Fell vs Slump - What's the difference?
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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.
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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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(lb) To collapse heavily or helplessly.
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(lb) To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
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, title= (lb) To slouch or droop.
(lb) To lump; to throw together messily.
* (1788-1856)
To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
* (Isaac Barrow) (1630-1677)
A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
(Scotland, UK, dialect) A boggy place.
(Scotland) The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
(Scotland) The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
As nouns the difference between fell and slump
is that fell is fur, pelt (hairy skin of an animal) while slump is a heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.As a verb slump is
(lb) to collapse heavily or helplessly.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
The Lonely Pyramid, passage=The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.}}
- 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
Noun
slump
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Verb
Chelsea 3-5 Arsenal, passage=The Gunners captain demonstrated his importance to the team by taking his tally to an outstanding 28 goals in 27 Premier League games as Chelsea slumped again after their shock defeat at QPR last week.}}
- These different groupsare exclusively slumped together under that sense.
- The latter walk on a bottomless quag, into which unawares they may slump .