تعريف =-fall في الإنجليزية الإنجليزية القاموس.
- Fall
- Autumn; the season of the year between the autumnal equinox in late September to the winter solstice in late December
- Fall River
- A city in Massachusetts, United States
- apple does not fall far from the stem
- Alternative form of apple does not fall far from the tree
- apple does not fall far from the tree
- A child grows up to be very similar to its parents, both in behavior and in physical characteristics
It's important that I know what diseases affect other members of your immediate family, because the apple does not fall far from the tree..
- apple does not fall far from the trunk
- Alternative form of apple does not fall far from the tree
- fall
- To become
She has fallen ill.
- fall
- To cause something to descend to the ground (to drop it); especially to cause a tree to descend to the ground by cutting it down (felling it)
Ghoaſt . / To morrow in the battaile thinke on me, / And fall thy edgeleſſe ſword, diſpaire and die.
- fall
- To become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc)
The candidate's poll ratings fell abruptly after the banking scandal.
- fall
- A loss of greatness or status
the fall of Rome.
- fall
- To come down, to drop or descend
The rain fell at dawn.
- fall
- To become; to be affected by or befallen with a calamity; to change into the state described by words following; to become prostrated literally or figuratively
Our senator fell into disrepute because of the banking scandal.
- fall
- To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself
He fell to the floor and begged for mercy.
- fall
- To die, especially in battle
This is a monument to all those who fell in the First World War.
- fall
- To be brought to the ground
- fall
- The act of moving in a fluid or vacuum under the effect of gravity to a lower position
- fall
- Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed
He set up his rival to take the fall.
- fall
- A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given direction
- fall
- The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting
- fall
- autumn
- fall
- The action of a batsman being out
- fall
- A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc
- fall
- To be allotted to; to arrive through chance or fate
And so it falls to me to make this important decision.
- fall
- To collapse; to be overthrown or defeated
Rome fell to the Goths in 410 AD.
- fall
- To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity
Thrown from a cliff, the stone fell 100 feet before hitting the ground.
- fall about
- To laugh so much that one's entire body moves somewhat uncontrollably
Every time he performed the trick people would fall about laughing.
- fall apart
- To break into pieces through being in a dilapidated state
My old briefcase is falling apart. I'll have to buy a new one.
- fall apart
- To be emotionally in crisis
As a result of being addicted to heroin, she was falling apart.
- fall asleep
- To pass from a state of wakefulness into sleep
- fall asleep
- To die (often seen on gravestones)
John Doe, fell asleep 1 January 2001.
- fall at the final hurdle
- Alternative form of fall at the last hurdle
- fall at the last hurdle
- To fail near the end of something
- fall away
- To cease to support a person or cause
- fall back on
- To turn to as a substitute
So I fell back on the simple methods of the plainsman and Indian and jogged along on their trail.
- fall back upon
- To fall back on
- fall behind
- To be progressively below average in performance
It's not like John to fall behind in maths.
- fall behind
- To be late (for a regular event)
You're falling behind with the rent.
- fall between two stools
- To attempt two roles and fail at both, when either could have been accomplished singly
As your chances of mega-success increase so do your chances of falling between two stools, and if you get it wrong, you could end up with a dog’s dinner that satisfies no one.
- fall between two stools
- To fit into neither of two categories and, hence, be neglected or fail
- fall by the wayside
- To fail to be completed, particularly for lack of interest; to be left out
Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow: / And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up.
- fall classic
- The World Series
The White Sox swept the 2005 fall classic.
- fall classics
- plural form of fall classic
- fall down
- To collapse
The beams supporting the roof had rotted, causing the entire house to fall down.
- fall down
- To fall to the ground
Ring a-ring o' roses, / A pocketful of posies. / A-tishoo! A-tishoo! / We all fall down. — traditional nursery rhyme (UK version).
- fall for
- To fall in love with someone
He really fell for the attractive waitress at his favorite restaurant.
- fall for
- To be fooled; to walk into a trap or respond to a scam or trick
I can't believe how many people still fall for the coin glued to the sidewalk.
- fall foul
- To be defeated or thwarted (by); to suffer ( + of)
Sky News fell foul of its own woolly reporting on Tuesday, when it reported human remains had been found on Saddleworth Moor. Ever keen to spin a good yarn, they immediately linked the story to moors murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley - only for the police to emerge seven hours later and announce that, after very careful inspection, they could confirm the carcass was not human.
- fall foul
- To collide; to conflict with; to attack (+ on, of, upon)
He was, literally speaking, drunk; which circumstance, together with his natural impetuosity, could produce no other effect than his running immediately up to his daughter, upon whom he fell foul with his tongue in the most inveterate manner.
- fall from grace
- to lose God's favour through sins or wrongdoings
- fall from grace
- to fall from one's current social position to something lower, to lose one's prestige, status and power
- fall guy
- scapegoat
- fall guy
- one whom is gullible and easily duped
- fall ill
- To become ill; to sicken
- fall in
- Of a soldier, to get into position in a rank
- fall in
- To collapse inwards
The heavy rain caused the roof to fall in.
- fall in line
- To submit to the rules of a higher authority; obey; conform
I won't grow up, I won't fall in line.
- fall in love
- To come to have feelings of love directed at another person or a thing
I fell in love with him the moment I first saw him.
- fall in love
- To come to have feelings of love towards each other
They met, fell in love, got married, and lived happily ever after.
- fall in love
- To come to have feelings of intense liking directed at another person or a thing
I have just fallen in love with Rome!.
- fall in with
- To join a group of people
He has fallen in with a bad lot.
- fall in with
- To accept a set of generally agreed rules, or a suggestion
It seemed like a good idea, so we fell in with it.
- fall into
- To enter something (especially a profession) without having planned it
Most of us didn't plan to be designers, we just fell into the job.
- fall into
- To go into something by falling
The cat might fall into the pool if you're not careful.
- fall into
- To be classified as; to fall under
That falls into three categories.
- fall line
- The imaginary line downhill that something falling downhill would naturally follow
- fall line
- A line marking a boundary between an upland region and a plane; sometimes marked by a series of waterfalls on rivers that cross it
- fall of wicket
- The side's total score when a particular batsman was out
- fall off
- To diminish in size or value
Business always falls off in the winter.
- fall off
- A hip hop term; to completely lose the plot in terms of artistic direction
MC ___'s new album is wack - he's fallen off big-time.
- fall off
- To become detached or to drop from
A button fell off my coat.
- fall off a truck
- Of an item of merchandise, to come into a person's possession without having been paid for; to be acquired illegally
He said he bought it at the markets but I think it fell off a truck.
- fall off the back of a lorry
- Of an item of merchandise, to come into a perons's possession without having been paid for; to have been acquired illegally
- fall off the turnip truck
- To be naive, uninformed, or unsophisticated, in the manner of a rustic person
Doesn't it strike you as funny that this city, which prides itself on its erudition and sophistication, can oftimes get suckered like a bumpkin who just fell off the turnip truck?.
- fall off the wagon
- To cease or fail at a regimen of self-improvement or reform; to lapse back into an old habit or addiction
Though he fell off the wagon several times, he eventually succeeded in quitting.
- fall on
- To experience; to suffer; to fall upon
With the rise of the Internet, some media fell on hard times.
- fall on deaf ears
- Of a request, complaint, etc, to be ignored
Every time I ask him to do something for me, it falls on deaf ears.
- fall on one's face
- To fail, especially in a dramatic or particularly decisive manner
thers grumbled, questioning whether this man knew anything about fighting in the desert or was simply a strutting martinet who, once he was confronted with the tactical brilliance of Rommel, would fall on his face like so many before him. Unfortunately, if Montgomery failed, he would no doubt take a good part of the Eighth Army with him.
- fall on one's feet
- Alternative form of land on one's feet
- fall on one's sword
- Voluntarily to take the blame for a situation
In written testimony given to Congress and made public the day before the hearing, Hurd falls on his sword, apologizing for HP's spying on its own directors and invading the privacy of journalists.
- fall on one's sword
- To resign from a job or other position of responsibility, especially when pressured to do so
There is no sympathy for her. . ., one Minister said. She may just fall on her sword, or Gordon might humiliate her with a demotion..
- fall out
- To come out of something by falling
I opened the cupboard and a can fell out on to my foot.
- fall out
- To cease to be on good terms (with someone)
Dave and I fell out after a long argument.
- fall over
- Of an argument, to fail to be valid
- fall over
- Of a computer program, to crash
- fall over
- To fall from an upright or standing position to a horizontal or prone position
- fall over oneself
- To be unusually enthusiastic
On the contrary, instead of wholeheartedly defending Chase, Marshall fell over himself to accommodate his accusers.
- fall pregnant
- To become pregnant
We were delighted when I fell pregnant with my first son.
- fall prey
- To be affected, or overcome by a bad situation
Inexperienced teachers sometimes fall prey to fears that they do not know enough.
- fall short
- to be less satisfactory than expected; to be inadequate or insufficient
But if being is not a whole through being affected by that affection, and there is such a thing as the whole itself, if follows that being falls short of itself.
- fall streaks
- Falling ice crystals that sublimate before reaching the ground
- fall through
- To be unsuccessful, abort, come to nothing/naught; to be cancelled; not to proceed
Their plans to go hiking Saturday fell through because it rained.
- fall through the cracks
- to be missed; to escape the necessary notice or attention
Complete every item, and make sure nothing falls through the cracks.
- fall together
- To close (of the eyes)
- fall together
- To contract
- fall under
- To belong to for purposes of categorization
The botany handbooks in the library fall under Plant Biology.
- fall upon
- To fall on; to experience; to suffer
With the rise of the Internet, some media fell upon hard times.
- fall webworm
- Hyphantria cunea, a moth in the family Arctiidae known principally for its larval stage, which creates characteristic webbed nests on a wide variety of hardwood trees in the late summer and fall
- fall-back
- A variant form of fallback
- fall-off analysis
- A type of archaeological analysis. Finds are plotted on a map and contoured in relation to the amount of finds
- fall-out shelter
- A thick-walled building, usually under the ground, built so that people can keep away from dust after a nuclear explosion
- fall-through
- In certain programming constructs, the situation where execution passes to the next condition in a list unless explicitly redirected
Specifically, it prohibits fall-through conditions in almost all cases.
- free fall
- A variant form of freefall
- mid-fall
- Happening in the middle of fall
- mid-fall
- In the middle of fall
- mid-fall
- The middle of fall
- pride comes before a fall
- A person who is extremely proud of his or her abilities will often suffer a setback or failure, because he or she tends to be overconfident and to make errors of judgment
- pride cometh before a fall
- Alternative form of pride comes before a fall
- pride goes before a fall
- Alternative form of pride comes before a fall
- pride goeth before a fall
- Alternative form of pride comes before a fall
- tackle fall
- The rope, or rather the end of the rope, of a tackle, to which the power is applied
- take the fall
- To bear the blame or punishment for a failure or a misdeeed
It was good of him to take the fall for you like that, I just wonder if he will come out of this one unscathed.
- take the fall
- To willingly lose a match, as in a fixed fight
- the apple doesn't fall far from the tree
- Alternative form of apple does not fall far from the tree
- the bigger they are, the harder they fall
- The larger something is, the more disastrous and spectacular its downfall
- trust fall
- An exercise in which one person lets him- or herself fall without trying to stop it, relying on their friend(s) to catch them
- fall
- If a person or structure that is standing somewhere falls, they move from their upright position, so that they are then lying on the ground. The woman gripped the shoulders of her man to stop herself from falling We watched buildings fall on top of people and pets He lost his balance and fell backwards. Fall is also a noun. Mrs Briscoe had a bad fall last week. Fall down means the same as fall. I hit him so hard he fell down Children jumped from upper floors as the building fell down around them. + fallen fall·en A number of roads have been blocked by fallen trees
- fall
- If someone or something falls, they move quickly downwards onto or towards the ground, by accident or because of a natural force. Her father fell into the sea after a massive heart attack Bombs fell in the town I ought to seal the boxes up. I don't want the books falling out Twenty people were injured by falling masonry. Fall is also a noun. The helmets are designed to withstand impacts equivalent to a fall from a bicycle
- fall on
- assault, attack; devour, attack (food)
- fall on
- If you fall on something when it arrives or appears, you eagerly seize it or welcome it. They fell on the sandwiches with alacrity
- fall through
- fail, not work out (of a plan, negotiations, etc.)
- fall upon
- assault, attack; meet with, experience (hard times, etc.); come across, run into
- fall upon
- find unexpectedly; "the archeologists chanced upon an old tomb"; "she struck a goldmine"; "The hikers finally struck the main path to the lake
- break someone's fall
- Cushion a falling person; to lessen the impact of a falling person
- fall
- {n} the act of falling, descent, disgrace, ruin
- fall
- {v} to tumble, drop, cut down, sink, decrease, revolt
