Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That which falls or drops; a dropping.
- noun That which sinks; a hollow: as, risings and fallings in the ground.
- noun In pathology, displacement of a part or organ downward: as, falling of the womb or of the eyelid. See prolapsus, ptosis.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- from
fall , v. i. - See To fall away, To fall off, etc., under
Fall , v. i. - the plain, broad, linen collar turning down over the doublet, worn in the early part of the 17th century.
- (Med.) epilepsy.
- (Astron.) See
Shooting star . - a stone falling through the atmosphere; a meteorite; an aërolite.
- the ebb tide.
- [Colloq.] a rainy season.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
fall . - adjective That falls or fall.
- noun The action of the verb to fall.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective decreasing in amount or degree
- adjective becoming lower or less in degree or value
- adjective coming down freely under the influence of gravity
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Examples
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Extend the exercise so as to produce with each element, and with all the various intervals, a series or succession of rising and falling intervals, thus: _rising, falling, rising, falling_, etc.
The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education
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Maybe Lucy was right, either he was going gay or… Lucy had used the term falling in love.
The Home for Broken Hearts Rowan Coleman 2010
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Solid acting oddly enough, only the train falling is totally impossible (like the Viper scenes happen every day in LA) I mean the rest of the unrealism is in check with their abilities.
Sound Off: Wanted - What Did You Think? « FirstShowing.net 2008
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All of them absorb some of the energy and water from storm surges, which, more than the rain falling from the sky, caused the current calamity.
Boing Boing: August 28, 2005 - September 3, 2005 Archives 2005
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His voice seemed to die away after he pronounced my name, the word falling lower and lower as if everything he was saying were being said from the top of a deep well and I was on the very bottom.
Music in The Night V.C. Andrews® 1997
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His voice seemed to die away after he pronounced my name, the word falling lower and lower as if everything he was saying were being said from the top of a deep well and I was on the very bottom.
Music in The Night V.C. Andrews® 1997
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His voice seemed to die away after he pronounced my name, the word falling lower and lower as if everything he was saying were being said from the top of a deep well and I was on the very bottom.
Music in The Night V.C. Andrews® 1997
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His voice seemed to die away after he pronounced my name, the word falling lower and lower as if everything he was saying were being said from the top of a deep well and I was on the very bottom.
Music in The Night V.C. Andrews® 1997
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Over gently undulating country, with many old gardens and watch-houses, some of great height, we reached the River Kalambo, which I know as falling into Tanganyika.
The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874
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Singer-songwriter Christina Perri sings as Victoria twirls around on stage, doing moves that include synchronized falling to the ground whenever Christina sings the word "falling" in her lyrics.
The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post Emily Yahr 2011
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