Breakdown vs Fell - What's the difference?
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A failure, particularly mechanical; something that has failed
A physical collapse or lapse of mental stability
Listing, division or categorization in great detail
(chemistry) Breaking of chemical bonds within a compound to produce simpler compounds or elements.
A musical technique, by where the music is stripped down, becoming simpler, and can vary in heaviness depending on the genre.
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(sports) A loss of organization (of the parts of a system).
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(US, dated) A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the blacks of the southern United States.
(US, dated) Any crude, noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet, usually by one person at a time.
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(US) Any rapid bluegrass dance tune, especially featuring a five-string banjo.
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To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree.
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To strike down, kill, destroy.
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(fall)
That portion of a kilt, from the waist to the seat, where the pleats are stitched down.
An animal skin, hide.
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(textiles) The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.
(sewing) To stitch down a protruding flap of fabric, as a seam allowance, or pleat.
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A rocky ridge or chain of mountains.
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A wild field or upland moor.
Of a strong and cruel nature; eagre and unsparing; grim; fierce; ruthless; savage.
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Strong and fiery; biting; keen; sharp; pungent; clever.
(label) Eager; earnest; intent.
* (Samuel Pepys) (1633-1703)
Gall; anger; melancholy.
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(mining) The finer portions of ore which go through the meshes when the ore is sorted by sifting.
English causative verbs
English irregular simple past forms
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As nouns the difference between breakdown and fell
is that breakdown is a failure, particularly mechanical; something that has failed while fell is fur, pelt (hairy skin of an animal).breakdown
English
Noun
(en noun)- We saw a breakdown by the side of the road.
- After so much stress, he suffered a breakdown and simply gave up.
- ''Looking at the breakdown of the budget, I see a few items we could cut.
- And now it's time for a breakdown !
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- Don't clear out when the quadrilles are over, for we are going to have a breakdown to wind up with.
- Foggy Mountain 'Breakdown'
- Towards nine the three miners said that as they had brought their instruments they might as well tune up, for the boys and girls would soon be arriving now, and hungry for a good old fashioned breakdown . A fiddle, a banjo, and a clarinet - these were the instruments.
Synonyms
* (musical technique) degradationDerived terms
* breakdown lorry / breakdown truck * breakdown point * nervous breakdownSee also
* break it downfell
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) fellen, from (etyl) fellan, .Verb
(en verb)- Stand, or I'll fell thee down.
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Verb
(head)Etymology 2
(etyl) 'skin', Russian plená'' 'pelt', (etyl) plah 'to cover', Ancient Greek ''péllas 'skin').Noun
(en noun)- We are still handling our ewes, and their fells , you know, are greasy.
Verb
(en verb)- To fell seam allowances, catch the lining underneath before emerging 1/4" (6mm) ahead, and 1/8" (3mm) to 1/4" (6mm) into the seam allowance.
Etymology 3
From (etyl) fell, . Compare (m).Noun
(en noun)- The dwarves of yore made mighty spells,
- While hammers fell like ringing bells,
- In places deep, where dark things sleep,
- In hollow halls beneath the fells.
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- She didn't know at first why she stepped off the road and climbed the bank on to the fells; it wasn't until she found herself skirting a disused quarry that she realised where she was making for, and when she reached the place she stood and gazed at it. It was a hollow within an outcrop of rock, not large enough to call a cave but deep enough to shelter eight people from the rain, and with room to spare.
Etymology 4
From (etyl) fel, . See felon.Adjective
(er)- while we devise fell tortures for thy faults
- And many a serpent of fell kind, / With wings before, and stings behind
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- I am so fell to my business.
Derived terms
* (l)Noun
(-)- Untroubled of vile fear or bitter fell .
- I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day.