Recover vs Fall - What's the difference?
recover | fall |
To get back, regain (a physical thing lost etc.).
* Bible, 1 Sam. xxx. 18
* , chapter=22
, title= To return to, resume (a given state of mind or body).
(obsolete) To reach (a place), arrive at.
* Fuller
* Shakespeare
* Hales
(archaic) To restore to good health, consciousness, life etc.
* Shakespeare
*, vol.I, New York, 2001, p.233-4:
* Bible, 2. Tim. ii. 26
(archaic) To make good by reparation; to make up for; to retrieve; to repair the loss or injury of.
* Rogers
(archaic) To get better from; to get over.
* Cowley
* De Foe
To get better, regain one's health.
To regain one's composure, balance etc.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=
, passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}
(legal) To obtain a judgement; to succeed in a lawsuit.
(legal) To gain as compensation or reparation.
(legal) To gain by legal process.
(label) Recovery.
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*:It was neuer in my thoughte saide la?celot to withholde the quene from my lord Arthur / but in soo moche she shold haue ben dede for my sake / me semeth it was my parte to saue her lyf and putte her from that daunger tyl better recouer myghte come / & now I thanke god sayd sir Launcelot that the pope hath made her pees
(label) A position of holding a firearm during exercises, whereby the lock is at shoulder height and the sling facing out.
To cover again.
(roofing) To add a new roof membrane or steep-slope covering over an existing one.
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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#*Sir (c.1569-1626)
#*:The greatness of these Irish lords suddenly fell and vanished.
#*1835 , Sir , Sir (James Clark Ross),
#*: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.
#*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, 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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:(Shakespeare)
To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals.
:(Shakespeare)
To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin.
*(Bible)}, (w) iv.11:
*: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.
See'' falls'''
An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
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As verbs the difference between recover and fall
is that recover is to get back, regain (a physical thing lost etc) or recover can be to cover again while fall is .As a noun recover
is (label) recovery.recover
English
Alternative forms
* recovre (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) recoverer and (etyl) recovrer, from (etyl) recuperare.Verb
(en verb)- David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.}}
- With much ado the Christians recovered to Antioch.
- The forest is not three leagues off; / If we recover that, we're sure enough.
- Except he could recover one of the Cities of Refuge he was to die.
- The wine in my bottle will recover him.
- Cnelius a physiciangave him a clyster, by which he was speedily recovered .
- that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him
- to recover lost time
- Even good men have many failings and lapses to lament and recover .
- I do hope to recover my late hurt.
- when I had recovered a little my first surprise
The China Governess, chapter=19
- The plaintiff has recovered in his suit.
- to recover''' damages in trespass; to '''recover debt and costs in a suit at law
- to recover lands in ejectment or common recovery
- to recover judgement against a defendant
Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
.Verb
(en verb)- (Sir Walter Scott)
Anagrams
*fall
English
(wikipedia fall)Verb
Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage …, Vol.1, pp.284-5:
Old soldiers?, passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.
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.