What is the difference between falling and fall?
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That falls or fall.
The action of the verb to fall .
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To move downwards.
#To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
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#*:There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
#To come down, to drop or descend.
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#*1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), (Bulldog Drummond) , Ch.1:
#*:Her eyes fell on the table, and she advanced into the room wiping her hands on her apron.
#To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself.
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#To be brought to the ground.
(lb) To be moved downwards.
#(lb) To let fall; to drop.
#*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#*:For every tear he falls , a Trojan bleeds.
#(lb) To sink; to depress.
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# To fell; to cut down.
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(lb) To happen, to change negatively.
#(lb) To become.
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#To occur (on a certain day of the week, date, or similar); (said of an instance of a recurring event such as a holiday or date).
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#(lb) To collapse; to be overthrown or defeated.
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# To die, especially in battle or by disease.
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#(lb) To become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc.).
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#*Sir (c.1569-1626)
#*:The greatness of these Irish lords suddenly fell and vanished.
#*1835 , Sir , Sir (James Clark Ross),
#*:Towards the following morning, the thermometer fell to 5°; and at daylight, there was not an atom of water to be seen in any direction.
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, title= #(lb) 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 .
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(lb) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
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*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:If to her share some female errors fall , / Look on her face, and you'll forget them all.
To diminish; to lessen or lower.
* (John Locke) (1632-1705)
*:Upon lessening interest to four per cent, you fall the price of your native commodities.
To bring forth.
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:(Shakespeare)
To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals.
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To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin.
*(Bible)}, (w) iv.11:
*:Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
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To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the face.
*(Bible), (w) iv.5:
*:Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell .
*(Joseph Addison) (1672–1719)
*:I have observed of late thy looks are fallen .
To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
*(Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
*:The Romans fell on this model by chance.
*(Bible), (w) iii.18:
*:Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall .
*(Herbert Spenser) (1820-1903)
*:Primitive mendo not make laws, they fall into customs.
To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
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*(Benjamin Jowett) (1817-1893) ((Thucydides))
*:They now no longer doubted, but fell to work heart and soul.
To be dropped or uttered carelessly.
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The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
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*:“I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.
A loss of greatness or status.
(label) A crucial event or circumstance.
# The action of a batsman being out.
# (label) A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given direction.
# (label) An instance of a wrestler being pinned to the mat.
Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting.
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An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
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Fall is a derived term of falling.
As verbs the difference between falling and fall
is that falling is present participle of lang=en while fall is To move downwards.As nouns the difference between falling and fall
is that falling is the action of the verb to fall while fall is the act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.As an adjective falling
is that falls or fall.As a proper noun Fall is
the sudden fall of humanity into a state of sin, as brought about by the transgression of Adam and Eve.falling
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)- falling leaves
- falling prices
Derived terms
* 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 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-fallingNoun
(en-noun)- 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
* downfalling * falling axe * falling of the leaf * falling of the womb * falling rope * falling saw * falling-short * falling wedge * infalling * intelligent falling * off-falling * outfallingfall
English
(wikipedia fall)Verb
Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage …, Vol.1, pp.284-5:
Old soldiers?, passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.
Quotations
* , Andrew Wi?e (publisher, 1598 — second quarto),Act V, Scene 3: *: Ghoa?t [of Clarence]. / To morrow in the battaile thinke on me, / And fall thy edgele??e ?word, di?paire and die.
