falling

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔːlɪŋ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔlɪŋ/
• (cot–caught merger) enPR: fälʹĭng,IPA^(key): /ˈfɑlɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔːlɪŋ

Verb

falling

1. present participle of fall

Adjective

falling (not comparable)

1. (Should we delete⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) That falls or fall.

   a falling leaf

   the falling prices of luxury goods

   • 1941 March, “Notes and News: Fastest Runs in Scotland, 1940 and 1941”, in Railway Magazine, page 130:

     Of these, nine were on the Forfar-Perth section, eight were over the sharply-falling grades from Gleneagles to Perth, [...].

Derived terms

Terms derived from the adjective falling

• deviation of a falling body
• downfalling
• everfalling
• falling action
• falling band, falling-band
• falling collar
• falling diphthong
• falling-disease
• falling-door
• falling dunes
• falling-evil

• falling factorial
• falling film evaporator
• falling front or back
• falling-gate
• falling-hinge
• falling houses
• falling-ill
• falling-in
• falling knife
• falling leaf
• falling limb

• falling-mold, falling-mould
• falling-off
• falling palate
• falling rhythm
• falling-rising
• falling ruff
• falling scream
• falling sequential product
• falling sickness, falling-sickness
• falling-sluice
• falling sphere

• falling star, falling-star
• falling stone
• falling tide
• falling tone
• falling weather, falling-weather
• falling weight deflectometer
• in-falling, infalling
• rising-falling
• tear-falling
• wall-falling

Translations

that falls

• Finnish: putoava (fi)
• French: tombant (fr)
• German: fallend (de)

• Italian: cadente (it) m or f, calante (it) m or f
• Romanian: căzător (ro), cazând
• Spanish: cayendo (es)

Noun

falling (usually uncountable, plural fallings)

1. gerund of fall
   • 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], OCLC 1203220866:

     Epilepsies, or fallings and reelings, and beastly vomitings. The least of these, even when the tongue begins to be untied, is a degree of drunkenness.

Derived terms

Terms derived from the noun falling

• downfalling
• falling axe
• falling-off
• falling of the leaf
• falling of the womb
• falling rope
• falling saw

• falling-short
• falling sickness
• falling wedge
• infalling
• intelligent falling
• off-falling
• outfalling

References

• “falling”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.