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Definition: TO FALL DOWN |
TO FALL DOWN1. (a) To prostrate one's self in worship. ``All kings shall fall down before him.'' --Ps. lxxii. 11. (b) To sink; to come to the ground. ``Down fell the beauteous youth.'' --Dryden. (c) To bend or bow, as a suppliant. (d) (Naut.) To sail or drift toward the mouth of a river or other outlet. |
| Domain | Definition |
Multilingual Slang | Russian (naebnut'sya ). (references) |
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Crosswords: TO FALL DOWN |
| Specialty definitions using "TO FALL DOWN": push-over ♦ Steps. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "TO FALL DOWN": Cataract ♦ Occasive, Occident. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | To fall down at your door. (I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles); performing artist: The Proclaimers) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Pliny The Elder | When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Michael Oxley | Mike Castle's a great guy and former governor, and he could be right, unless we fall down on the job of correcting the situation, but we're not going to fall down on the job. |
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| Language | Translations for "TO FALL DOWN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 偃 (to lie supine, to stop). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | lezuhan (fall down, have a fall, pitch, to crack up, to crash, to hurtle down, to plummet, to precipitate), beomlik (break in, cave, to cave in, to close in, to crash in, to fall in, to founder, to slump), bedől (bit, bitten, to bite, to close in, to rise to the fly). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 落ちる (to crash, to degenerate, to degrade, to drop, to fail), 転ぶ (to fall over). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | たおれふす, おっ"ちる (to drop), おちる (to crash, to degenerate, to degrade, to drop, to fail), まろぶ (to fall over), ふしたおれる, "ろぶ (to fall over). (various references) | ||||||||||
Maya | heen. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | otay allfay ownday -wira pasi. (various references) | ||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | accido, concido. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-f-l-l-n-o-o-t-w" | |
-2 letters: downfall, footwall. | |
-3 letters: fatwood, lowland, twofold. | |
-4 letters: dalton, fallow, fantod, follow, fontal, tallow. | |
-5 letters: adown, afoot, aldol, allod, allot, allow, aloft, aloof, atoll, dotal, float, flood, flota, flown, llano, loofa, nodal, notal, talon, tolan, tonal, tondo, waldo, woald. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 4F 46 41 4C 4C 44 4F 57 4E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01001111 00100000 01000110 01000001 01001100 01001100 00100000 01000100 01001111 01010111 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T O   F A L L   D O W N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 004F 0046 0041 004C 004C 0044 004F 0057 004E |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5449240354646238495748 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Quotations: Familiar | 5. Quotations: Spoken 6. Translations: Modern 7. Translations: Ancient 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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