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Incall vs Infall - What's the difference?

incall | infall |

As nouns the difference between incall and infall

is that incall is a visit by a client to a prostitute while infall is the act or process of falling in.

As a verb infall is

to fall in.

incall

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A visit by a client to a prostitute

    • Alternative forms

    * in-call

    See also

    * outcall

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    infall

    English

    Noun

  • The act or process of falling in.
  • An incursion; an inroad.
  • (countable) The area where water, storm runoff, etc., enters a storm drain.
  • (astronomy, uncountable) Movement towards a massive astronomical body under the influence of gravity; especially the process whereby gas falls towards a neutron star or black hole at high speed, forming a plasma

    • Verb

  • To fall in.
  • (astronomy) To undergo infall.
  • *1997 , Bo Reipurth, Claude Bertout, Herbig-Haro flows and the birth of low mass stars :
    • After this time the beam mass loss rate decreases since once the expansion wave radius is larger than the beam, material initially outside the beam starts to infall and compensate for material which is collapsing at centre of the core [...]

    Derived terms

    * infalling

    References

    * Urban Exploration Resource

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