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Vanishing   /vˈænɪʃɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Vanish  v. i.  (past & past part. vanished; pres. part. vanishing)  
1.
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." "Go; vanish into air; away!" "The champions vanished from their posts with the speed of lightning." "Gliding from the twilight past to vanish among realities."
2.
To be annihilated or lost; to pass away. "All these delights will vanish."



noun
Vanishing  n.  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.
Vanishing line (Persp.), the intersection of the parallel of any original plane and the 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.
Vanishing stress (Phon.), stress of voice upon the closing portion of a syllable.






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"Vanishing" Quotes from Famous Books



... upon Aguirre, and then instinctively they made for the end of the square, fleeing from the publicity of the street. They came to the Moorish arcades of the evangelist temple, whose colors were beginning to grow pale, vanishing into the shade of dusk. Before either of them could utter a word they were enveloped in a wave of soft melody,—music that seemed to come from afar, stray chords from the organ, the voices of virgins and children who were ...
— Luna Benamor • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... failure. She gave me a seat by her, and after my face cooled off, I plucked up courage and looked about me. The long table was full, and every one intent on getting their dinner, the gentlemen especially, who seemed to be eating on time, for they bolted in every sense of the word, vanishing as soon as they were done. There was the usual assortment of young men absorbed in themselves, young couples absorbed in each other, married ladies in their babies, and old gentlemen in politics. I don't think I shall care to have much to do with any of them, except one sweetfaced maiden lady, ...
— Little Women • Louisa May Alcott

... we'll cook them in their jackets, Mumsy dear, but I cleared enough money this morning to afford to waste a few potato peelings. If I have a week of such luck, I'll have to get in more supplies. The girls in this county are just eating up my vanishing cream and my liquid powder that won't rub off. I've made a great hit with my anti-kink lotion with the poor colored people. Half the female world is trying to get curled and the other half trying to get uncurled. I have got rid of dozens and dozens of marcel wavers, the steel kind that ...
— The Comings of Cousin Ann • Emma Speed Sampson

... Christ they had known in life, only glorified, who had tarried with them now for the space of forty days, who had delivered unto them certain commandments, and whose hands were even then outstretched in blessing that they saw slowly vanishing from their view up into the heavens. It was a body of flesh and bones, not flesh and blood. So will be our translation ...
— The Great Doctrines of the Bible • Rev. William Evans

... not mistake the change in Mr. Rollin's tone, nor the meaning in his eyes, but as we stood there by the window, in the full moonlight, I caught a glimpse of another face outside, vanishing up the lane—almost like a ghostly apparition it seemed to me—the handsome pale young face. I guessed instinctively whose it was, and suffered a pang of sharp, unconfessed pain, while the fisherman was murmuring in ...
— Cape Cod Folks • Sarah P. McLean Greene


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