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Fall Over

Definition: Fall Over

Fall Over

Verb

1. Fall forward and down; "The old woman went over without a sound".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Specialty Definitions: Fall Over

DomainDefinitions

Computing

Fall over vi. [IBM] Yet another synonym for crash or lose. `Fall over hard' equates to crash and burn. Source: Jargon File.

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Synonym: Fall Over

Synonym: go over (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Fall Over

English words defined with "fall over": breakgo overkeel overLancashire style wrestlingstumbleTo fall over, trip. (references)
Specialty definitions using "fall over": Absalom, Achan, ARSY YARSEYblack bat, BridgeCarryover, CIGARETTE-PACKING-MACHINE OPERATOR, clouds, core stripper, COREMAKER, MACHINE IDecide, Devil to Pay and no Pitch Hot, Dying SayingsEGG BREAKERfair value, falling-pin seismometerhurricanesLord ThomasMonomictic, Mortificationpackaging operator, Precipice, PRIMER BOXERscreen loading chute, SeratWeeble, Wetherill's magnetic separator, Windows sockets. (references)

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Modern Usage: Fall Over

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I can also vomit, fall over, and make dirty calls to your sister. (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás)

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Commercial Usage: Fall Over

DomainTitle

Books

  • More food with flair : or, How to give dinner parties confidently on a nice big batch of reliable recipes that won't explode, collapse or fall over (reference)

  • Track,Enduro, and Motocross Unless You Fall over (reference)

  • When the Stars Fall over Israel (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Sounds Captioned with "Fall Over".

PlayCaption
Bowling ball hitting the pins, some fall over gently.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Fall Over

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Australia

However, the industry's share of GDP has continued to fall over the last 20 years, reflecting the growth of the services sector. (references)

Zimbabwe

The fall over the last two years in the foreign exchange value of the local currency, coupled with the stiff tariff increases applied in November 1998 have made all imported goods, including those from the U.S., much more expensive. (references)

Political Economy

Guatemala

Portillo's ratings continued to fall over the next year. (references)

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Expressions: Fall Over

Expressions using "fall over": fall over backwards fall over each other To fall over. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Fall Over

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

fall over

6
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Modern Translations: Fall Over

Language Translations for "fall over"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

ndesh (attend, bang against, barge, bump, come across, come round, cross, encounter, fall in with, fight, forgather, greet, happen on, hit, light, meet, run into). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏وقع فوق, ‏سقط أرضا. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

събарям се, хлътвам (fall in, sag, settle down, sink). (various references)

   

Czech

  

spadnout (collapse, crash, drop, fall, fall down, fall off, go down, topple), převrátit se (roll over, Somerset), překotit (keel over, tip, topple, tumble, upset). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

kippen (overturning, tilting, tip over). (various references)

   

French

  

tomber par terre (fall on the floor, fall on the ground), ne pas atteindre, culbuter. (various references)

   

German

  

umkippen (come round, go over, keel over, knock over, overturn, pass out, roll over, tilt, tilt over, tip, tip over, tip up, to faint, to fall over, to keel over, to switch completely, topple down, turn over, upset). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ל"תקל במכשול (stub), ל"כשל (come to grief, dud, fail, fall, fall through, fizzle out, founder, miscarry, miss fire). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

felborul (capsize, keel over, tilt, to capsize, to careen, to fall over, to tip, to tip over, to topple, to topple over, to turn turtle), elesik (have a fall, to drop, to topple, to topple over, to tumble down). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

転ぶ (to fall down, to fall over). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

まろぶ (to fall down, to fall over), "ろぶ (to fall down, to fall over). (various references)

   

Manx

  

tuittym gour y drommey, tuittym (abate, befall, cadence, cadence of voice, calming, collapse, come off, crumple, decline, depreciate; abatement, depreciation, descend, die down, droop, drop fall, fall off, fall out, falling, falter, flounder, floundering, founder, go down, incidence, keel over, lapse, overbalance, sag, slump, subside, subsidence, tip over, topple, tumble, waver, waver of courage, wavering). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

allfay overay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

brigar (altercate, Bicker, brawl, fight, get in a quarrel, quarrel, scrap, scrimmage, scuffle, struggle, wrestle). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

se nãpusti asupra (bear down on, bear down upon, dash against, hurl oneself at, jump upon, pounce at, swoop upon), se împiedica (founder, stub one's foot on, stumble, trip), cãdea peste, îndrãgi (be fond of, embosom, endear, love). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

опрокидываться (overturn, tilt, tumble, upset). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

srušiti se (collapse, fall down, founder, keel over). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

tropezar con (encounter, experience, happen on, hit, hit on, meet with, turn up), caerse (come down, come off, drop, fall, fall down, go down, like, pitch, shank off, topple, tumble, tumble out), caer (catch on, come down, crumble, decline, demise, droop, drop, fall, fall down, fall off, fall on, fall out, go, go down, hang, like, live, loll, plunge, set, sink, tilt, tip over, trip, trip over, trip up, tumble, tumble down). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

falla omkull (fall, topple over, tumble down), ramla omkull (topple over), drumla omkull (sprawl), drulla omkull (sprawl). (various references)

   

Thai

  

สะ"ุ"ล้ม. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yıkılmak (break down, cave, cave in, collapse, come down, crack up, crumble, drop down, fall, fall down, fall to pieces, founder, go to pieces, go to ruin, shipwreck, tumble, tumble down, wither away), devrilmek (fall, fall from, overset, overturn, tilt over, tip, tip over, topple, topple down, topple over, tumble, tumble down, turn over, turn turtle, upset), düşmek (behoove, behove, collapse, come down, come down in the world, crash, crumble, crumple, crumple up, decline, decrease, deduct, degrade, dive, droop, drop, drop down, drop off, ebb, end up, fall, fall among, fall down, fall from, fall in a heap, fall off, fall on, fall on evil days, go down, land, lapse, pitch, plonk, plunge, plunk, recede, rest with, sag, scale down, sink, sink into, step down, subside into, take a toss, tumble, tumble down), üzerine düşmek (devolve, fall over backwards). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

заснути (caulk, drop asleep, fall asleep), перекидатися (bandy, battledore, keel over, overset, overturn, somersault, tipple, trip, tumble, upset). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Fall Over

Misspellings

"Fall Over" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fallover. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Fall Over

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-f-l-l-o-r-v"

-1 letter: allover, overall.

-2 letters: faller, flavor, florae, floral, foveal, loafer, loreal, refall.

-3 letters: afore, farle, favor, fella, feral, flare, flora, fovea, laevo, laver, loral, lover, ravel, valor, velar, volar.

-4 letters: aero, alef, aloe, arvo, aver, earl, fall, fare, farl, faro, fave, feal, fear, fell, flea, floe, foal, fora, fore, frae, froe, lave, leaf, leal, lear, leva, levo, loaf, lore, love, olea, olla, oral, orle, oval, over, rale, rave, real, role, rolf, roll, rove, vale, veal, vela, vera, vole.

-5 letters: ale, all, are, arf, ave, avo, ear, elf, ell, era, far, fer, foe, for, fro, lar, lav, lea, lev, oaf, oar, ole, ora, ore, ova, ref, rev, roe, var, voe.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-f-l-l-o-r-v"
 

+2 letters: cloverleaf, flavorless.

 

+3 letters: cloverleafs, severalfold.

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Alternative Orthography: Fall Over


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 61 6C 6C      4F 76 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01100001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01001111 01110110 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#97 &#108 &#108 &#32 &#79 &#118 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0061 006C 006C      004F 0076 0065 0072

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

40677878249887184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Sounds
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Derivations
12. Anagrams
13. Orthography
14. Bibliography


  

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