fade out vs run out

fade out

verb
  • To slowly disappear. 

  • To fade from a cut to black in a movie. 

  • To decrease in volume, such as at the end of a song, until there is only silence. 

noun
  • A type of transition used in film, usually at the end of a scene, involving a fade to black from the cut. 

run out

verb
  • To expire; to come to an end; to be completely used up or consumed. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, out. 

  • To extend a piece of material, or clothing. 

  • To get a batsman out via a run out (see runout) 

  • To use up; to consume all of something. See also run low, run short. 

  • to be got out in this way. 

  • To conclude in, to end up 

  • To force (someone or something) out of a location or state of being. 

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