cross-fade

[ verb kraws-feyd, kros-; noun kraws-feyd, kros- ]

/ verb ˈkrɔsˈfeɪd, ˈkrɒs-; noun ˈkrɔsˌfeɪd, ˈkrɒs- /

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verb (used with object), cross-fad·ed, cross-fad·ing.

to fade out (an image or sound) while simultaneously fading in a different image or sound.

noun

an act or instance of cross-fading.

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Origin of cross-fade

First recorded in 1935–40

Words nearby cross-fade

crossed reflex, crossette, cross-examine, cross-eye, cross-eyed, cross-fade, cross-fertile, cross-fertilization, cross-fertilize, cross-file, crossfire

How to use cross-fade in a sentence

The Via Dolorosa ends at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and is marked by nine stations of the cross.
Oops! Jesus’ Last Steps Are in the Wrong Place|Candida Moss|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
If they were meaningful, we might have realized it before—surely one of these kids wore a cross, or a yarmulke, or a hijab?
Harry Potter and the Torah of Terror|Candida Moss, Joel Baden|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
But for those on the Israeli right who are hoping that this deferred dream will just fade away, they can forget it.
In the Middle East, the Two-State Solution Is Dead|Dean Obeidallah|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The reason: activist government and unionized government often work at cross purposes.
How Public Sector Unions Divide the Democrats|Daniel DiSalvo|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST

What do you get when you cross an oil company with gay rights?
How Canadian Oilmen Pinkwash the Keystone Pipeline|Jay Michaelson|December 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In cross-section the burrows varied from round (three inches in diameter) to oval (three inches high and four inches wide).
Summer Birds From the Yucatan Peninsula|Erwin E. Klaas
I cannot believe that God would think it necessary to come on earth as a man, and die on the Cross.
God and my Neighbour|Robert Blatchford
In contrast to the Widal, it begins to fade about the end of the second week, and soon thereafter entirely disappears.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
Her hope persisted until half-past nine: it then began to fade, and, at ten o'clock, was extinct.
Hilda Lessways|Arnold Bennett
At Jaques Cartier they had but one batteau to cross the army over with, and were fired upon during the whole time by two frigates.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology|Joel Munsell

British Dictionary definitions for cross-fade

cross-fade

verb

radio television to fade in (one sound or picture source) as another is being faded out

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