Fade vs Decline - What's the difference?
fade | decline |
(archaic) Strong; bold; doughty
(archaic) Weak; insipid; tasteless; commonplace.
* Jeffery
* De Quincey
(golf) A golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the right. See slice, hook, draw.
A haircut where the hair is short or shaved on the sides of the head and longer on top. See also high-top fade and low fade.
(slang) A fight
To become faded; to grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.
* Bible, Is. xxiv. 4
To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color.
* Milton
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
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, chapter=1 To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.
* Addison
* Shakespeare
* 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
To cause to fade.
Downward movement, fall.(rfex)
A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.(rfex)
(senseid)A weakening.(rfex)
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A reduction or diminution of activity.
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To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
To become weaker or worse.
To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
* Thomson
* Spenser
To cause to decrease or diminish.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
* Burton
To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
* Bible, Psalms cxix. 157
To refuse, forbear.
* Massinger
* , chapter=7
, title= To inflect for case, number and sometimes gender.
* Ascham
(by extension) To run through from first to last; to repeat like a schoolboy declining a noun.
(American football) To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because the result of accepting it would benefit the non-penalized team less than the preceding play.
As verbs the difference between fade and decline
is that fade is while decline is .As an adjective decline is
declined.fade
English
(wikipedia fade)Etymology 1
From (etyl) fade, fede, of uncertain origin. Compare (etyl) . See also (l).Adjective
(en-adj)Etymology 2
From (etyl) fade, vad, .Adjective
(er)- Passages that are somewhat fade .
- His masculine taste gave him a sense of something fade and ludicrous.
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(fad)- The earth mourneth and fadeth away.
- flowers that never fade
citation, passage=The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded , but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.}}
- The milkman's whistling faded into the distance.
- The stars shall fade away.
- He makes a swanlike end, / Fading in music.
- A strange thing was that Bovary, while continually thinking of Emma, was forgetting her. He grew desperate as he felt this image fading from his memory in spite of all efforts to retain it. Yet every night he dreamt of her; it was always the same dream. He drew near her, but when he was about to clasp her she fell into decay in his arms.
Synonyms
* decrease, wane, become smaller (sort out synonyms by senses)Anagrams
* * ----decline
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.}}
- It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities.
Antonyms
* inclineVerb
(declin)- in melancholy deep, with head declined
- And now fair Phoebus gan decline in haste / His weary wagon to the western vale.
- You have declined his means.
- He knoweth his error, but will not seek to decline it.
- a line that declines from straightness
- conduct that declines from sound morals
- Yet do I not decline from thy testimonies.
- Could I decline this dreadful hour?
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] This is Mr. Churchill, who, as you are aware, is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a gentleman of independent means, he declines to take any payment.” Saying this Walden rubbed his hands together and smiled contentedly.}}
- after the first declining of a noun and a verb
- (Shakespeare)
- The team chose to decline the fifteen-yard penalty because their receiver had caught the ball for a thirty-yard gain.