fader

American  

[fey-der] / ˈfeɪ dər /

noun

1. a person or thing that fades.

2. 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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Etymology

Origin of fader

First recorded in 1930–35; fade + -er ¹

Example Sentences

Biographies rarely surface so soon after the subject’s defining moment, but when Mirin Fader began writing her first book, about NBA superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo, she might have envisioned two scenarios in which he would be the toast of the NBA just as her book was published.

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Fader’s path to her first book at age 30 — her origin story as a writer — is also distinct.

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“When I walk into a locker room, I can tell people think I’m an intern or somebody’s little sister,” said Fader, who’s roughly two feet shorter than Giannis.

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The idea for the book came from a 2019 story that Fader wrote for the Bleacher Report website about Giannis’s younger brother Alex.

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Fader went on to play point guard at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Ore., but experienced “an intellectual awakening” after reading Toni Morrison.

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