ALL meanings of fall
fall
F f - noun fall one of the lines of a davit for holding, lowering, or raising a boat 0
- noun fall a scoring move, pinning both shoulders of one's opponent to the floor for a specified period 0
- noun fall (as modifier) 0
- noun fall the birth of an animal 0
- noun fall the animals produced at a single birth 0
- intransitive verb fall to come down because detached, pushed, dropped, etc.; move down and land forcibly 0
- intransitive verb fall to come down suddenly from a standing or sitting position; tumble; topple; become prostrate 0
- intransitive verb fall to be wounded or killed in battle 0
- intransitive verb fall to come down in ruins; collapse 0
- intransitive verb fall to hang down 0
- intransitive verb fall to take a downward direction 0
- intransitive verb fall to become lower in amount, number, degree, intensity, value, etc.; drop; abate 0
- intransitive verb fall to lose power; be overthrown 0
- intransitive verb fall to lose status, reputation, dignity, etc. 0
- intransitive verb fall to yield to temptation; do wrong; sin; specif. in earlier use (esp. of women), to lose chastity 0
- intransitive verb fall to be captured or conquered 0
- intransitive verb fall to take on a look of disappointment or dejection 0
- intransitive verb fall to become lower in pitch or volume 0
- intransitive verb fall to take place; occur 0
- intransitive verb fall to come by lot, distribution, inheritance, etc. 0
- intransitive verb fall to pass into a specified condition; become 0
- intransitive verb fall to come at a specified place 0
- intransitive verb fall to be directed by chance 0
- intransitive verb fall to be spoken in an involuntary way 0
- intransitive verb fall to be born 0
- intransitive verb fall to be divided (into) 0
- verb transitive fall to fell (a tree, etc.) 0
- noun fall a dropping; descending; coming down 0
- noun fall a coming down suddenly from a standing or sitting position 0
- noun fall a hanging down, or a part hanging down 0
- noun fall a downward direction or slope 0
- noun fall a becoming lower or less; reduction in value, price, etc. 0
- noun fall a lowering of the voice in pitch or volume 0
- noun fall a capture; overthrow; ruin 0
- noun fall a loss of status, reputation, etc. 0
- noun fall a yielding to temptation; wrongdoing; moral lapse 0
- noun fall a birth 0
- noun fall the number of animals born at one birth; litter 0
- noun fall something that has fallen 0
- noun fall a felling of trees, or timber felled at one time 0
- noun fall that season of the year in which many trees lose their leaves; autumn: in the North Temperate Zone, generally regarded as including the months of September, October, and November 0
- noun fall the amount of what has fallen 0
- noun fall water falling over a cliff, etc.; cascade 0
- noun fall a broad, turned-down ruff or collar worn in the 17th cent. 0
- noun fall a kind of veil hanging from the back of a woman's hat 0
- noun fall lace, ruffles, or other trimming on a dress, usually hanging from the collar 0
- noun fall a long tress of hair, often synthetic, used by a woman to fill out her coiffure 0
- noun fall the loose end of the rope, cable, etc. used in a block and tackle 0
- noun fall either of the lines used to lower or hoist a boat at the davits 0
- noun fall in a tackle (sense 2), the part of a rope between the free end and a pulley or between pulleys 0