("Games People Play"; performing artist: Alan Parsons Project)

I can feel myself fading away, ("STREETS OF PHILADELPHIA"; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen)

My soul from fading away ("Your Shadow, My Shelter"; performing artist: Surface)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: Fading Away

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

It is fading away to this hour in the memory of some young girls of that day, old ladies now.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Fading Away

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

fading away

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Fading Away

Language Translations for "fading away"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏تضاؤل تدريجيا. (various references)

   

Czech

  

odkvétání. (various references)

   

French

  

évanouissement (fading, fading of signals, fainting, faintness, fall). (various references)

   

German

  

abklingend. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מו' (frightened, volatile). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

gyengülés (attenuation, impairment, weakening). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

adingfay awayay.(various references)

   

Turkish

  

sesin yok olması. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Fading Away

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-d-f-g-i-n-w-y"

-4 letters: dawing, fading, faying, wading, yawing.

-5 letters: again, awing, dingy, diwan, dying, fagin, fanga, fawny, naiad, wigan, windy, wingy.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Fading Away


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 61 64 69 6E 67      41 77 61 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01100001 01100100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01000001 01110111 01100001 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#97 &#100 &#105 &#110 &#103 &#32 &#65 &#119 &#97 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0061 0064 0069 006E 0067      0041 0077 0061 0079

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

406770758073235896791

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Quotations: Fiction
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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