Crossword clues for vanishing
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vanish \Van"ish\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Vanished; p. pr. & vb. n. Vanishing.] [OE. vanissen, OF. vanir (in comp.): cf. OF. envanir, esvanir, esvanu["i]r, F. s'['e]vanouir; fr. L. vanus empty, vain; cf. L. vanescere, evanescere, to vanish. See Vain, and cf. Evanescent, -ish.]
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To pass from a visible to an invisible state; to go out of sight; to disappear; to fade; as, vapor vanishes from the sight by being dissipated; a ship vanishes from the sight of spectators on land.
The horse vanished . . . out of sight.
--Chaucer.Go; vanish into air; away!
--Shak.The champions vanished from their posts with the speed of lightning.
--Sir W. Scott.Gliding from the twilight past to vanish among realities.
--Hawthorne. To be annihilated or lost; to pass away. ``All these delights will vanish.''
--Milton.
Vanishing \Van"ish*ing\, a. & n. from Vanish, v.
Vanishing fraction (Math.), a fraction which reduces to the
form 0/0 for a particular value of the variable which
enters it, usually in consequence of the existence of a
common factor in both terms of the fraction, which factor
becomes 0 for this particular value of the variable.
--Math. Dict.
Vanishing line (Persp.), the intersection of the parallel of any original plane and picture; one of the lines converging to the vanishing point.
Vanishing point (Persp.), the point to which all parallel
lines in the same plane tend in the representation.
--Gwilt.
Vanishing stress (Phon.), stress of voice upon the closing
portion of a syllable.
--Rush.
Wiktionary
That vanishes. v
(present participle of vanish English)
WordNet
adj. quickly going away and passing out of sight; "all I saw was his vanishing back" [syn: disappearing]
n. a sudden or mysterious disappearance
suddenly disappearing from sight
Wikipedia
Vanishing may refer to:
Usage examples of "vanishing".
The man aims for that rapidly vanishing afterglow, alone on a darkly painted sea, a single, tiny figure chasing a sun that has already deserted him.
Behind them, the full squadron of amphibious planes dove into the water, vanishing beneath the surface, leaving only a scar of churned foam to mark where they had entered the sea.
Worsel announced, curling out one extensile eye toward the vanishing orb.
The door slammed shut, the van burned rubber and shot forward out of the drive, revealing something that had been hiding on the other side of it: Cyrus Rutherford Ogle, flanked by two dozen TV cameramen and still photographers, all of whom were busily recording the quickly changing facial expressions of Jeremiah Freel, and his vanishing penis.
The vanishing sun, whose disc was now a quarter concealed behind the impenetrable blackness of the Wall, had dyed the sky with gamboge and cerise, vermilion and lurid violet.
The man squinted, saw the tiny cluster of gossamery glass, noted the liquid about it that seemed to be vanishing magically, and took a step forward.
Chu watched as the Harbin helicopters of squadrons one and two lifted off and flew to the west, soon vanishing into the dark and the rain until only their flashing beacons could be seen, then those too were swallowed up by the darkness.
Most raced through the shadows to the Honeypot and up over the ridge, vanishing into the forest that lay on its northern side.
High Angel, giving the people in the crystal domes a good view of her size and shape as she traversed Icalanise, before switching on her hyperdrive and vanishing in a burst of violet light.
No living creature moved on the dumb, swooning earth, but tiny jerboas scuttling through the parched bushes, or lizards vanishing in the clefts of the rock.
An expression like sadness or pain passed quickly over his face, vanishing when Karn called after them.
I felt for Larkin was just the excitement of meeting a likable face and limbs on the edge of vanishing.
At present, the first sergeant believed the vanishings to be localized, either the effect of some weapon of mass destruction that the U.
The mystified Cameron stood speechless, watching his prey vanishing in the company of his mistress.
It said, then turned and slowly went back up the steps into the Naos, vanishing into the shadows.