Plunging vs Falling - What's the difference?
plunging | falling |
An occurrence in which something or someone plunges
* {{quote-book, year=1851, author=Herman Melville, title=Moby Dick; or The Whale, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Like one who after a night of drunken revelry hies to his bed, still reeling, but with conscience yet pricking him, as the plungings of the Roman race-horse but so much the more strike his steel tags into him;
* {{quote-book, year=1881, author=Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), title=The Prince and The Pauper, Complete, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Then followed a confusion of kicks, cuffs, tramplings and plungings , accompanied by a thunderous intermingling of volleyed curses, and finally a bitter apostrophe to the mule, which must have broken its spirit, for hostilities seemed to cease from that moment. }}
That falls or fall.
The action of the verb to fall .
* (Jeremy Taylor)
As verbs the difference between plunging and falling
is that plunging is while falling is .As nouns the difference between plunging and falling
is that plunging is an occurrence in which something or someone plunges while falling is the action of the verb to fall .As an adjective falling is
that falls or fall.plunging
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(-)- 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-fallingNoun
(en-noun)- 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.