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Also expected to be ready for the fall are the addition to Midway High School and renovations to other schools.

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  1. intransitive verb To drop or come down freely under the influence of gravity.
  2. intransitive verb To drop oneself to a lower or less erect position: I fell back in my chair. The pilgrims fell to their knees.
  3. intransitive verb To lose an upright or erect position suddenly.
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  • Further factors that contributed to the fall are a new price of the L&M brand in Slovakia, higher share of cheaper cigarettes in total sales and the unfavourable exchange rate of the Slovak crown to the Czech currency. —  Prague Monitor
  • However, the fall was announced in advance and made official just in time for a 4 PM press event. —  Kottu
  • Peterson's shirtless photo spread in Muscle and Fitness this fall was amazing and it's a shame I can't find it online.
  • Secondly, a visit by the Home Theater Forum to Hollywood in the fall was accorded supportive treatment by the studio and the revelation of some positive news about classic titles in the 2009 or early 2010 plans, specifically that
  • Longhorn All-Sports Package holders (LASP) who attend the most Texas Basketball games in the fall will be awarded a FREE Stampede membership AND will be enrolled in the UT Varsity Rewards program for the remainder of the 2008-09 Texas Basketball season.
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rise ·  drop ·  shoot ·  spring ·  change ·  cut ·  wind ·  move ·  wave ·  half ·  burst ·  blow

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fall:   falling ·  fallen ·  fell ·  falls
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Etymologies (5)

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  1. Middle English fallen, from Old English feallan.

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  1. Early modern English falle; from Middle English fallen (preterit fel, fell, fil, ful, plural fellen, fillen, felle, fille, etc., past participle fallen, falle), from Anglo-Saxon feallan (preterit feóll, plural feóllon, past participle feallen) = Old Northumbrian falla = Old Saxon fallan = OFries. falla = Middle Dutch, Dutch vallen = Old High German fallan, Middle High German G. fallen = Icelandic falla = Swedish falla = Danish falde, fall (not in Gothic (Moesogothic), where the word for ‘fall’ is driusan: see dross, drizzle, v.); akin to L. fallere, deceive, passive falli, be deceived, err (whence ult. English fail, q. v.), = Greek σφάλλειν, make to fall, throw down, overthrow, defeat, baffle (cf. deriv. σφάλμα, a slip, stumble, false step, fall). Hence fell, v. t.
  2. Early modern English also fal, falle; from Middle English fal, fall, a fall; Anglo-Saxon with mutated vowel fyll, rarely fell, fall, usually of death; = Old Saxon fal = OFries.fal, fel = Dutch val = Old High German Middle High German fal, val, German fall = Icelandic fall = Danish fald = Swedish fall; from the verb.
  3. Scots; cf. Old Swedish fale, a pole or perch (Jamieson); Middle Latin fallum, “modus agri, ut videtur, apud Anglosaxones.”
  4. from Swedish Danish hval (pron. väl), a whale, = Icelandic hvalr = Anglo-Saxon hwœl, English whale, q. v. English wh in Aberdeen is pronounced as f.
 

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