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Felling vs Falling - What's the difference?

felling | falling |

As verbs the difference between felling and falling

is that felling is present participle of lang=en while falling is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between felling and falling

is that felling is the act by which something is felled while falling is the action of the verb to fall.

As an adjective falling is

that falls or fall.

felling

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is felled.
  • * 2013 , B. G. Karlsson, Contested Belonging (page 107)
  • One forest officer, stationed in the buffer of the Buxa Tiger Reserve, argued that 80% of the illegal fellings are carried out by forest villagers and that more or less all Rabhas are involved.
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    falling

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • That falls or fall.
  • 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-falling

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The action of the verb to fall .
  • * (Jeremy Taylor)
  • 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 * outfalling