Word Finder - falls

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The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.

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A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.

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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.

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A loss of greatness or status.

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the fall of Rome

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That which falls or cascades.

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A crucial event or circumstance.

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A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover hair loss.

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Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.

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He set up his rival to take the fall.

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The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).

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Have the goodness to secure the falls of the mizzen halyards.

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An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.

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A short, flexible piece of leather forming part of a bullwhip, placed between the thong and the cracker.

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The lid, on a piano, that covers the keyboard

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(heading) To be moved downwards.

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To move downwards.

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To happen, to change negatively.

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To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.

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And so it falls to me to make this important decision.  The estate fell to his brother; the kingdom fell into the hands of his rivals.

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To diminish; to lessen or lower.

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To bring forth.

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to fall lambs

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To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals.

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To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin.

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To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.

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to fall into error;  to fall into difficulties

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To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the face.

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To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).

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To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.

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After arguing, they fell to blows.

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To be dropped or uttered carelessly.

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An unguarded expression fell from his lips.

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(of a fabric) To hang down (under the influence of gravity).

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An Empire-style dress has a high waistline – directly under the bust – from which the dress falls all the way to a hem as low as the floor.

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The chasing of a hunted whale.

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A waterfall.

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Niagara Falls

Can you do it before Gabriel falls in love with you?

The river, which falls 16 ft.

I'm just riding along so's nothing falls off!

More snow falls in February than in any other month.

Snow hardly ever falls near the coast, but is abundant in the higher parts of the island, though none remains throughout the summer.

Blast her when she falls.

In 1697 Andre Briie reached the island of Morfil, while in 1608 he penetrated past the Felu Falls.

Vibrations increase in rapidity as a note rises and decrease as it falls.

The Orne, which rises in the hills of Normandy and falls into the Channel below Caen, is of considerably less importance.

The land tax falls upon land not built upon in proportion to its net yearly revenue.

Beneath these hills the surface of the island falls lower, and several hills in the form of amphitheatres extend their bases as far as the sea.

Vermont's rivers are generally swift, and in many places they are made very picturesque by their clear and sparkling waters, rapids, falls, gorges and wooded banks.

The mean annual precipitation for the entire state is about 38.5 in.; more rain falls in summer than in any other season, and more falls in the southern section than in the northern.

If that authority falls to nothing,"he said," nothing can follow but confusion."The Presbyterians, however, now engaged in a plan for restoring the king under their own control, and by the means of a Scottish army, forced on their policy, and on the 27th of May ordered the immediate disbandment of the army, without any guarantee for the payment of arrears.

The scene of the legend now shifts to Rome, where Diocletian falls in love with a lovely nun named Ripsime; she, rather than gratify his passion, flees with her abbess Gaiana and several priests to Armenia.

Thence it runs westward to Florence and through the gorge of Golfolina onwards to Empoli and Pisa, receiving various tributaries in its course, and falls into the sea 71 m.

Tests of the comparative efficiencies of hydraulic and electric cranes tend to show that, although they do not vary to any very considerable extent with full load, yet the efficiency of the hydraulic crane falls away very much more rapidly than that of the electric crane when working on smaller loads.

On creating an electric spark or wave in the neighbourhood of the tube the resistance suddenly falls to a few ohms and the cell sends a current through it.

When overtaken by a dust-storm it falls on its knees, and stretching its neck along the sand, closes its nostrils and remains thus motionless till the atmosphere clears; and in this position it affords some shelter to its driver, who, wrapping his face in his mantle, crouches behind his beast.

Heavy falls of snow in June are not uncommon, and only for a short time towards the end of July are the nights totally exempt from light frosts.

It will be seen that the revenue is swollen by a large number o taxes which can only be justified by necessity; the reduction and still more, the readjustment of taxation (which now largely falls or articles of primary necessity) is urgently needed.

In this instance it may happen that the work of intelligence has only been mimicked in nature by blind forces which have accidentally produced organic life; and Mill is disposed to hold that if the evolution of species should be clearly established as due to natural law - if there has been no creation by special interposition - the argument falls to the ground and theism (apparently) is lost.

For the other half he falls back on ratiocination.

The morphology of the group thus falls naturally into four sections - (I) the hydropolyp, (2) the polyp-colony, (3) the hydromedusa, (4) the medusa-colonies.

It is content to explain the origin and course of development of the world, the solar or, at most, the sidereal system which falls under our own observation.

As this fast falls in the early part of the year, it became confused with the season, and gradually the word Lent, which originally meant spring, was confined to this use.

The plant world falls into two great divisions, the higher or flowering plants (Phanerogams), characterized by the formation of a seed, and the lower or flowerless plants (Cryptogams), in which no seed is formed but the plants are disseminated by means of unicellular bodies termed spores.

The stem in this family falls into two divisions, an underground portion bearing rhizoids and scales, the rhizome, and a leafy aerial stem forming its direct upward continuation.

Maximowiczfinds that 40% of the plants of Manchuria are common to Europe and Asia, but the proportion falls sharply to i6% in the case of Japan.

It is on the windward faces of the highest ground, or just beyond the summit of less dominant heights upon the leeward side, that most rain falls, and all that does not evaporate or percolate into the ground is conducted back to the sea by a route which depends only on the form of the land.

The experiment was so far successful that, with incredible difficulty, the two vessels did actually reach Meskene, but the result of the expedition was to show that practically the river could not be used as a high-road of commerce, the continuous rapids and falls during the low season, caused mainly by the artificial obstructions of the irrigating dams, being insurmountable by ordinary steam power, and the aid of hundreds of hands being thus required to drag the vessels up the stream at those points by main force.

Besides the rivers mentioned, the chief streams are the Santa Lucia, which falls into the Plata a little west of Montevideo; the Queguay, in Paysandu; and the Cebollati, rising in the sierras in Minas and flowing into Lake Mirim.

In the districts bordering on the coast the thermometer seldom falls below 37°; and only for a few moments and at long intervals has it been known to rise as high as 105°.

Although the northern and southern extremities of Goyaz lie within two great river systems - the Tocantins and Parana - the upper courses of which are navigable, both of them are obstructed by falls.

As most of the rivers have rapids or falls actually at the sea coast or close to it, they are, with the exception of the Cavalla, useless for penetrating far inland, and the whole of this part of Africa from Cape Palmas north-west to the Senegal suggests a sunken land.

Dvina, which falls into the sea below Riga, is shallow above the rapids of Jacobstadt, but navigation is carried on as far as Vitebsk - corn, timber, potash, flax, &c., being the principal shipments of its navigable tributaries (the Obsha, Ulla and Kasplya).

The gradient or grade of a line is the rate at which it rises or falls, above or below the horizontal, and is expressed by stating either the horizontal distance in which the change of level amounts to r ft., or the amount of change that would occur in some selected distance, such as roo ft., r000 ft.

Southward the altitude falls, Death valley and Coahuila valley being in part below the level of the sea.

The sky is almost constantly overcast, and rain falls, mostly in a drizzle and in frequent showers, on about 250 days in the year.

In judging the Decline and Fall it should carefully be observed that it falls into two parts which are heterogeneous in the method of treatment.

It is a left-bank tributary of the Rhine, into which it falls at Sinzig, rising in the Eifel mountains, and having a total length of 55 m.

Wollaston's Religion of Nature, which falls between Clarke's Discourse of the Unchangeable Obligations of Natural Religion and Butler's Sermons, was one of the popular philosophical books of its day.

The epic falls into three easily distinguishable parts - the adventures of King Hagen of Ireland, the romance of Hettel, king of the Hegelingen, who woos and wins Hagen's daughter Hilde, and lastly, the more or less parallel story of how Herwig, king of Seeland, wins, in opposition to her father's wishes, Gudrun, the daughter of Hettel and Hilde.

The Madonna above the principal portal falls into the same category.

This falls into three equal divisions, of which the first ends with Jehoash's temple-reforms and the second with Hezekiah's death.

Jealousy of everything emanating from Rome still keeps the Eastern churches from correcting the calendar according to the Gregorian reformation, and thus their Easter usually falls before, or after, that of the Western churches, and only very rarely, as was the case in 1865, do the two coincide.

Nearly one-third of the rain falls in January, February and March; July, also, is one of the wet months.

In the Mountain Region and in the Piedmont Plateau Region the rivers have numerous falls and rapids which afford a total water power unequalled perhaps in any other state than Maine on the Atlantic Coast, the largest being on the Yadkin, Roanoke and Catawba; and in crossing some of the mountains, especially the Unakas, the streams have carved deep narrow gorges that are much admired for their scenery.

All these rivers of the Brazilian plateau are interrupted by falls and rapids.

The western part of the area falls within the Turkish empire.