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Definition: Fading Away |
Fading AwayNoun1. Gradually diminishing in brightness or loudness or strength. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Usage | |
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) | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It is fading away to this hour in the memory of some young girls of that day, old ladies now. |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
fading away | 4 |
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| 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. | ||
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. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 61 64 69 6E 67      41 77 61 79 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100001 01100100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01000001 01110111 01100001 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F a d i n g   A w a y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0061 0064 0069 006E 0067      0041 0077 0061 0079 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)406770758073235896791 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Quotations: Fiction 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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