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Do we use "fade" to ask someone to move slightly to their right side? The sentence is: "Fade 20 degrees to your right".
The context: The a woman's monitoring the screen to guide a man. And she said to the man: "Fade 20 degrees to your right."
Please kindly help me.
Thank you!
This meaning of "fade" is used in a military, aeronautical, or nautical context. If the woman and man in your example are members of the military, or a spy organization, or a criminal organization, or if the speaker intends to imitate the speech patterns of one of the above, than the usage would be appropriate.
"Fade" is generally never used in this way when in non-militaristic contexts.