fall
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Middle English fallen, from Old English feallan (“to fall, fail, decay, die, attack”), from Proto-Germanic *fallaną (“to fall”), from Proto-Indo-European *pōl-, *spōl- (“to fall”). Cognate with West Frisian falle (“to fall”), Dutch vallen (“to fall”), German fallen (“to fall”), Icelandic falla (“to fall”), Lithuanian pùlti, Ancient Greek σφάλλω (sphállō, “bring down, destroy, cause to stumble, deceive”).
Pronunciation [edit]
- (UK) enPR: fôl, IPA: /fɔːl/, X-SAMPA: /fO:l/
- (US) enPR: fôl, IPA: /fɔl/, X-SAMPA: /fOl/
- (cot–caught merger) enPR: fäl, IPA: /fɑl/, X-SAMPA: /fAl/
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Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔːl
Verb [edit]
fall (third-person singular simple present falls, present participle falling, simple past fell or (in archaic sense only) felled, past participle fallen or (in archaic sense only) felled)
- (intransitive) To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
- Thrown from a cliff, the stone fell 100 feet before hitting the ground.
- (intransitive) To come down, to drop or descend.
- The rain fell at dawn.
- 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1
- Her eyes fell on the table, and she advanced into the room wiping her hands on her apron.
- (intransitive) To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself.
- He fell to the floor and begged for mercy.
- (intransitive) To be brought to the ground.
- (intransitive) To collapse; to be overthrown or defeated.
- Rome fell to the Goths in 410 AD.
- (intransitive, formal, euphemistic) To die, especially in battle.
- This is a monument to all those who fell in the First World War.
- (transitive) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance or fate.
- And so it falls to me to make this important decision.
- (intransitive) To become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc).
- The candidate's poll ratings fell abruptly after the banking scandal.
- (intransitive, followed by a determining word or phrase) To become; to be affected by or befallen with a calamity; to change into the state described by words following; to become prostrated literally or figuratively (see Usage notes below).
- Our senator fell into disrepute because of the banking scandal.
- (copulative) To become.
- She has fallen ill.
Quotations [edit]
- circa 1591, William Shake-ſpeare, The Tragedie of King Richard the third, Andrew Wiſe (publisher, 1598 — second quarto), Act V, Scene 3:
- Ghoaſt [of Clarence]. […] / To morrow in the battaile thinke on me, / And fall thy edgeleſſe ſword, diſpaire and die.
Synonyms [edit]
- (move to a lower position under the effect of gravity): drop, plummet, plunge
- (come down): come down, descend, drop
- (come to the ground deliberately): drop, lower oneself, prostrate oneself
- (be brought to the ground):
- (collapse; be overthrown or defeated): be beaten by, be defeated by, be overthrown by, be smitten by, be vanquished by,
- (die): die
- (be allotted to): be the responsibility of, be up to
- (become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc)): dip, drop
- (become): become, get
- (cause (something) to descend to the ground): cut down (of a tree), fell, knock down, knock over, strike down
Antonyms [edit]
- (come down): ascend, go up, rise
- (come to the ground deliberately): get up, pick oneself up, stand up
- (collapse; be overthrown or defeated): beat, defeat, overthrow, smite, vanquish
- (become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc)): rise
Derived terms [edit]
Related terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
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Noun [edit]
fall (plural falls)
- The act of moving in a fluid or vacuum under the effect of gravity to a lower position.
- A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
- (chiefly North America, obsolete elsewhere, from the falling of leaves during this season) autumn.
- A loss of greatness or status.
- the fall of Rome
- (cricket, of a wicket) The action of a batsman being out.
- (curling) A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given direction
- (wrestling) An instance of a wrestler being pinned to the mat.
- (informal, US) Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
- He set up his rival to take the fall.
- The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting.
- See falls
- An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
Synonyms [edit]
- (act of moving under the effect of gravity from a point to a lower point): descent, drop
- (reduction): decrease, dip, drop, lowering, reduction
- (season): autumn
- (loss of greatness or status): downfall
- (blame; punishment): rap
Antonyms [edit]
- (act of moving under the effect of gravity from a point to a lower point): ascent, rise
- (reduction): increase, rise
- (loss of greatness or status): ascent, rise
Derived terms [edit]
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Translations [edit]
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See also [edit]
Statistics [edit]
Albanian [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Arabic
Noun [edit]
fall
Breton [edit]
Adjective [edit]
fall
Faroese [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old Norse fall, from falla (“to fall”). The grammatical sense is a calque of Latin casus.
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /fatl/
Noun [edit]
fall n (genitive singular fals, plural føll)
Declension [edit]
| n10 | Singular | Plural | ||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | fall | fallið | føll | føllini |
| Accusative | fall | fallið | føll | føllini |
| Dative | falli | fallinum | føllum | føllunum |
| Genitive | fals | falsins | falla | fallanna |
German [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /fal/
Verb [edit]
fall
- Imperative singular of fallen.
- (colloquial) First-person singular present of fallen.
Icelandic [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old Norse fall, from falla (“to fall”). The grammatical sense is a calque of Latin casus.
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
fall n (genitive singular falls, plural föll)
- fall, drop
- (grammar) case
- (computing, programming) function; (subprogram, usually with formal parameters, returing a data value when called)
- indefinite accusative singular of fall
Declension [edit]
Derived terms [edit]
- áhrifsfall
- ávarpsfall
- bylgjufall
- deildarfall
- eignarfall
- fjarverufall
- íferðarfall
- íverufall
- nefnifall
- nærverufall
- samvistarfall
- staðarfall
- sviftifall
- tilgangsfall
- tækisfall
- úrferðarfall
- verufall
- þágufall
- þolfall
See also [edit]
- falla v
Synonyms [edit]
- (function): fallstefja
Swedish [edit]
Noun [edit]
fall n
- a fall (the act of falling)
- a fall, loss of greatness or wealth, a bankruptcy
- a slope, a waterfall, the height of a slope or waterfall
- fallet är omgivet av skog
- the fall is surrounded by forest
- fallet är sjutton meter
- the water falls seventeen metres; the decline is seventeen metres
- fallet är omgivet av skog
- a (legal) case
- i alla fall
- anyhow (in all cases)
- i annat fall
- otherwise (in another case)
- i så fall
- if so (in such a case)
- i vilket fall som helst
- in any case
- i vart fall
- in any case
- i alla fall
Declension [edit]
Related terms [edit]
Verb [edit]
fall
- imperative of falla.
References [edit]
- fall in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)
- English terms derived from Middle English
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- en:Cricket
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- 1000 English basic words
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