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What (who) is fall - definition

ONE OF THE EARTH'S FOUR TEMPERATE SEASONS, OCCURRING BETWEEN SUMMER AND WINTER
Fall (season); Fall (etymology); Autumns; Autumn/ fall; Mid-Fall; Autumntime; Meteorological fall; Autumn (from disambiguation); Fall; Fall season
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  • Autumn colouration at the Kalevanpuisto park in [[Pori]], Finland.

fall         
I
n.
dropping, coming down
1) to have, take a fall
2) to break a fall
3) a bad, nasty fall (she had a bad fall and broke her ankle)
4) a free fall (of a parachutist)
5) a fall from (a fall from a horse)
autumn
(AE)
6) an early; late fall
7) in (the) fall (we have a lot of rain in the fall)
II
v.
1) ('to drop') to fall flat, headlong; short
2) (colloq.) (d; intr.) to fall for ('to become infatuated with') (he fell for her)
3) (D; intr.) ('to drop') to fall from (to fall from a tree; to fall from grace)
4) (d; intr.) ('to come'); ('to drop') to fall into (to fall into disfavor; to fall into disrepute; to fall into place; to fall into a trap)
5) (d; intr.) ('to be divided') to fall into (to fall into three categories)
6) (D; intr.) ('to drop') to fall off (to fall off a table)
7) (D; intr.) ('to drop') to fall on (to fall on one's back; the stress falls on the last syllable)
8) (d; intr.) ('to come') to fall on (the holiday fell on a Monday)
9) (d; intr.) ('to drop') to fall out of (to fall out of bed; to fall out of favor)
10) (d; intr.) to fall over (she fell over the side of the ship)
11) (formal) (d; intr.) ('to devolve') to fall to (it fell to me to break the news)
12) (D; intr.) ('to drop') to fall to (he fell to his knees; the book fell to the floor)
13) (d; intr.) ('to drop') ('to come') to fall under (to fall under a train; to fall under smb.'s influence)
14) (misc.) to fall asleep; to fall due; to fall foul of the law; to fall ill; to fall in love with smb.; to fall in battle; to fall silent; to fall on hard times; to fall to pieces; to fall into step
fall         
I. v. n.
1.
Drop, descend, sink, drop down.
2.
Be prostrated, fall down.
3.
Sink, be lowered, be depressed.
4.
Decrease, decline, be diminished, become less, die away.
5.
Sin, err, transgress, lapse, trip, trespass, commit a fault, do amiss, go astray.
6.
Die, perish, come to destruction.
7.
Empty, disembogue, flow, be discharged.
8.
Happen, befall, come.
9.
Become (sick, asleep, in love, etc.), get.
10.
Pass, come, be transferred.
11.
Be dropped, be uttered carelessly, drop.
II. n.
1.
Descent, dropping.
2.
Tumble, falling.
3.
Cataract, cascade, waterfall.
4.
Extent of descent, amount of fall.
5.
Destruction, death, ruin, overthrow, downfall.
6.
Degradation, loss of eminence.
7.
Apostasy, loss of innocence, lapse, declension, slip, going astray, failure.
8.
Diminution, decrease, decline.
9.
Sinking (of the voice), cadence, close.
10.
Discharge (of a river), emptying, disemboguement.
11.
Autumn, fall of the leaf.
12.
Declivity, slope, inclination.
fall         
¦ verb (past fell; past participle fallen)
1. move from a higher to a lower level, typically rapidly and without control.
(fall off) become detached and drop to the ground.
hang down.
slope downwards.
(of a person's face) show dismay or disappointment by appearing to droop.
2. cease to be standing or upright; collapse.
3. decrease in number, amount, intensity, or quality.
4. pass into a specified state: the buildings fell into disrepair.
occur or arrive.
(fall to doing something) begin to do something.
5. be captured or defeated.
Cricket (of a wicket) be taken by the bowling side.
archaic yield to temptation.
6. be classified in the way specified.
¦ noun
1. an act of falling.
Wrestling a move which pins the opponent's shoulders on the ground for a count of three.
a downward difference in height between parts of a surface.
a sudden onset or arrival.
2. a thing which falls or has fallen.
a waterfall.
3. a decrease.
4. a defeat or downfall.
(the Fall of Man) the lapse of humankind into a state of sin, ascribed in Jewish and Christian theology to the disobedience of Adam and Eve.
5. N. Amer. autumn.
Phrases
fall foul (or N. Amer. afoul) of come into conflict with.
fall in (or into) line conform. [with ref. to military formation.]
fall into place begin to make sense.
fall over oneself to do something informal be excessively eager to do something.
fall short (of)
1. (of a missile) fail to reach its target.
2. be deficient or inadequate.
take the fall N. Amer. informal incur blame or punishment in the place of another.
Phrasal verbs
fall about Brit. informal laugh uncontrollably.
fall apart (or to pieces) informal lose one's capacity to cope.
fall back retreat.
fall back on have recourse to when in difficulty.
fall down fail.
fall for informal
1. fall in love with.
2. be deceived by.
fall in take one's place in a military formation.
fall in with
1. meet by chance and become involved with.
2. agree to.
fall on/upon
1. attack fiercely or unexpectedly.
2. (of someone's eyes) be directed towards.
3. be the responsibility of.
fall out
1. have an argument.
2. leave one's place in a military formation.
3. happen.
fall through fail.
fall to become the duty of.
?(of property) revert to the ownership of.
Origin
OE fallan, feallan, of Gmc origin; the noun is partly from ON fall 'downfall, sin'.

Wikipedia

Autumn

Autumn, also known as fall in American English and Canadian English, is one of the four temperate seasons on Earth. Outside the tropics, autumn marks the transition from summer to winter, in September (Northern Hemisphere) or March (Southern Hemisphere). Autumn is the season when the duration of daylight becomes noticeably shorter and the temperature cools considerably. Day length decreases and night length increases as the season progresses until the Winter Solstice in December (Northern Hemisphere) and June (Southern Hemisphere). One of its main features in temperate climates is the striking change in colour for the leaves of deciduous trees as they prepare to shed.

Examples of use of fall
1. "If I fall, or if my people make me fall, the government will fall, too.
2. Eventually, the crowd may fall." And the crowd did fall.
3. When advertisers announce, "This is our fall line," he says, these publications "fall in line with the fall line" and hype their products.
4. "In the autumn, the leaves fall, and Abbas will fall," he said.
5. This fall was led by a 3 per cent fall in car prices.