(a.) To become fade; to grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.
(a.) To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color.
(a.) To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish.
(v. t.) To cause to wither; to deprive of freshness or vigor; to wear away.
Example Sentences:
(1) Beckham's decision marks the culmination of a strategy aimed at preserving his brand long after the footballer has faded.
(2) Fifty-one severely retarded adults were taught a difficult visual discrimination in an assembly task by one of three training techniques: (a) adding and reducing large cue differences on the relevant-shape dimension; (b) adding and fading a redundant-color dimension; or (c) a combination of the two techniques.
(3) 133 Hatfield Street, +27 21 462 1430, nineflowers.com The Fritz Hotel Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Fritz is a charming, slightly-faded retreat in a quiet residential street – an oasis of calm yet still in the heart of the city, with the bars and restaurants of Kloof Street five minutes’ walk away.
(4) Suppression of fluorescence fading, or at least a marked reduction, is also obtained.
(5) This year's IPO frenzy has shown further signs of fading, as yet another company ditched plans to list its shares on the London stock exchange.
(6) 4-Aminopyridine increased the maximum values of both responses, and it increased the fade of the chronotropic response but not that of the inotropic response.
(7) In the individual woman, the effect seems to be cumulative and long lasting but fades with age.
(8) Illumination does not seem to impair cell function and the fluorescence does not show any sign of fading over observation times of 20 min or greater.
(9) Salmonella has come down and our problem now is campylobacter; but one form of bad news fading only to be replaced by new bad news is hardly progress.
(10) The Gunners finished four points behind Manchester United, after fading badly in the last months of the campaign.
(11) The observation was made that the expressivity of the disease was fading: while there were 15 PPK patients among the 25 investigated members in the generations II and III, there were only 2 patients among 22 members in the generations IV and V. In addition to PPK incontinentia pigmenti was diagnosed in two instances and pollex duplex in one.
(12) No matter how many times we endure attacks like this, the horror never fades.
(13) "It started out as surreal, then people joined in and it sort of faded a bit, but it seemed pretty heartfelt from Rodman's side," Simon Cockerell, a tour guide who attended the game, told Reuters.
(14) These agents are able to eliminate C. pyloridis from gastric epithelium and to fade away the gastritis.
(15) Clinical fading was observed in STS-treated vessels at 10 days postinjection.
(16) In both groups of patients, there was a low incidence of the causes of post-cordotomy pain recurrence contralateral to the lesion, i.e., deafferentation pain, fading of analgesia, and pain above the levels up to which deep pin-prick analgesia had been obtained.
(17) It was concluded that atracurium produces a profound tetanic fade, with respect to its effect on twitch or tetanic tension, suggesting that the drug is a potent neuromuscular blocker, with rapid onset of blockade.
(18) The traditional philosophy that all sexual intercourse should serve potential procreation is fading.
(19) The millisecond fading phenomenon occurred in all the fluorophores studied except Fluorescein isothiocyanate-conjugated IgG.
(20) We show that the dependence of x on the history of the environment can be calculated explicitly and has certain properties of "fading memory"; i.e., environmental events that occurred in the remote past have less effect upon the present abundance than comparable events in the recent past.
Golf
Definition:
(n.) A game played with a small ball and a bat or club crooked at the lower end. He who drives the ball into each of a series of small holes in the ground and brings it into the last hole with the fewest strokes is the winner.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Sports Network broadcasts live NHL, Nascar, golf and horse racing – having also recently purchased the rights for Formula One – and will show 154 of the 196 games that NBC will cover.
(2) The tinsel coiled around a jug of squash and bauble in the strip lighting made a golf-ball size knot of guilt burn in my throat.
(3) This is what we hope is the best golf tournament in the world, one of the greatest sporting events, and I think we will have a very impressive audience and have another great champion to crown this year."
(4) "My great ambition is to be president of a golf club where I am playing," he teased .
(5) Two field experiments are reported in which highly skilled miniature golf players varying in age were examined during training and competition (Swedish championships).
(6) Families picnic between games of crazy golf or volleyball, bathers brave the shallows, children splash in the saltwater lido.
(7) Donald Trump refuses to release birth certificate and passport records Read more Firing back at Univision for its refusal to air his Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants , the outspoken mogul and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has barred anyone who works for Univision from the greens of his Miami golf course.
(8) Golf is a different sport from all others discussed in this issue in one important aspect: Almost all of its practitioners play more, rather than less, as they mature.
(9) The cars are VW Golfs and all I have to do is turn up with my smart card, get in and drive off.
(10) The Maharajas once had private hunting grounds; now executives have golf courses.
(11) The transition temperature has been determined at 38 degrees C for 'Rosa Krone' and at 40 degrees C for the variety 'Golf'.
(12) That we're about to embark on such a spectacle is a gift, considering that the defending Stanley Cup champs from Chicago looked destined for the golf course just days ago.
(13) Read more The FEC forms count any asset worth more than $50m as the same – and Trump has close to two dozen of those, including his Scottish golf course and the Mar-A-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.
(14) Three field experiments are reported in which skilled miniature golf players varying in age were studied in three types of activities: training, minor competitions, and large competitions.
(15) Obama and his family vacation every August on Martha’s Vineyard, and he has spent most of this year’s trip on the golf course, at the beach and dining at the island’s upscale restaurants.
(16) They are bringing drugs, and bringing crime, and their rapists.” Responses included official condemnation, the withdrawal by TV network Univision from Trump’s Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants , a golf course ban and the creation in Mexico of a Donald Trump piñata .
(17) He doesn’t want to get together and make laws because that’s too much work and he wants to get back to playing golf,” Trump said at the time.
(18) Golf balls, bottles, fireworks, umbrellas and even cast iron rain gutter was thrown at republicans marching along Royal Avenue.
(19) 8.53pm BST "I'm surprised 'table management' hasn't bled across from golf's 'course management'", volunteers Gary Naylor.
(20) Suharto, meanwhile, claimed to spend his time fishing, playing golf and getting closer to God.