
fall apart
fall back on (or upon)
[Middle English fallen, from Old English feallan.]
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verb
phrasal verb - fall back
phrasal verb - fall down
phrasal verb - fall off
phrasal verb - fall on (or upon)
phrasal verb - fall through
noun
Idioms beginning with fall:
falling down drunk
fall over
fall apart
fall asleep
fall off
fall back on
fall behind
fall through the cracks
fall down
fall flat
fall in place
fall on
fall on deaf ears
fall on one's face
fall on one's feet
fall short of
fall through
fall to
fall off the wagon
See also bottom drops (falls) out; break one's fall; easy as pie (falling off a log); let drop (fall); let the chips fall where they may; ride for a fall; take the fall.
Definition: descent; lowering
Antonyms: ascent, climb, rise, scaling
v
Definition: be overthrown by enemy; surrender
Antonyms: advance, attain, overcome, overthrow, reach, win
v
Definition: descend; become lower
Antonyms: ascend, climb, go up, rise, scale
v. past fell; past part. fallen 1. (of a building or place) be captured or defeated: their mountain strongholds fell to enemy attack.
2. die in battle: an English leader who had fallen at the hands of the Danes.
n.the loss of a city or fortified place during battle: the fall of Jerusalem.
fall short of (of a missile) fail to reach its target.
fall back move or turn back; retreat.
fall in take one's place in a military formation:
the soldiers fell in by the side of the road.fall out leave one's place in a military formation, or on parade:
the two policemen at the rear fell out of the formation.See the Introduction, Abbreviations and Pronunciation for further details.
A form of mass movement in which fractured rock and soil separates into blocks and falls away from the parent slope. Debris falls and earth falls occur on cliffs as joints weaken or as the slope is undercut. Rock falls occur on high and steep rock slopes and are of major importance in rock slope erosion.
The slope of a pipe, conduit, or channel usually expressed in inches per foot (or centimeters per meter) or in percent.
The study of materials or objects falling onto the earth was first initiated by Charles Fort in his remarkable work The Book of the Damned (1919). Fort collected and correlated accounts of the most astonishing variety of falls, including black rain, red snow, butter, manna, large blocks of ice, frogs, periwinkles, and hailstones with portraits on them. He also distinguished selective falls in which different objects were apparently sorted before descent. Fort was not only concerned with the bizarre nature of authenticated falls, but also by the principle of selectivity that appeared to govern descent.
Since Fort's death, further data on falls and other Fortean phenomena have been collected by groups such as the Fortean Society and the International Fortean Organization and by such individuals as William R. Corliss and Robert J. M. Rickard, editor of the Fortean Times.
Sources:
Clark, Jerome. Encyclopedia of Strange and Unexplained Phenomena. Detroit: Gale Research, 1993.
Corliss, William R., ed. Handbook of Unusual Natural Phenomena. Glen Arm, Md.: The Sourcebook Project, 1977.
——. Tornados, Dark Days, Anomalous Precipitation, and Related Weather Phenomena: A Catalog of Geophysical Anomalies. Glen Arm, Md.: The Sourcebook Project, 1983.
Fort, Charles. The Books of Charles Fort. New York: Henry Holt, 1941.
The drooping lower petal of the flowers of irises and related plants.

What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.
— Mary Pickford
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Falling is a universal dream motif. Psychologists speculate that fearful falling dreams are rooted in our early experiences as toddlers learning to walk. Falling dreams often reflect a sense that one has failed or "fallen down" in life. Dreams of falling also occur when one feels completely overwhelmed or out of control, such as during a divorce or the loss of a job.
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While walking is a common clinical sign in severe ataxia and incoordination due to any cause.

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In chess, a pin is a situation brought on by an attacking piece in which a defending piece cannot move without exposing a more valuable defending piece on its other side to capture by the attacking piece. "To pin" refers to the action of the attacking piece inducing the pin, and the defending piece so restricted is described as pinned.
Only pieces that can move an indefinite number of squares in a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal line, i.e., bishops, rooks and queens, can pin opposing pieces. Kings, knights, and pawns cannot pin. Any piece may be pinned except the king, as the king must be immediately removed from check under all circumstances.
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An absolute pin is one where the piece shielded by the pinned piece is the king. In this case it is illegal to move the pinned piece out of the line of attack, as that would place one's king in check. A relative pin is one where the piece shielded by the pinned piece is a piece other than the king, but typically more valuable than the pinned piece. Moving such a pinned piece is legal, but may not be prudent as the shielded piece would then be vulnerable to capture. (See diagram at right.)
If a rook or queen is pinned along a file, or a bishop or queen is pinned along a diagonal, the pin is a partial pin: the pinned unit can still move along its line but cannot leave that line. A partially pinned unit may break its own pin by capturing the pinning piece; however, a partial pin can still be advantageous to the pinning player, for instance if the queen is pinned by a rook or bishop, and the pinning piece is defended, so that capturing it with the queen would lose material. Note that a queen can only ever be partially pinned, as it can move in any linear direction.
It is possible for two opposing pieces to be partially pinning each other. It is also possible for one piece to be pinned in one direction (line of attack) and partially pinned in another, or otherwise pinned in two or more directions.
The act of breaking a pin is unpinning. This can be executed in a number of ways: the piece creating the pin can be captured; another unit can be moved onto the line of the pin; or the unit to which a piece is pinned can be moved.
Although a pin is not a tactic in itself, it can be useful in tactical situations. One tactic which takes advantage of a pin can be called working the pin. In this tactic, other pieces from the pinning piece's side attack the opposing pinned piece. Since the pinned piece cannot move out of the line of attack, the pinned piece's player may move other pieces to defend the pinned piece, but the pinning player may yet attack with even more pieces, etc. Pinning can also be used in combination with other tactics. For example, a piece can be pinned to prevent it from moving to attack, or a defending piece can be pinned as part of tactic undermining an opponent's defense. A pinned piece can usually no longer be counted on as a defender of another friendly piece (that is out of the pinning line of attack) or as an attacker of an opposing piece (out of the pinning line). However, a pinned piece can still check the opposing king - and therefore still can defend friendly pieces against captures made by the enemy king.
A pin that often occurs in openings is the move Bb5 which, if Black has moved ...Nc6 and ...d6 or ...d5, pins the knight on c6, because moving the knight would expose the king on e8 to check. (The same may, of course, occur on the other flank, with a bishop on g5, or by Black on White, with a bishop on b4 or g4.) A common way to win the queen is to pin her to the king with a rook: for instance with the black queen on e5 and the black king on e8 and no other pieces on the e-file, the move Re1 by White would pin Black's queen.
In the diagram at right with white to move next,[1][2] Black is threatening the following rook sacrifice leading to mate.
The pawn on g2 cannot take the rook on h3 because the queen on g3 is pinning the pawn with a vertical line of attack. The only move to prevent the above moves is 27.Nf4 which temporarily blocks black's bishop from protecting his queen, but to no avail. The black bishop can take the knight by 27...Bxf4 renewing the same threat of mate in 2, or Black can respond as follows to mate anyway:
In this case, white could not take the mating rook now on f3 with the g2 pawn because the queen on h2 would now be pinning the pawn with a horizontal line of attack. With mate against him being inevitable, white resigned after move 26.
Sometimes in a chess game position, a piece may be considered to be in a situational pin. In a situational pin, moving the pinned piece out of the line of attack will result in a situation detrimental to the player of the pinned piece, such as a checkmate. Although a situational pin is not an absolute pin and the pinned piece can still be moved according to the rules, moving out of line of attack can result in a bad situation or even immediate loss of the game.
Consider the chess position shown at right. White has not castled or moved the king or rook yet. The black bishop has just moved from e6 to d5, making itself unprotected and available for capture by the white knight on b4. It is now white's turn to move. White should not capture the black bishop because after 1.Nxd5, 1...Rb1+ wins white's rook, because the king is forced to move away from the check, thereby exposing the rook to attack. (A skewer)
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Dansk (Danish)
v. intr. - falde, sænke sig, lægge sig, give sig til at
v. tr. - falde på, ramme
n. - fald, nedgang, hældning, efterår, kuld
idioms:
Nederlands (Dutch)
vallen, sneuvelen, dalen, achteruitgaan, zakken, toekomen, hellen, afnemen, vervallen, neerslaan, macht/ aanzien verliezen, zondigen, val, herfst, zondeval, regenval, daling, cadans, worstelpartij, ondergang, terugloop, waterval
Français (French)
v. intr. - descendre, tomber, devenir, diminuer, se déprécier, (euph) tomber (au champ d'honneur), se laisser tomber, (fig) baisser, porter (des soupçons), se porter, perdre (au profit de), incomber à, (Relig) succomber, (Astron) filer, (GB) tomber enceinte
v. tr. - abattre (un arbre), couper (un arbre)
n. - chute, chutes (npl), (US) automne, (Sport) tombé (en judo), (Théât) baisser (du rideau), précipitations, décrue, reflux, cadence (de la voix), pente, ruine (de qn), chute (d'une ville), déchéance, renversement (d'un régime), éboulement, (Relig) la chute
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Deutsch (German)
v. - fallen, stürzen, hereinbrechen, eintreten, zerfallen, abfallen, sinken
n. - Fall, Sturz, Sinken, Einbruch, Abfall, Sündenfall, Untergang, Herbst
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Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - πέφτω, ελαττώνομαι, μειώνομαι, τυχαίνω
n. - πτώση, πέσιμο, κατρακύλισμα, ελάττωση, μείωση, εκπόρθηση, άλωση, (ΗΠΑ) φθινόπωρο, (πληθ.) καταρράκτης
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Italiano (Italian)
succedere, cadere, calare, declinare, scendere, diminuire, caduta, fallo, declino, autunno, calo, regressione, regresso
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Português (Portuguese)
v. - cair
n. - queda (f)
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Русский (Russian)
падать, вываливаться, наступать, понижаться, стихать, ухудшаться, сдохнуть, рушиться, приходиться на, проронить, осень, водопад
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Español (Spanish)
v. intr. - hacerse, convertirse en, volverse, entrar, perecer, morir, caer, caerse, bajar, decaer, descender
v. tr. - derribar, demostrar entusiasmo excesivo para ser recompensado
n. - caída, golpe, pecado, ruina, perdición, otoño, descenso, baja, disminución, depresión, lo que cae, catarata de agua, bajada, arresto, sitio de una ciudad o país, lugar indicado, en una lucha, el acto de mantener al oponente en el piso durante determinado lapso de tiempo, sosteniéndolo por los hombros, aplique de cabello, velo opaco que cuelga de la parte de atrás de un sombrero, caída decorativa de encaje, trampa, flequillo, visera de una borgoñeta, (náut) tira de un aparejo, signo del zodíaco en el cual se expresa la influencia más negativa de un planeta, roca o mena que cae de una pared o techo
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Svenska (Swedish)
v. - falla, infalla, räcka (ned), slutta (nedåt), avta, bli Ex fall ill, födas (isht om lamm)
n. - fall, kullkörning, höst, (flods) utlopp, vattenfall, lutning, sänkning (av röst), avverkning (av skog)
中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
倒下, 来临, 落下, 击倒, 砍倒, 秋天, 瀑布
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中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
v. intr. - 倒下, 來臨, 落下
v. tr. - 擊倒, 砍倒
n. - 秋天, 瀑布, 落下
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한국어 (Korean)
v. intr. - 떨어지다 , 쓰러지다, 늘어지다
v. tr. - 빠지다, 다가오다
n. - 낙하, 강우량, 가을, 함정
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日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 落ちる, 降る, 倒れる, 転ぶ, なる, 下がる, 弱まる, 下りになる, 下りる, 陥落する, 留まる, ある, 抜ける, 下を向く, 堕落する, 沈む
n. - 秋, 秋向きの, 落ちること, 落下, 降下, 降雨, 低下, 転倒, 滝, 没落, 陥落, 倒壊
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العربيه (Arabic)
(فعل) يسقط (الاسم) سقوط
עברית (Hebrew)
v. intr. - נפל, ירד, הפך ל-, נעשה ל-, קרה, הופיע, חל, פחת, נכנע לפיתוי, מתחלק ל-, עבר (למצב מסוים), הובס, פיאה נוכרית ארוכה, חטא, טעה
v. tr. - הפך ל-, נעשה ל-
n. - ירידה, נפילה, מפולת, סתיו, מפל-מים, פיאה נוכרית ארוכה
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