TO FALL IN

Definition: TO FALL IN

TO FALL IN

1. (a) To sink inwards; as, the roof fell in. (b) (Mil.) To take one's proper or assigned place in line; as, to fall in on the right. (c) To come to an end; to terminate; to lapse; as, on the death of Mr. B., the annuuity, which he had so long received, fell in. (d) To become operative. ``The reversion, to which he had been nominated twenty years before, fell in.'' --Macaulay.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: TO FALL IN

Just because you're a big movie star, wild parties, swimming pools, you expect every girl to fall in a dead faint at your feet (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green)

I thought we had decided not to fall in love (Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones; writing credit: George Lucas)

Chandler, in all my life I never thought I would be so lucky as to fall in love with my best, my best (Friends; writing credit: Jörn O. Jensen; Birger Larsen)

I told you not to fall in love with me. (A Walk to Remember; writing credit: Karen Janszen)

Do you have to open graves to find girls to fall in love with (The Mummy; writing credit: Nina Wilcox Putnam; Richard Schayer)

To fall in love twice a day (Girls of Summer; performing artist: Aerosmith)

I didn't mean to fall in love with you (Ghost Of You And Me; performing artist: BBMak)

No, I don't want to fall in love (Wicked Game; performing artist: Chris Isaak)

But she was too young to fall in love (Only Sixteen; performing artist: DR. HOOK)

I'm sacred to fall in love (Every Time; performing artist: Janet Jackson)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Military subjects. Group of soldiers descending steps to fall in formation. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Business

New environmental legislation (introduced over the past two years and in the process of being implemented and refined) will transform the entire industry to fall in line with recognized international practices in water management. (references)

Economic History

Georgia

After several years of increases, the total level of employment in Georgia started to fall in 1997 and has continued. (references)

China

Stringent monetary policies actually caused consumer price levels to decline in 1998 and 1999, and prices for many commodities - notably agricultural products and some consumer durables - continued to fall in 2000. But some economists worry that China may not be able to create the high levels of investment and profitability needed to resolve the structural problems that beset the nation's state-owned sector, which has far too many workers and which includes huge state-owned banks that amassed a mountain of bad debt. (references)

Political Economy

IRELAND

The burden of debt service costs on the economy and the taxpayer continued to fall in 2000. The ratio of interest payments to tax revenues declined by 2.5 percentage points, continuing the downward trend of the past several years. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "TO FALL IN": To fall in with. Additional references.

German

sich verlieben in (to fall in love with), sich verlieben (fall in love, to fall in love). (various references)

Hungarian

beomlik (break in, cave, to cave in, to close in, to crash in, to fall down, to founder, to slump). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

転がり込む (to come to live with, to fall in one's way, to roll in, to tumble into, to visit), 見初める (to fall in love at first sight, to see for the first time), 穴に陥る (to fall in a pit), 穴に嵌まる (to fall in a pit), 惚れる (to be charmed with, to be in love, to fall in love, to lose one's heart to), 恋する (to fall in love with, to love), 恋�'する (to fall in love), � �が下がる (to fall in public esteem, to fall in value), ぽたぽた落ちる (bit by bit, chubby, cloop, crunching sound, dabble in water, fat, having just ..., in large drops, merely, piece by piece, pimples, plop, plump, pop, splash water, spots, to drip down, to fall in drops, to trickle down, trickle down in thick drops, with a pop), 大好きになる (to come to like a lot, to fall in love), 崩れ落ちる (to crumble down, to to fall in, to tumble down). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

くずれおちる (to crumble down, to to fall in, to tumble down), ぽたぽたおちる (to drip down, to fall in drops, to trickle down), ほれる (to be charmed with, to be in love, to fall in love, to lose one's heart to), かぶがさがる (to fall in public esteem, to fall in value), �"いする (to fall in love with, to love), �"い�'する (to fall in love), �"ろがり�"む (to come to live with, to fall in one's way, to roll in, to tumble into, to visit), あなにおちいる (to fall in a pit), あなにはまる (to fall in a pit), みそめる (to fall in love at first sight, to see for the first time), � いすきになる (to come to like a lot, to fall in love). (various references)

Pig Latin

otay allfay inay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: fontal, infall, latino, lintol, talion.

-3 letters: allot, aloft, aloin, atoll, faint, fillo, final, flail, flint, float, flota, folia, llano, notal, talon, tolan, tonal.

-4 letters: alif, alit, alto, anil, anti, fail, fain, fall, fano, fiat, fila, fill, filo, fino, flan, flat, flit, foal, foil, foin, font, info, into, iota, lain, lati, lift, lilt, lino.

+1 letter: fellation.

+2 letters: fellations.

+3 letters: conflictual, factionally, fictionally.

+4 letters: allografting, fibrillation, flagellation, flocculating, flocculation, forestalling, fractionally, frictionally, functionally, inflectional, pontifically, reflectional, slumpflation, unifoliolate.

+5 letters: affectionally, fibrillations, flagellations, flocculations, fluctuational, jollification, mollification, nonfilterable, nullification, slumpflations.