Fade vs Replace - What's the difference?
fade | replace |
(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)
, title=(The China Governess)
, 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.
To restore to a former place, position, condition, or the like.
To refund; to repay; to restore; as, to replace a sum of money borrowed.
To supply or substitute an equivalent for.
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To take the place of; to supply the want of; to fulfill the end or office of.
To demolish a building and build an updated form of that building in its place.
(rare) To place again.
(rare) To put in a new or different place.
As verbs the difference between fade and replace
is that fade is while replace is .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
* * ----replace
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(replac)- When you've finished using the telephone, please replace the handset.
- The earl...was replaced in his government. — .
- You can take what you need from the petty cash, but you must replace it tomorrow morning.
- I replaced my car with a newer model.
- The batteries were dead so I replaced them
- Next Wednesday, four women and 15 men on the Crown Nominations Commission will gather for two days of prayer and horsetrading to replace Rowan Williams as archbishop of Canterbury.
- This security pass replaces the one you were given earlier.
- This duty of right intention does not replace or supersede the duty of consideration. — .