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Fader

Fader \Fa"der\, n. Father. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fader

sound control device, 1931, agent noun from fade (v.).

Wiktionary
fader

a. (en-comparative of: fade) n. A device used to control sound volume.

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Fader

Fader may refer to:

  • Fader (audio engineering), a device for gradually increasing or decreasing the level of an audio signal
Fader (The Temper Trap song)

"Fader" is the third single from the Australian indie rock band The Temper Trap from their debut album Conditions.

The single was first released in Australia in December 2009, where it peaked at No. 85, marking the single highest and currently only placement in the Charts. It was also voted in at No. 21 in the 2009 Triple J Hottest 100.

The single was released digitally in the UK on 4 January 2010 where it peaked at number 76 on the UK Singles Chart later that week.

The song was featured in the 2010 Australian film Tomorrow, When the War Began and in the 2011 films The Roommate and Chalet Girl. The song was also featured in season 1 episode 6 of the hit US TV series The Vampire Diaries and in the video games MLB 11: The Show and Test Drive Unlimited 2.

Fader (surname)

Fader is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Douglas Fader, Canadian Cross of Valour recipient
  • Fernando Fader (1882–1935), French-born Argentine painter
  • Julie Fader, Canadian musician, songwriter and visual artist
  • Peter Fader, American academic

Usage examples of "fader".

He played with the fader and the balance and the presets and the idea of Patrick Leyne Shaughnessy as a killer.

Once they were almost surprised by a police patrol car, equipped with blacklight and almost invisible, but the Fader sensed it in time and they crouched behind a low wall which separated the adjacent field from the road.

Here there were no faders, no LED read-outs that she could change with a turn of a knob, no patch cords to be jerked loose and rerouted.

She threw the volume faders all the way up and her hands descended on the keys.

Fader put that icebag on my head I have walked through most of the five boroughs without finding that street.

I remember that we moved to New York in my early adolescence, but in the four years since the Fader put that icebag on my head I have walked through most of the five boroughs without finding that street.

Thus day by day this child bigan to crye, Til in his fadres barm adoun it lay, And seyde, "Farewel, fader, I moot dye!

Curteis he was, lowely, and servysable, And carf biforn his fader at the table.

Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience, That neither by hir wordes ne hir face, Biforn the folk ne eek in hir absence, Ne shewed she that hir was doon offence, Ne of hir heighe estaat no remembraunce Ne hadde she, as by hir contenaunce.

The teeris bruste out of hir eyen two, And seyde, "Goode fader, shal I dye?

Upon my feith, thou art som officer, Som worthy sexteyn, or som celerer, For by my fader soule, as to my doom, Thou art a maister whan thou art at hoom, No povre cloysterer, ne no novys, But a governour, wily and wys.

Now sire, of elde ye repreve me, And certes, sire, thogh noon auctoritee Were in no book, ye gentils of honour Seyn, that men sholde an oold wight doon favour, And clepe hym fader for youre gentillesse, And auctours shal I fynden, as I gesse.

Hoold cloos thy mouth, man, by thy fader kyn, The devel of helle sette his foot therin.

He calls hisself a 'son of the poor'atin's,' and poor 'ating it must have been, in the counthry of his faders, to have produced so lane and skinny a baste as that same.

And thus she seyde in hir benigne voys, "Fareweel, my child, I shal thee nevere see, But sith I thee have marked with the croys Of thilke fader blessed moote thou be, That for us deyde upon a croys of tree.