Definitions for fade-out

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Spelling: [feyd-out]

IPA: /ˈfeɪdˌaʊt/

Fade-Out is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 147 anagrams from letters in fade-out (-adefotu).

Definitions for fade-out

noun

1. Movies, Television. a gradual decrease in the visibility of a scene.
2. 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.
3. a gradual disappearance or reduction:
4. an act or instance of fading.
5. Movies, Television Informal. a fade-out.
6. Automotive. brake fade.

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to fade:
2. (in dice throwing) to make a wager against (the caster).
3. Movies, Television. to cause (a scene) to appear gradually (usually followed by in). to cause (a scene) to disappear gradually (usually followed by out).
4. Broadcasting, Recording. to cause (the volume of sound) to increase or decrease gradually (usually followed by in or out).

verb (used without object)

1. to lose brightness or vividness of color.
2. to become dim, as light, or lose brightness of illumination.
3. to lose freshness, vigor, strength, or health:
4. to disappear or die gradually (often followed by away or out):
5. Movies, Television. to appear gradually, especially by becoming lighter (usually followed by in). to disappear gradually, especially by becoming darker (usually followed by out).
6. Broadcasting, Recording. to increase gradually in volume of sound, as in recording or broadcasting music, dialogue, etc. (usually followed by in). to decrease gradually in volume of sound (usually followed by out).
7. Football. (of an offensive back, especially a quarterback) to move back toward one's own goal line, usually with the intent to pass, after receiving the snapback from center or a hand-off or lateral pass behind the line of scrimmage (usually followed by back):
8. (of an automotive brake) to undergo brake fade.

Origin of fade-out

First recorded in 1915-20; noun use of verb phrase fade out

Examples for fade-out

The boy and the boat slowly vanished in the mist like a "fade-out" at the movies, before Perry found his voice.

They need to know more about what they call program “fade-out.”

Rose expected it to go something like a "fade-out" on the moving picture screen.