Fado vs Fade - What's the difference?
fado | fade |
A Portuguese folk song, usually featuring a single vocalist, Portuguese guitar and sometimes classical guitar. Lyrical themes are often melancholic in nature; the structure of the song is of greater importance.
(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.
As nouns the difference between fado and fade
is that fado is a Portuguese folk song, usually featuring a single vocalist, Portuguese guitar and sometimes classical guitar. Lyrical themes are often melancholic in nature; the structure of the song is of greater importance while fade is a golf shot that (for the right-handed player) curves intentionally to the right. See slice, hook, draw.As an adjective fade is
strong; bold; doughty.As a verb fade is
to become faded; to grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.fado
English
(wikipedia fado)Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* ----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
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- 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.