fader
[fey-der]
- a person or thing that fades.
- Movies, Broadcasting, Recording. a multiple-unit volume control used in changing gradually from one signal source to another, decreasing the volume from the first audio or visual source while increasing the volume from the second.
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Origin of fader
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Examples from the Web for fader
Contemporary Examples
He slides between them easily, as if riding the fader between his turntables.
DJ Spooky Wants You To Question Everything You Know About Music, Technology, and PhilosophyOliver Jones
December 27, 2014
“For me, the issue of feminism is just not an interesting concept,” Lana Del Rey told Fader.
Eric Ducker is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in publications including the Los Angeles Times, GQ and The Fader.
Historical Examples
Why, quod the maystres, it is not possyble but som man is the fader thereof?
Shakespeare Jest-Books;Unknown
Den she take her fader home, same like I'll take my fader home for bed.
Old Man Savarin and Other StoriesEdward William Thomson
“Fader, fader,” she cried out as I struggled to disengage myself.
Percival KeeneFrederick Marryat
If I had stayed in my fader's house, I vould haf been det for goot, and perried too!
Stories in Light and ShadowBret Harte
His fader & he to this church Many good deed they did worch.
Gleanings in GraveyardsHoratio Edward Norfolk
Word Origin and History for fader
n.
sound control device, 1931, agent noun from fade (v.).
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