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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.
* Shakespeare:
(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.
* 2006, Colette Wolff, The Art of Manipulating Fabric , page 296:
A rocky ridge or chain of mountains.
* 1937 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
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* 1971 Catherine Cookson, The Dwelling Place
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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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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#*:The greatness of these Irish lords suddenly fell and vanished.
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#*: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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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.
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*: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 synonym of fell.
Fall is a related term of fell.
In transitive terms the difference between fell and fall
is that fell is to make something fall; especially to chop down a tree while fall is to be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.In obsolete terms the difference between fell and fall
is that fell is eager; earnest; intent while fall is to sink; to depress.As an adjective fell
is of a strong and cruel nature; eagre and unsparing; grim; fierce; ruthless; savage.As an adverb fell
is sharply; fiercely.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.fell
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.
Statistics
*Etymology 5
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(wikipedia fall)Verb
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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.
