fall
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Is fall a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (heading, intransitive) To be moved downwards.Examples: "Thrown from a cliff, the stone fell 100 feet before hitting the ground."; "I fell unconscious on the floor."; "There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls."Synonyms: drop, plummet, plungeintransitive
2. (heading, intransitive) To be moved downwards.Examples: "The rain fell at dawn."; "Her eyes fell on the table, and she advanced into the room wiping her hands on her apron."; "The study not only showed IQ variance between children the same parents, but because the authors had the IQ scores of various parents, it demonstrated that parents with higher IQs tended to have more kids, ruling out the dysgenic fertility theory as a driver of falling IQ scores and highlighting the role of environmental factors instead."Synonyms: come down, descend, drop, cut down, fell, knock down, knock over, strike downintransitive
3. (heading, intransitive) To be moved downwards.Examples: "Once or twice a noise fell upon his quick ear, and we halted, he standing revolver in hand in an attitude of defense. Each time, however, we ascertained that we had no occasion for alarm, the noise being made by some animal or bird ..."; "And then a sudden calm fell on us like a cloud of fear. There! on the table, lay the Jewel of Seven Stars, shining and sparkling with lurid light, as though each of the seven points of each of the seven stars gleamed through blood!"; "Shortly afterwards a breeze came up from the N […] dark clouds closing in over everything. At 3 in the afternoon the breeze came up from the S with a thick drizzle. Thus night fell, and thus we passed the rest of it."intransitive
4. (heading, intransitive) To be moved downwards.Examples: "He fell to the floor and begged for mercy."Synonyms: drop, lower oneself, prostrate oneselfintransitive
5. (heading, intransitive) To be moved downwards.intransitive
6. (transitive) To move downwards.Examples: "For every tear he falls, a Trojan bleeds."obsoletetransitive
noun (English)
1. (chiefly Canada, US, archaic in Britain) The time of the year when the leaves typically fall from the trees; autumn; the season of the year between the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice.Examples: "A friend has pointed out to me the following remark on this word: "In North America the season in which this [the fall of the leaf] takes place, derives its name from that circumstance, and instead of autumn is universally called the fall." [brackets in original]"Synonyms: autumn, harvest, back endCanadaUSarchaiccountableuncountable
2. (sports) A crucial event or circumstance.countableuncountable
3. (sports) A crucial event or circumstance.countableuncountable
4. (sports) A crucial event or circumstance.countableuncountable
5. (informal, US) Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.Examples: "He set up his rival to take the fall."Synonyms: rapUScountableinformaluncountable
6. (nautical) The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).Examples: "Have the goodness to secure the falls of the mizzen halyards."; ""[...] with one overhauled fall flying and an iron-bound block capering in the air.""countableuncountable
intj (English)
1. (nautical) The cry given when a whale is sighted, or harpooned.
noun (English)
1. (nautical) The chasing of a hunted whale.
name (English)
1. (theology) The sudden fall of humanity into a state of sin, as brought about by the transgression of Adam and Eve.
Definition source: Wiktionary