Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. That which falls or drops; a dropping.
- n. That which sinks; a hollow: as, risings and fallings in the ground.
- n. In pathology, displacement of a part or organ downward: as, falling of the womb or of the eyelid. See prolapsus, ptosis.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of fall.
- adj. That falls or fall.
- n. The action of the verb to fall.
GNU Webster's 1913
- from fall, v. i.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. decreasing in amount or degree
- adj. becoming lower or less in degree or value
- adj. coming down freely under the influence of gravity
Examples
“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.”
“Maybe Lucy was right, either he was going gay or… Lucy had used the term falling in love.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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
“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
“That which they, report of him, amongst other things, that in his extreme old age he put himself upon learning the Greek tongue with so greedy an appetite, as if to quench a long thirst, does not seem to me to make much for his honour; it being properly what we call falling into second childhood.”
“The opponents say the exchange is merely a 'sticking plaster' over the company's problems, which they identify as falling sales, too much debt and excessive capacity in the semiconductor industry.”
“Matt Roth is happy to be out of Miami after what he termed a falling out with the Dolphins.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘falling’.
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Curling, The Roaring Game
Terms and phrases associated with the game and sport of curling.
hack, tee, hogscore, hatch, trigger, stone, end, sweeper, broom, curling sheet, hog line, centre line and 288 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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Fall
fall, fall in with, fall in love, The Fall, Fallen Angel, fallen angel, nuclear fallout, Things Fall Apart, waterfall, Falling Water, fall apart, falling and 55 more...
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• Senses
They told you they're five.
sight, hearing, taste, touch, smell, proprioception, balance, temperature, parking, rhythm, business, snow and 68 more...
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In Dreams
falling, flying, taking a test, teeth falling out, being naked in pu..., being chased, driving, being late, getting lost, losing your voice..., speaking in a for..., tsnuamis and 40 more...
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no little thing
it bothers me when i hear someone who have experienced something life changing use the phrase: now i appreciate the little things. I DON'T BELIEVE THERE ARE ANY LITTLE THINGS. everything is EXTRAOR...
letters, living, understand, narrow, behavior, personal, need, meant, untamed, world, soldier, 'cause and 241 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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Cage
cage, depart, nothing, void, strain, unconscious, never, alone, floor, God, hell, winter and 219 more...
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Under Milk Wood
moonless, night, starless, bible-black, cobblestreets, silent, hunched, courters-and-rabbits, invisible, limping, sloeblack, crowblack and 95 more...
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Phobiariffic
Things that scare me
brain damage, cancer, alzheimer's, children, pregnancy, babies, falling, marriage, moving, house centipedes, horses, silence
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The Gloaming
dragging, burnt, desert, wind, skywalk, doorway, bundle, beard, tired, bittersweet, flux, party and 55 more...
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Tunie: Moonlight in Vermont
Words & Music by John Blackburn & Karl Suessdorf, 1943. (I *just* noticed, after hearing this song dozens of times over the years, that the verses are haikus.)
Pennies in a stream
F...meadowlark, warblings, breeze, summer, evening, lovely, hypnotized, romantic, road, travel, highway, sing and 13 more...
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