Summer vs Fall - What's the difference?

summer | fall |

As a proper noun summer

is of modern usage, for a girl born in summer.

As a verb fall is

summer

English

(wikipedia summer)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)

One of four seasons, traditionally the second, marked by the longest and typically hottest days of the year due to the inclination of the Earth and thermal lag. Typically regarded as being from June 21 to September 22 or 23 in parts of the USA, the months of June, July and August in the United Kingdom and the months of December, January and February in the Southern Hemisphere.

*{{quote-book, year=a1420, year_published=1894

, author=The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056, by=(Lanfranc of Milan) , title= Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie." , chapter=Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone, isbn= 1163911380, page= 63 , publisher=K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, location=London, editor=Robert von Fleischhacker , passage=Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer ; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.}}

*:At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.}}

*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=5 citation , passage=A waiter brought his aperitif, which was a small scotch and soda, and as he sipped it gratefully he sighed. ¶ ‘Civilized,’ he said to Mr. Campion. ‘Humanizing.’

Usage notes

(season name spelling)

Antonyms

* winter

Derived terms

* aftersummer * All-Hallown Summer * dog days of summer * go-summer * (Great Summer Army) * have but a mile to midsummer * high summer * Hutchinson's summer prurigo, summer prurigo of Hutchinson * Indian summer * little summer of St Luke * Martinmas summer * midsummer * net summer capability * nuclear summer * old wives' summer * polar mesospheric summer echoes * (Red Summer) * (Revolution Summer) * Russian spring-summer encephalitis * Saint Luke's little summer, Saint Luke's summer, St Luke's little summer, St Luke's summer * Saint Martin's summer, St Martin's summer * snow-in-summer * summer-ale * summer and winter * summer annual * (w, Summer Archbishop's Palace), Summer Archiepiscopal Palace * summer associate * summer asthma * summer-barm * summer bird * summer bleeding * summer-blink * summer boarder * summer break * summer-broach * summer camp * summer capital * summer catarrh * summercater * summer cholera * summer-cloud * (Summer Coast) * summer cock * summer cohosh * summer cold * summer colony * summer colt, summer-colt * summer complaint * (Summercon) * summer coot * summer cottage * summer country * summer crookneck * summer cypress * summer damask rose * summer-day * summer diarrhea, summer diarrhoea * summer-dream * summer duck * summer-eat * summer eggs * summer encephalitis * summer fallow, summer-fallow * summer-fallowing * (Summerfest) * summer fever * summer-field * summer finch * summer floor * summer flounder * summer-fold * summer fool * summer fruit tortrix moth * summerful * summer-game * Summer Games * (Summer Garden) * summer-gauze, summer-goose * summer grape * summer grass * summer hall * summer haw * summerhead * summer-heat * summer hemp * summer-herring * summer hit * summer holiday * summer holidays * summer house, summer-house, summerhouse * summer-hutch * summer hyacinth * summerish * summerise, summerize * (Summer Isles) * summer itch * summer kill * summer kitchen * summer lady * Summerland * summer-land, summerland * summerlay * summer lea-land * summer learning loss * summer-lease * summer-leding * summerless * summer lightning * summer-like, summerlike * summerling * summer-long, summerlong * summer-lord * summerly * summer master * summer mastitis * summer meal * summer migrant * summer monsoon * summer number * Summer of Hate * Summer of Love * (Summer of Three Popes) * Summer Olympic Games * summer-ova * * (Summer Paralympics) * summer parlour * summer pole * summer pruning * summer prurigo * summer pudding * summer queen, summer's queen * summer queening * summer range * summer rape * summer rash * summer reading program * summer red-bird, summer redbird * summer redcap * summer resort * summer-ripe * summer road * summer roll * summer-room * summer rose * summer rules * summer-run fish * summers * summer sale * summer sausage * summer savory * summer's bird * summer school * summer's cloud * summer's day * summer season * summer-seeming * summer services * summer sheldrake * summer slide * summer smog * summer snake * summer snipe * summer snowflake * summer-sob * summer solstice * summer sores * summer soup * summer spore * summer spot * summer squash, summer squash vine * summer's tide * summer's time * summer-stirring * summer stock * summer sweet, summer-sweet * summer tanager * summer teal * summer term * summer theater, summer theatre * summer-tide, summertide * summer-tilth * summer time * summer-time, summertime * summer top * summer tree * the Summer Triangle * summer tulip * summer vacation * summer village * summer visitor * summerward, summerwards * summer warbler * summer-weight * summer wheat * summer-whiting * summer wood, summerwood * summer-work * summer-worm * summery * summer-yellow * summer yellowbird * unsummered * winter and summer * the (Year Without a Summer)

Verb

(en verb)

To spend the summer, as in a particular place on holiday.

We like to summer in the Mediterranean.

Derived terms

* summer and winter * summer over * summering

Etymology 2

From (etyl) (m), (m), from .

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A pack-horse.

A horizontal beam supporting a building.

*, I.43:

And we are warned, that the foundation or maine summers of our houses faile and shrinke, when we see the quarters bend, or wals to breake.

Synonyms

* (horizontal beam) summer-tree

Derived terms

* breastsommer, breastsummer, bressomer, bressumer, bressummer, brestsummer * summer bar * summer-beam * summer-castle * summering * summer-piece * summer-stone * summer-tower * summer-tree, summertree * summer-trestle * transsummer

Etymology 3

(sum)

Noun

(en noun)

A person who sums.

Derived terms

* summer-up

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fall

English

(wikipedia fall)

Verb

To move downwards.

#To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity.

#*: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.

#*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.

#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.

# To fell; to cut down.

(lb) To happen, to change negatively.

#(lb) To become.

#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).

#(lb) To collapse; to be overthrown or defeated.

# To die, especially in battle or by disease.

#(lb) To become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc.).

#*Sir (c.1569-1626)

#*:The greatness of these Irish lords suddenly fell and vanished.

#*1835 , Sir , Sir (James Clark Ross), Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage …, Vol.1 , pp.284-5:

#*: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= Old soldiers? , passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.

#(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 .

(lb) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.

*(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.

:(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.

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.

*(Benjamin Jowett) (1817-1893) ((Thucydides))

*:They now no longer doubted, but fell to work heart and soul.

To be dropped or uttered carelessly.

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.

Synonyms

* (move to a lower position under the effect of gravity) drop, plummet, plunge * (come down) come down, descend, drop * (come to the ground deliberately) drop, lower oneself, prostrate oneself * (be brought to the ground) * : be beaten by, be defeated by, be overthrown by, be smitten by, be vanquished by, * (die) die * (be allotted to) be the responsibility of, be up to * : dip, drop * (become) become, get * : cut down (of a tree), fell, knock down, knock over, strike down

Antonyms

* (come down) ascend, go up, rise * (come to the ground deliberately) get up, pick oneself up, stand up * : beat, defeat, overthrow, smite, vanquish * : rise

Derived terms

* the apple does not fall far from the tree * the * the curtain falls * fair fall * fallable * fall aboard * fall aboard of * fall about * fall about someone's ears * fall abreast of * fall abroad of * fall across * fall adown * fall afire * fall afoul * fall afoul of * fall after * fallage * fall all over someone or oneself * fall among * fall apart * fall asleep * fall aslope * fall astern * fall asunder * fall at * fall at the crest * fall at the first fence, fall at the first hurdle * fall away * fall back * * fall back on, fall back upon * fall behind, fall behindhand * fall between the cracks * fall between two stools * fall by * fall by the wayside * fall calm * fall dead * fall down * fall down on * fall due * fallen * faller * fall flat * fall flat on one's face * fall for * fall forth * fall foul * fall foul of, fall foul with * fall from * fall from grace * fall heir * fall home * fall ill * fall in * fall in age * fall in flesh * fall in for * falling * fall in line * fall in love * fall in mold, fall in mould * fall in one's road * fall in one's way * fall in somebody's heart, fall in someone's heart * fall in somebody's mind, fall in someone's mind * fall into one's hands * fall into one's lap * fall in two * fall in upon * fall in with * fall into * fall into line * fall into place * fall into somebody's heart, fall into someone's heart * fall into somebody's mind, fall into someone's mind * fall of * fall off * fall off the turnip truck * fall on * fall on board * fall on deaf ears * fall one's crest * fall on one's face * fall on one's feet * fall on shore * fall on sleep * fall on one's knees * fall on one's sword * fall on the crest * fall open * fall out * fall out in * fall out of * fall out upon * fall out with * fall over * fall over oneself * fall over one's feet * fall pregnant * fall prey to * fall short * fall short of * fall short to * fall sick * fall silent * fallstreaks, fallstreifen * fall through * fall through the cracks * fall to * fall to be * fall together * fall to loggerheads * fall to mold, fall to mould * fall to oneself * fall to one's knees * fall to one's lot * fall to one's share * fall to pieces * fall to powder * fall to the ground * fall under * fall unto * fall upon * fall victim to * fall what can fall, fall what will fall * fall with * fall within * foul fall * let fall * let the chips fall where they may * may fall, may-fall * misfall * overfall * the rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain * refall * tendency of the rate of profit to fall * to-fall * under-fall *

Noun

(en noun)

The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.

A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.

*:“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.

Synonyms

* (act of moving to a lower position) descent, drop * (reduction) decrease, dip, drop, lowering, reduction * (season) autumn * (loss of greatness or status) downfall * rap

Antonyms

* (act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity) ascent, rise * (reduction) increase, rise * (loss of greatness or status) ascent, rise

Derived terms

* accidental fall * angle of fall * ash fall, ashfall * backfall * best-of-three-falls match * block and fall * break a fall * break-fall, breakfall * break one's fall * byfall * catfall * center of falls, centre of falls * chainfall * crossfall * darkfall * dead fall, dead-fall, deadfall * dew-fall, dewfall * dog-fall, dogfall * downfall * dustfall * earthfall * even-fall, evenfall * fall-and-rise phenomenon * fall armyworm * fall and tackle * fall block, fall-block * fall-blooming * fall-board, fallboard * fall-breaker * fall-bridge * fall cankerworm * (Fall Classic) * fall-cloud * fall colors * fall dandelion * fall-door * fall duck * fall equinox * fall factor * fall-fish, fallfish * fall foliage * fall-forward * fall from grace * fall front * fall-front desk * fall guy, fall-guy * fall herring * fall-iron door * fall-leaf * fall-less * fall line, fall-line * fall money * The (Fall of Baghdad) * The (Fall of Constantinople) * fall of day * the (w) * the Fall of Man, the fall of man * The (Fall of Saigon) * fall of the leaf * fall of the perch * the (w), the (Fall of Rome) * fall of wicket * fall overturn * fall-pipe * fall-pippin * fall rate * fall-rise * fall-rope * fall-run fish * falls * (Falls-to-Falls Corridor) * fall time * fall-trap * fall turnover * fall-way * fall webworm * fall wind, fall-wind * fall-window * fall-wood * fally * fall zone * fish fall * foot-fall, footfall * free fall * give a fall * ice fall, ice-fall * infall * jaw-fall, jawfall * landfall * law-fall * leaf-fall * litterfall * mid-fall, midfall * misfall * mouse-fall * near-fall * nightfall * offal * onfall * outfall * overfall * parachute landing fall * pinfall * pitfall * planetfall * prat-fall, pratfall, pratt-fall * pressure-fall center, pressure-fall centre * pride comes before a fall, pride goes before a fall, pride goeth before a fall * proudfall * rainfall * ride for a fall * rises and falls * rock-fall, rockfall * roof fall * root-fall * shake a fall * shout-and-fall * slip and fall * smokefall * snow-fall, snowfall * speck falls * stiff board fall * sunfall * Swedish fall * tackle fall * take the fall * technical fall * terminal fall velocity * threadfall * throughfall * toe drain and outfall * trad fall * trap-fall, trapfall * try a fall * two-out-of-three-falls match * underfall * waterfall * whale fall * windfall * withfall * wrestle a fall * zipper fall

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Summer vs Fall - What's the difference?

As a proper noun summer

As a verb fall is

summer

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Summer vs Fall - What's the difference?

As a proper noun summer

As a verb fall is

summer

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