Fall tarimas:

/fɔ:l/

Fall audio:

Žodžio paaiškinimas anglų kalba:

• verb-intransitive: To drop or come down freely under the influence of gravity.
• verb-intransitive: To drop oneself to a lower or less erect position: I fell back in my chair. The pilgrims fell to their knees.
• verb-intransitive: To lose an upright or erect position suddenly.
• verb-intransitive: To drop wounded or dead, especially in battle.
• verb-intransitive: To go or come as if by falling: All grief fell from our hearts. Night fell quickly.
• verb-intransitive: To come to rest; settle: The light fell on my book.
• verb-intransitive: To hang down: The child's hair fell in ringlets.
• verb-intransitive: To be cast down: Her eyes fell.
• verb-intransitive: To assume an expression of consternation or disappointment: His face fell when he heard the report.
• verb-intransitive: To undergo conquest or capture, especially as the result of an armed attack: The city fell after a long siege.
• verb-intransitive: To experience defeat or ruin: After 300 years the dynasty fell.
• verb-intransitive: To lose office: The disgraced prime minister fell from power.
• verb-intransitive: To slope downward: The rolling hills fall gently toward the coast.
• verb-intransitive: To lessen in amount or degree: The air pressure is falling.
• verb-intransitive: To decline in financial value: Last year, stocks fell sharply.
• verb-intransitive: To diminish in pitch or volume: My friend's voice fell to a whisper.
• verb-intransitive: To give in to temptation; sin.
• verb-intransitive: Theology To lose primordial innocence and happiness. Used of humanity as a result of the Fall.
• verb-intransitive: To lose one's chastity.
• verb-intransitive: To pass into a particular state, condition, or situation: fell silent; fall in love.
• verb-intransitive: To occur at a specified time: New Year's Day falls on a Tuesday this year.
• verb-intransitive: To occur at a specified place: The stress falls on the last syllable.
• verb-intransitive: To come, as by chance: fell among a band of thieves; a thought that fell into his mind.
• verb-intransitive: To be given by assignment or distribution: The greatest task fell to me.
• verb-intransitive: To be given by right or inheritance.
• verb-intransitive: To be included within the range or scope of something: The specimens fall into three categories.
• verb-intransitive: To come into contact; strike: My gaze fell on a small book in the corner.
• verb-intransitive: To come out; issue: Insincere compliments fell from their lips.
• verb-intransitive: To apply oneself: fell to work immediately.
• verb-intransitive: To be born. Used chiefly of lambs.
• verb-transitive: To cut down (a tree); fell.
• noun: The act or an instance of falling.
• noun: A sudden drop from a relatively erect to a less erect position.
• noun: Something that has fallen: a fall of hail.
• noun: An amount that has fallen: a fall of two inches of rain.
• noun: The distance that something falls: The victim suffered a fall of three stories to the ground.
• noun: Autumn.
• noun: A waterfall.
• noun: A downward movement or slope.
• noun: Any of several pendent articles of dress, especially:
• noun: A veil hung from a woman's hat and down her back.
• noun: An ornamental cascade of lace or trimming attached to a dress, usually at the collar.
• noun: A woman's hairpiece with long, free-hanging hair.
• noun: An overthrow; a collapse: the fall of a government.
• noun: Armed capture of a place under siege: the fall of Troy.
• noun: A reduction in value, amount, or degree.
• noun: A marked, often sudden, decline in status, rank, or importance: "turned them in, set them up for prosecution; positioned them, as it were, for the fall” ( Joan Didion).
• noun: A moral lapse.
• noun: A loss of chastity.
• noun: Theology The loss of humanity's original innocence and happiness resulting from Adam and Eve's eating of the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden.
• noun: Sports The act of holding a wrestling opponent on his or her back so that the shoulders remain in contact with the mat for a designated period, usually one or two seconds, thereby winning the match. Also called pin.
• noun: Sports Any of various wrestling maneuvers resulting in such an act.
• noun: Nautical A break or rise in the level of a deck.
• noun: Nautical The apparatus used to hoist and transfer cargo or lifeboats.
• noun: The end of a cable, rope, or chain that is pulled by the power source in hoisting.
• noun: The birth of an animal, especially a lamb.
• noun: All the animals born at one birth; a litter.
• noun: A family of woodcock in flight. See Synonyms at flock¹.
• noun: Botany The outer series of perianth in the irises and related plants.
• adjective: Of, having to do with, occurring in, or appropriate to the season of fall: fall fashion; fall harvests.
• adjective: Grown during the season of fall: fall crops.
• phrasal-verb: fall apart To break down; collapse: The rickety chair fell apart.
• phrasal-verb: fall apart To suffer a nervous breakdown: He fell apart after years as a POW.
• phrasal-verb: fall away To withdraw one's friendship and support.
• phrasal-verb: fall away To become gradually diminished in size.
• phrasal-verb: fall away To drift off an established course.
• phrasal-verb: fall away To lose weight.
• phrasal-verb: fall back To give ground; retreat.
• phrasal-verb: fall back To recede: The waves fell back.
• phrasal-verb: fall behind To fail to keep up a pace; lag behind.
• phrasal-verb: fall behind To be financially in arrears.
• phrasal-verb: fall down To fail to meet expectations; lag in performance: fell down on the job.
• phrasal-verb: fall for To feel love for; be in love with.
• phrasal-verb: fall for To be deceived or swindled by: fell for the con artist's scheme and lost $200,000.
• phrasal-verb: fall in To take one's place in a military formation.
• phrasal-verb: fall in To sink inward; cave in: The roof of the old barn fell in.
• phrasal-verb: fall off To become less; decrease: Stock prices have fallen off. The number of staff meetings fell off after a few months.
• phrasal-verb: fall off To lose weight: Toward the end of the dry season, the cattle fall off rapidly.
• phrasal-verb: fall off Nautical To change course to leeward.
• phrasal-verb: on To attack suddenly and viciously: Snipers and irregulars fell on the hapless patrol.
• phrasal-verb: on To meet with; encounter: a stockbroker who fell on hard times.
• phrasal-verb: fall out To leave a barracks, for example, in order to take one's place in a military formation.
• phrasal-verb: fall out To leave a military formation.
• phrasal-verb: fall out To quarrel: The siblings fell out over their inheritance.
• phrasal-verb: fall out To happen; occur.
• phrasal-verb: fall out To be readily explainable; follow logically or naturally: These facts fall out nicely from the new theory.
• phrasal-verb: fall through To fail; miscarry: Our plans fell through at the last minute.
• phrasal-verb: fall to To begin an activity energetically: "The press fell to with a will” ( Russell Baker).
• idiom: on To rely on: fall back on old friends in time of need.
• idiom: on To resort to: I had to fall back on my savings when I was unemployed.
• idiom: fall between (the) two stools To fail because of an inability to reconcile or choose between two courses of action.
• idiom: fall flat To fail miserably when attempting to achieve a result.
• idiom: fall flat To have no effect: The jokes fell flat.
• idiom: foul Nautical To collide. Used of vessels.
• idiom: foul To clash: fell foul of the law.
• idiom: fall from grace To experience a major reduction in status or prestige.
• idiom: fall into line To adhere to established rules or predetermined courses of action.
• idiom: fall in with To agree with or be in harmony with: Their views fall in with ours.
• idiom: fall in with To associate or begin to associate with: fell in with the wrong crowd.
• idiom: fall on deaf ears To go unheeded; be ignored completely: "Moscow's own familiar charges . . . will also fall on deaf ears” ( Foreign Affairs).
• idiom: backward To overexert oneself to do or accomplish something: We fell over backward to complete the project on time.
• idiom: fall over (oneself) To display inordinate, typically effusive, enthusiasm: fell over themselves to impress the general's wife.
• idiom: fall prey to To be put into such a vulnerable position as to be at risk of harm, destruction, or invasion: a person who fell prey to swindlers; did not want the country to fall prey to terrorists.
• idiom: fall short To fail to attain a specified amount, level, or degree: an athlete whose skill fell far short of expectations.
• idiom: fall short To prove inadequate: Food supplies fell short.
• idiom: fall through the cracks To pass unnoticed, neglected, or unchecked: "In the past, many learning disabled children fell through the cracks” ( Judith Harkness Richardson).

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