English-Thai Dictionary
fall
N การ ตก การร่วง การ หล่น drop rise kan-tok
fall
N การ ลดลง การ ลด ต่ำ ลง ความตกต่ำ การ เสื่อม collapse downfall upswing kan-lod-long
fall
N ฤดูใบไม้ร่วง autumn rue-du-bai-mai-ruang
fall
VI ตกลง ต่ำ ลง ลดลง น้อยลง tok-long
fall
VI มี ขึ้น จัด ขึ้น me-kuan
fall
VI ร่วง ตก ล้ม หล่น drop rise rung
fall
VI สูญเสีย (ทาง วรรณ คดี ตาย โดน ยิง go down slump sun-sia
fall
VI แพ้ ถูกโค่น ล้ม โดน ยึดอำนาจ pa
fall about
PHRV หัวเราะ ร่วน ขำ กลิ้ง crash about hua-roe-ruan
fall about
PHRV อด หัวเราะ ไม่ได้ กลั้น หัวเราะ ไม่ไหว ขำ กลิ้ง หัวเราะ ร่วน aod-hua-roe-mai-dai
fall about
PHRV เดินโซเซ (เพราะ เมา หรือ เจ็บป่วย doen-so-sea
fall afoul of
PHRV ชน เรือ ลำ อื่น fall foul of chon-ruea-lam-uen
fall among
PHRV ตก อยู่ ใน กลุ่ม (คน ไม่ดี tok-yu-nai-klum
fall apart
PHRV จบ ลง ด้วย ความล้มเหลว job-long-duai-kwam-lom-leo
fall apart
PHRV แตกเป็น เสี่ยง แตกเป็น ชิ้นๆ teak-pen-siang
fall apart
PHRV แยกทาง กัน yeak-tang-kan
fall around
PHRV หัวเราะ ร่วน ขำ กลิ้ง crash about fall about hua-roe-ruan
fall astern
PHRV อยู่ ข้างหลัง เรือ ลำ อื่น (ทางการ แล่น เรือ drop astern yu-kang-lang-ruea-lam-uen
fall at
PHRV คุกเข่า ลง ต่อหน้า fall down kuk-kao-long-tor-na
fall away
PHRV(หน้า เรียว เล็ก ลง (หน้า ผอม ลง riao-lek-long
fall away
PHRV ตกลงมา จาก tok-long-ma-jak
fall away
PHRV น้อยลง ลดลง drop away drop off fall off noi-long
fall away
PHRV อยู่ ต่ำ ลง ไป ต่ำ ลง ทันที drop away drop off fall off yu-tam-long-pai
fall away
PHRV เลิก สนับสนุน ตีตัวออกห่าง fall off lok-sa-nab-sa-nun
fall away
PHRV แย่ ลง drop away drop off fall behind fall off yae-long
fall back
PHRV ถอยกลับ ไป (เพราะ พ่ายแพ้ toi-kab-pai
fall back
PHRV ถอยหลัง toi-lang
fall back
PHRV หงายหลัง (อย่าง ไม่ ตั้งใจ ngai-lang
fall back on
PHRV จำเป็นต้อง ใช้ สามารถ ช่วย ได้ ยาม คับขัน jam-pen-tong-chai
fall back on
PHRV หงายหลัง ลง ไป บน ngai-lang-long-pai-bon
fall behind
PHRV จม หาย ไป ด้านหลัง jam-hai-pai-dan-lang
fall behind
PHRV จ่าย เงิน ช้า get behind jai-ngen-char
fall behind
PHRV ตกไป ด้านหลัง (บางสิ่ง หล่น ไป ข้างหลัง tok-pai-dan-lang
fall behind
PHRV ทำให้ ตกไป ข้างหลัง be behind drag behind tam-hai-tok-pai-kang-lang
fall behind
PHRV อยู่ ต่ำกว่า มาตรฐาน drop away drop off fall away fall off yu-tam-kwa-mad-ta-tan
fall behind
PHRV ไล่ตาม ไม่ทัน ตามหลัง อยู่ lai-tam-mai-tan
fall below
PHRV ต่ำกว่า มาตรฐาน be below drop below get below tam-kwa-mad-ta-tan
fall below
PHRV ทำให้ น้อยลง (กว่า จำนวน ที่ กำหนด drop below tam-hai-nok-long
fall beneath
PHRV ตกไป อยู่ ข้างใต้ (บางสิ่ง fall under tok-pai-yu-kang-tai
fall beneath
PHRV ทำให้ ตก อยู่ ภายใต้ (อิทธิพล fall under tam-hai-tok-yu-pai-tai
fall between
PHRV ตกไป อยู่ ระหว่าง อยู่ ระหว่าง tok-pai-yu-ra-wang
fall by
PHRV ตำ กว่า (จำนวน tam-kwa
fall by the way
PHRV ล้มเลิก กลางคัน lom-lek-kang-kan
fall down
PHRV(อาคาร หรือ สิ่งก่อสร้าง อยู่ ใน สภาพ เสื่อมโทรม yu-nai-sa-phab-sueam-som
fall down
PHRV คุกเข่า ทำความเคารพ drop through fall down on fall flat fall through kuk-kao-tam-kwam-kao-rob
fall down
PHRV ล้มเหลว tumble down lom-leol
fall down
PHRV หกล้ม ล้ม fall down on fall on fall over fall to tip over hok-lom
fall down on
PHRV ล้มเหลว เพราะ fall down fall flat fall through lom-leo-prow
fall down on
PHRV หกล้ม ลง บน fall down on fall on fall over fall to topple down tumble down hok-lom-long-bon
fall down on one's knees
IDM คุกเข่า ลง fall on fall to kok-kao-long
fall due
PHRV(หนี้สิน สามารถ จ่าย ได้ sa-mad-jai-dai
fall flat
PHRV หกล้ม จน หงายท้อง hok-lom-jon-ngai-tong
fall flat
PHRV ไม่ ประสบผลสำเร็จ drop through fall down mai-pra-sob-pon-sam-red
fall for
PHRV ตกหลุมรัก กับ fall in fall out of tumble for tok-lum-rak-kab
fall for
PHRV ทำให้ หลงเชื่อ ทำให้ หลงกล tumble for tam-hai-long-chuea
fall for something hook
IDM ทำให้ หลงเชื่อ ทำให้ หลงกล tumble for tam-hai-long-chuea
fall foul of
PHRV ชน เรือ ลำ อื่น fall afoul of chon-ruea-lam-uen
fall foul of
PHRV มีปัญหา กับ run foul of me-pan-ha-kab
fall from
PHRV ตก จาก หล่น จาก topple from tok-jak
fall from
PHRV ตก ระดับ จาก ร่วง จาก lapse from tok-a-dab-jak
fall from
PHRV สูญเสีย (สิ่ง ที่ ดี fall out of topple from sun-sia
fall from grace
IDM ไม่ เป็น ที่ โปรดปราน อีกต่อไป lapse from mai-pen-ti-prod-pran-eak-tor-pai
fall ill
PHRV ล้ม ป่วย ป่วย fall sick go sick report sick take ill take sick lom-puai
fall in
PHRV จ่าย ได้ สามารถ จ่าย ได้ fall due jai-dai
fall in
PHRV ตกอยู่ในอันตราย tok-yu-nai-an-ta-rai
fall in
PHRV ตอบ ลง (แก้ม จม ลง (แก้ม fall away tob-long
fall in
PHRV ทำให้ ตกลง ไป ตกลง จม ลง tam-hai-tok-long-pai
fall in
PHRV ล่มสลาย พังทลาย lom-sa-lai
fall in
PHRV เข้าแถว จัดแถว fall out kao-teaol
fall in
PHRV เห็นด้วย hen-duai
fall in alongside
PHRV เดิน มา ประชิดตัว เข้ามา ชิด เดิน เข้ามา ติด เข้ามา ด้าน ข้าง fall in beside doen-ma-pra-chid-tua
fall in beside
PHRV เดิน มา ประชิดตัว เข้ามา ชิด เดิน เข้ามา ติด เข้ามา ด้าน ข้าง fall in alongside doen-ma-pra-chid-tua
fall in love with
PHRV ตกหลุมรัก fall for fall out of tok-lum-rak
fall in place
PHRV ชัดเจน เห็นได้ชัด fall into chad-jan
fall in with
PHRV ตกลง ไป พร้อมกับ (การกระทำ การ สวมใส่ บางสิ่ง tok-long-pai-prom-kab
fall in with
PHRV พบ โดยบังเอิญ pob-doi-bang-aung
fall in with
PHRV เข้ากันได้ดี กับ kao-kan-dai-de-kab
fall in with
PHRV เข้าร่วม กับ (มัก เป็นเรื่อง ไม่ ค่อย ดี ร่วม ข้อหา กับ kao-ruam-kab
fall in with
PHRV เลือนราง จาง ลง เลือนหาย จาก luean-lang
fall in with
PHRV เห็นด้วย กับ agree to hen-duai-kab
fall into
PHRV ตกลง ไป ใน fall in tumble into tok-long-pai-ni
fall into
PHRV ถูก จัด อยู่ ใน กลุ่ม ของ come under tuk-jad-yu-nai-klum-kong
fall into
PHRV เริ่ม ตก อยู่ ใน สภาพ เริ่ม เข้าสู่ สภาวะ get into roem-tok-yu-nai-sa-phab
fall into
PHRV เริ่ม ใช้ ภาษา (อย่าง ไม่ ตั้งใจ drop into lapse into ream-chai-pa-sa
fall into a decline
IDM อ่อนแรง (เพราะ เจ็บป่วย หรือ ล้มเหลว อ่อนแอ (เพราะ เจ็บป่วย หรือ ล้มเหลว go into on-rang
fall into a trap
IDM ติดกับ หลงเชื่อ tid-kab
fall into arrears
IDM ไม่ สามารถ จ่าย เงิน หรือ หนี้ ได้ ทันเวลา mai-sa-mad-jai-ngen-rue-ne-dai-tan-we-la
fall into disuse
IDM เลิกใช้ lok-chai
fall into someone's arms
IDM ตก อยู่ ใน อ้อมกอด ของ fall on tok-yu-nai-om-kod-kong
fall off
PHRV กาง ใบ เรือ ออก (ทางการ เล่น เรือ kang-bai-ruea-ook
fall off
PHRV ตก มาจาก drop off tumble off tok-ma-jak
fall off
PHRV ตีตัวออกห่าง เลิก สนับสนุน fall away te-tua-ook-hang
fall off
PHRV ต่ำ ลง ทันที drop away drop off fall away tam-long-tan-te
fall off
PHRV น้อยลง ลดลง drop away drop off fall away noi-long
fall off
PHRV แย่ ลง drop away drop off fall away yea-long
fall off one's chair
IDM ประหลาดใจ มาก (คำ ไม่เป็นทางการ pra-lad-jai-mak
fall off one's chair
IDM ประหลาดใจ มาก (คำ ไม่เป็นทางการ แปลกใจ มาก pra-lad-jai-mak
fall off the back of a lorry
IDM ถูก ขโมย tuk-ka-moi
fall on
PHRV คิดหนัก เกี่ยวกับ คิดมาก เรื่อง kid-nak-kiao-kab
fall on
PHRV จับจ้อง ไป ที่ jab-jong-pai-ti
fall on
PHRV ตก มาถึง มาถึง เป็น ความรับผิดชอบ ของ tok-ma-tuang
fall on
PHRV มี ขึ้น เกิดขึ้น ทำให้เกิด ขึ้น ทำให้ ปรากฎ ออกมา me-kuan
fall on
PHRV ล้ม ลง บน หล่น ลง บน ตกลง บน lom-long-bon
fall on
PHRV เป็น หน้าที่ ของ เป็น ภาระ ของ pen-na-ti-kong
fall on
PHRV โจมตี จู่โจม jom-te
fall out
PHRV(ของเสีย ถูก ส่ง ไป ตาม tuk-song-pai-tam
fall out
PHRV ทะเลาะ กัน ขัดแย้ง กัน ta-ror-kan
fall out
PHRV มีผล ปรากฏ ออกมา turn out me-pon
fall out
PHRV ล้ม ลง บน หล่น ลง บน drop out fall out of tumble out lom-long-bon
fall out
PHRV ล้มเหลว ที่จะ ทำ ตามหน้าที่ drop in drop out lom-leo-ti-ja-tam-tam-na-ti
fall out
PHRV เลิกแถว (ทางทหาร fall in lek-teaol
fall out of
PHRV ตกลงมา จาก drop out fall out tumble out tok-long-ma-jak
fall out of
PHRV เลิก เพื่อที่จะ หยุด เพื่อที่จะ drop out fall out tumble out lek-puea-ti-ja
fall out of love with
IDM เลิก รัก lek-rak
fall outside
PHRV อยู่ นอกขอบเขต ของ อยู่ นอกเหนือจาก be outside stand outside fall within yu-nok-kob-ked-kong
fall over
PHRV ดิ่ง ลง สู่ ตกลง สู่ ding-long-su
fall over
PHRV ล้ม ลง fall down lom-long
fall over
PHRV สะดุด ล้ม เดินโซเซ จน ล้ม stumble over trip over sa-dud-lom
fall over backwards
IDM กระตือรือร้น ที่จะ ทำ อย่างมาก ตั้งใจ ทำ อย่างมาก bend over kra-tue-rue-ron-ti-ja-tam-yang-mak
fall over each other
IDM กระตือรือร้น ที่จะ ทำ อย่างมาก ตั้งใจ ทำ อย่างมาก stumble over kra-tue-rue-ron-ti-ja-tam-yang-mak
fall over oneself
IDM กระตือรือร้น ที่จะ ทำ อย่างมาก ตั้งใจ ทำ อย่างมาก stumble over kra-tue-rue-ron-ti-ja-tam-yang-mak
fall overboard
PHRV ตก จาก เรือ go overboard tok-jak-ruea
fall short
PHRV ไม่ เป็นไปตาม ที่ คาด ต่ำกว่า ที่หวัง ไว้ mai-pen-pai-tam-ti-kad
fall short of
PHRV(จำนวน ต่ำกว่า ที่ คาด ไว้ (จำนวน ไม่ เป็นไปตาม ที่หวัง ไว้ ไม่ เพียงพอ come short of tam-kwa-ti-kad-wai
fall sick
PHRV ป่วย ล้ม ป่วย fall ill go sick report sick take ill take sick puai
fall through
PHRV จม ลง ไป ร่วง ลง ไป ตกลง ไป drop through fall down fall down on jom-long-pai
fall through
PHRV ทำ ไม่สำเร็จ ล้มเหลว drop through fall down fall down on fall flat fall to tam-mai-sam-red
fall through
PHRV ร่วง ลง ไป (เฉพาะ บน ผิว หรือ ด้านบน ruang-long-ma
fall through the floor
IDM ประหลาดใจ มาก แปลกใจ มาก pra-lad-jai-mak
fall to
PHRV ตก สู่ ร่วง ลง สู่ หล่น ไป ที่ ไป ทาง fall down tok-su
fall to
PHRV ต่ำ ลง ไป ที่ tam-long-pai-ti
fall to
PHRV ถูก ทำให้ พ่ายแพ้ โดย ถูก ฆ่า ตาย โดย tuk-tam-hai-pai-pare-doi
fall to
PHRV ทำให้ แตกเป็น ชิ้นเล็กชิ้นน้อย ทำให้ แตก ละเอียด come apart fall apart tam-hai-taek-pen-chin-lek-chin-noi
fall to
PHRV เป็น สิทธิ ของ (หลังจาก การตาย ของ บางคน เป็น อำนาจ ของ ตกเป็น สมบัติ ของ pen-sid-kong
fall to
PHRV เป็น หน้าที่ ของ บางคน เพื่อ ทำ บางสิ่ง ตกเป็น หน้าที่ ของ fall on pen-na-ti-kong-bang-kon-puea-tam-bang-sing
fall to
PHRV เริ่ม กระทำ บางสิ่ง อย่างกระตือรือร้น (กิน จู่โจม ฯลฯ set to roem-kra-tam-bang-sing-yang-kra-tue-rue-ron
fall to one's knees
PHRV คุกเข่า ลง fall down on fall on kuk-kao-long
fall to someone's lot
PHRV กลายเป็น ความรับผิดชอบ ใน การ ทำ บางสิ่ง klai-pen-kwam-rab-pid-chob-nai-kan-tam-bang-sing
fall to someone's share
PHRV กลายเป็น ความรับผิดชอบ ใน การ ทำ บางสิ่ง klai-pen-kwam-rab-pid-chob-nai-kan-tam-bang-sing
fall to the earth
SL ตก พื้น ตกดิน tok-puan
fall to the ground
PHRV ล้มเหลว คว้าน้ำเหลว ไม่ได้ผล drop through fall down fall flat fall through lom-leaol
fall towards
PHRV ตกลง สู่ tok-long-su
fall towards
PHRV เอียง ไป ทาง ลาด ไป ทาง iang-pai-tang
fall under
PHRV ตก อยู่ ใน อำนาจ ของ be under come under fall beneath tok-yu-nai-am-nad-kong
fall under
PHRV ตกไป ข้างใต้ fall beneath tok-pai-kang-tai
fall under
PHRV รวม อยู่ ใน รายการ หรือ ใน กลุ่ม ของ come under ruam-yu-nai-rai-kan-rue-nai-klum-kong
fall upon
PHRV คิดหนัก เกี่ยวกับ คิดมาก เรื่อง kid-nak-kiao-kab
fall upon
PHRV จับจ้อง ไป ที่ jab-jong-pai-ti
fall upon
PHRV ตก มาถึง มาถึง เป็น ความรับผิดชอบ ของ tok-ma-tueng
fall upon
PHRV ตกลง บน tok-long-bon
fall upon
PHRV มี ขึ้น เกิดขึ้น ทำให้เกิด ขึ้น ทำให้ ปรากฎ ออกมา me-kuan
fall upon
PHRV ล้ม ลง บน ตกลง บน fall on lom-long-bon
fall upon
PHRV เป็น หน้าที่ ของ เป็น ภาระ ของ pen-na-ti-kong
fall upon
PHRV โจมตี จู่โจม jom-te
fall within
PHRV จัด อยู่ ใน ประเภท อยู่ ใน ขอบเขต ของ come under jad-yu-nai-pra-phed
fall within
PHRV เป็นเรื่อง ที่ รู้ หรือ มีประสบการณ์ be within bring within come within pen-rueang-ti-ru-rue-me-pra-sob-kan
fallacious
ADJ ซึ่ง คิด ไม่ ถูกต้อง ซึ่ง ผิดพลาด erroneous misleading sueng-kid-mai-tuk-tong
fallaciousness
N การ หลอกลวง การ ทำให้ เข้าใจผิด หรือ ผิดหวัง
fallacy
N ความคิด ที่ ไม่ ถูกต้อง วิธี คิดผิดๆ delusion misconcepton kwam-kid-mai-tuk-tong
fallen
ADJ ซึ่ง ตกลงมา ซึ่ง ล้ม ลง ซึ่ง ร่วง ลงมา sueng-tok-long-ma
fallen
ADJ ซึ่ง ตาย ใน สนามรบ sueng-tai-nai-sa-nam-rob
faller
N ผู้ โค่น ต้นไม้ tumbler phu-kon-ton-mai
faller
N สิ่ง ที่ ตกลงมา sueng-tok-long-ma
fallfish
N ปลา พวก Semotilus corporalis
fallibility
N ความผิดพลาด imperfection unrealiability kwam-pid-plad
fallible
ADJ ซึ่ง ผิดพลาด กันได้ ซึ่ง ทำผิด กันได้ infallible sueng-pid-plad-kan-dai
falling
N ความล้มเหลว การ พังพินาศ ความล่มจม kwam-lom-leo
falling sickness
N โรค ลมบ้าหมู rok-lom-ba-mu
falling star
N ลูก อุกกาบาต อุกกาบาต ผี พุ่ง ใต้ ดาวตก meteor luk-uk-ka-bad
falloff
N การ ลดลง การลดราคา การ ลด ปริมา ณ kan-lod-long
fallopian tube
N ท่อนำ ไข่ ท่อ ทางเดิน ของ ไข่ จาก รังไข่ ไป สู่ มดลูก tor-nam-kai
fallout
N ผลร้าย ที่ ตามมา ผล ที่ เกิดขึ้น ผลกระทบ aftermath effect pon-rai-ti-tam-ma
fallout
N ฝุ่น กัมมันตรังสี หลัง นิวเคลียร์ ระเบิด fun-kam-man-ta-rang-se-lang-nil-klia-ra-boed
fallout
SL ผล ที่ ออกมา pon-ti-ook-ma
fallow
ADJ ซึ่ง ไถ คราด ทิ้ง ไว้ ซึ่ง ยัง ไม่ เพาะปลูก unsowed unplowed sueng-tai-krad-ting-wai
fallow
ADJ ซึ่ง ไม่ กระ ฉับ เฉ ง ซึ่ง ไม่ ประสบ ผล เนือยๆ inactive inert sueng-mai-kr-a chab-cheng
fallow
ADJ สีเหลือง อ่อน สีน้ำตาล อ่อน se-lueang-on
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
FALL
v.i. pret. fell pp. fallen. [L. fallo, to fail, to deceive, Gr. ; Heb. to fall. Fail agrees better with Heb. , but these words may have had one primitive root, the sense of which was to move, to recede, to pass. See Foul. ] 1. To drop from a higher place; to descend by the power of gravity alone. Rain falls from the clouds; a man falls from his horse; ripe fruits fall from trees; an ox falls into a pit.
I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. Luke 1 :18.
2. To drop from an erect posture.
I fell at his feet to worship him. Revelation 19:1 .
3. To disembogue; to pass at the outlet; to flow out of its channel into a pond, lake or sea, as a river. The Rhone falls into the Mediterranean sea. The Danube falls into the Euxine. The Mississippi falls into the gulf of Mexico.
4. To depart from the faith, or from rectitude; to apostatize. Adam fell by eating the forbidden fruit.
Labor to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. Hebrews 4:11.
5. To die; particularly by violence.
Ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. Leviticus 26:7.
A thousand shall fall at thy side. Psalm 91:7.
6. To come to an end suddenly; to vanish; to perish.
The greatness of these Irish lords suddenly fell and vanished.
7. To be degraded; to sink into disrepute or disgrace; to be plunged into misery; as, to fall from an elevated station, or from a prosperous state.
8. To decline in power, wealth or glory; to sink into weakness; to be overthrown or ruined. This is the renowned Tyre; but oh, how fallen.
Heaven and earth will witness, if Rome must fall, that we are innocent.
9. To pass into a worse state than the former; to come; as, to fall into difficulties; to fall under censure of imputation; to fall into error or absurdity; to fall into a snare. In these and similar phrases, the sense of suddenness, accident or ignorance is often implied; but not always.
1 . To sink; to be lowered. The mercury in a thermometer rises and falls with the increase and diminution of heat. The water of a river rises and falls. The tide falls.
11. To decrease; to be diminished in weight or value. The price of goods falls with plenty and rises with scarcity. Pliny tells us, the as fell from a pound to two ounces in the first Punic war.
12. To sink; not to amount to the full.
The greatness of finances and revenue doth fall under computation.
13. To be rejected; to sink into disrepute.
This book must stand or fall with thee.
14. To decline from violence to calmness from intensity to remission. The wind falls and a calm succeeds.
At length her fury fell.
15. To pass into a new state of body or mind; to become; as, to fall asleep; to fall distracted; to fall sick; to fall into rage or passion; to fall in love; to fall into temptation.
16. To sink into an air of dejection, discontent, anger, sorrow or shame; applied to the countenance or look.
Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. Genesis 4:5.
I have observed of late thy looks are fallen.
17. To happen; to befall; to come.
Since this fortune falls to you.
18. To light on; to come by chance.
The Romans fell on this model by chance.
19. To come; to rush on; to assail.
Fear and dread shall fall on them. Exodus 15:16.
And fear fell on them all. Acts 19:17.
2 . To come; to arrive.
The vernal equinox, which at the Nicene council fell on the 21st of March, falls now about ten days sooner.
21. To come unexpectedly.
It happened this evening that we fell into a pleasing walk.
22. To begin with haste, ardor or vehemence; to rush or hurry to. They fell to blows.
The mixt multitude fell to lusting. Numbers 11:4.
23. To pass or be transferred by chance, lot, distribution, inheritance or otherwise, as possession or property. The estate or the province fell to his brother. The kingdom fell into the hands of his rival. A large estate fell to his heirs.
24. To become the property of; to belong or appertain to.
If to her share some female errors fall.
Look in her face; and you'll forget them all.
25. To be dropped or uttered carelessly. Some expressions fell from him. An unguarded expression fell from his lips. Not a word fell from him on the subject.
26. To sink; to languish; to become feeble or faint. Our hopes and fears rise and fall with good or ill success.
27. To be brought forth. Take care of lambs when they first fall.
28. To issue; to terminate.
Sit still, my daughter, till thou knowest how the matter will fall. Ruth 3:18.
To fall aboard of, to strike against another ship.
To fall astern, to move or be driven backward; or to remain behind. A ship falls astern by the force of a current, or when outsailed by another.
1. To fall away, to lose flesh; to become lean or emaciated; to pine.
2. To renounce or desert allegiance; to revolt or rebel.
3. To renounce or desert the faith; to apostatize; to sink into wickedness.
These for awhile believe, and in time of temptation fall away. Luke 8:13.
4. To perish; to be ruined; to be lost.
How can the soul - fall away into nothing.
5. To decline gradually; to fade; to languish, or become faint.
One color falls away by just degrees, and another rises insensibly.
1. To fall back, to recede; to give way.
2. To fail of performing a promise or purpose; not to fulfill.
To fall calm, to cease to blow; to become calm.
1. To fall down, to prostrate one's self in worship.
All nations shall fall down before him. Psalm 72:11.
2. To sink; to come to the ground.
Down fell the beauteous youth.
3. To bend or bow as a suppliant. Isaiah 45:14.
4. To sail or pass towards the mouth of a river, or other outlet.
To fall foul, to attack; to make an assault.
1. To fall from, to recede from; to depart; not to adhere; as, to fall from an agreement or engagement.
2. To depart from allegiance or duty; to revolt.
1. To fall in, to concur; to agree with. The measure falls in with popular opinion.
2. To comply; to yield to.
You will find it difficult to persuade learned men to fall in with your projects.
3. To come in; to join; to enter. Fall into the ranks; fall in on the right.
To fall in with, to meet, as a ship; also, to discover or come near, as land.
1. To fall off, to withdraw; to separate; to be broken or detached. friends fall off in adversity.
Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide.
2. To perish; to die away. Words fall off by disuse.
3. To apostatize; to forsake; to withdraw from the faith, or from allegiance or duty.
Those captive tribes fell off from God to worship calves.
4. To forsake; to abandon. His subscribers fell off.
5. To drop. Fruits fall off when ripe.
6. To depreciate; to depart from former excellence; to become less valuable or interesting. The magazine or the review falls off; it has fallen off.
7. To deviate or depart from the course directed, or to which the head of the ship was before directed; to fall to leeward.
1. To fall on, to begin suddenly and eagerly.
Fall on, and try thy appetite to eat.
2. To begin an attack; to assault; to assail.
Fall on, fall on and hear him not.
3. To drop on; to descend on.
1. To fall out, to quarrel; to begin to contend.
A soul exasperated in ills, falls out with every thing, its friend, itself -
2. To happen; to befall; to chance.
There fell out a bloody quarrel betwixt the frogs and the mice.
1. To fall over, to revolt; to desert from one side to another.
2. To fall beyond.
To fall short, to be deficient. The corn falls short. We all fall short in duty.
1. To fall to, to begin hastily and eagerly.
Fall to, with eager joy, on homely food.
2. To apply one's self to. He will never after fall to labor.
They fell to raising money, under pretense of the relief of Ireland.
1. To fall under, to come under, or within the limits of; to be subjected to. They fell under the jurisdiction of the emperor.
2. To come under; to become the subject of. This point did not fall under the cognizance or deliberations of the court. These things do not fall under human sight or observation.
3. To come within; to be ranged or reckoned with. These substances fall under a different class or order.
1. To upon, to attack. [See to fall on. ]
2. To rush against.
Fall primarily denotes descending motion, either in a perpendicular or inclined direction, and in most of its applications, implies literally or figuratively velocity, haste, suddenness or violence. Its use is so various and so much diversified by modifying words, that it is not easy to enumerate its senses in all its applications.
FALL
v.t. 1. To let fall; to drop. And fall thy edgeless sword. I am willing to fall this argument.
[This application is obsolete. ]
2. To sink; to depress; as, to raise or fall the voice.
3. To diminish; to lessen or lower; as, to fall the price of commodities. [Little used. ]
4. To bring forth; as, to fall lambs. [Little used. ]
5. To fell; to cut down; as, to fall a tree. [This use is now common in America, and fell and fall are probably from a common root. ]
FALL
n. 1. The act of dropping or descending from a higher to a lower place by gravity; descent; as a fall from a horse or from the yard of a ship.
2. The act of dropping or tumbling from an erect posture. he was walking on ice and had a fall.
3. Death; destruction; overthrow.
Our fathers had a great fall before our enemies.
4. Ruin; destruction.
They conspire thy fall.
5. Downfall; degradation; loss of greatness or office; as the fall of Cardinal Wolsey.
Behold thee glorious only in thy fall.
6. Declension of greatness, power or dominion; ruin; as the fall of the Roman empire.
7. Diminution; decrease of price or value; depreciation; as the fall of prices; the fall of rents; the fall of interest.
8. Declination of sound; a sinking of tone; cadence; as the fall of the voice at the close of a sentence.
9. Declivity; the descent of land or a hill; a slope.
1 . Descent of water; a cascade; a cataract; a rush of water down a steep place; usually in the plural; sometimes in the singular; as the falls of Niagara, or the Mohawk; the fall of the Hoosatonuc at Canaan. Fall is applied to a perpendicular descent, or to one that is very steep. When the descent is moderate, we name it rapids. Custom, however, sometimes deviates from this rule, and the rapids of rivers are called falls.
11. The outlet or discharge of a river or current of water into the ocean, or into a lake or pond; as the fall of the Po into the gulf of Venice.
12. Extent of descent; the distance which any thing falls; as, the water of a pond has a fall of five feet.
13. The fall of the leaf; the season when leaves fall from trees; autumn.
14. That which falls; a falling; as a fall of rain or snow.
15. The act of felling or cutting down; as the fall of timber.
16. Fall, or the fall, by way of distinction, the apostasy; the act of our first parents in eating the forbidden fruit; also, the apostasy of the rebellious angels.
17. Formerly, a kind of vail.
18. In seamen's language, the loose end of a tackle.
19. In Great Britain, a term applied to several measures, linear, superficial and solid.
FALLACIOUS
a.[L. fallax, from fallo, to deceive. See Fail. ] 1. Deceptive; deceiving; deceitful; wearing a false appearance; misleading; producing error or mistake; sophistical; applied to things only; as a fallacious argument or proposition; a fallacious appearance.
2. Deceitful; false; not well founded; producing disappointment; mocking expectation; as a fallacious hope.
FALLACIOUSLY
adv. In a fallacious manner; deceitfully; sophistical; with purpose or in a manner to deceive. We have seen how fallaciously the author has stated the cause.
FALLACIOUSNESS
n.Tendency to deceive or mislead; inconclusiveness; as the fallaciousness of an argument, or of appearances.
FALLACY
n.[L. fallacia.] 1. Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind. Detect the fallacy of the argument.
2. Deception; mistake. This appearance may be all a fallacy.
I'll entertain the favored fallacy.
FALLEN
pp. or a.Dropped; descended; degraded; decreased; ruined.
FALLENCY
n.Mistake. Obs.
FALLER
n.One that falls.
FALLIBILITY
n.[See Fallible. ] 1. Liableness to deceive; the quality of being fallible; uncertainty; possibility of being erroneous, or of leading to mistake; as the fallibility of an argument, of reasoning or of testimony.
2. Liableness to err or to be deceived in one's own judgment; as the fallibility of men.
FALLIBLE
a.[L. fallo, to deceive. ] 1. Liable to fail or mistake; that may err or be deceived in judgment. All men are fallible.
2. Liable to error; that may deceive. Our judgments, our faculties, our opinions are fallible; our hopes are fallible.
FALLING
ppr. Descending; dropping; disemboguing; apostatizing; declining; decreasing; sinking; coming.
FALLING, FALLINGIN
n.An indenting or hollow; opposed to rising or prominence. Falling away, apostasy.
Falling off, departure from the line or course; declension.
FALLING-SICKNESS
n.The epilepsy; a disease in which the patient suddenly loses his senses and falls.
FALLING-STAR
n.A luminous meteor, suddenly appearing and darting through the air.
FALLING-STONE
n.A stone falling from the atmosphere; a meteorite; an aerolite.
FALLOW
a.[L. fulvus; qu. helvus, for felvus. This word may be from the root of fail, fallo; so called from the fading color of autumnal leaves, or from failure, withering. Hence also the sense of unoccupied, applied to land. ] 1. Pale red or pale yellow; as a fallow deer.
2. Unsowed; not tilled; left to rest after a year or more of tillage; as fallow ground; a fallow field.
Break up your fallow ground. Jeremiah 4:3.
3. Left unsowed after plowing. The word is applied to the land after plowing.
4. Unplowed; uncultivated.
5. Unoccupied; neglected. [Not in use. ]
Let the cause lie fallow.
FALLOW
n. 1. Land that has lain a year or more untilled or unseeded. It is also called fallow when plowed without being sowed.
The plowing of fallows is a benefit to land.
2. The plowing or tilling of land, without sowing it, for a season. Summer fallow, properly conducted, has ever been found a sure method of destroying weeds.
By a complete summer fallow, land is rendered tender and mellow. The fallow gives it a better tilth, than can be given by a fallow crop.
A green fallow, in England, is that where land is rendered mellow and clean from weeks, by means of some green crop, as turnips, potatoes, etc.
FALLOW
v.i.To fade; to become yellow. Obs.
FALLOW
v.t.To plow, harrow and break land without seeding it, for the purpose of destroying weeds and insects, and rendering it mellow. It is found for the interest of the farmer to fallow cold, strong, clayey land.
FALLOW-CROP
n.The crop taken from fallowed ground.
FALLOWED
pp. Plowed and harrowed for a season, without being sown.
FALLOW-FINCH
n.A small bird, the oenanthe or wheat-ear.
FALLOWING
ppr. Plowing and harrowing land without sowing it.
FALLOWING
n.The operation of plowing and harrowing land without sowing it. Fallowing is found to contribute to the destruction of snails and other vermin.
FALLOWIST
n.One who favors the practice of fallowing land. On this subject, a controversy has arisen between two sects, the fallowists and the anti-fallowists. [Unusual. ]
FALLOWNESS
n.A fallow state; barrenness; exemption from bearing fruit.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
FALL
Fall (fall ), v. i. [imp. Fell; p. p. Fallen; p. pr. & vb. n.Falling. ] Etym: [AS. feallan; akin to D. vallen, OS. & OHG. fallan, G. fallen, Icel. Falla, Sw. falla, Dan. falde, Lith. pulti, L. fallere to deceive, Gr. sfa `llein to cause to fall, Skr. sphal, sphul, to tremble. Cf. Fail, Fell, v. t., to cause to fall. ]
1. To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; the mercury falls in the barometer. I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. Luke x. 18.
2. To cease to be erect; to take suddenly a recumbent posture; to become prostrate; to drop; as, a child totters and falls; a tree falls; a worshiper falls on his knees. I fell at his feet to worship him. Rev. xix. 1 .
3. To find a final outlet; to discharge its waters; to empty; -- with into; as, the river Rhone falls into the Mediterranean.
4. To become prostrate and dead; to die; especially, to die by violence, as in battle. A thousand shall fall at thy side. Ps. xci. 7. He rushed into the field, and, foremost fighting, fell. Byron.
5. To cease to be active or strong; to die away; to lose strength; to subside; to become less intense; as, the wind falls.
6. To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; -- said of the young of certain animals. Shak.
7. To decline in power, glory, wealth, or importance; to become insignificant; to lose rank or position; to decline in weight, value, price etc. ; to become less; as, the falls; stocks fell two points. I am a poor falle man, unworthy now To be thy lord and master. Shak. The greatness of these Irish lords suddenly fell and vanished. Sir J. Davies.
8. To be overthrown or captured; to be destroyed. Heaven and earth will witness, If Rome must fall, that we are innocent. Addison.
9. To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin; to depart from the faith; to apostatize; to sin. Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. Heb. iv. 11.
1 . To become insnared or embarrassed; to be entrapped; to be worse off than before; asm to fall into error; to fall into difficulties.
11. To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; -- said of the countenance. Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. Gen. iv. 5. I have observed of late thy looks are fallen. Addison.
12. To sink; to languish; to become feeble or faint; as, our spirits rise and fall with our fortunes.
13. To pass somewha suddenly, and passively, into a new state of body or mind; to become; as, to fall asleep; to fall into a passion; to fall in love; to fall into temptation.
14. To happen; to to come to pass; to light; to befall; to issue; to terminate. The Romans fell on this model by chance. Swift. Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall. Ruth. iii. 18. They do not make laws, they fall into customs. H. Spencer.
15. To come; to occur; to arrive. The vernal equinox, which at the Nicene Council fell on the 21st of March, falls now [1694 ] about ten days sooner. Holder.
16. To begin with haste, ardor, or vehemence; to rush or hurry; as, they fell to blows. They now no longer doubted, but fell to work heart and soul. Jowett (Thucyd. ).
17. To pass or be transferred by chance, lot, distribution, inheritance, or otherwise; as, the estate fell to his brother; the kingdom fell into the hands of his rivals.
18. To belong or appertain. If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all. Pope.
19. To be dropped or uttered carelessly; as, an unguarded expression fell from his lips; not a murmur fell from him. To fall abroad of (Naut. ), to strike against; -- applied to one vessel coming into collision with another. -- To fall among, to come among accidentally or unexpectedly. -- To fall astern (Naut. ), to move or be driven backward; to be left behind; as, a ship falls astern by the force of a current, or when outsailed by another. -- To fall away. (a ) To lose flesh; to become lean or emaciated; to pine. (b ) To renounce or desert allegiance; to revolt or rebel. (c ) To renounce or desert the faith; to apostatize. "These. .. for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away. " Luke viii. 13.(d ) To perish; to vanish; to be lost. "How. .. can the soul. .. fall away into nothing " Addison. (e ) To decline gradually; to fade; to languish, or become faint. "One color falls away by just degrees, and another rises insensibly. " Addison. -- To fall back. (a ) To recede or retreat; to give way. (b ) To fail of performing a promise or purpose; not to fulfill. -- To fall back upon. (a ) (Mil. ) To retreat for safety to (a stronger position in the rear, as to a fort or a supporting body of troops ). (b ) To have recourse to (a reserved fund, or some available expedient or support ). -- To fall calm, to cease to blow; to become calm. -- To fall down. (a ) To prostrate one's self in worship. "All kings shall fall down before him. " Ps. lxxii. 11. (b ) To sink; to come to the ground. "Down fell the beauteous youth. " Dryden. (c ) To bend or bow, as a suppliant. (d ) (Naut. ) To sail or drift toward the mouth of a river or other outlet. -- To fall flat, to produce no response or result; to fail of the intended effect; as, his speech fell flat. -- To fall foul of. (a ) (Naut. ) To have a collision with; to become entangled with (b ) To attack; to make an assault upon. -- To fall from, to recede or depart from; not to adhere to; as, to fall from an agreement or engagement; to fall from allegiance or duty. -- To fall from grace (M. E. Ch. ), to sin; to withdraw from the faith. -- To fall home (Ship Carp. ), to curve inward; -- said of the timbers or upper parts of a ship's side which are much within a perpendicular. -- To fall in. (a ) To sink inwards; as, the roof fell in. (b ) (Mil. ) To take one's proper or assigned place in line; as, to fall in on the right. (c ) To come to an end; to terminate; to lapse; as, on the death of Mr. B., the annuuity, which he had so long received, fell in. (d ) To become operative. "The reversion, to which he had been nominated twenty years before, fell in. " Macaulay. -- To fall into one's hands, to pass, often suddenly or unexpectedly, into one's ownership or control; as, to spike cannon when they are likely to fall into the hands of the enemy. -- To fall in with. (a ) To meet with accidentally; as, to fall in with a friend. (b ) (Naut. ) To meet, as a ship; also, to discover or come near, as land. (c ) To concur with; to agree with; as, the measure falls in with popular opinion. (d ) To comply; to yield to. "You will find it difficult to persuade learned men to fall in with your projects." Addison. -- To fall off. (a ) To drop; as, fruits fall off when ripe. (b ) To withdraw; to separate; to become detached; as, friends fall off in adversity. "Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide. " Shak. (c ) To perish; to die away; as, words fall off by disuse. (d ) To apostatize; to forsake; to withdraw from the faith, or from allegiance or duty. Those captive tribes... fell off From God to worship calves. Milton. (e ) To forsake; to abandon; as, his customers fell off. (f ) To depreciate; to change for the worse; to deteriorate; to become less valuable, abundant, or interesting; as, a falling off in the wheat crop; the magazine or the review falls off. "O Hamlet, what a falling off was there! " Shak. (g ) (Naut. ) To deviate or trend to the leeward of the point to which the head of the ship was before directed; to fall to leeward. -- To fall on. (a ) To meet with; to light upon; as, we have fallen on evil days. (b ) To begin suddenly and eagerly. "Fall on, and try the appetite to eat. " Dryden. (c ) To begin an attack; to assault; to assail. "Fall on, fall on, and hear him not. " Dryden. (d ) To drop on; to descend on. -- To fall out. (a ) To quarrel; to begin to contend. A soul exasperated in ills falls out With everything, its friend, itself. Addison. (b ) To happen; to befall; to chance. "There fell out a bloody quarrel betwixt the frogs and the mice. " L'Estrange. (c ) (Mil. ) To leave the ranks, as a soldier. -- To fall over. (a ) To revolt; to desert from one side to another. (b ) To fall beyond. Shak. -- To fall short, to be deficient; as, the corn falls short; they all fall short in duty. -- To fall through, to come to nothing; to fail; as, the engageent has fallen through. -- To fall to, to begin. "Fall to, with eager joy, on homely food. "Dryden. -- To fall under. (a ) To come under, or within the limits of; to be subjected to; as, they fell under the jurisdiction of the emperor. (b ) To come under; to become the subject of; as, this point did not fall under the cognizance or deliberations of the court; these things do not fall under human sight or observation. (c ) To come within; to be ranged or reckoned with; to be subordinate to in the way of classification; as, these substances fall under a different class or order. -- To fall upon. (a ) To attack. [See To fall on. ] (b ) To attempt; to have recourse to. "I do not intend to fall upon nice disquisitions." Holder. (c ) To rush against.
Note: Fall primarily denotes descending motion, either in a perpendicular or inclined direction, and, in most of its applications, implies, literally or figuratively, velocity, haste, suddenness, or violence. Its use is so various, and so mush diversified by modifying words, that it is not easy to enumerate its senses in all its applications.
FALL
FALL Fall, v. t.
1. To let fall; to drop. [Obs. ] For every tear he falls, a Trojan bleeds. Shak.
2. To sink; to depress; as, to fall the voice. [Obs. ]
3. To diminish; to lessen or lower. [Obs. ] Upon lessening interest to four per cent, you fall the price of your native commodities. Locke.
4. To bring forth; as, to fall lambs. [R.] Shak.
5. To fell; to cut down; as, to fall a tree. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.]
FALL
FALL Fall, n.
1. The act of falling; a dropping or descending be the force of gravity; descent; as, a fall from a horse, or from the yard of ship.
2. The act of dropping or tumbling from an erect posture; as, he was walking on ice, and had a fall.
3. Death; destruction; overthrow; ruin. They thy fall conspire. Denham. Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. Prov. xvi. 18.
4. Downfall; degradation; loss of greatness or office; termination of greatness, power, or dominion; ruin; overthrow; as, the fall of the Roman empire. Beholds thee glorious only in thy fall. Pope.
5. The surrender of a besieged fortress or town; as, the fall of Sebastopol.
6. Diminution or decrease in price or value; depreciation; as, the fall of prices; the fall of rents.
7. A sinking of tone; cadence; as, the fall of the voice at the close of a sentence.
8. Declivity; the descent of land or a hill; a slope.
9. Descent of water; a cascade; a cataract; a rush of water down a precipice or steep; -- usually in the plural, sometimes in the singular; as, the falls of Niagara.
1 . The discharge of a river or current of water into the ocean, or into a lake or pond; as, the fall of the Po into the Gulf of Venice. Addison.
11. Extent of descent; the distance which anything falls; as, the water of a stream has a fall of five feet.
12. The season when leaves fall from trees; autumn. What crowds of patients the town doctor kills, Or how, last fall, he raised the weekly bills. Dryden.
13. That which falls; a falling; as, a fall of rain; a heavy fall of snow.
14. The act of felling or cutting down. "The fall of timber. " Johnson.
15. Lapse or declinsion from innocence or goodness. Specifically: The first apostasy; the act of our first parents in eating the forbidden fruit; also, the apostasy of the rebellious angels.
16. Formerly, a kind of ruff or band for the neck; a falling band; a faule. B. Jonson.
17. That part (as one of the ropes ) of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting. Fall herring (Zoöl.), a herring of the Atlantic (Clupea mediocris ); -- also called tailor herring, and hickory shad. -- To try a fall, to try a bout at wrestling. Shak.
FALLACIOUS
Fal *la "cious, a. Etym: [L. fallaciosus, fr. fallacia: cf. F.fallacieux. See Fallacy. ]
Defn: Embodying or pertaining to a fallacy; illogical; fitted to deceive; misleading; delusive; as, fallacious arguments or reasoning. -- Fal *la "cious *ly, adv. -Fal *la "cious *ness, n.
FALLACY
Fal "la *cy, n.; pl. Fallacies. Etym: [OE. fallace, fallas, deception, F. fallace, fr. L. fallacia, fr. fallax deceitful, deceptive, fr. fallere to deceive. See Fail. ]
1. Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception. Winning by conquest what the first man lost, By fallacy surprised. Milton.
2. (Logic )
Defn: An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a sophism.
Syn. -- Deception; deceit; mistake. -- Fallacy, Sophistry. A fallacy is an argument which professes to be decisive, but in reality is not; sophistry is also false reasoning, but of so specious and subtle a kind as to render it difficult to expose its fallacy. Many fallacies are obvious, but the evil of sophistry lies in its consummate art. "Men are apt to suffer their minds to be misled by fallacies which gratify their passions.Many persons have obscured and confounded the nature of things by their wretched sophistry; though an act be never so sinful, they will strip it of its guilt. " South.
FALLALS; FAL-LALS
FALLALS; FAL-LALS Fal "*lals `, n.pl.
Defn: Gay ornaments; frippery; gewgaws. [Colloq. ] Thackeray.
FALLAX
Fal "lax, n. Etym: [L. fallax deceptive. See Fallacy. ]
Defn: Cavillation; a caviling. [Obs. ] Cranmer.
FALLEN
FALLEN Fall "en, a.
Defn: Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead. Some ruined temple or fallen monument. Rogers.
FALLENCY
Fal "len *cy, n. Etym: [LL. fallentia, L. fallens p.pr of fallere.]
Defn: An exception. [Obs. ] Jer. Taylor.
FALLER
FALLER Fall "er, n.
1. One who, or that which, falls.
2. (Mach. )
Defn: A part which acts by falling, as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks.
FALLFISH
FALLFISH Fall "fish `, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A fresh-water fish of the United States (Semotilus bullaris ); - - called also silver chub, and Shiner. The name is also applied to other allied species.
FALLIBILITY
FALLIBILITY Fal `li *bil "i *ty, n.
Defn: The state of being fallible; liability to deceive or to be deceived; as, the fallibity of an argument or of an adviser.
FALLIBLE
Fal "li *ble, a. Etym: [LL. fallibilis, fr. L. fallere to deceive: cf. F. faillible. See Fail. ]
Defn: Liable to fail, mistake, or err; liable to deceive or to be deceived; as, all men are fallible; our opinions and hopes are fallible.
FALLIBLY
FALLIBLY Fal "li *bly, adv.
Defn: In a fallible manner.
FALLING
FALLING Fall "ing, a. & n.
Defn: from Fall, v. i. Falling away, Falling off, etc. See To fall away, To fall off, etc. , under Fall, v. i. -- Falling band, the plain, broad, linen collar turning down over the doublet, worn in the early part of the 17th century. -- Falling sickness (Med. ), epilepsy. Shak. -- Falling star. (Astron.) See Shooting star. -- Falling stone, a stone falling through the atmosphere; a meteorite; an aërolite. -- Falling tide, the ebb tide. -- Falling weather, a rainy season. [Colloq. ] Bartlett.
FALLOPIAN
Fal *lo "pi *an, a. Etym: [From Fallopius, or Fallopio, a physician of Modena, who died in 1562.] (Anat. )
Defn: Pertaining to, or discovered by, Fallopius; as, the Fallopian tubes or oviducts, the ducts or canals which conduct the ova from the ovaries to the uterus.
FALLOW
Fal "low, a. Etym: [AS. fealu, fealo, pale yellow or red; akin to D.vaal fallow, faded, OHG. falo, G. falb, fahl, Icel. fölr, and prob. to Lith. palvas, OSlav. plavpallidus pale, pallere to be pale, Gr. palita. Cf. Pale, Favel, a., Favor. ]
1. Pale red or pale yellow; as, a fallow deer or greyhound. Shak.
2. Etym: [Cf. Fallow, n.]
Defn: Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground. Fallow chat, Fallow finch (Zoöl.), a small European bird, the wheatear (Saxicola ænanthe ). See Wheatear.
FALLOW
Fal "low, n. Etym: [So called from the fallow, or somewhat yellow, color of naked ground; or perh. akin to E. felly, n., cf. MHG. valgen to plow up, OHG. felga felly, harrow. ]
1. Plowed land. [Obs. ] Who. .. pricketh his blind horse over the fallows. Chaucer.
2. Land that has lain a year or more untilled or unseeded; land plowed without being sowed for the season. The plowing of fallows is a benefit to land. Mortimer.
3. The plowing or tilling of land, without sowing it for a season; as, summer fallow, properly conducted, has ever been found a sure method of destroying weeds. Be a complete summer fallow, land is rendered tender and mellow. The fallow gives it a better tilth than can be given by a fallow crop. Sinclair. Fallow crop, the crop taken from a green fallow. [Eng. ] -- Green fallow, fallow whereby land is rendered mellow and clean from weeds, by cultivating some green crop, as turnips, potatoes, etc. [Eng. ]
FALLOW
Fal "low, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fallowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Fallowing. ]Etym: [From Fallow, n.]
Defn: To plow, harrow, and break up, as land, without seeding, for the purpose of destroying weeds and insects, and rendering it mellow; as, it is profitable to fallow cold, strong, clayey land.
FALLOW DEER
Fal "low deer `. Etym: [So called from its fallow or pale yellow color. ] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A European species of deer (Cervus dama ), much smaller than the red deer. In summer both sexes are spotted with white. It is common in England, where it is often domesticated in the parks.
FALLOWIST
FALLOWIST Fal "low *ist, n.
Defn: One who favors the practice of fallowing land. [R.] Sinclair.
FALLOWNESS
FALLOWNESS Fal "low *ness, n.
Defn: A well or opening, through the successive floors of a warehouse or manufactory, through which goods are raised or lowered. [U.S.] Bartlett.
New American Oxford Dictionary
fall
fall |fôl fɔl | ▶verb ( past fell |fel |; past participle fallen |ˈfôlən | ) [ no obj. ] 1 move downward, typically rapidly and freely without control, from a higher to a lower level: bombs could be seen falling from the planes | (as adj. falling ) : the power lines had been brought down by falling trees. • (fall off ) become detached accidentally and drop to the ground: my sunglasses fell off and broke on the pavement. • hang down: hair that was allowed to fall to the shoulders. • (of land ) slope downward; drop away: the land fell away in a steep bank. • (fall into ) (of a river ) flow or discharge itself into. • (of someone's eyes or glance ) be directed downward. • (of someone's face ) show dismay or disappointment by appearing to sag or droop: her face fell as she thought about her life with George. • occur, arrive, or become apparent as if by dropping suddenly: when night fell we managed to crawl back to our lines | the information might fall into the wrong hands. 2 (of a person ) lose one's balance and collapse: she fell down at school today. • throw oneself down, typically in order to worship or implore someone: they fell on their knees, rendering thanks to God. • (of a tree, building, or other structure ) collapse to the ground: the house looked as if it were going to fall down at any moment. • (of a building or place ) be captured or defeated: their mountain strongholds fell to enemy attack. • die in battle: an English leader who had fallen at the hands of the Danes. • archaic commit sin; yield to temptation: it is their husband's fault if wives do fall. • (of a government or leader ) lose office. • (in sports ) lose or be eliminated from play. 3 decrease in number, amount, intensity, or quality: in 1987 imports into Britain fell by 12 percent | we're worried that standards are falling. • find a lower level; subside or abate: the water table in the Rift Valley fell. • (of a measuring instrument ) show a lower reading: the barometer had fallen a further ten points. 4 pass into a specified state: many of the buildings fell into disrepair | she fell pregnant. • (fall to doing something ) begin to do something: he fell to musing about how it had happened. • be drawn accidentally into: you must not fall into this common error. • occur at a specified time: Mother's birthday fell on Flag Day. • be classified or ordered in the way specified: canals fall within the Minister's brief. ▶noun 1 [ usu. in sing. ] an act of falling or collapsing; a sudden uncontrollable descent: his mother had a fall, hurting her leg as she alighted from a train. • a controlled act of falling, esp. as a stunt or in martial arts. • Wrestling a move which pins the opponent's shoulders on the ground for a count of three. • a state of hanging or drooping downward: the fall of her hair. • a downward difference in height between parts of a surface: at the corner of the massif this fall is interrupted by other heights of considerable stature. • a sudden onset or arrival as if by dropping: the fall of darkness. 2 a thing that falls or has fallen: in October came the first thin fall of snow | a rock fall. • (usu. falls ) a waterfall or cascade. • chiefly literary a downward turn in a melody: that strain again, it had a dying fall. • (falls ) the parts or petals of a flower that bend downward, esp. the outer perianth segments of an iris. 3 a decrease in size, number, rate, or level; a decline: a big fall in unemployment. 4 a loss of office: the fall of the government. • the loss of a city or fortified place during battle: the fall of Jerusalem. • a person's moral descent, typically through succumbing to temptation. • ( the Fall or the Fall of Man ) the lapse of humankind into a state of sin, ascribed in traditional Jewish and Christian theology to the disobedience of Adam and Eve as described in Genesis. 5 (also Fall ) autumn. PHRASES fall foul (or afoul ) of come into conflict with and be undermined by: any commitment of resources is likely to fall foul of government cash limitations. fall in (or into ) line conform with others or with accepted behavior. [with reference to military formation. ] fall into place (of a series of events or facts ) begin to make sense or cohere: once he knew what to look for, the theory fell quickly into place. fall on stony ground see stony. fall over oneself to do something informal be excessively eager to do something: critics and audiences fell over themselves to compliment him. fall prey to see prey. fall short ( of ) (of a missile ) fail to reach its target. • figurative be deficient or inadequate; fail to reach a required goal: the total vote fell short of the required two-thirds majority. fall to pieces see fall apart below. fall victim to see victim. take the fall informal receive blame or punishment, typically in the place of another person. PHRASAL VERBS fall apart (or to pieces ) break up, come apart, or disintegrate: their marriage is likely to fall apart. • (of a person ) lose one's capacity to cope: Angie fell to pieces because she had lost everything. fall back move or turn back; retreat. fall back on have recourse to when in difficulty: they normally fell back on one of three arguments. fall behind fail to keep up with one's competitors. • fail to meet a commitment to make a regular payment: borrowers falling behind with their mortgage payments. fall down be shown to be inadequate or false; fail: the deal fell down partly because there were a lot of unanswered questions. fall for informal 1 be captivated by; fall in love with. 2 be deceived by (something ): he should have known better than to expect Duncan to fall for a cheap trick like that. fall in 1 take one's place in a military formation: the soldiers fell in by the side of the road. 2 (of a structure ) collapse inward. fall in with 1 meet by chance and become involved with: he fell in with thieves. 2 act in accordance with (someone's ideas or suggestions ); agree to: falling in with other people's views. fall on (or upon ) 1 attack fiercely or unexpectedly: the army fell on the besiegers. • seize enthusiastically: she fell on the sandwiches as though she had not eaten in weeks. 2 (of someone's eyes or gaze ) be directed toward: her gaze fell on the mud-stained coverlet. 3 (of a burden or duty ) be borne or incurred by: the cost of tuition should not fall on the student. fall out 1 (of the hair, teeth, etc. ) become detached and drop out. 2 have an argument: he had fallen out with his family. 3 leave one's place in a military formation, or on parade: the two policemen at the rear fell out of the formation. 4 happen; turn out: matters fell out as Stephen arranged. fall through come to nothing; fail: the project fell through due to lack of money. fall to (of a task ) become the duty or responsibility of: it fell to me to write to Shephard. • (of property ) revert to the ownership of. ORIGIN Old English fallan, feallan, of Germanic origin; the noun is partly from the verb, partly from Old Norse fall ‘downfall, sin. ’
Falla, Manuel de
Falla, Manuel de |ˈfʌɪjə | (1876 –1946 ), Spanish composer and pianist. He composed the ballets Love, the Magician (1915 ) and The Three-Cornered Hat (1919 ); the latter was produced by Diaghilev, with designs by Picasso.
fallacious
fal la cious |fəˈlāSHəs fəˈleɪʃəs | ▶adjective based on a mistaken belief: fallacious arguments. DERIVATIVES fal la cious ly |fəˈlāSHəslē |adverb, fal la cious ness |fəˈlāSHəsnəs |noun ORIGIN early 16th cent.: from Old French fallacieux, from Latin fallaciosus, from fallacia (see fallacy ).
fallacy
fal la cy |ˈfaləsē ˈfæləsi | ▶noun ( pl. fallacies ) a mistaken belief, esp. one based on unsound argument: the notion that the camera never lies is a fallacy. • Logic a failure in reasoning that renders an argument invalid. • faulty reasoning; misleading or unsound argument: the potential for fallacy which lies behind the notion of self-esteem. ORIGIN late 15th cent. (in the sense ‘deception, guile ’; gradually superseding Middle English fallace ): from Latin fallacia, from fallax, fallac- ‘deceiving, ’ from fallere ‘deceive. ’
fallacy of composition
fal la cy of com po si tion ▶noun the error of assuming that what is true of a member of a group is true for the group as a whole.
fallaway
fal la way |ˈfôləˌwā ˈfɔləweɪ | ▶noun [ usu. as modifier ] made or done while moving or falling away, esp. (in basketball ) from the basket: he hit a fallaway jumper with five minutes left in the half.
fallback
fall back |ˈfôlˌbak ˈfɔlˌbæk | ▶noun 1 an alternative plan that may be used in an emergency: teaching was a last resort, a fallback. 2 a reduction or retreat: the offering will hit the market after a fallback from record highs.
Fall Classic
Fall Clas sic ▶noun Baseball a nickname for the World Series.
fallen
fall en |ˈfôlən ˈfɔlən | past participle of fall. ▶adjective [ attrib. ] 1 Theology subject to sin or depravity: fallen human nature. • dated (of a woman ) regarded as having lost her honor through engaging in a sexual relationship outside marriage: a fallen woman with a checkered past. 2 (of a soldier ) killed in battle: fallen heroes. DERIVATIVES fall en ness noun
fallen angel
fall en an gel ▶noun (in Christian, Jewish, and Muslim tradition ) an angel who rebelled against God and was cast out of heaven.
faller
fall er |ˈfôlər ˈfɔlər | ▶noun a person who fells trees for a living.
fallfish
fall fish |ˈfôlˌfiSH ˈfɔlˌfɪʃ | ▶noun ( pl. same or fallfishes ) a North American freshwater fish resembling the chub. Also called corporal. [Semotilus corporalis, family Cyprinidae. ]
fall guy
fall guy |ˈfɔl ˌɡaɪ | ▶noun informal a scapegoat: he contends that he is innocent, that he was set up as a fall guy.
fallibilism
fal li bi lism |ˈfaləbəˌlizəm ˈfæləbəlɪzəm | ▶noun Philosophy the principle that propositions concerning empirical knowledge can be accepted even though they cannot be proved with certainty. DERIVATIVES fal li bi list noun & adjective
fallible
fal li ble |ˈfaləbəl ˈfæləbəl | ▶adjective capable of making mistakes or being erroneous: experts can be fallible. DERIVATIVES fal li bil i ty |ˌfaləˈbilətē |noun, fal li bly |-blē |adverb ORIGIN late Middle English: from medieval Latin fallibilis, from Latin fallere ‘deceive. ’
falling-out
fall ing-out |ˈfɔlɪŋ ˌaʊt | ▶noun [ in sing. ] a quarrel or disagreement: the two of them had a falling-out.
falling sickness
fall ing sick ness ▶noun (the falling sickness ) archaic term for epilepsy.
falling star
fall ing star |fɔlɪŋ stɑr | ▶noun a meteor or shooting star.
fall line
fall line ▶noun 1 a narrow zone that marks the geological boundary between an upland region and a plain, distinguished by the occurrence of falls and rapids where rivers and streams cross it. • ( the Fall Line ) (in the US ) the zone demarcating the Piedmont from the Atlantic coastal plain. 2 (the fall line ) Skiing the route leading straight down any particular part of a slope.
falloff
fall off |ˈfôlˌôf ˈfɔlɔf | ▶noun [ in sing. ] a decrease in something: even top schools have seen a falloff in applications.
fallopian tube
fal lo pi an tube |fəˈlōpēən fəˈloʊpiən tjub | ▶noun (in a female mammal ) either of a pair of tubes along which eggs travel from the ovaries to the uterus. ORIGIN early 18th cent.: from Fallopius, Latinized form of the name of Gabriello Fallopio (1523 –62 ), the Italian anatomist who first described them.
fallout
fall out |ˈfôlˌout ˈfɔlˌaʊt | ▶noun 1 radioactive particles that are carried into the atmosphere after a nuclear explosion or accident and gradually fall back as dust or in precipitation. • [ usu. with modifier ] airborne substances resulting from an industrial process or accident: acid fallout from power stations. 2 the adverse side effects or results of a situation: almost as dramatic as the financial scale of the mess is the growing political fallout.
fallow
fal low 1 |ˈfalō ˈfæloʊ | ▶adjective 1 (of farmland ) plowed and harrowed but left unsown for a period in order to restore its fertility as part of a crop rotation or to avoid surplus production: incentives for farmers to let the land lie fallow in order to reduce grain surpluses. • inactive: long fallow periods when nothing seems to happen. 2 (of a sow ) not pregnant. ▶noun a piece of fallow or uncultivated land. ▶verb [ with obj. ] leave (land ) fallow. DERIVATIVES fal low ness noun ORIGIN Old English fealgian ‘to break up land for sowing, ’ of Germanic origin; related to Low German falgen.
fallow
fal low 2 |ˈfæloʊ ˈfalō | ▶noun a pale brown or reddish yellow color. ORIGIN Old English falu, fealu.
fallow deer
fal low deer |ˈfæloʊ dɪ (ə )r | ▶noun a Eurasian deer with branched palmate antlers, typically having a white-spotted reddish-brown coat in summer. [Cervus dama, family Cervidae. ]
Fall River
Fall Riv er an industrial city in southeastern Massachusetts, a longtime textile center that is also associated with the Lizzie Borden legend; pop. 90,931 (est. 2008 ).
Oxford Dictionary
fall
fall |fɔːl | ▶verb ( past fell |fɛl |; past participle fallen |ˈfɔːl (ə )n | ) [ no obj., with adverbial ] 1 move from a higher to a lower level, typically rapidly and without control: bombs could be seen falling from the planes | my purse fell out of my bag | (as adj. falling ) : she was injured by a falling tree. • (fall off ) become detached and drop to the ground: my sunglasses fell off and broke on the pavement. • hang down: hair that was allowed to fall to the shoulders. • (of land ) slope downwards: the land fell away in a steep bank. • [ no obj. ] (of someone's eyes or glance ) be directed downwards. • [ no obj. ] (of someone's face ) show dismay or disappointment by appearing to droop: her face fell as she thought about her life with George. 2 (of a person ) lose one's balance and collapse: she fell down at school today. • throw oneself to the ground: she fell to her knees and began to weep. • (of a tree or structure ) collapse to the ground: after the earthquake, part of the city fell down . • (fall over ) informal (of computer hardware or software ) stop working suddenly; crash. 3 decrease in number, amount, intensity, or quality: imports fell by 12 per cent | we're worried that standards are falling. • (of a measuring instrument ) show a lower reading: the barometer had fallen a further ten points. • (fall away ) (in sport ) play less well. 4 be captured or defeated: their mountain strongholds fell to enemy attack. • Cricket (of a wicket ) be taken by the bowling side. • die in battle: an English leader who had fallen at the hands of the Danes. • [ no obj. ] (of a government or leader ) lose office or be overthrown. • [ no obj. ] archaic yield to temptation: it is their husbands' fault if wives do fall. 5 pass into a specified state, situation, or position: many of the buildings fell into disrepair | [ with complement ] : she fell pregnant. • occur or take place: when night fell we crawled back to our lines | her birthday fell on May Day. • (fall to doing something ) begin to do something: he fell to musing about how it had happened. • be drawn accidentally into: you must not fall into this common error. 6 be classified in the way specified: canals fall within the Minister's brief. ▶noun 1 an act of falling or collapsing: his mother had a fall as she alighted from a train. • Wrestling a move which pins the opponent's shoulders on the ground for a count of three. • a downward difference in height between parts of a surface. 2 a thing which falls or has fallen: in October came the first fall of snow | a rock fall. • a sudden onset or arrival: the fall of darkness. • (usu. falls ) a waterfall or cascade. • literary a downward turn in a melody: that strain again, it had a dying fall. • the way in which something falls or hangs: the fall of her hair. • (falls ) the parts or petals of a flower which bend downwards, especially the outer perianth segments of an iris. 3 a decrease in size, number, rate, or level: a big fall in unemployment. 4 a defeat or downfall: the fall of the government. • a person's moral decline. • ( the Fall or the Fall of Man ) the lapse of humankind into a state of sin, ascribed in traditional Jewish and Christian theology to the disobedience of Adam and Eve as described in Genesis. 5 (also Fall ) N. Amer. autumn. PHRASES be riding (or heading ) for a fall informal be acting in a reckless way that is likely to end in trouble or disaster. fall between two stools see stool. fall foul (or N. Amer. afoul ) of come into conflict with: one of his songs has fallen foul of censorship regulations. fall in (or into ) line conform with others. [with reference to military formation. ] fall in (or out of ) love ( with someone ) see love. fall into place (of a series of events or facts ) begin to make sense: once he knew what to look for, the theory fell quickly into place. fall on stony ground see stony. fall over oneself to do something informal be excessively eager to do something: critics fell over themselves to compliment him. fall prey to see prey. fall short ( of ) (of a missile ) fail to reach its target. • be deficient or inadequate: the total vote fell short of the required two-thirds majority. fall to pieces see fall apart below. fall victim to see victim. take the fall N. Amer. informal incur blame or punishment in the place of another person. PHRASAL VERBS fall about Brit. informal laugh uncontrollably. fall apart (or to pieces ) break up, come apart, or disintegrate: their marriage is likely to fall apart. • (of a person ) lose one's capacity to cope: Angie fell to pieces because she had lost everything. fall back move or turn back; retreat. fall back on have recourse to when in difficulty: they normally fell back on one of three arguments. fall behind fail to keep up with one's competitors. • fail to meet a commitment to make a regular payment: borrowers falling behind with their mortgage repayments. fall down be inadequate or unsuccessful; fail: the deal fell down because there were a lot of unanswered questions. fall for informal 1 fall in love with. 2 be deceived by (something ): he didn't expect Duncan to fall for a cheap trick like that. fall in take one's place in a military formation: the soldiers fell in by the side of the road. fall in with 1 meet by chance and become involved with: he fell in with thieves. 2 agree to: Rob was happy to fall in with her plans. fall on (or upon ) 1 attack fiercely or unexpectedly: the army fell on the besiegers. • seize enthusiastically: she fell on the sandwiches as though she had not eaten in weeks. 2 (of someone's eyes or gaze ) be directed towards: her gaze fell on the mud-stained coverlet. 3 be the responsibility of: the cost of tuition should not fall on the student. fall out 1 (of the hair, teeth, etc. ) become detached and drop out. 2 have an argument: he had fallen out with his family. 3 leave one's place in a military formation, or on parade. 4 happen; turn out: matters fell out as Stephen arranged. fall through come to nothing; fail: the project fell through due to lack of money. fall to (of a task ) become the duty or responsibility of: it fell to me to write to Shephard. • (of property ) revert to the ownership of. ORIGIN Old English fallan, feallan, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vallen and German fallen; the noun is partly from the verb, partly from Old Norse fall ‘downfall, sin ’.
Falla, Manuel de
Falla, Manuel de |ˈfʌɪjə | (1876 –1946 ), Spanish composer and pianist. He composed the ballets Love, the Magician (1915 ) and The Three-Cornered Hat (1919 ); the latter was produced by Diaghilev, with designs by Picasso.
fallacious
fallacious |fəˈleɪʃəs | ▶adjective based on a mistaken belief: fallacious arguments. DERIVATIVES fallaciously adverb, fallaciousness noun ORIGIN early 16th cent.: from Old French fallacieux, from Latin fallaciosus, from fallacia (see fallacy ).
fallacy
fallacy |ˈfaləsi | ▶noun ( pl. fallacies ) a mistaken belief, especially one based on unsound arguments: the notion that the camera never lies is a fallacy. • Logic a failure in reasoning which renders an argument invalid. • [ mass noun ] faulty reasoning: the potential for fallacy which lies behind the notion of self-esteem. ORIGIN late 15th cent. (in the sense ‘deception, guile ’; gradually superseding Middle English fallace ): from Latin fallacia, from fallax, fallac- ‘deceiving ’, from fallere ‘deceive ’.
fallacy of composition
fal la cy of com po si tion ▶noun the error of assuming that what is true of a member of a group is true for the group as a whole.
fallaway
fall |away |ˈfɔːləweɪ | ▶noun [ usu. as modifier ] Basketball a shot made while the shooter jumps or falls away from the basket.
fallback
fall |back |ˈfɔːlbak | ▶noun 1 an alternative plan that may be used in an emergency. 2 a reduction or decrease.
Fall Classic
Fall Clas sic ▶noun Baseball a nickname for the World Series.
fallen
fallen |ˈfɔːl (ə )n | past participle of fall ▶adjective 1 Theology having sinned: fallen human nature. • dated (of a woman ) regarded as having lost her honour through engaging in a sexual relationship outside marriage. 2 (of a soldier ) killed in battle: fallen heroes. DERIVATIVES fallenness |ˈfɔːl (ə )nnɪs |noun
fallen angel
fall ¦en angel ▶noun (in Christian, Jewish, and Muslim tradition ) an angel who rebelled against God and was cast out of heaven.
faller
fall ¦er |ˈfɔːlə | ▶noun 1 Brit. a person or thing that falls, in particular: • a horse that falls during a race, especially at a fence in a steeplechase. • a company whose shares have lost value on the stock market. 2 N. Amer. a person who fells trees for a living.
fallfish
fall |fish |ˈfɔːlfɪʃ | ▶noun ( pl. same or fallfishes ) a North American freshwater fish resembling the chub. ●Semotilus corporalis, family Cyprinidae.
fall guy
fall guy ▶noun informal, chiefly N. Amer. a scapegoat.
fallibilism
fallibilism |ˈfalɪbɪˌlɪz (ə )m | ▶noun [ mass noun ] Philosophy the principle that propositions concerning empirical knowledge can be accepted even though they cannot be proved with certainty. DERIVATIVES fallibilist noun & adjective
fallible
fallible |ˈfalɪb (ə )l | ▶adjective capable of making mistakes or being wrong: experts can be fallible. DERIVATIVES fallibility |-ˈbɪlɪti |noun, fallibly adverb ORIGIN late Middle English: from medieval Latin fallibilis, from Latin fallere ‘deceive ’.
falling-out
falling-out ▶noun ( pl. fallings-out ) a quarrel or disagreement: the two of them had a falling-out.
falling sickness
fall |ing sick |ness ▶noun [ mass noun ] archaic term for epilepsy.
falling star
fall |ing star ▶noun a meteor or shooting star.
fall line
fall line ▶noun 1 (the fall line ) Skiing the route leading straight down any particular part of a slope. 2 a narrow zone that marks the geological boundary between an upland region and a plain, distinguished by the occurrence of falls and rapids where rivers and streams cross it.
fall-off
fall-off (also falling-off ) ▶noun ( pl. fall-offs or fallings-off ) a decrease in something: a fall-off in work caused by the recession.
fallopian tube
fallopian tube |fəˈləʊpɪən | ▶noun (in a female mammal ) either of a pair of tubes along which eggs travel from the ovaries to the uterus. ORIGIN early 18th cent.: from Fallopius, Latinized form of the name of Gabriello Fallopio (1523 –62 ), the Italian anatomist who first described them.
fallout
fall |out |ˈfɔːlaʊt | ▶noun [ mass noun ] 1 radioactive particles that are carried into the atmosphere after a nuclear explosion and gradually fall back as dust or in precipitation. • [ usu. with modifier ] airborne substances resulting from an industrial process or accident: acid fallout from power stations. 2 the adverse results of a situation or action: he's prepared to take calculated risks regardless of political fallout.
fallow
fallow 1 |ˈfaləʊ | ▶adjective 1 (of farmland ) ploughed and harrowed but left for a period without being sown in order to restore its fertility or to avoid surplus production: incentives for farmers to let land lie fallow . • (of a period of time ) characterized by inaction; unproductive: long fallow periods when nothing seems to happen. 2 (of a sow ) not pregnant. ▶noun a piece of fallow land. ▶verb [ with obj. ] leave (land ) fallow for a period. DERIVATIVES fallowness noun ORIGIN Old English fealgian ‘to break up land for sowing ’, of Germanic origin; related to Low German falgen.
fallow
fallow 2 |ˈfaləʊ | ▶noun [ mass noun ] a pale brown or reddish yellow colour. ORIGIN Old English falu, fealu, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vaal and German fahl, falb .
fallow deer
fal ¦low deer ▶noun a Eurasian deer with branched palmate antlers, typically having a white-spotted reddish-brown coat in summer. ●Cervus dama, family Cervidae.
Fall River
Fall Riv er an industrial city in southeastern Massachusetts, a longtime textile center that is also associated with the Lizzie Borden legend; pop. 90,931 (est. 2008 ).
American Oxford Thesaurus
fall
fall verb 1 bombs began to fall: drop, descend, come down, go down; plummet, plunge, sink, dive, tumble; cascade. ANTONYMS rise. 2 he tripped and fell: topple over, tumble over, keel over, fall down /over, go head over heels, go headlong, collapse, take a spill, pitch forward; trip, stumble, slip; informal come a cropper. ANTONYMS get up. 3 the river began to fall: subside, recede, ebb, flow back, fall away, go down, sink. ANTONYMS rise, flood. 4 inflation will fall: decrease, decline, diminish, fall off, drop off, lessen, dwindle; plummet, plunge, slump, sink; depreciate, cheapen, devalue; informal go through the floor, nosedive, take a header, crash. ANTONYMS rise, increase. 5 the Mogul empire fell: decline, deteriorate, degenerate, go downhill, go to rack and ruin; decay, wither, fade, fail; informal go to the dogs, go to pot, go down the toilet. ANTONYMS rise, flood, increase, flourish. 6 those who fell in the war: die, perish, lose one's life, be killed, be slain, be lost, meet one's death; informal bite the dust, croak, buy it, buy the farm. ANTONYMS flourish. 7 the town fell to the barbarians: surrender to, yield to, submit to, give in to, capitulate to, succumb to; be taken by, be defeated by, be conquered by, be overwhelmed by. ANTONYMS resist. 8 Easter fell on April 11th: occur, take place, happen, come about; arise; literary come to pass. 9 night fell: come, arrive, appear, arise, materialize. 10 she fell ill: become, grow, get, turn. 11 more tasks may fall to him: be the responsibility of, be the duty of, be borne by, be one's job; come someone's way. ▶noun 1 an accidental fall: tumble, trip, spill, topple, slip; collapse; informal nosedive, header, cropper. 2 a fall in sales: decline, falloff, drop, decrease, cut, dip, reduction, downswing; plummet, plunge, slump; informal nosedive, crash. ANTONYMS increase. 3 the fall of the Roman Empire: downfall, collapse, ruin, ruination, failure, decline, deterioration, degeneration; destruction, overthrow, demise. ANTONYMS increase, rise, ascent. 4 the fall of the city: surrender, capitulation, yielding, submission; defeat. ANTONYMS rise. 5 a steep fall down to the ocean: descent, declivity, slope, slant, incline, downgrade. ANTONYMS ascent. 6 the fall of man: sin, wrongdoing, transgression, error, offense, lapse, fall from grace, original sin. 7 (falls ) rafting trips below the falls: waterfall, cascade, cataract; rapids, white water. PHRASES fall apart the old teacup fell apart in my hands: fall to pieces, fall to bits, come apart (at the seams ); disintegrate, fragment, break up, break apart, crumble, decay, perish; informal bust. fall asleep I almost fell asleep at work: doze off, drop off, go to sleep; informal nod off, go off, drift off, crash, conk out, go out like a light, sack out. fall away the ground here falls away abruptly: slope down, slope, slant down, go down, drop, drop away, descend, dip, sink, plunge. fall back the troops were ordered to fall back: retreat, withdraw, back off, draw back, pull back, pull away, move away. fall back on I can always fall back on my career in landscaping: resort to, turn to, look to, call on, have recourse to; rely on, depend on, lean on. fall behind 1 the other walkers fell behind: lag, lag behind, trail, trail behind, be left behind, drop back, bring up the rear; straggle, dally, dawdle, hang back. 2 they fell behind on their payments: get into debt, get into arrears, default, be in the red. fall for 1 she fell for John: fall in love with, become infatuated with, lose one's heart to, take a fancy to, be smitten with /by, be attracted to; informal have the hots for. 2 she won't fall for that trick: be deceived by, be duped by, be fooled by, be taken in by, believe, trust, be convinced by; informal go for, buy, 'swallow (hook, line, and sinker )'. fall in 1 the roof fell in: collapse, cave in, crash in, fall down; give way, crumble, disintegrate. 2 the soldiers fell in: get in formation, get in line, line up, take one's position. 3 he fell in with a bad crowd: get involved, take up, join up, go around, make friends; informal hang, hang out. fall off See fall (sense 4 of the verb ). fall on the army fell on the rebels: attack, assail, assault, fly at, set about, set upon; pounce upon, ambush, surprise, rush, storm, charge; informal jump, lay into, have a go at. fall out let's not fall out over something so silly: quarrel, argue, row, fight, squabble, bicker, have words, disagree, be at odds, clash, wrangle, cross swords, lock horns, be at loggerheads, be at each other's throats; informal scrap. fall short we sincerely hope that our fundraising efforts will not fall short: be deficient, be inadequate, be insufficient, be wanting, be lacking, disappoint; informal not come up to scratch, not come up to snuff. fall short of the results fell short of what was expected: fail to meet, fail to reach, fail to live up to. fall through the deal fell through: fail, be unsuccessful, come to nothing, miscarry, abort, go awry, collapse, founder, come to grief; informal fizzle out, flop, fold, come a cropper, go over like a lead balloon.
fallacious
fallacious adjective we almost printed his fallacious information: erroneous, false, untrue, wrong, incorrect, flawed, inaccurate, mistaken, misinformed, misguided; specious, spurious, bogus, fictitious, fabricated, made up; groundless, unfounded, ill-founded, unproven, unsupported, uncorroborated; informal phony, full of holes. ANTONYMS correct.
fallacy
fallacy noun the fallacy that the sun moves round the earth: misconception, misbelief, delusion, mistaken impression, error, misapprehension, misinterpretation, misconstruction, mistake; untruth, inconsistency, myth.
fallback
fallback noun & adjective the teaching degree is my fallback | we periodically review the fallback procedures: backup, reserve, contingency, auxiliary, spare, alternative.
fallen
fallen adjective 1 fallen heroes: dead, perished, killed, slain, slaughtered, murdered; lost, late, lamented, departed, gone; formal deceased. 2 dated fallen women: immoral, loose, promiscuous, unchaste, sinful, impure, sullied, tainted, dishonored, ruined.
fallible
fallible adjective what good is a fallible security system? error-prone, errant, liable to err, open to error; imperfect, flawed, weak.
fallout
fallout noun the fallout from the scandal led to her resignation: repercussion (s ), reverberation (s ), aftermath, effect (s ), consequence (s ).
fallow
fallow adjective 1 fallow farmland: uncultivated, unplowed, untilled, unplanted, unsown; unused, dormant, resting, empty, bare. ANTONYMS cultivated. 2 a fallow trading period: inactive, dormant, quiet, slack, slow, stagnant; barren, unproductive. ANTONYMS busy.
Oxford Thesaurus
fall
fall verb 1 bombers screamed above and bombs began to fall: drop, drop down, plummet, descend, come down, go down, plunge, sink, dive, nosedive, tumble, pitch; cascade; technical gravitate. ANTONYMS rise. 2 he lost his balance and fell: topple over, tumble over, keel over, fall down, fall over, go head over heels, go end over end, fall headlong, go headlong, collapse, fall in a heap, take a spill, pitch forward; trip, trip over, stumble, stagger, slip, slide; informal come a cropper, go for six; dated measure one's length. ANTONYMS get up. 3 inflation is expected to fall: decrease, decline, diminish, fall off, drop off, go down, grow less, lessen, dwindle; plummet, plunge, slump, sink; depreciate, decrease in value, lose value, decline in price, cheapen, devalue; informal hit the floor, go through the floor, nosedive, take a nosedive, take a header, go into a tailspin, crash. ANTONYMS rise, increase. 4 the Mogul empire fell several centuries later: decline, deteriorate, degenerate, go downhill, go to rack and ruin; die, decay, atrophy, wither, fade, fail; informal go to the dogs, go to pot, hit the skids, go down the toilet, go down the tubes; Austral. /NZ informal go to the pack; rare retrograde. ANTONYMS flourish. 5 a monument to those who fell in the Civil War: die, be killed, be slain, be a casualty, be a fatality, be lost, lose one's life, perish, drop dead, meet one's end, meet one's death; informal bite the dust, croak, buy it; Brit. informal snuff it, peg out; N. Amer. informal bite the big one; archaic decease. 6 the town fell to the barbarians: surrender, yield, submit, give in, give up, give way, capitulate, succumb; be overthrown by, be taken by, be defeated by, be conquered by, be overcome by, be overwhelmed by, lose one's position to, pass into the hands of, fall victim to. ANTONYMS resist. 7 Easter falls on 23rd April: occur, take place, happen, come about, come to pass. 8 he waited for night to fall: come, arrive, appear, occur, arise, materialize. 9 my grandmother fell ill: become, come /get to be, grow, get, turn. 10 more of the domestic tasks may fall to him: be the responsibility of, be the duty of, be borne by, be one's job, be one's task; come someone's way. PHRASES fall about laughing I didn't know whether to get angry or fall about laughing: guffaw, chuckle, chortle, cackle, howl, roar, ha-ha, fall about, roar /hoot with laughter, shake with laughter, be convulsed with laughter, dissolve into laughter, split one's sides, be doubled up; informal be in stitches, die laughing, be rolling in the aisles, laugh like a drain, bust a gut, break up, be creased up, crease up, crack up. fall apart 1 my boots fell apart: fall to pieces, come to pieces, fall to bits, come to bits, come apart (at the seams ); disintegrate, fragment, break up, break apart, crumble, dissolve, degenerate, decay, moulder, perish; go downhill, go to rack and ruin; informal bust. ANTONYMS remain intact. 2 I was gentle with him when he fell apart: break down, have a breakdown, go to pieces, fall to pieces, lose control, lose one's self-control, crumble; informal crack up, freak, freak out. fall asleep Claire tried not to fall asleep: doze off, drop off, go to sleep; informal nod off, go off, drift off, crash, crash out, flake out, conk out, go out like a light; N. Amer. informal sack out, zone out. ANTONYMS stay awake; wake up. fall away the ground fell away abruptly: slope down, slope, slant down, go down, incline downwards, tilt downwards, drop away, drop, descend, dip, sink, plunge; rare decline. ANTONYMS rise. fall back the force of her blow caused him to fall back: retreat, withdraw, back off, draw back, pull back, pull away, move away, retire, pull out; turn tail, flee, take flight, beat a (hasty ) retreat. ANTONYMS advance. fall back on you can always fall back on the support of relatives: resort to, turn to, look to, call on, call into play, call into action, call into service, press into service, have recourse to, make use of, use, employ; rely on, depend on, lean on. fall behind 1 she walked so fast that the others soon fell behind: lag, lag behind, trail, trail behind, be left behind, fall back, drop back, not keep up, lose one's place, not keep pace, bring up the rear; straggle, dally, dawdle, hang back, drag one's feet, take one's time. ANTONYMS overtake. 2 customers fell behind on their payments: get into debt, get into arrears, default, be in the red, be late, be overdue; not keep up with. ANTONYMS be up to date. fall down 1 I spin round and round till I fall down: fall over, fall, topple over, tumble down, keel over, collapse, fall in a heap, trip, take a spill, stumble, stagger; informal come a cropper, go for six; dated measure one's length. 2 the federation fell down in some areas: fail, be unsuccessful, not succeed, lack success, not make the grade, not come up to expectations, fall short, fall flat, disappoint; miss the mark, run aground, go astray, suffer defeat; informal come a cropper, flop. ANTONYMS come through, succeed. fall for 1 she fell for a younger man: fall in love with, become infatuated with, lose one's heart to, take a liking to, take a fancy to, be smitten by, be attracted to, desire; informal fancy, be turned on by, have the hots for. 2 Jenkins is far too astute to fall for that trick: be deceived by, be duped by, be fooled by, be taken in by, accept, believe, trust, be convinced by, have confidence in; informal go for, buy, swallow, {swallow something hook, line, and sinker }, take something as gospel. fall in 1 the roof of our house fell in: collapse, cave in, come down about one's ears, crash in, fall down; subside, sag, slump, sink inwards; give way, crumple, crumble, disintegrate, fall to pieces. ANTONYMS hold up. 2 he ordered his troops to fall in: get in formation, get in line, line up, take one's position, get in order, get into rows /columns; Military dress; Brit. informal form a crocodile. ANTONYMS fall out. fall into place 1 it was at this point that everything began to fall into place: become clear, come home to one, make sense, dawn, register, get through, sink in; informal click. 2 almost miraculously, the pieces fell into place: take shape, come together, take form, become definite. fall in with 1 he fell in with a bad crowd: get involved with, take up with, join up with, go around with, string along with, become friendly with, make friends with, strike up a friendship with, start seeing, make the acquaintance of; informal hang out with, hang about with, knock about /around with. 2 he refused to fall in with their demands: comply with, go along with, support, back, give one's backing to, cooperate with, act in accordance with, obey, yield to, submit to, bow to, defer to, adhere to, conform to; agree to, agree with, accept, assent to, concur with. ANTONYMS disobey. fall off the amount of container shipping has fallen off: decrease, decline, diminish, drop off, go down, go downhill, grow less, lessen, dwindle, plummet, plunge, slump, sink; informal hit the floor, go through the floor, nosedive, take a nosedive, take a header, go into a tailspin, crash. ANTONYMS increase. fall on 1 the army fell on the besiegers: attack, assail, assault, make an assault on, fly at, let fly at, launch oneself at, set about, set upon, pounce upon, ambush, surprise, accost, rush, storm, charge; informal jump, lay into, lace into, tear into, sail into, pitch into, get stuck into, let someone have it, beat someone up; Brit. informal have a go at; N. Amer. informal light into. 2 the cost should not fall on the students: be borne by, be carried by, be the responsibility of, be paid by. fall out 1 let's not fall out over silly things: quarrel, argue, row, fight, have a row, have a fight, squabble, bicker, have words, disagree, differ, have a difference of opinion, have a disagreement, be at odds, clash, wrangle, get into conflict, get into a dispute, cross swords, lock horns, be at loggerheads, be at each other's throats; informal scrap, argufy, go at it hammer and tongs, argy-bargy; archaic altercate, chop logic; Scottish archaic threap. ANTONYMS make up. 2 the soldier fell out without permission: move out of formation, move out of line, get out of line, get out of formation; stand at ease. ANTONYMS fall in. 3 it fell out that we lost: happen, occur, come about, take place, turn out, chance, arise, befall, result. fall short the results fall short of what was expected: fail to meet, fail to reach, fail to live up to; be deficient, be inadequate, be insufficient, be wanting, be lacking, disappoint, fail, fail to live up to one's expectations; informal not come up to scratch. ANTONYMS measure up (to ). fall through unfortunately the deal fell through: fail, be unsuccessful, come to nothing, come to naught, fail to happen, miscarry, abort, go awry, be frustrated, collapse, founder, come to grief; come to a halt, grind to a halt, end, terminate; informal fizzle out, flop, fold, come a cropper, blow up in someone's face, go down like a lead balloon. ANTONYMS succeed. fall to dated you must take off your coats and fall to. See start (sense 4 of the verb ). ▶noun 1 he had an accidental fall: tumble, trip, spill, topple, stumble, slip; collapse; informal nosedive, header, cropper. 2 September's reports showed a fall in sales: decline, fall-off, drop, dropping off, decrease, cut, lessening, lowering, dip, diminishing, dwindling, reduction, plummet, plunge, slump, deterioration, downswing; informal nosedive, crash, let-up. ANTONYMS increase. 3 the fall of the Roman Empire: downfall, ruin, ruination, collapse, failure, decline, deterioration, degeneration, destruction, overthrow, demise. ANTONYMS rise. 4 the fall of the city to the enemy: surrender, surrendering, capitulation, yielding, giving in, submission, acquiescence, succumbing, resignation, laying down of arms; defeat. 5 there is a fall of some fifty feet down to the ocean: descent, declivity, slope, downward slope, downward slant, incline; N. Amer. downgrade. ANTONYMS ascent. 6 Christianity the Fall of Man: sin, sinning, wrongdoing, transgression, error, yielding to temptation, offence, lapse, fall from grace, backsliding; original sin. 7 (falls ) they went on rafting trips below the falls: waterfall, cascade, cataract, chute, torrent; rapids, white water; N. English force; Scottish archaic linn.
fallacious
fallacious adjective the fallacious assumption underlying this reasoning: erroneous, false, untrue, wrong, incorrect, faulty, flawed, inaccurate, inexact, imprecise, mistaken, misinformed, misguided, misleading, deceptive, delusive, delusory, illusory, sophistic, specious, fictitious, spurious, fabricated, distorted, made up, trumped up; baseless, groundless, unfounded, foundationless, unsubstantiated, unproven, unsupported, uncorroborated, ill-founded, without basis, without foundation; informal bogus, phoney, iffy, dicey, full of holes, (way ) off beam; Brit. informal dodgy. ANTONYMS true, correct.
fallacy
fallacy noun the fallacy that we all work from nine to five: misconception, mistaken belief, misbelief, delusion, false notion, mistaken impression, misapprehension, misjudgement, miscalculation, misinterpretation, misconstruction, error, mistake, untruth, inconsistency, illusion, myth, fantasy, deceit, deception, sophism; sophistry, casuistry, faulty reasoning, unsound argument.
fallen
fallen adjective 1 he attended a mass for his fallen comrades: dead, killed, murdered, slain, slaughtered, perished, expired, deceased; lost, late, lamented, departed, gone; rare demised. ANTONYMS surviving. 2 dated they encouraged the moral reform of fallen women. See promiscuous (sense 1 ).
fallible
fallible adjective all human beings are fallible: error-prone, erring, errant, liable to err, prone to err, open to error; imperfect, flawed, frail, weak. ANTONYMS infallible.
fallow
fallow adjective 1 fallow farmland: uncultivated, unploughed, untilled, unplanted, unsown, unseeded, unused, undeveloped, dormant, resting, empty, bare, virgin; neglected, untended, unmaintained, unmanaged. ANTONYMS cultivated. 2 trading is set to emerge from a fallow period: inactive, dormant, quiet, slack, slow, slow-moving, flat, idle, inert, static, stagnant, depressed; barren, unproductive, unfruitful. ANTONYMS busy.
Duden Dictionary
Fall
Fall Substantiv, maskulin , der |F a ll |der Fall; Genitiv: des Fall [e ]s, Fälle 1 a ohne Plural mittelhochdeutsch, althochdeutsch val, zu fallen das Fallen 1a der Fallschirm öffnet sich im Fall , während des Falles der freie Fall Physik gesetzmäßig beschleunigter Fall eines Körpers, auf den außer der Schwerkraft keine zusätzliche Kraft einwirkt b ohne Plural mittelhochdeutsch, althochdeutsch val, zu fallen das Fallen, 1d Hinfallen; Sturz einen schweren Fall tun | im Fall riss er sie mit | man hörte einen dumpfen Fall (das Geräusch eines Sturzes ) | figurativ der Fall (Untergang ) Trojas | figurativ der Fall (die Öffnung, der Abbau ) der Berliner Mauer zu Fall kommen gehoben hinfallen, hinstürzen sie ist im Dunkeln zu Fall gekommen ; gestürzt werden; scheitern durch einen Skandal zu Fall kommen zu Fall bringen gehoben hinfallen, hinstürzen lassen eine Baumwurzel hat ihn zu Fall gebracht ; scheitern lassen, zunichtemachen; stürzen ein Gesetz zu Fall bringen 2 a etwas, womit man rechnen muss von der Vorstellung des Würfelfalls ausgehend, aber beeinflusst von lateinisch casus = Fall (französisch cas ) wenn dieser Fall eintritt | für den schlimmsten, äußersten Fall | für diesen Fall habe ich vorgesorgt | in solchen Fällen gibt es nur eins [nicht ] der Fall sein sich [nicht ] so verhalten, [nicht ] so sein den Fall setzen als gegeben annehmen gesetzt den Fall , dass …; für den Fall , dass …; im Fall [e ], dass … falls, wenn auf jeden Fall ganz bestimmt, unbedingt auf alle Fälle unbedingt, unter allen Umständen, ganz sicher ; zur Sicherheit, vorsichtshalber wir nehmen auf alle Fälle einen Schirm mit auf keinen Fall absolut nicht, unter keinen Umständen für den Fall der Fälle umgangssprachlich für den schlimmsten, den äußersten Fall im Fall der Fälle umgangssprachlich im schlimmsten, im äußersten Falle von Fall zu Fall jeweils für sich, besonders, in jedem Einzelfall etwas von Fall zu Fall entscheiden b sich in einer bestimmten Weise darstellende Angelegenheit, Sache, Erscheinung von der Vorstellung des Würfelfalls ausgehend, aber beeinflusst von lateinisch casus = Fall (französisch cas ) ein ungewöhnlicher, hoffnungsloser, vergleichbarer Fall | ein typischer Fall von Leichtsinn | umgangssprachlich er ist ein hoffnungsloser Fall er ist unverbesserlich, bei ihm ist alle Mühe vergebens | ich komme noch auf den Fall zurück | das ist in jedem [einzelnen ] Fall wieder anders klarer Fall ! umgangssprachlich aber natürlich! , selbstverständlich! jemandes Fall sein umgangssprachlich jemandem gefallen, zusagen, entsprechen er ist nicht gerade mein Fall in jedem Fall unter allen Umständen, was auch immer eintrifft o. Ä.[das ist ] ein typischer Fall von denkste umgangssprachlich da habe ich mich, hat sich jemand gewaltig geirrt damit hat sich der Fall umgangssprachlich damit ist die Sache erledigt 3 von der Vorstellung des Würfelfalls ausgehend, aber beeinflusst von lateinisch casus = Fall (französisch cas )Rechtssprache Gegenstand einer Untersuchung; Verhandlung der Fall Robert Krause | dieser Fall wird die Gerichte noch einige Zeit beschäftigen | einen Fall aufklären, erneut aufrollen 4 von der Vorstellung des Würfelfalls ausgehend, aber beeinflusst von lateinisch casus = Fall (französisch cas )Medizin das Auftreten, Vorhandensein einer Krankheit bei jemandem es traten mehrere Fälle von Pilzvergiftung auf | sie haben zwei schwere Fälle (schwer kranke Patienten ) auf der Station 5 für lateinisch casus, Kasus Sprachwissenschaft (bei Substantiven, Adjektiven, Pronomina, Numeralia ) grammatische Form, die die Beziehung ausdrückt, in der das betreffende Wort zu anderen Teilen eines Satzes steht; Kasus
Fall
Fall Substantiv, Neutrum Seemannssprache , das |F a ll |das Fall; Genitiv: des Fall [e ]s, Plural: die Fallen aus dem Niederdeutschen < mittelniederdeutsch val, eigentlich = das Fallen Tau zum Aufziehen und Herablassen eines Segels
Fallada
Fal la da Eigenname |F a llada |deutscher Schriftsteller
Fallanalyse
Fall ana ly se Substantiv, feminin Kriminologie , die |F a llanalyse |Analyse eines Kriminalfalles
Fallanalytiker
Fall ana ly ti ker Substantiv, maskulin Kriminologie , der |F a llanalytiker |Fachmann für die Erstellung des psychologischen Profils 2b eines gesuchten Täters anhand von Indizien, Tathergang o. Ä.
Fallanalytikerin
Fall ana ly ti ke rin Substantiv, feminin , die |F a llanalytikerin |weibliche Form zu Fallanalytiker
Fallazien
Fal la zi en Pluralwort Philosophie , die |Fall a zien |die Fallazien (Plural ) lateinisch Täuschungen; formal unrichtige Schlüsse; Fehl- und Trugschlüsse
Fällbad
Fäll bad Substantiv, Neutrum Textilindustrie , das |F ä llbad |zu fällen 4 bei der Herstellung von Chemiefasern verwendete chemische Lösung, die bewirkt, dass sich die aus den Spinndüsen austretende, noch flüssige Masse zu Fäden verfestigt
Fallbeil
Fall beil Substantiv, Neutrum , das |F a llbeil |schweres Beil der Guillotine, das bei der Hinrichtung [durch Herabfallen ] den Kopf vom Rumpf trennt Kurzform: Beil 3 unter das Fallbeil kommen
Fallbeispiel
Fall bei spiel Substantiv, Neutrum , das |F a llbeispiel |einen bestimmten Sachverhalt charakterisierender, illustrierender typischer Fall als Beispiel
Fallbeschleunigung
Fall be schleu ni gung Substantiv, feminin Physik , die |F a llbeschleunigung |Beschleunigung, die ein frei fallender Körper erfährt
Fallbö
Fall bö Substantiv, feminin Meteorologie , die |F a llbö |(häufig an der Leeseite von Bergen oder Gebirgskämmen, auch in Schauer- oder Gewitterwolken auftretende ) heftige, abwärtsgerichtete Luftströmung
Fallbrücke
Fall brü cke Substantiv, feminin Geschichte , die |F a llbrücke |bewegliche Brücke, die zur Erstürmung von Mauern, Überbrückung von Gräben dient und auch an Schiffen angebracht wird
Falle
Fal le Substantiv, feminin , die |F a lle |die Falle; Genitiv: der Falle, Plural: die Fallen mittelhochdeutsch valle, althochdeutsch falla, zu fallen ; ursprüngliche Bezeichnung für ein Fanggerät mit Falltür 1 in unterschiedlicher Weise konstruierte Vorrichtung zum Fangen von Tieren die Falle schnappt zu, schlägt zu | Fallen stellen | eine Falle aufstellen | ein Tier in, mit der Falle fangen | der Fuchs ist in die Falle gegangen | figurativ dieses Angebot ist nur eine [plumpe ] Falle | figurativ jemandem eine Falle stellen (jemanden mit einer List überraschen, hereinlegen wollen ) | figurativ jemanden in eine Falle locken (durch eine List überraschen, hereinlegen ) | figurativ wir sitzen in der Falle (wissen keinen Ausweg aus dieser Lage ) | figurativ er ist in eine Falle geraten | figurativ er ist der Polizei in die Falle gegangen (ist von ihr durch eine List dingfest gemacht worden )2 in Verbindung mit bestimmten Präposition salopp Bett in die Falle gehen 3 a (der durch Niederdrücken der Türklinke bewegte ) Riegel am Türschloss b schweizerisch Türklinke
fallen
fal len starkes Verb |f a llen |starkes Verb; Perfektbildung mit »ist « mittelhochdeutsch vallen, althochdeutsch fallan; altgermanisches Verb 1 a (von einem Körper ) durch seine Schwere aus einer bestimmten Höhe abwärts -, in Richtung Boden bewegt werden senkrecht fallen | die Blätter fallen von den Bäumen | der Vorhang fällt senkt sich herab | der Baum fiel krachend zu Boden | die Tropfen fielen dicht | es ist Schnee gefallen | er ist aus dem Bett gefallen | etwas ist in den Brunnen, vom Tisch gefallen | lass das Geschirr nicht fallen | beim Stricken die Maschen fallen lassen | umgangssprachlich erschöpft ließ ich mich aufs Bett fallen | figurativ er hat sogar seinen besten Freund fallen lassen, (seltener:) fallen gelassen sich von ihm losgesagt, ihn nicht weiter unterstützt b [beim Gehen, Laufen ] den festen Halt, das Gleichgewicht verlieren und mit dem Körper auf den Boden geraten; hinfallen; hinstürzen pass auf, fall nicht! | die alte Frau ist gefallen | er ist gegen die Tischkante, in den Schmutz gefallen | umgangssprachlich ich bin auf die Nase gefallen bin hingefallen | substantiviert er hat im Fallen das Tischtuch mitgerissen | figurativ ein gefallenes Mädchen (veraltend ; [nach früherer bürgerlicher Moralauffassung ] junge Frau, die Geschlechtsverkehr gehabt hat, ohne verheiratet zu sein )2 a in bestimmter Weise nach unten hängen die Gardinen fallen locker | die Haare fielen ihm strähnig ins Gesicht b schräg nach unten verlaufen, abfallen die Felsen fallen schroff ins Tal 3 a seine Höhe vermindern; niedriger werden; sinken der Wasserspiegel ist [um 1 m ] gefallen | das Barometer fällt (es gibt schlechtes Wetter ) | die Temperatur, das Thermometer ist gefallen (es ist kälter geworden )b (im Wert ) geringer werden; sinken die Preise fallen | figurativ sein Ansehen fällt immer mehr 4 a im Kampf sterben, als Soldat o. Ä. ums Leben kommen ihr Bruder ist [im Krieg ] gefallen | gefallene Soldaten, Kameraden b Jägersprache durch Krankheit, Hunger, Kälte o. Ä. eingehen, verenden ein gefallenes Reh 5 erstürmt, erobert, überwältigt werden die Hauptstadt ist gefallen | figurativ der Tag, als die Berliner Mauer fiel geöffnet wurde, als Grenze keinen Bestand mehr hatte 6 seine Geltung verlieren das Verbot ist gefallen | dieses Tabu ist jetzt [endlich ] gefallen | wir haben unsere Absicht, eine Reise zu machen, fallen lassen, (seltener:) fallen gelassen aufgegeben 7 a sich plötzlich, mit einer bestimmten Heftigkeit irgendwohin, an eine bestimmte Stelle bewegen er fiel [vor ihr ] auf die Knie (warf sich [vor ihr ] nieder ) | sie fiel der Freundin um den Hals (umarmte sie ) | er fiel dem Pferd in die Zügel (ergriff sie und hielt das Pferd auf ) | die Tür fiel ins Schloss | feindliche Truppen waren ins Land gefallen (eingedrungen ) | sie wollten dem Feind in die Flanke, in den Rücken fallen (ihn dort angreifen )b an eine bestimmte Stelle dringen, geworfen werden das Licht fällt ins Zimmer | sein Blick fiel [zufällig ] auf den Ring | figurativ die Wahl ist auf sie gefallen (sie wurde gewählt ) | figurativ der Verdacht fiel auf ihn (er wurde verdächtigt )8 a zu einer bestimmten Zeit, zu einem bestimmten Zeitpunkt stattfinden, sein der Heilige Abend fällt dieses Jahr auf einen Sonntag | in diese Zeit fallen die Hauptwerke der Dichterin (sie entstanden in dieser Zeit )b zu einem bestimmten Bereich gehören; von etwas erfasst, betroffen werden in, unter dieselbe Kategorie fallen | das fällt nicht in die Kompetenz der Länder | es fällt nicht in seine Zuständigkeit c in jemandes Besitz kommen, jemandem zufallen die Erbschaft fiel an seine Schwester | das Gebiet ist an Italien gefallen 9 a [unvermittelt ] ausgeführt, durchgeführt, getroffen o. Ä. werden die Entscheidung ist gefallen | bei der Demonstration fielen Schüsse (wurden Schüsse abgefeuert ) | während der ersten Halbzeit fiel kein Tor (wurde kein Tor geschossen, erzielt )b ausgesprochen, geäußert werden in der Sitzung fielen böse Bemerkungen | sie hat da so eine Andeutung fallen lassen, (seltener:) fallen gelassen 10 [unvermittelt ] in einen bestimmten Zustand geraten in Angst und Schrecken fallen | in seinen alten Dialekt fallen | das Gebäude ist in Trümmer gefallen ist zerstört worden 11 umgangssprachlich durchfallen 2b 12 Geologie (von schräg verlaufenden Gesteinsschichten ) sich neigen
fällen
fäl len schwaches Verb |f ä llen |schwaches Verb; Perfektbildung mit »hat « mittelhochdeutsch vellen, althochdeutsch fellan = fallen machen, zu Fall bringen, umwerfen, Kausativ zu fallen 1 durch Hauen, Sägen o. Ä. zum Fallen bringen; umschlagen; umhauen Bäume, Holz fällen | figurativ nicht ruhen, bis der Gegner gefällt (zu Fall gebracht, gestürzt ) ist 2 Militär zum Angriff senken, nach vorn richten das Bajonett fällen 3 (als gültig ) aussprechen, verkünden eine Entscheidung, ein Urteil fällen (treffen )4 Chemie das Ausscheiden, Absondern eines gelösten Stoffes in Form von Tropfen, Flocken, Kristallen aus einer Lösung bewirken; ausfällen ein Salz aus einer Lösung fällen
fallen lassen
fal len las sen , fal len las sen starkes Verb fallenlassen |f a llen l a ssen f a llenlassen |starkes Verb; Perfektbildung mit »hat « 1 aufgeben einen Plan fallen lassen 2 sich von jemandem lossagen einen Freund fallen lassen 3 beiläufig äußern eine Bemerkung fallen lassen
Fallensteller
Fal len stel ler Substantiv, maskulin , der |F a llensteller |der Fallensteller; Genitiv: des Fallenstellers, Plural: die Fallensteller jemand, der Fallen 1 zum Tierfang aufstellt
Fallenstellerin
Fal len stel le rin Substantiv, feminin , die |F a llenstellerin |weibliche Form zu Fallensteller
Fallersleben
Fal lers le ben Eigenname |F a llersleben |Stadtteil von Wolfsburg
Fallerslebener
Fal lers le be ner Adjektiv Fallersleber |F a llerslebener | Fallerslebener Geschäfte
Fallerslebener
Fal lers le be ner Substantiv, maskulin , der Fallersleber |F a llerslebener |Einwohnerbezeichnung
Fallerslebenerin
Fal lers le be ne rin Substantiv, feminin , die Fallersleberin |F a llerslebenerin |weibliche Form zu Fallersleber
Fallersleber
Fal lers le ber Adjektiv Fallerslebener ; Fallerslebener |F a llersleber |Einwohnerbezeichnung
Fallersleberin
Fal lers le be rin Substantiv, feminin , die Fallerslebenerin |F a llersleberin |weibliche Form zu Fallersleber
Fallgeschwindigkeit
Fall ge schwin dig keit Substantiv, feminin Physik , die |F a llgeschwindigkeit |Geschwindigkeit, mit der sich ein frei fallender Körper bewegt
Fallgesetz
Fall ge setz Substantiv, Neutrum Physik , das |F a llgesetz |
Fallgestaltung
Fall ge stal tung Substantiv, feminin , die |F a llgestaltung |Art und Weise, wie sich ein Fall gestaltet; Gestaltung eines Falles
Fallgrube
Fall gru be Substantiv, feminin Jägersprache , die |F a llgrube |tiefe, mit Zweigen überdeckte und unsichtbar gemachte Grube als Falle für Tiere, besonders für Großwild
Fallhöhe
Fall hö he Substantiv, feminin , die |F a llhöhe |1 Physik Strecke, die ein Körper im freien Fall zurücklegt 2 a Literaturwissenschaft (besonders in der Dramaturgie des Barocks und der Aufklärung ) Weg des sozialen Falls des Heldens, der als desto tiefer empfunden wird, je höher sein sozialer Rang ist b hohe Ausgangsbasis, hoher Ausgangspunkt (von dem ein Absturz leicht möglich ist ) die Fallhöhe dieses Ausnahmeschauspielers ist atemberaubend 3 Diskrepanz die Fallhöhe zwischen Anspruch und Wirklichkeit
Fallholz
Fall holz Substantiv, Neutrum , das |F a llholz |Gesamtheit der abgefallenen, meist dürren Äste und Zweige Fallholz sammeln
fallibel
fal li bel Adjektiv bildungssprachlich |fall i bel |mittellateinisch fallibilis, zu lateinisch fallere = betrügen dem Irrtum unterworfen, fehlbar
Fallibilismus
Fal li bi lis mus Substantiv, maskulin Philosophie , der |Fallibil i smus |der Fallibilismus; Genitiv: des Fallibilismus Anschauung der kritisch-rationalistischen Schule, nach der es keine unfehlbare Erkenntnisinstanz gibt
fallieren
fal lie ren schwaches Verb |fall ie ren |lateinisch-italienisch 1 in Konkurs gehen 2 landschaftlich missraten, misslingen
fällig
fäl lig Adjektiv |f ä llig |mittelhochdeutsch vellec, vellic = fallend; baufällig; zur Zahlung verpflichtet, althochdeutsch fellīg = fallend, eingestürzt a zu einem bestimmten Zeitpunkt erforderlich, bezahlt zu werden fällige, fällig gewordene Wechsel | der Betrag ist, wird am, [bis ] zum 1. April fällig b [seit längerer Zeit ] notwendig, zur Erledigung anstehend die längst fällige Reform des Schulwesens | das Urteil ist am Freitag fällig | salopp der Kerl ist heute Abend fällig !ich werde ihn mir vornehmen c zu einem bestimmten Zeitpunkt erwartet der Schnellzug ist in 4 Minuten fällig
fällig geworden
fäl lig ge wor den , fäl lig ge wor den Adjektiv fälliggeworden |f ä llig geworden f ä lliggeworden | fällig a ein fällig gewordener Wechsel
Fälligkeit
Fäl lig keit Substantiv, feminin , die |F ä lligkeit |die Fälligkeit; Genitiv: der Fälligkeit, Plural: die Fälligkeiten 1 ohne Plural das Fälligsein 2 Kaufmannssprache, Bankwesen festgelegter Zeitpunkt, zu dem die Zahlung einer Schuld fällig wird
Fälligkeitstag
Fäl lig keits tag Substantiv, maskulin , der |F ä lligkeitstag |Tag, an dem etwas fällig a wird
Fälligkeitstermin
Fäl lig keits ter min Substantiv, maskulin , der |F ä lligkeitstermin |Zeitpunkt, zu dem eine Schuld zu begleichen ist
Falllaub
Fall laub , Fall-Laub Substantiv, Neutrum , das Fall-Laub |F a lllaub F a ll-Laub |abgefallenes Laub
Falllaubgehölz
Fall laub ge hölz Substantiv, Neutrum , das |F a lllaubgehölz |Holzgewächs, das sein Laub jahreszeitlich abwirft
Falllinie
Fall li nie , Fall-Li nie Substantiv, feminin , die Fall-Linie |F a lllinie F a ll-Linie |1 auf einer geneigten Fläche die Linie des größten Gefälles 2 a Bergsteigen Direttissima b Ski direkte, kürzeste Abfahrt ins Tal
Fallmanager
Fall ma na ger Substantiv, maskulin , der |F a llmanager |persönlicher Berater für Arbeitslose
Fallmanagerin
Fall ma na ge rin Substantiv, feminin , die |F a llmanagerin |weibliche Form zu Fallmanager
Fällmittel
Fäll mit tel Substantiv, Neutrum Chemie , das |F ä llmittel |Mittel zum Ausfällen eines Stoffes
Fallobst
Fall obst Substantiv, Neutrum , das |F a llobst |Obst, das von selbst vom Baum gefallen ist Fallobst auflesen
Fallout
Fall out , Fall-out Substantiv, maskulin Kernphysik , der Fall-out |fɔːlˈ |a͜ut ˈfɔːl …fɔːlˈ |a͜ut ˈfɔːl …|der Fallout; Genitiv: des Fallouts, Plural: die Fallouts der Fall-out; Genitiv: des Fall-outs, Plural: die Fall-outs englisch fall-out, zu: to fall out = herausfallen nach Kernwaffenexplosionen oder Betriebsunfällen in Kernkraftwerken niedergehender radioaktiver Niederschlag
Fallpauschale
Fall pau scha le Substantiv, feminin Versicherungswesen , die |F a llpauschale |pauschale Vergütung medizinischer Leistungen pro Krankheitsfall
Fallplättchen
Fall plätt chen Substantiv, Neutrum , das |F a llplättchen |Metallplättchen an der Schachuhr, das vom Zeiger mitgenommen wird
Fallrecht
Fall recht Substantiv, Neutrum , das |F a llrecht | Recht 1a , das auf den richterlichen Entscheidungen bei einzelnen exemplarischen Fällen beruht, sich künftig an diesen ausrichtet und durch sie fortgebildet wird z. B. das angloamerikanische Recht
Fallreep
Fall reep Substantiv, Neutrum Seemannssprache , das |F a llreep |eigentlich = Reep (= Tau ), an dem der Seemann sich vom Schiffsbord ins Boot »fallen « lässt an der Bordwand eines Schiffes herablassbare Treppe zum Betreten des Schiffes besonders von einem Boot aus
Fallrohr
Fall rohr Substantiv, Neutrum , das |F a llrohr |senkrechtes, von der Regenrinne zum Erdboden führendes Rohr, das Regenwasser abführt
Fallrückzieher
Fall rück zie her Substantiv, maskulin Fußball , der |F a llrückzieher |Aktion, bei der sich der Spieler rückwärts fallen lässt und dabei den Ball über den eigenen Kopf hinweg nach hinten schießt
falls
falls Konjunktion |f a lls |eigentlich Genitiv von Fall für den Fall, unter der Voraussetzung, dass falls es regnen sollte, bleiben wir zu Hause | ich werde [,] falls nötig [,] selbst kommen
Fallschirm
Fall schirm Substantiv, maskulin , der |F a llschirm |die Fallgeschwindigkeit vermindernde schirmartige Vorrichtung, mit der Personen und Gegenstände von einem Luftfahrzeug aus unversehrt zur Erde gebracht werden können Kurzform: Schirm 1b der Fallschirm öffnet sich | mit dem Fallschirm abspringen
Fallschirmabsprung
Fall schirm ab sprung Substantiv, maskulin , der |F a llschirmabsprung |Absprung aus einem Luftfahrzeug mit einem Fallschirm
Fallschirmjäger
Fall schirm jä ger Substantiv, maskulin Militär , der |F a llschirmjäger |1 Soldat der Fallschirmjäger 2 2 Pluraletantum im Fallschirmspringen besonders für die Luftlandung ausgebildete Kampftruppe er ist, dient bei den Fallschirmjägern
Fallschirmjägerin
Fall schirm jä ge rin Substantiv, feminin , die |F a llschirmjägerin |weibliche Form zu Fallschirmjäger 1
Fallschirmsport
Fall schirm sport Substantiv, maskulin , der |F a llschirmsport |Fallschirmspringen als Sportart mit Wettbewerben, die Präzision, Geschicklichkeit u. Ä. betreffen
Fallschirmspringen
Fall schirm sprin gen Substantiv, Neutrum , das |F a llschirmspringen |das Abspringen mit einem Fallschirm aus einem Luftfahrzeug
Fallschirmspringer
Fall schirm sprin ger Substantiv, maskulin , der |F a llschirmspringer |a Fallschirmjäger b jemand, der als Sportart Fallschirmspringen betreibt
Fallschirmspringerin
Fall schirm sprin ge rin Substantiv, feminin , die |F a llschirmspringerin |weibliche Form zu Fallschirmspringer b
Fallschirmtruppe
Fall schirm trup pe Substantiv, feminin Militär , die |F a llschirmtruppe |Truppe, die besonders im Fallschirmspringen ausgebildet ist
Fallstrick
Fall strick Substantiv, maskulin , der |F a llstrick |zu Strick in der alten Bedeutung »Schlinge «Hinterhältigkeit, auf die jemand unversehens hereinfallen kann ein Examen voller Fallstricke | jemandem Fallstricke legen (jemanden hereinlegen wollen )
Fallstudie
Fall stu die Substantiv, feminin , die |F a llstudie |[wissenschaftliche ] Untersuchung, Darstellung eines in psychologischer, pädagogischer, soziologischer o. ä. Hinsicht interessanten Einzelfalles, Phänomens (und daraus folgende Ableitung genereller Prinzipien )
Fallstufe
Fall stu fe Substantiv, feminin besonders Geografie , die |F a llstufe |künstliche oder natürliche Stufe in einem Fließgewässer
fallsüchtig
fall süch tig Adjektiv |f a llsüchtig |
Falltechnik
Fall tech nik Substantiv, feminin Budo , die |F a lltechnik |Technik des regelgerechten Fallens auf die Matte
Falltür
Fall tür Substantiv, feminin , die |F a lltür |1 waagerecht aufklappbare, in Fußbodenhöhe über einer Keller- oder Bodentreppe angebrachte Tür 2 geheime Klapptür im Fußboden, durch die eine eintretende Person hindurchfallen soll
Fällung
Fäl lung Substantiv, feminin , die |F ä llung |die Fällung; Genitiv: der Fällung, Plural: die Fällungen 1 das Fällen 1 2 das Fällen 3 die Fällung militärischer, politischer Entscheidungen 3 Chemie das Fällen 4 ; Ausfällung
Fällungsmittel
Fäl lungs mit tel Substantiv, Neutrum Chemie , das |F ä llungsmittel |gasförmiger, flüssiger oder fester Stoff, der die Bildung unlöslicher Niederschläge in Lösungen bewirkt
fallweise
fall wei se Adverb besonders österreichisch |f a llweise |von Fall zu Fall erfolgend; gegebenenfalls er arbeitet nur fallweise
Fallwind
Fall wind Substantiv, maskulin , der |F a llwind |in Gebirgen auftretender, mit großer Geschwindigkeit aus der Höhe nach unten wehender Wind
Fallwurf
Fall wurf Substantiv, maskulin Handball , der |F a llwurf |Wurf aufs Tor, bei dem sich der Spieler in den gegnerischen Torraum fallen lässt
Fallzahl
Fall zahl Substantiv, feminin , die |F a llzahl |Anzahl von Fällen 2a die Fallzahlen steigen, sind rückläufig
French Dictionary
fallacieusement
fallacieusement n. f. nom féminin D ’une manière fallacieuse.
fallacieux
fallacieux , ieuse adj. adjectif littéraire Mensonger, trompeur. : Des discours fallacieux. Ils sont venus me voir sous le fallacieux prétexte de m ’apporter des oranges.
falloir
falloir v. impers. verbe impersonnel 1 Être nécessaire. : Il faut que tu viennes nous voir. Fais ce qu ’il faut (et non ce *qui faut ) pour réussir. Note Syntaxique Le verbe se construit avec: – un nom. Il faut des tomates pour cette recette. – un infinitif. Il faut dormir maintenant. – la conjonction que suivie du subjonctif. Il faut que vous soyez présents. 2 Manquer. : Il s ’en faut de 100 $ pour que l ’objectif soit atteint. Note Syntaxique Cette construction s ’emploie lorsqu ’une quantité est inférieure à ce qu ’elle devrait être. Note Grammaticale Le participe passé de ce verbe, fallu, est toujours invariable. LOCUTIONS Comme il faut Selon l ’usage. : Écrire comme il faut. SYNONYME convenablement ; correctement . Il me (te, lui, etc. ) faut. J ’ai (tu as, il a, etc. ) besoin de. : Il te faudra deux mois pour repeindre la maison. Peu s ’en est fallu que. Il a failli arriver que. : Peu s ’en est fallu que nous perdions pied. Peu s ’en faut Approximativement. : Elle a travaillé deux ans à cet endroit, ou peu s ’en faut. S ’en falloir de. Manquer. : Il s ’en faut de 100 $ que l ’objectif soit atteint ou ne soit atteint. Note Syntaxique À la forme pronominale impersonnelle, le verbe se construit avec le pronom en et la préposition de. Note Syntaxique La locution se construit avec le subjonctif. Tant s ’en faut Au contraire. : Il n ’est pas pauvre, tant s ’en faut (et non *loin s ’en faut ): il a mis de côté une bonne somme. SYNONYME loin de là . Note Syntaxique C ’est par confusion avec les expressions loin de là et tant s ’en faut, qui ont la même signification, que l ’on emploie fautivement *loin s ’en faut. falloir Conjugaison Ce verbe ne s ’utilise qu ’à la troisième personne du singulier.
Spanish Dictionary
falla
falla 1 nombre femenino 1 Defecto material de una cosa, especialmente de una tela, que la hace menos resistente :en esta tienda rebajan las camisas con falla a mitad de precio .2 Incumplimiento de una obligación .3 Amér Acción equivocada o defecto de una persona o una cosa :un trabajo con muchas fallas; fue una falla de su parte creer que le iban a conceder el crédito; el jeep se les paró de golpe y vieron que la falla era irreparable; compré aquella camisa más barata porque la tela tiene una falla .SINÓNIMO fallo .4 Amér Error o imperfección que provoca que una cosa, en especial un mecanismo o un aparato, funcione mal :una falla eléctrica; la falla del motor es irreparable .SINÓNIMO fallo .ETIMOLOGÍA Derivado del antiguo verbo español fallir ‘faltar una cosa ’, ‘errar ’, ‘engañar ’. De la familia etimológica de fallido (V.).
falla
falla 2 nombre femenino geol Fractura de un estrato de la corteza terrestre debida a fuerzas verticales u horizontales que producen el desplazamiento de uno de los bloques con respecto al otro :las fallas son lugares de actividad sísmica . VÉASE espejo de falla . ETIMOLOGÍA Préstamo (s. xix ) del francés faille , procedente de un latín vulgar *fallia ‘defecto ’. De la familia etimológica de fallido (V.).
falla
falla 3 nombre femenino Prenda de adorno y abrigo con que antiguamente las mujeres se cubrían la cabeza por la noche .ETIMOLOGÍA Préstamo (s. xviii ) del francés faille , voz de origen incierto, que en la región flamenca designaba un trozo de tela que usaban las mujeres para cubrirse la cabeza .
falla
falla 4 nombre femenino 1 Esp Muñeco o conjunto de muñecos de madera y cartón que representan de forma satírica y humorística personajes o escenas de actualidad y que se fabrican para quemarse en la calle durante la fiesta valenciana de las Fallas :la falla ganadora es la única que se salva del fuego la noche de la víspera de San José .2 fallas nombre femenino plural Período durante el cual se celebran las Fallas, fiesta popular de Valencia (España ).ETIMOLOGÍA Préstamo del catalán falla y este del latín facula ‘pequeña antorcha ’.
fallado, -da
fallado, -da adjetivo geol Que está cortado por fallas :estructuras falladas; el Sistema Central es una cordillera formada por una sucesión de bloques fallados y desnivelados, fruto de la orogenia alpina y de la dureza de los materiales .
fallar
fallar 1 verbo transitivo /verbo intransitivo Tomar una decisión [un tribunal, un jurado u otra autoridad ]:todos los concursantes esperan impacientes que falle el jurado; el juez falló a favor de nuestra empresa; esta noche se fallará el premio Nobel de literatura .ETIMOLOGÍA Variante fonética de hallar (V.). La conservación de la forma antigua con f- se explica por el carácter arcaizante del lenguaje jurídico .
fallar
fallar 2 verbo intransitivo 1 Tener [una cosa ] algún error o estar equivocada :han fallado nuestros cálculos; en este local, lo que falla un poco es la iluminación; le fallaron los frenos y no pudo evitar el accidente; algo falla entre nosotros; si no fallan los pronósticos, el caballo ganador será Rufo .2 verbo transitivo /verbo intransitivo Hacer [una persona ] algo que resulta equivocado o incorrecto :solamente he fallado la primera pregunta; falló varias ocasiones de gol muy claras; me pregunto en qué hemos fallado; el primero que falle quedará eliminado .3 verbo intransitivo No alcanzar [una cosa ] el resultado que se esperaba de ella :el ministro no ha explicado por qué han fallado las negociaciones con el FMI; confiaban en que para estas fechas ya se conocería el nombre del sustituto, pero todas las gestiones han fallado .4 Perder [una cosa ] su fuerza, resistencia o capacidad :falló un cable y toda la carga se vino al suelo; al fondista colombiano le fallaron las fuerzas a menos de un kilómetro de la meta; ya le empieza a fallar la memoria .5 Decepcionar [una persona ] a otra al no conseguir aquella una determinada cosa que esta esperaba :tus padres esperan que apruebes y tú no puedes fallarles; el equipo no falló a su afición y consiguió una nueva victoria .6 Faltar [una persona ] a una convocatoria o una obligación :al final solo seremos siete en la cena, pues han fallado Miguel, Ana y la novia de Sergio; en Washington existía la preocupación de que Egipto pudiera fallar en su pago de la deuda .7 verbo transitivo En algunos juegos de cartas, no tener el palo que se juega y estar obligado a echar un triunfo :fallar una sota .no falla Se emplea para expresar que, en determinadas condiciones, cierta cosa ocurre siempre de la misma manera :no falla: a la que uno empieza a alborotar, todos le siguen; es que no falla …, cada vez que le corrijo se enoja .ETIMOLOGÍA Derivado de falla ‘defecto, falta ’. De la familia etimológica de fallido (V.).
falleba
falleba nombre femenino Varilla de hierro curvada en sus extremos que va sujeta mediante varios anillos al marco de una puerta o una ventana y sirve para cerrarlas .
fallecer
fallecer verbo intransitivo Morir, en especial [una persona ]:ayer se celebró un funeral en memoria de los diez bomberos que fallecieron en el incendio .ETIMOLOGÍA Derivado de fallido (V.). Se empleó hasta el s. xvi con el sentido etimológico de ‘faltar ’, a partir de esta fecha adquiere el valor eufemístico de ‘morir ’. Conjugación [43 ] como agradecer .
fallecido, -da
fallecido, -da nombre masculino y femenino Persona muerta :los fallecidos en un accidente .
fallecimiento
fallecimiento nombre masculino Muerte de una persona :declaración de fallecimiento; el primer reconocimiento médico apunta la posibilidad de que la causa del fallecimiento haya sido un paro cardíaco .SINÓNIMO defunción .
fallero, -ra
fallero, -ra adjetivo 1 Esp De las Fallas o que tiene relación con estas fiestas valencianas .2 nombre masculino y femenino Esp Persona que se dedica a la construcción de las figuras de madera y cartón que se queman durante las Fallas .3 Esp Persona que interviene o participa en estas fiestas :la fallera mayor presidía el acto .
fallido, -da
fallido, -da adjetivo Que no da el resultado perseguido o esperado :después de dos intentos fallidos, el saltador logró superar el listón; se les acusó de haber participado en el fallido golpe de Estado .ETIMOLOGÍA Participio del antiguo verbo español fallir ‘faltar ’, ‘engañar ’, ‘abandonar ’, ‘pecar ’, ‘morir ’; voz patrimonial del latín fallere ‘engañar ’, ‘quedar inadvertido ’. A la misma familia etimológica latina pertenecen desfallecer , falaz , falible , falla ‘defecto ’, fallar ‘tener una cosa algún fallo ’, ‘hacer una persona algo que resulta equivocado ’, fallecer , fallo ‘acción equivocada o defecto ’ e infalible .
fallo
fallo 1 nombre masculino Decisión que toma un tribunal, un jurado u otra autoridad :fallo condenatorio; no todos estaban de acuerdo con el fallo pronunciado por el tribunal; el fallo del premio tendrá lugar el 18 de marzo .ETIMOLOGÍA Derivado de fallar ‘tomar una decisión un tribunal ’ (V.).
fallo
fallo 2 nombre masculino 1 Esp Acción equivocada o defecto de una persona o una cosa :cometer un fallo; no podemos permitirnos el menor fallo; un fallo defensivo propició el tercer gol del equipo auriazul .2 Esp Error o imperfección que provoca que una cosa funcione mal, especialmente un mecanismo o un aparato :fallo eléctrico; fallo mecánico; se retiró de la carrera por un fallo en el motor .SINÓNIMO falla .3 Esp En ciertos juegos de cartas, falta de un palo :tengo fallo de bastos .ETIMOLOGÍA Derivado de fallar ‘tener un defecto una cosa ’, ‘hacer una persona algo que resulta equivocado ’ (V.).
fallo, -lla
fallo, -lla 3 adjetivo Venez [alimento ] Que ha sido servido en poca cantidad .quedar fallo Venez Tener hambre [una persona ] después de haber comido, por ser insuficiente la cantidad de comida que ha ingerido .
falluto, -ta
falluto, -ta adjetivo 1 Arg, Urug coloquial Que es defectuoso .2 adjetivo /nombre masculino y femenino Arg, Urug coloquial [persona ] Que es hipócrita o que actúa con falsedad :sé que es sincero, y yo me siento muy falluta tratando de contestarle en esa misma vena .3 Arg col. desp. [persona ] Que no cumple con lo prometido :no sé por qué lo esperás, si sabés que es un falluto y seguramente no vendrá .
Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary
fall
fall /fɔːl /〖「(重力により )下へ落ちる 」〗動詞 ~s /-z /; fell /fel /; ~en /-ən /; ~ing (!完了形としてbe fallenを用いるのは ⦅やや古 ⦆で, 今はhave fallenが普通 ) 自動詞 【落下する 】1 〖fall (+副詞 )〗〈人 物が 〉 (誤って 自然に )落ちる , 落下する (drop ); 〈雨 雪などが 〉降る ; 〈葉などが 〉散る ; 〈幕などが 〉下りる ; 〈髪などが 〉抜ける (down, off, over ) (!副詞 は方向 場所の表現 ) ▸ fall down the stairs 階段から転がり落ちる (!downは 前置詞 ) ▸ fall from [out (of ), off , ╳down ] the window onto the ground 窓から地面に落ちる (!downは場所との接触を伴う落下を示すのでこの場合は用いない ) ▸ Henry slipped and fell into [in ] the river .ヘンリーは足を滑らせて川に落ちた (!intoは落ちていく過程に, inは落下地点に焦点がある ) ▸ fall through the ceiling 天井を突き破って落ちる ▸ A heavy snow began to fall .雪が激しく降り出した (≒ It began to snow heavily. )▸ Leaves are falling from the trees .木々から葉が散っている 類義 fallとdrop fall は支え バランスを失い重力で落下することをいうが, 落ちていく過程に焦点がある. drop は通例偶然性 突発性や速さ 直接性を暗示するが, 液体についてはしたたる様子を表す ▸ Rain is dropping from the branches .雨が枝からしたたり落ちている 2 ⦅文 ⦆ «…から » 〈言葉 ため息 表情などが 〉漏れる, 発せられる «from » ▸ No word fell from her lips .彼女は何も語らなかった 【倒れる 】3 a. 〖fall (+副詞 )〗転ぶ , 倒れる ; (…の状態で )倒れる ; ひざまずく ; 〈建物 構造物などが 〉倒壊 [崩落 ]する ; 〈木などが 〉倒れる (down, over ) (!(1 )副詞 は方向 場所の表現. (2 )通例 「誤って倒れる 」の意だが, 「故意に倒れる 」場合も可 ) ▸ fall down against the fence フェンスにつまずいて転ぶ [こける ]▸ fall (flat ) on one's face [back ](バタンと )うつ伏せ [仰 (あお )向け ]に倒れる ▸ fall to [on ] one's knees ひざまずく ▸ fall on one's head 頭から倒れる ▸ fall backward into a mire 背中からぬかるみにはまる ▸ fall against the wall 壁に倒れかかる ▸ fall over dead [drunk ]息絶えて倒れる [酔いつぶれる ]▸ The Berlin Wall fell in 1989 .ベルリンの壁は1989年に崩壊した b. 〖fall +副詞 〗⦅くだけて ⦆(しばしば疲労などのために )倒れ込む, 身を投げ出す (!副詞 は方向 場所の表現 ) ▸ I was so tired that I fell into bed yesterday .昨日はへとへとだったので倒れるように床に入った 4 〈人 政府などが 〉【権力の座 地位から 】(突然 )失脚する , 倒れる «from » ; 〈都市などが 〉【敵に 】陥落する, 〈政党が 〉【ほかの政党に 】敗北する «to » ▸ The President fell from power in 1998 .1998年に大統領は権力の座を失った ▸ The city soon fell to the rebel troops .その町はまもなくして反乱軍の手に落ちた 5 ⦅文 ⦆(戦争で )死ぬ ; (負傷して 死んで )倒れる ; 撃たれる ▸ fall in battle 戦死する 6 ⦅古 ⦆(誘惑などに )屈する, 堕落する; 〈女性が 〉貞操を失う .7 〈特に子羊などが 〉生まれる .8 〘クリケット 〙〈打者が 〉アウトになる .9 ⦅俗 ⦆ぱくられる ; 刑務所行きになる .【下へ向く 】10 a. 〖fall +副詞 〗〈髪などが 〉たれ下がる , かかる (!副詞 は場所 方向の表現 ) ▸ Her hair fell (down ) over her face [across her cheek, into her eyes ].彼女の髪は顔を覆うように [ほおにかけて, 目に入るほどに ]たれていた b. 〈土地などが 〉 «…の方に » 下へ傾斜する (away, off ) «to , toward » ; 〈川が 〉 «…に » 注ぎ込む «into » ▸ The ground falls away steeply to the sea .地面が海に向かって急勾配 (こうばい )になっている 11 〈数量 価格 温度 水準などが 〉 (大幅に )下がる , 減る ; 〈音 声が 〉小さく [低く ]なる ; 〈潮が 〉引く ; 〈風などが 〉弱まる ; 〈元気 勢いなどが 〉衰える (drop )(↔rise )▸ Share ⦅英 ⦆ [Stock ⦅米 ⦆] prices fell sharply [(by ) 20 \%].株価が急落 [20 \%下落 ]した ▸ The temperature fell below zero [to -20 degrees ].気温が氷点下 [零下20度 ]に下がった ▸ Her voice fell to a whisper .⦅書 ⦆彼女の声はささやきへと変わった 12 〈目が 〉下を向く, 伏し目になる; 〈顔が 〉悲しい [失望した, 恥ずかしい ]表情をする ▸ His face fell in disappointment .彼はがっかりして落胆の表情を浮かべた 【ある状態に陥る 】13 〖fall C 〗(急に )C 〈状態 〉になる, 陥る (!Cは 形容詞 名詞 , 前置詞句 ↓表現 ) ▸ fall in love with A A 〈人 〉を好きになる, Aに惚 (ほ ) れる (→成句 fall be in love (with A ))▸ fall asleep 寝入る (!無意識の行為を表す →asleep ) ▸ fall victim [prey ] to A Aの犠牲になる 表現 コーパス Cに現れる主な語句 主語の意志に関わらないことを暗示する語句や文脈で用いられることが多い .1 形容詞 ▸ asleep , dead, ill , open (→mouth 名詞 1 ), pregnant, short , sick, silent , unconscious .2 前置詞句 ▸ into a coma, into despair, into disrepair, out of fashion [favor ], in [into ] line, in [out of ] love, into [in ] place , out of sight, into [in ] silence, into [in ] step .3 名詞 ▸ prey, victim .【当たる 】14 a. 【ある曜日に 】〈記念日 日付などが 〉当たる , 〈行事などが 〉行われる; 〈アクセントなどが 〉【音節に 】ある, 落ちる «on » ▸ My birthday [February 4 ] falls on (a ) Sunday this year .今年の僕の誕生日 [2月4日 ]は日曜日だ ▸ The accent of ‘committee ’ falls on the second syllable .committeeのアクセントは第2音節にある b. 〈光 影が 〉 «…に » 落ちる, 差す «on , over , across » ▸ Light falls on the retina after entering our eyes .光は目に入ると網膜に当たる ▸ Suddenly a large shadow fell over him from behind .突然大きな影が背後から彼を飲み込んだ c. «…に » 〈矢 弾 パンチなどが 〉当たる ;⦅ 書 ⦆〈視線が 〉 (偶然に 急に )注がれる, 向く «on , upon » ▸ Just as I was closing the book, my eyes fell on a certain passage on the page .本を閉じかけたところで, ページのある一節がふと私の目に留まった d. 〈訴え 要望などが 〉【耳に 】入る, 聞こえる «on » ▸ Our appeals fell on deaf ears .我々の訴えにだれも耳を傾けなかった 【属する 】15 〖fall +副詞 〗(部類 領域などに )分けられる, 分類される (!副詞 はinto, underなどを含む前置詞句 ) ▸ Whales fall into [⦅まれ ⦆in ] the category of mammals .クジラは哺乳 (ほにゆう )類に属する ▸ Your actions fall under the heading of negligence .君の行為は職務怠慢という項目に該当する ▸ fall within [outside (of )] the regulations 規定の範囲内 [外 ]である 16 【人に 】〈遺産などが 〉相続される; 〈財産などが 〉帰属する «to » .【訪れる 】17 ⦅文 ⦆(突然 )〈夜 季節などが 〉【場所に 】やってくる ;【人々 場所に 】〈静寂などが 〉訪れる ; 〈悲しみ 疲れ 災難などが 〉襲いかかる, 迫る «over , on , upon » ▸ As night fell over Manhattan, the city lights began to sparkle .マンハッタンに夜のとばりが下りると, 町の明かりがきらめき始めた ▸ A sudden silence fell on the crowd .群衆は急に静まり返った 【その他 】18 ⦅英 方言 ⦆妊娠する .他動詞 ⦅米 豪 ニュージー ⦆〈木 〉を伐採する (fell 2 ).f à ll ab ó ard 【人と 】言い争う «with » .f á ll aboard A 1 〘海 〙〈船が 〉Aと衝突する .2 Aに襲いかかる .f á ll ab ò ut (l á ughing [with l á ughter ])⦅英 くだけた話 ⦆大笑いする, 笑いころげる .f á ll across A A 〈人 〉に偶然会う .f à ll all ó ver A ⦅くだけて ⦆A 〈人 〉にお世辞を言う, こびる .f à ll (⦅米 ⦆all ) ó ver one self 〖通例進行形で 〗 «…しようと » 必要以上に頑張る «to do » .f á ll among A A 〈盗賊など 〉の一味となる .f à ll ap á rt 1 (古さ ずさんな作りのために )〈物が 〉ばらばらになる [壊れる ]; 〖進行形で 〗ひどい状態である ▸ I'll drive this car until it falls apart .僕はこの車がぶっ壊れるまで乗るつもりだ ▸ The house is falling apart .その家はぼろぼろだ 2 ⦅くだけて ⦆(問題を抱え )〈組織 制度などが 〉崩壊する, 行き詰まる ; 〈事が 〉失敗に終わる (break down )▸ The current healthcare system is falling apart because of increasing costs .現行の健康保険制度は増大するコストのために破綻 (はたん )しかけている ▸ Our marriage finally fell apart .私たちの結婚生活はついに破局をむかえた 3 ⦅くだけて ⦆〈人が 〉精神的にやられる, 取り乱す ; 〈人生などが 〉 (突然 )崩れ去る .f à ll aw á y 1 〈物が 〉 «…から » 落ちる, (修理した後に )脱落する «from » .2 ↑自動詞 10 b .3 (徐々に )〈感情 音などが 〉弱まる, なくなる ; 〈量 規模などが 〉 «…まで » 落ち込む, 減る «to » .4 〈景色などが 〉 (遠ざかって )見えなくなる .5 〈人が 〉【友人 信仰などを 】(見捨てて )離れ去る «from » ; 〈群衆が 〉散る .6 〘海 〙〈船が 〉針路をそれる .f à ll b á ck 1 後ろ向きに倒れる [倒れ込む ]▸ fall back on the bed [(down ) into the chair ]ベッドに仰向けに倒れ込む [いすにどっかと腰を下ろす ]2 屈する, 後退する ; 〈軍隊が 〉 «…まで » 退却する (retreat ) «to » .3 ⦅文 ⦆(驚き 恐怖などで )後ずさりする ; のけぞる .4 〈価格 量などが 〉 «…まで » 下がる, 減少する «to » .5 【元の状態などに 】戻る, 帰る «into » ▸ fall back into sleep 再び眠りにつく ▸ He soon fell back into his old ways of drinking .彼はじきに以前同様の酒飲みに戻った f à ll b á ck on [upon ] A A 〈人 物 〉を (最後の )より所にする ; (最善の手段を講じず )A 〈安易な方法など 〉に頼る (resort to ) (!受け身にしない ) ▸ have something to fall back on (いざという時に )当てにできるものがある f à ll (…) b é hind (!…は数値表現やfar, wayなどの程度副詞 ) 1 (移動中に ) (次第に )後れる, 後れをとる (↔keep up )▸ fall a few steps behind 2, 3歩後れる 2 (進歩 目標達成の点で )【学校などで /分野で 】後れをとる (↔keep up ) «at /in » .3 (競技で )負ける, 負け越す ▸ fall behind 5-0 in the first set 第1セットを5対0で勝ち越される f á ll (…) behind A (!…は数値表現やfar, wayなどの程度副詞 ) 1 (移動中に ) (次第に )A 〈人など 〉に後れる, 後れをとる (↔keep up ).2 (進歩 目標達成の点で )【学校などで /分野で 】A 〈人など 〉に後れをとる (↔keep up ) «at /in » . ▸ fall behind the rest of the class クラスのみんなから後れる 3 〈人 物 事が 〉A 〈予定 〉より遅れる ▸ fall (two days ) behind schedule 予定よりも (2日 )遅れる 4 (増加の点で )A 〈事 〉に追いついていない, Aと同率で増加していない (↔keep up ).5 (競技で )A 〈チーム 〉に負ける .f à ll beh í nd with [in ] A 〈人などが 〉A 〈支払い 仕事など 〉が済んでいない [遅れている ].f à ll d ó wn 1 «…の上に /…に » 倒れる, 倒壊する «on /to » (↑自動詞 3 a ).2 ⦅話 ⦆〈議論 計画などが 〉 «…の点で » つまずく, 失敗に終わる «on » .3 ⦅くだけて ⦆〈人が 〉【仕事 約束などを 】しくじる, 果たさない «on » .4 〖進行形で 〗〈建物が 〉ひどい状態である ; 〈衣服などが 〉ずり落ちている .5 ↑自動詞 10 a .f á ll down A ↑自動詞 1 .f á ll for A ⦅くだけた話 ⦆ (!受け身にしない ) 1 A 〈策略 宣伝など 〉にだまされる, ひっかかる ▸ I'm not falling for that again! その手は2度と食わないぞ 2 A 〈人 事 〉に (突然 )ほれ込む, 夢中になる .f á ll for it ⦅英俗 ⦆妊娠する, 「できてしまう 」.f á ll from A 1 ↑自動詞 1 , 2 , 4 .2 A 〈支持など 〉を逃す ▸ fall from grace (上司などの )ひいきを失う f à ll í n 1 〈屋根 天井などが 〉崩れ落ちる, 〈建物などが 〉内側へ崩れる .2 〘軍 〙〈兵隊が 〉整列する ; 〖命令文で 〗整列 .3 〈使用期限などが 〉切れる .4 (賃貸期間が切れて )〈土地などが 〉 (所有者にとって )使用可能になる .5 同意する ; 一致する .6 ⦅豪 ニュージー ⦆ミスをする ; ひどい目に遭う .7 ⦅ニュージー ⦆妊娠する .8 ⦅俗 ⦆寝る .9 (川などに )落ちる .f á ll in A 1 A 〈意見など 〉に (やむなく )賛同する .2 A 〈川など 〉に落ちる (↑自動詞 1 第3例 ).3 ↑自動詞 13 .f à ll A í n [í n A ]A 〈兵隊 〉を整列させる .f à ll í n behind A 1 A 〈人 〉の後に並ぶ .2 A 〈先を歩いている人 〉に続いて歩く ▸ I caught up and fell in behind him .私は彼に追いつくとその後に続いた f à ll í n beside [alongside ] A A 〈先を歩いている人 〉と並んで歩く .f à ll í n for A ⦅話 ⦆1 A 〈分け前など 〉をもらう .2 A 〈非難 同情など 〉を受ける, 招く .f á ll into A 1 ↑自動詞 1 , 3 a , 3 b , 10 a , 10 b , 13 , 15 .2 A 〈わななど 〉に落ちる, はまる ; 〈物 人が 〉A 〈敵 悪者などの手 〉に渡る [落ちる ]▸ fall into the same trap 同じ手口にひっかかる ▸ fall into the hands [clutches ] of enemies 敵の手中に陥る 3 A 〈悪習など 〉が癖になる, 身につく .4 ⦅かたく ⦆【初対面の人などと 】A 〈会話 議論など 〉を始める «with » .f à ll í n with A 1 ⦅くだけて ⦆A 〈人 〉と偶然出会う [知り合う ]; A 〈好ましくない人物 〉と交わる, 交際を始める ▸ My son fell in with a bad crowd .うちの息子は悪い連中と付き合い始めた 2 ⦅英 ⦆(特に不本意ながら )A 〈人 考え 計画など 〉に同意する, 一致する (agree to A ); A 〈事実など 〉と符合する (!受け身にしない ) .f à ll ó ff 1 〈人 物が 〉落ちる ; 〈部品などが 〉脱落する .2 〈量 数などが 〉減少する ; 〈規模などが 〉縮小する ; 〈質などが 〉低下する ; 〈勢いなどが 〉衰える ▸ Sales of beef have fallen off dramatically since BSE .牛肉の売上がBSE以来急激に落ち込んでいる 3 〈人が 〉 «…から » 離れる «from » .4 〘海 〙〈船が 〉風下へ転航する, 針路をそれる .f á ll off A 1 A 〈場所 〉から落下する (↑自動詞 1 ).2 (老朽化 故障などのため )〈部品などが 〉A 〈本体 〉からはずれる .f á ll on [upon ] A 1 ↑自動詞 3 a , 14 a , 14 b , 14 c , 14 d , 17 .2 ⦅主に英 文 ⦆A 〈敵など 〉に襲いかかる, Aを急襲する (attack ); A 〈食物 〉をむさぼり始める ; A 〈物 場所 〉に我先にと飛びつく, 殺到する .3 ⦅主に英 かたい書 ⦆〈責任 費用などが 〉A 〈人 〉に課せられる, Aの負担となる ; 〈非難 疑惑などが 〉Aに降りかかる, 向けられる .4 〈人が 〉A 〈つらい時期など 〉を経験する ▸ fall on hard times (貧乏で )困窮する 5 〈人が 〉A 〈考えなど 〉をふと思いつく .f à ll ó ut 1 外側に落ちる .2 ⦅英 ⦆ «…と /…のことで » けんかする, 仲たがいする «with /over , about » .3 〈歯 髪などが 〉抜ける ▸ My hair started falling out five years ago .5年前から髪の毛が抜けてきた 4 〈放射性物質が 〉流出する .5 〘軍 〙〈兵隊が 〉解散する ; 隊列を離れる ; 〖命令文で 〗解散 .6 落伍 (らくご )する ; ⦅米俗 ⦆立ち去る, 帰る .7 〈事が 〉起こる, (…なように )運ぶ ▸ All things fell out as expected .万事が予想どおりに進んだ ▸ It fell out that I would drive him home .私が彼を車で家に送っていくことになった 8 ⦅米俗 ⦆どっと笑い出す .9 ⦅米俗 ⦆(麻薬などで )ぼうっとする, 眠り込む .f à ll A ó ut [ó ut A ]A 〈兵隊 〉を解散させる .f á ll out of A 1 ↑自動詞 1 , 13 .2 A 〈習慣など 〉を (徐々に )断つ, やめる .3 A 〈部屋など 〉から外に出る .f à ll out of b é d ベッドから転がり落ちる ; (あわてて )飛び起きる .f à ll ó ver 1 ↑自動詞 1 , 3 a .2 ⦅スコット ⦆寝入る .3 ⦅話 ⦆〈コンピュータが 〉 (突然 )故障する .f á ll over A 1 ↑自動詞 10 a , 14 b , 17 .2 A 〈物 〉につまずいて転ぶ [転びそうになる ] (!受け身にしない ) .3 A 〈場所 〉の向こうに転げ落ちる .f à ll over b á ckward =fall over oneself (1 ).f à ll over ò ne an ó ther [è ach ó ther ] «…しようと /…を求めて » 先を競う «to do /for » .f á ll over one s è lf ⦅話 ⦆1 ⦅くだけて ⦆〖しばしば進行形で 〗 «…しようと /…を求めて » 躍起 [必死 ]になる «to do /for » (!特に不慣れな事柄について用いる ) .2 あわてて転ぶ ; 不器用である .f à ll thr ó ugh 1 〈計画などが 〉失敗に終わる ; むだになる ▸ Our deal fell through at the last minute .取引は土壇場になって流れてしまった 2 抜け落ちる .f à ll t ó 1 食べ始める ; 仕事 [争い ]を始める .2 〈戸などが 〉ひとりでに閉まる .f á ll to A 1 A 〈地面 床など 〉に落ちる .2 ⦅主にかたい書 /文 ⦆A 〈仕事 議論など 〉に (懸命に )取りかかる, 着手する ; Aし始める (begin ) (!Aは 動名 ) .3 ⦅かたく ⦆〈義務 責任などが 〉A 〈人 〉に降りかかる, 訪れる ; 〖itを主語にして 〗 «…する義務 [責任 ]が » A 〈人 〉に降りかかる «to do » (!特に好ましくない, または困難な事柄について用いる ) ▸ It fell to me to tell Sarah her mother had died .私はセラに母が死んだことを伝えねばならなくなった f á ll under A 1 ↑自動詞 15 .2 A 〈影響 支配など 〉を受ける ▸ fall under a strange spell 不思議な魅力にとりつかれる l è t A f á ll 1 A 〈持った物 〉を放す, 落とす .2 A 〈秘密など 〉を (偶然を装って )わざと漏らす .名詞 複 ~s /-z /1 C U ⦅米 ⦆〖時にF -; 通例無冠詞単数形またはthe ~〗秋 (⦅英 ⦆autumn ) (!「木の葉の落ちる (fall )季節 」から ) ;〖形容詞的に 〗秋の, 秋用の ▸ in the fall of 2006 ≒in fall 2006 2006年の秋に ▸ the fall semester 秋学期 (!2学期制の前期; 9月から1月 ) 2 C 〖通例単数形で 〗【価格 数量 規模などの 】下落 , 下降, 減少 «in , of » ; (潮などが )引くこと (↔rise )▸ a sharp fall in unemployment [profits ]失業率 [利益 ]の急激な低下 3 C 〖通例単数形で 〗 «…からの » 落下 , 降下, 墜落 ; 落下距離 ; 落差 «from » ; 転倒 ; 倒壊 ; 戦死 ▸ die from a fall 転落死する ▸ break one's back in a fall from a horse 落馬して背骨を折る ▸ have a bad fall ひどい転び [落ち ]方をする 4 〖~s; 単複両扱い 〗滝 (waterfall ) (!固有名詞で多く用いられる ) ▸ (The ) Niagara Falls is [are ] located between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario .ナイアガラの滝はエリー湖とオンタリオ湖との間にある (!構成する2つの滝をまとめてとらえる際は単数扱い, 個々にとらえる際は複数扱い ) 5 a. U たれ下がること ; 下向きになること ; そのさま ▸ the fall of her hair 彼女の髪のたれ具合 b. C たれ下がる物 ;⦅ 米 ⦆ (女性用の )長いヘアピース; (婦人帽の後ろに付ける )ベール .6 〖単数形で 〗a. 〖通例one 's /the ~〗【権力 地位などからの 】失脚, 没落 «from » ; 衰退, 崩壊 ▸ the rise and fall of the Japanese economy 日本経済の盛衰 b. 〖通例the ~〗(国 都市などの )陥落, 滅亡 ▸ the fall of the Roman Empire ローマ帝国の滅亡 7 C 降雨 (量 ), 降雪 (量 )▸ have a heavy fall of snow 大雪に見舞われる 8 C 〘レスリング 〙フォール ; ひと勝負 [試合 ]; 〘柔道 〙押さえ込み .9 〖the /a ~〗〘キリスト教 〙堕落 ▸ the fall [Fall ] (of Man )人間の堕落 〘アダムとイブの原罪; ヘビの誘惑に屈して禁断の実を食べたこと 〙10 C (地面などの )傾き, 勾配 .11 U C (羊などの )出産 ; 一腹の子 .12 C (木材の )伐採 (量 ).13 C 〘海 機 〙(滑車の )引き綱 [索 ].14 C 〘狩猟 〙落としわな .15 C ⦅俗 ⦆逮捕 (arrest ).16 U 【夜 やみなどの 】到来, 訪れ «of » .17 C (アクセントなどの )置かれる位置 .18 U C ⦅スコット ⦆運 .19 U C 〘楽 〙終止法 .br è ak A 's f á ll 〈物 人 (の身体部位 )が 〉A 〈人 〉の落下のショックを和らげる .r ì de for a f á ll 〖通例進行形で 〗⦅くだけて ⦆自ら危険 [厄介 ]を招くような行動をする, むちゃをする .t à ke the f á ll (for A )⦅俗 ⦆(A 〈人 〉の )罪を被る .~́ g ù y (!⦅くだけて ⦆) 1 身代わり, 他人の罪を負わされる人 (scapegoat ).2 だまされやすい人, カモ .~́ l ì ne 1 〖the ~〗〘スキー 〙最大傾斜線, フォールライン .2 瀑布 (ばくふ )線 〘台地と平地の境界線で, 滝や急流の始点 〙.
fallacious
fal la cious /fəléɪʃəs /形容詞 ⦅かたく ⦆1 誤った推論に基づく ; 間違った .2 誤解を招く .~ly 副詞 ~ness 名詞
fallacy
fal la cy /fǽləsi /名詞 複 -cies 1 C (多くの人が本当だと信じている ) «… (する )という » 間違った考え «of (do ing ), that 節 » ▸ a complete fallacy 完全な誤り 2 ⦅かたく ⦆C U (誤った推論に基づく )誤り, 誤信 ; 誤った推論 .3 U C 〘論 〙虚偽 ; 錯誤 .
fallback
f á ll b à ck 名詞 C 頼みの綱, 最後のより所 .
fallen
fall en /fɔ́ːlən /動詞 fallの過去分詞 .形容詞 1 〖名詞 の前で 〗倒れた, 落ちた ▸ fallen trees [leaves ]倒木 [落ち葉 ]2 死んだ ; ⦅文 かたく ⦆〖the ~; 名詞的に; 集合的に 〗戦死者 (!複数扱い ) .3 〖名詞 の前で 〗罪を犯した, 堕落した ; ⦅やや古 否定的に ⦆ふしだらな 〈女 〉.4 滅びた, 陥落した .~̀ á ngel 1 ⦅くだけて ⦆以前ほど金にならないもの 〘株券など 〙.2 堕天使 .~̀ á rches 扁平 (へんぺい )足 .
fallibility
f à l li b í l i ty 名詞 U ⦅かたく ⦆誤りを犯しやすいこと, 誤る可能性 .
fallible
fal li ble /fǽləb (ə )l /形容詞 ⦅かたく ⦆間違いを犯しやすい, 誤る可能性がある (↔infallible ).f á l li bly 副詞
falling
f á ll ing 形容詞 落ちる, 下がる ; 下降する ▸ a falling object 落下物 ▸ falling interest [crime ] rates 低下する金利 [犯罪率 ]名詞 U 落下, 墜落 ; 転倒 ; 下落 .~̀ st á r 流れ星 .
falling-off
f à lling- ó ff 名詞 C 〖単数形で 〗衰退 ; 減少 .
falling-out
f à lling- ó ut 名詞 複 fallings-out, ~s C 不和, 意見の食い違い, けんか .
Fallopian tube
Fal l ó pi an t ù be /fəlóʊpiən -/名詞 C 〖またf - t- 〗〘解剖 〙ファロピオ管, 輸卵管 .
fallout
f á ll ò ut 名詞 U 1 (核爆発による )放射性降下物, 死の灰 .2 «…からの » (政策 景気などの )後退, つまずき «from » .3 (ありがたくない )副産物, 後遺症 .
fallow
fal low 1 /fǽloʊ /形容詞 1 〈土地が 〉休閑中の .2 〖名詞 の前で 〗活動していない, 結果が出ない ; 有用ながらまだ活用されていない 〈考え 才能など 〉.l ì e f á llow 〈土地が 〉休閑中である ; 〈人が 〉活動していない, 〈才能などが 〉休眠中である .名詞 U 休閑 ; 休閑地 .動詞 他動詞 〈土地 〉を耕して (休めて )おく .
fallow
fal low 2 形容詞 淡黄褐色の .~́ d è er 〘動 〙ダマジカ, ファロージカ .