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Definition: Falling |
FallingAdjective1. Suddenly losing an upright position; "they ran from the falling tree"; "a falling wall crushed the car". 2. Decreasing in amount or degree; "falling temperature". 3. Coming after the climax especially of a dramatic or narrative plot; "the falling action". 4. Becoming lower or less in degree or value; "a falling market"; "falling incomes". 5. Coming down freely under the influence of gravity; "the eerie whistle of dropping bombs"; "falling rain". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "falling" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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In physics, the weight of an object is the force exerted upon it due to gravity, W=mg. The SI unit is the newton (N).
In a constant gravitational field like the Earth's, this force is proportional to the object's mass, and as a result the terms are often used interchangeably and indeed went historically undistinguished. The CPGM recommends that the word 'weight' be used to refer only to force, and not to mass. The verb 'to weigh' however may be used for mass determinations.
Related to the historical identification of mass and weight, the pound has been used both as a unit of mass and as a unit of force. In the United States, United Kingdom, and elsewhere, the pound is now officially defined as a unit of mass. The corresponding force is called a pound-force, and similarly the weight of a kilogram of material on Earth is called a kilogram-force. However, the use of pounds to measure forces is still common in engineering, and it occurs in derived units like p.s.i. (pounds per square inch). In most countries, scientists have adopted SI units, which use kilogram for mass and newton for force non-interchangeably.
The experience of having no weight is known as weightlessness.
- (More basically: weight (on Earth) is a force we feel from the ground which is stopping us being pulled to the centre of the Earth. If we are in true free-fall, we feel no weight because there is no force to stop us accelerating under gravity.)
Weight is also the title of the 1994 album by the group Rollins Band.
See also: Hebrew weights
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Weight."
Synonym: FallingSynonym: dropping (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: rising (adj), standing (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Adversity | Losing game; falling; Verb: fall, downfall; ruination, ruinousness; undoing; extremity; ruin; (destruction). |
Dejection | Phrase: the countenance falling; the heart failing, the heart sinking within one; "a plague of sighing and grief"; " thick-ey'd musing and curs'd melancholy"; " the sickening pang of hope deferred". |
Descent | Noun: descent, descension, declension, declination; fall; falling; Verb:: slump; drop, plunge, plummet, cadence; subsidence, collapse, lapse; downfall, tumble, slip, tilt, trip, lurch; cropper, culbute; stumble; fate of Icarus. |
Deterioration | Phrase: out of the frying pan into the fire; agrescit medendo; "what a falling off was there! ". |
Decline, declension, declination; decadence, decadency; falling off; Verb: caducity, decrepitude. | |
Disappointment | Phrase: the mountain labored and brought forth a mouse; parturiunt montes; nascitur ridiculus mus; diis aliter visum, the bubble burst; one's countenance falling. |
Relapse | Noun: relapse, lapse; falling back; Verb: retrogradation; (retrogression); deterioration. |
River | Rain, rainfall; serein; shower, scud; downpour; driving rain, drenching rain, cloudburst; hyetology, hyetography; predominance of Aquarius, reign of St. Swithin; mizzle, drizzle, stillicidum, plash; dropping. Verb: falling weather; northeaster, hurricane, typhoon. |
Shortcoming | Noun: shortcoming, failure; falling short; Verb: default, defalcation; leeway; labor in vain, no go. |
World | Sun, orb of day, Apollo, Phoebus; photosphere, chromosphere; solar system; planet, planetoid; comet; satellite, moon, orb of night, Diana, silver-footed queen; aerolite, meteor; planetary ring; falling star, shooting star; meteorite, uranolite. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Falling |
| English words defined with "falling": Deviation of a falling body ♦ Falling stone. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "falling": Falling Bands, falling cloud, falling leaf, Falling Stars. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "falling": Triptote. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | My heart is falling down around my ankles like a wet pair of pants (Hot Shots!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; Pat Proft) Hey, even the Mona Lisa's falling apart (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) That wasn't flying, that was falling with style (Toy Story; writing credit: John Lasseter; Andrew Stanton) Leon, I think I'm falling in love with you. It's the first time for me, you know (Léon; writing credit: Luc Besson) To make the journey without falling deeply in love, you haven't lived a life at all. You have to try, because if you haven't tried, then you haven't lived (Meet Joe Black; writing credit: Martin Brest, screenplay adaptation by Walter Ferris. Based on the play 'Death Takes a Holiday' by Alberto Casella.) | |
Lyrics | Feels just like I'm falling for the first time (Falling For The First Time; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies) She's falling down, falling down (Falling Down; performing artist: Free) If I can't help falling in love with you. ((I Can't Help) Falling In Love With You; performing artist: UB40) I start falling (Fallin'; performing artist: Alicia Keys) And when the rain is falling (When I See You Smile; performing artist: Bad English) | |
Clever | 1 kilogram of falling figs: 1 Fig Newton. (references; author: unknown) Old folks say, "I finally got my head together, now my body is falling apart. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Columbo: Requiem for a Falling Star (1973) Falling from Ladders (1969) The Sky Is Falling (1947) Falling Hare (1943) The Falling Arrow (1909) | |
Song Titles | Please Help Me, I'm Falling (performing artist: Hank Locklin) Falling In Love (performing artist: La Bouche) Falling (performing artist: LeBlanc and Carr) Where Were You When I Was Falling in Love? (performing artist: Lobo) Catch Me (I'm Falling) (performing artist: Pretty Poison) | |
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 | A 400 kilogram (880 pounds) tuna is landed by eight fishermen. This is a difficult and dangerous time when synchronized effort is required to land the tuna. Poor timing can cause the poles to break and a fisherman to land in the water. Some fishermen have died in this manner after falling overboard and being struck by the tuna tails. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Logger in the process of falling a tree. Credit: T. Hovervorst. |
 | Old log cabin falling down with tall grass in the foreground. Credit: Unknown. |  | "Sunset -- All is Calm -- It's the end of another day aboard the aircraft carrier USS Essex operating in North Korean waters. An airman lashes a Banshee (F2H) jet fighter to the flight deck as the falling sun draws evening shadows from the slumbering plane." Photograph and caption were released by Commander, Naval Forces, Far East under date of 8 March 1952. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Scene on the flight deck, looking forward, as the carrier shoots down a Japanese plane during air attacks on Task Force 38 off Formosa, 14 October 1944. The falling plane is visible directly ahead of the ship. Credit: NAVY. |  | The rats leaving a falling house. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Boy or man falling off snow sled. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | It was a great battle. I remember plunging down the mountain, loading and firing, dodging behind rocks, falling headlong and scrambling up again. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Falling stock market. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Falling into line. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Falling leaf" by Peter Skadberg Commentary: "A leaf caught on way down. Backround color dropped slightly." | "Japanese well" by Samy Yang Commentary: "This is a Japanese well. I wanted to capture the water falling from the spout, but my camera didn't catch it very nicely. Oh well. I still like it. ." |
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 | Falling synthesized glissandi with sustained strings and active percussion. . | | Dramatic falling sound effect. |
| A piece of metal falling over. | | Man tripping and falling down a flight of stairs. |
| Metal silverware and pots falling to the floor. | | Wooden boards falling onto the floor. |
| Clanging of a metal pot falling to the floor . | | Dominos falling over onto each other. |
| Metal pot falling off the counter onto the floor. | | Piece of tinny silverware falling off the table and onto the linoleum floor. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Adelaide Crapsey | These be three silent things: The Falling snow... the hour before the dawn... the mouth of one just dead. |
Confucius | Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. |
Iris Murdoch | Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is. |
Lucretius | The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling. |
Mignon Mclaughlin | A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | The walking of Man is falling forwards. |
| I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot. | |
St. Jerome | The Roman world is falling, yet we hold our heads erect instead of bowing our necks. |
Thomas Fuller | When good people have a falling out, only one of them may be at fault at first; but if the strife continues long, usually both become guilty. |
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Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The same shall apply in respect of the capital and reserves accumulated in Germany falling legitimately to other social insurance funds, to miners, superannuation funds, to the fund of the railways of Alsace-Lorraine, to other superannuation organisations established for the benefit of the personnel of public administrations and institutions operating in Alsace-Lorraine and also in respect of the capital and reserves due by the insurance fund of private employees at Berlin, by reason of engagements entered into for the benefit of insured persons of that category resident in Alsace-Lorraine. (reference) |
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A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The bishop was bending with some sadness over a cochlearia des Guillons, which the basket had broken in falling. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | But the notes were long and shrill and whirring, unlike the cry of vermin, falling a third or a fourth and trifled as the flying beaks clove the air. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | And now the dusk was falling, and as the darkness deepened the practicing of the string band seemed to grow louder |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I was in a terrible fright, and kept as far as I could from the edge for fear of falling. |
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Health | Falling or a feeling of falling. (references) | |
They are not a feature of falling asleep. (references) | ||
Extreme temperatures may disrupt sleep or prevent you from falling asleep. (references) | ||
Business | Because of a reduction in the production volumes, mining continued falling. (references) | |
The falling demand for oil and gas in Southeast Asia has partially prompted lower oil prices. (references) | ||
In Spain, despite falling cost, wind energy remains more expensive in some areas than conventional energy sources. (references) | ||
Children | Russia | The status of many children has deteriorated since the collapse of communism because of falling living standards, an increase in the number of broken homes, and domestic violence. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Israel and the occupied territories | Renewing the permits may take up to 8 months, a common delay that results in many Palestinians falling out of status. (references) |
South Africa | The Department of Home Affairs reported that as of August, 65,798 persons had applied for asylum since 1994. Of this number, 58,721 applications had been finalized, including 19,106 granted asylum and refugee status, 35,268 refused, and others falling into various other categories such as applications withdrawn, cancelled, and manifestly unfounded applications; 7,077 were awaiting a decision at year's end. (references) | |
Economic History | Oman | Water tables are falling throughout the country. (references) |
Morocco | External public debt fell to $16.5 billion in 2000, and is still falling.. (references) | |
Ghana | However, declining cocoa production combined with falling cocoa prices, while oil prices soared. (references) | |
Human Rights | Romania | By year's end, it had received 6,871 complaints; of these, only 1,671 were accepted as falling under the Ombudsman's jurisdiction. (references) |
India | In June NDFB militants shot 10 tribal woodcutters in Kokrajhar District, apparently because the cutters had defied an NDFB ban on tree falling in the area. (references) | |
Sri Lanka | Malnutrition remained a problem in LTTE-controlled areas as well as in other parts of the Vanni region, with nutrition levels falling below the national average. (references) | |
Political Economy | NETHERLANDS | The debt to GDP ratio is also falling more rapidly than anticipated. (references) |
MOROCCO | Services Barriers: Barriers in the services sector have been falling as Morocco conforms to its WTO engagements. (references) | |
Cyprus | Ministers are responsible for the initiation of legislation and administration of matters falling within their domain. (references) | |
Trade | Peru | By mid-2001 the figure had fallen to about 9% and was expected to continue falling as the economy recovered. (references) |
Venezuela | In all cases involving products falling under such standards, customs authorities require a Venezuelan certificate of compliance. (references) | |
Peru | The commercial bank loan portfolio remained stable at the end of 2000 over 1999 at about $11.3 billion, after falling some 17% the previous year. (references) | |
Travel | Nigeria | Holidays falling on Saturdays are observed on Saturdays, and Sunday holidays on Sundays. (references) |
Eq. Guinea | Others holidays falling on different dates of the year include Good Friday and Assumption Day. (references) | |
Trinidad | Costs, though falling, are higher than in the U.S. Internet and cable TV are available and widely used. (references) | |
Worker Rights | United Arab Emirates | A worker in Sharjah died by falling from the 15th floor of a building. (references) |
United Arab Emirates | In Ajman a worker died after falling into a well that was under construction. (references) | |
Burma | Low and falling real wages in the public sector have fostered widespread corruption. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | BODY-:SNATCHER:, n. A robber of grave-worms. One who supplies the young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied the undertaker. The hyena. "One night," a doctor said, "last fall, I and my comrades, four in all, When visiting a graveyard stood Within the shadow of a wall. "While waiting for the moon to sink We saw a wild hyena slink About a new-made grave, and then Begin to excavate its brink! "Shocked by the horrid act, we made A sally from our ambuscade, And, falling on the unholy beast, Dispatched him with a pick and spade." Bettel K. Jhones |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | Today, Bush knows the Saudi royal family-types are falling apart, which is why the House of Saud wants us out so they can make the changes without appearing reactionary. |
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James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Spain had lost her authority over it, and, falling into the hands of adventurers connected with the savages, it was made the means of unceasing annoyance and injury to our Union in many of its most essential interests. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Farm prices and farm income were falling rapidly. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | In the seventies were years of rising problems and falling confidence. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | But a shortsighted America will soon find its words falling on deaf ears all around the world. |
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| "Falling" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 93.07% of the time. "Falling" is used about 3,702 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 93.07% | 3,445 | 2,811 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 5.88% | 218 | 20,478 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.51% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.51% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Noun (common) | 0.03% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3,702 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "falling" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Falling | Last name | 200 | 38,061 |
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| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "falling". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Pelonite | N/A | Biblical | Falling |
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Expressions using "falling": acceleration of a falling body ♦ Deviation of a falling body ♦ dusk is falling ♦ falling apart ♦ falling apron ♦ Falling away ♦ falling back ♦ Falling band ♦ falling behind ♦ falling cloud ♦ falling cut ♦ falling down ♦ falling edge ♦ falling gear ♦ falling in love ♦ falling into disuse ♦ falling leaf ♦ falling nets ♦ Falling off ♦ falling out ♦ falling out of step ♦ Falling Rock ♦ Falling sickness ♦ Falling Spring ♦ falling star ♦ Falling stone ♦ falling through ♦ falling tide ♦ Falling Waters ♦ Falling weather ♦ keep smb. from falling ♦ one's countenance falling ♦ snow is falling. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "falling": falling-away, falling-behind, falling-in, falling-in-love, falling-off, falling-out, falling-over, falling-rising, falling-short, falling-together. | |
Ending with "falling": free-falling. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "falling"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | zbritje (alighting, allowance, commutation, deduction, descent, discount, disembarkation, down, lowering, off reckoning, rebate, recoupment, reduction, subtraction), ulje (commutation, cut, cutback, decrease, degradation, depression, derogation, descent, diminution, disparagement, down, drop, immersion, inclination, knee bend, landing, modulation, rebate, reduction, relaxation, sinking), rënie (abatement, bathos, collapse, come down, decadence, decadency, decay, decline, decrepitude, degeneracy, degradation, degression, depression, descent, dilapidation, downfall, drop, drop off, fall, flop, incidence, lapse, letdown, precipitation, prolapse, recession, regress, spill, taper, tumble, wane), në rënie (downward, on the wane). (various references) | |
Arabic | هبوط (decline, descent, down, drop, grounding, landing, letdown, slip, subsidence, trough), وقوع (incidence), تهدم (collapse, crumbling, molder, moulder, ruin), سقوط (chute, descent, downfall, drop, fallout, incidence, jolt, overthrow, overturn, plunge, spilling, tumble), إنحدار (coming down, decline, declivity, downgrade, downhill, inclination, rake, ramp, scarp, slope, steep, tilt). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | спадане (decrease, decrement, deflation, run down, slip, subsidence, wane), понижение (cut, degradation, depression, descent, lowering, reduction, relegation), падащ (incident), падане (drop, fall, flow, incidence, mucker, prolapsus, spill, thump, trip, tumble). (various references) | |
Chinese | 落 (Fell). (various references) | |
Czech | padající. (various references) | |
Danish | frugtnedfald (fruit chute, fruit falling), fældesnit (backcut, falling cut, felling cut), fald (fall), falde ud af synkronisme (asynchronous running, falling out of step, loss of synchronism, pulling out), faldende blad (falling leaf), faldende kant (falling edge, trailing edge), faldende pris (falling price), faldende tidevand (ebb, ebb tide, falling tide), faldnet (falling gear, falling nets), faldende vande (ebb, ebb tide, fall of the water, falling tide), returvalse (falling roller, return roller), kompenseringsvalse (falling roller, return roller), vulkansky (falling cloud), risiko for fald (risk of falling from heights), asynkron drift (asynchronous running, falling out of step, loss of synchronism, pulling out), søgnehelligdag (holiday not falling on a Sunday, weekday holiday), skæv helligdag (holiday not falling on a Sunday, weekday holiday), skridende daeklag (falling apron, launching apron), spor paa faldstraekning (down grade track, track on a falling gradient), spor paa stigning (down grade track, track on a falling gradient), stejlhed af den haeldende kant (steepness of the falling edge), udligningsvalse (falling roller, return roller, take up roll), ebbe (low tide), derefter foelger en opadstigende kurve,deformationshaerdningskurven,indtil indsnoeringen begynder.Dette maksimum foelges af en faldende kurve,som ender i brud af proevestykket (the curve then begins to climb again during the period of work-hardening until necking sets in. This maximum is followed by a falling curve which ends in the fracture of the test-piece). (various references) | |
Dutch | rui van de vruchten (fruit chute, fruit falling), afzetting (amputation, cordon), bestorting (falling apron, launching apron), bezinking (blood sedimentation test, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, falling out of a solid within a liquid because of gravity, ptosis, sedimentation, settling), dalende prijs (falling price), de avond valt (night is falling), dwarrelvlucht (falling leaf), eb (ebb, low tide), gevaar naar beneden te vallen (risk of falling from heights), looptijd (appointed time of expiry, delay, duration, life of an obligation, maturity, term, term falling due), aansluitend daaraan stijgt de belastingskromme weer-de werkversteviging-totdat insnoering ontstaat.Dit maximum wordt gevolgd door een dalende belastingskromme tot breuk van het proefstuk optreedt (the curve then begins to climb again during the period of work-hardening until necking sets in. This maximum is followed by a falling curve which ends in the fracture of the test-piece), onderscheid tussen de produkten van post 11.01 en die van postonderverdeling 23.02.A (distinguishing between products falling within heading no.11.01 and those falling within subheading 23.02.A), werpnet (cast net, falling nets), spoor op aflopende helling (down grade track, track on a falling gradient), stijlheid van de dalende flank (steepness of the falling edge), uit de pas vallen (asynchronous running, falling out of step, loss of synchronism, pulling out), vakantie op een werkdag (holiday not falling on a Sunday, weekday holiday), val (fall, snare, trap), vallen (drop, fall), vallend net (falling gear), vallend water (ebb, ebb tide, falling tide, subsiding water), vallende wolk (falling cloud), velsnede (backcut, falling cut, felling cut), neergaande flank (falling edge, trailing edge). (various references) | |
Esperanto | vesperiĝas (night is falling). (various references) | |
Finnish | aleneva (dropping). (various references) | |
French | qui tombe, en baisse, chute (fall), chéant. (various references) | |
German | fallend (cascading, decreasing, tumbling), rückläufig (declining, downward, dropping, regressive, retrograde, retrogressive, reverse), rückgängig (declining, dropping, retrogressive), abstürzend. (various references) | |
Greek | πεζόβολο (falling nets), απώλεια συχρονισμού (asynchronous running, falling out of step, loss of synchronism, pulling out), αναπίπτον ηφαιστειακό νέφος (falling cloud), άδεια μετ'αποδοχών (holiday not falling on a Sunday, paid holiday, paid vacation, weekday holiday), άμπωτις (ebb, ebb tide, fall of the water, falling tide, low tide, low water), επιτάχυνση σώματοσ που πέφτει (acceleration of a falling body), εκτοξευόμενο εργαλείο (falling gear), πίπτον άκρο (falling edge, trailing edge), αποσυγχρονισμός (asynchronous running, falling out of step, loss of synchronism, pulling out), πτώση στο ίδιο επίπεδο (falling over), Οπισθοτομή (backcut, falling cut, felling cut), γραμμή με αρνητική κατά μήκος κλίση (down grade track, track on a falling gradient), γραμμή σε κατωφέρεια (down grade track, track on a falling gradient), στην συνέχεια η καμπύλη ακολουθεί ανοδική πορεία κατά την διάρκεια της περιόδου εργοσκλήρυνσης-μετά την εμφάνιση εκλέπτυνσης επί του δοκι (the curve then begins to climb again during the period of work-hardening until necking sets in. This maximum is followed by a falling curve which ends in the fracture of the test-piece), καθελκυομένη κοιτόστρωσις (falling apron, launching apron), κατιούσα παλίρροια (ebb, ebb tide, falling tide), καρπόπτωση (fruit chute, fruit falling), κύλινδρος αντιστάθμισης (falling roller, return roller), πτώση φρούτων (fruit chute, fruit falling). (various references) | |
Hebrew | נשירה (defection, dropping, fall, fall out, shedding), נפילה (collapse, defeat, degradation, downfall, fall, pitch, slip, spilling, tumble). (various references) | |
Hungarian | zuhanás (crash, crump, dive, diving, plump, slump, thud, thump), hulló (cadent), esõ (rain, rainfall), esés (alignment, crump, descent, downfall, droop, drop, ebb, fall, flop, gradient, setback, spill, tumble), eső (cadent, rain, wet), ereszkedő (cadent, declivity, descending, inclined, leaning). (various references) | |
Indonesian | lebam (small edible fish, sound made a falling object). (various references) | |
Italian | decadimento (case, decay, decline), caduta (crash, downfall, drop, fall, plunge, slide, slump, spill, toss, tumble), cadente (cadent, crumbling, decrepit, dilapidated, sagging, tumble down), abbassamento (droop, drop, let down, lower, lowering, reduction, stoop, subsidence). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 墜落 (crashing). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しっきゃく (being overthrown, losing one's standing), ついらく (crashing). (various references) | |
Korean | 떨어짐. (various references) | |
Manx | 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, fall over, falter, flounder, floundering, founder, go down, incidence, keel over, lapse, overbalance, sag, slump, subside, subsidence, tip over, topple, tumble, waver, waver of courage, wavering), tholtanagh (broken down, crumbling, crumbling of house, delapidated, ramshackle, ruin, tumble-down), corragh (chequered, chequered as career, crazy, eccentric, erratic, hectic, infirm, irresolute, jerry-built, rocky place, sensitive, skittish, troubled, troubled of period, unbalanced, unbalanced of mind, uneven, uneven as temper, wobbly), bolganeagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | allingfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | recaída (regression, relapse, return), queda (cloud-burst, come-down, debacle, decay, descent, downfall, fallback, letdown, mucker, overthrow, prolapse, purler, spill, tumble, tumbling, upset), inclinação (addiction, appetite, bent, bias, camber, canting, climbdown, declination, declivity, descent, disposal, disposition, downhill, droop, fellow feeling, fondness, inclination, lean, leaning, like, liking, list, lopsidedness, motion, partiality, penchant, proclivity, propensity, rake, ramp, recession, sag, slant, slope, stomach, tendency, tip, trend, vocation, will), derrocada (flop), baixa (casualty, decrease, depression, discharge, drop, low, low place, lowering, reduction). (various references) | |
Romanian | stea cãzãtoare (falling star, shooting star), prãvãlire (collapse, downfall, falling down), epilepsie (epilepsy, falling sickness), declin (anticlimax, consenescence, decay, declension, declination, decline, descent, downhill, ebb, fall, falling off, let down, regress, sunset, wane), împiedica pe cineva sã cadã (keep smb. from falling). (various references) | |
Russian | впадина (cave, cavity, concave, delve, depression, dimple, dint, excavation, fossa, hollow, indentation, notch, recess, trough, vug), понижение (decrease, degradation, demotion, droop, recession, subsidence), падение (come down, come-down, decline, descent, down, downfall, drop, fall, incidence, lapse, letdown, pitch, recession, subsidence, tumble), падающий (incident). (various references) | |
Scottish | tuiteam (a chance, fall). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | silazni (declining, degressive, descending, downward), opadanje (decline, decrease, decrement, downtrend, ebb, fall out, fallout, loss, subsidence, wane, waning), koji pada. (various references) | |
Spanish | que cae, descendente (downward), debilitación (debilitation, decline, devitalization, evisceration, sinking, softening, weakening), cayendo, caída (collapse, crash, crush, decadence, decadency, demise, digression, disgrace, downfall, drop, fall, gradient, hang, plunge, sag, setback, spill, taste, toss, tumble). (various references) | |
Swedish | fallande (fall), falla (be overthrown, die, drop, fall, founder, hang, pitch, sink, tumble), nedåtgående (down, downward). (various references) | |
Thai | ความล้มเหลว (catastrophe, collapse, failing, failure, flop, naught). (various references) | |
Turkish | düşen (down, downward, incumbent), düşük (abortion, fallen, hypo-, low, miscarriage, nominal, subdued), düşüş (collapse, comedown, cutback, decline, decrease, downgrade, drop, ebb, ebb tide, eclipse, fall, purler, recession, recessional, reduction, scale down, sinking, spill, tumble). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | що падає, зниження (abatement, cadence, declension, decline, decrease, descent, fall, reduction, relief), падіння (bathos, come down, cracker, demission, downfall, drop, dropping, fall, labefaction, subsidence, tumble, upset). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sao băng (falling star, shooting star). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Mark Chapter 14, Verse 35 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai proelqwn mikron epesen epi thV ghV kai proshuceto ina ei dunaton estin parelqh ap autou h wra |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et cum processisset paululum procidit super terram et orabat ut si fieri posset transiret ab eo hora |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Ða he lithwon forð-stop. he astrehtehine ofer þa eorðan & ge-bæd. gyf hitbeon mihte. þt he on þare tide fram himge-wite. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And whanne he was gon forth a litil, he felde doun on the erthe, and preiede, that if it myyte be, that the our schulde passe fro hym. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And he went forth a lytle and fell doune on ye grounde and prayed: that yf it were possible the houre myght passe from him. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And he went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And he went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, If it were possible, the hour might pass from him. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And he went forward a little, and falling down on the earth, made request that, if possible, the hour might go from him. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Mark Chapter 14, Verse 35 |
| Cebuano | Ug sa nakalakaw siyag diyutay sa unahan, siya mihapa sa yuta ug nag-ampo nga kon mahimo man ilikay unta gikan kaniya ang maong takna sa kasakit. |
| Chinese | 他 就 稍 往 前 走 、 俯 伏 在 地 禱 告 說 、 倘 若 可 行 、 便 叫 那 時 候 過 去 。 |
| Croatian | Ode malo dalje i rušeæi se na zemlju molio je da ga, ako je moguæe, mimoiðe ovaj èas. |
| Danish | Og han gik lidt frem, kastede sig ned på Jorden og bad om, at den Time måtte gå ham forbi, om det var muligt. |
| Dutch | En een weinig voortgegaan zijnde, viel Hij op de aarde, en bad, zo het mogelijk ware, dat die ure van Hem voorbijginge. |
| Finnish | Ja hän meni vähän edemmäksi, lankesi maahan ja rukoili, että, jos mahdollista, se hetki menisi häneltä ohi, |
| French | Puis, ayant fait quelques pas en avant, il se jeta contre terre, et pria que, s`il était possible, cette heure s`éloignât de lui. |
| Gaelic | `Sa dol ceum air adhart, thuit e air an talamh; is ghuidh e, nam faodadh e bhith, gun rachadh an uair seachad air: |
| German | Und ging ein wenig weiter, fiel auf die Erde und betete, daß, wenn es möglich wäre, die Stunde vorüberginge, |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Yesus pergi lebih jauh sedikit lalu tersungkur ke tanah dan berdoa. Dalam doa-Nya Ia minta kalau boleh Ia tidak usah mengalami saat penderitaan itu. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka berjalanlah Ia ke hadapan sedikit, lalu sujud ke tanah, serta berdoa, jikalau boleh kiranya ketika itu akan terlepas daripada-Nya. |
| Maori | Na ka haere ia ki pahaki tata atu, ka hinga ki te whenua, ka inoi, me kahore e ahei kia pahemo atu tenei haora i a ia. |
| Norwegian | Og han gikk et lite stykke frem, falt ned på jorden og bad at denne stund måtte gå ham forbi, om det var mulig, |
| Portuguese | E adiantando-se um pouco, prostrou-se em terra; e orava para que, se fosse possível, passasse dele aquela hora. |
| Rumanian | Apoi a mers puyin mai knainte, S`a aruncat la pqmknt, wi Se ruga ca, dacq este cu putinyq, sq treacq de la El ceasul acela. |
| Shuar | Jesussha ishichik arantach we, Nunká piniakumar tepes Yúsan aujmiayi. "Ju Wáitsatin átatna nu, Túrutatniuitkuinkia iniaitiusta" tu seamiayi. |
| Spanish | Pasando un poco adelante, se postraba en tierra y oraba que de ser posible, pasase de él aquella hora. |
| Swahili | Akaenda mbele kidogo, akajitupa chini kifudifudi, akasali kwamba, kama ingewezekana, asiipitie saa hiyo ya mateso. |
| Swedish | Därefter gick han litet längre bort och föll ned på jorden och bad, att om möjligt vore, den stunden skulle bliva honom besparad. |
| Uma | Oti toe, hilou-imi molaa hangkedi', pai' -i motumpa hi tana' mosampaya. Rala posampaya-na merapi' -i bona ane ma'ala uma-i-hawo mporata kaparia toe. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "falling": befalling, infalling, refalling. (additional references) | |
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"Falling" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: failling, falan, faling, fallan, falline, fallling, falping, falsing, faylyng, fdalling, Fehling, Fellin, fellini, felyng, fillin, flaling, folling. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "falling" (pronounced fÄ"ling) |
| 4 | -Ä" l i ng | forestalling, lolling. |
| 3 | -l i ng | annealing, appalling, appealing, ailing, ambling, angling, assailing, assembling, babbling, backpedaling, baffling, bailing, baling, balling, bankrolling, barreling, battling, beguiling, belittling, Belling, bicycling, billing, blackmailing, boggling, boiling, Bolling, bottling, bowling, brawling, bristling, broiling, bubbling, buckling, bugling, bumbling, bundling, bungling, burgling, burling, bustling, cackling, cajoling, calling, canceling, cancelling, Carling, ceiling, channeling, chilling, chortling, chronicling, chuckling, circling, coddling, commingling, compelling, compiling, concealing, consoling, controlling, cooling, corralling, counseling, countervailing, coupling, cowling, crackling, cradling, crawling, crippling, crumbling, cuddling, culling, curling, curtailing, cycling, dabbling, dangling, darling, dawdling, dazzling, dealing, decoupling, derailing, detailing, Dialing, disabling, disgruntling, dismantling, dispelling, dissembling, distilling, doling, doubling, dribbling, drilling, drizzling, drooling, duckling, dueling, dulling, dumpling, dwelling, dwindling, earthling, emailing, embezzling, empaneling, enabling, encircling, enrolling, entailing, entangling, entitling, equaling, excelling, expelling, extolling, failing, feeling, felling, fiddling, filing, filling, fizzling, flailing, fledgling, foaling, foiling, fondling, fooling, foretelling, fouling, foundling, freewheeling, fueling, fuelling, fulfilling, fumbling, funneling, galling, gambling, giggling, gobbling, grappling, Grayling, grilling, groundling, groveling, growling, grueling, grumbling, gurgling, guzzling, haggling, hailing, handling, hassling, hauling, healing, heckling, helling, hilling, hobbling, holing, howling, huddling, humbling, hurdling, hurling, hurtling, hustling, idling, imperiling, inhaling, initialing, inkling, installing, instilling, intermingling, jailing, jiggling, jostling, juggling, Keeling, killing, kindling, kneeling, labeling, leveling, Lulling, mailing, mangling, Marling, marshaling, meddling, Melling, middling, milling, mingling, mishandling, mislabeling, misspelling, modeling, mothballing, mottling, muddling, mulling, mumbling, muscling, nailing, needling, nestling, nibbling, nonruling, oiling, outselling, overbilling, overhauling, overkilling, overruling, overselling, paddling, paneling, panhandling, paralleling, parboiling, parceling, paroling, patrolling, pearling, pedaling, peddling, peeling, pickling, piddling, piling, Pilling, Pindling, poling, polling, pooling, prevailing, profiling, propelling, prowling, pulling, pummeling, puzzling, quadrupling, quarreling, quelling, quibbling, quilling, Quisling, railing, rambling, rankling, rappelling, rattling, raveling, rebelling, recalling, reconciling, recycling, redoubling, reeling, refueling, regaling, rekindling, remodeling, repealing, repelling, rescheduling, reselling, resembling, reshuffling, retailing, retelling, retooling, revealing, reveling, ridiculing, Riesling, rifling, rilling, rippling, rivaling, roiling, rolling, rototilling, ruffling, ruling, rumbling, rustling, saddling, sailing, sampling, Sandling, sapling, scaling, scheduling, Schilling, schooling, scowling, scrambling, scribbling, scuttling, sealing, seedling, Seeling, selling, settling, shelling, shilling, shoveling, shriveling, shuffling, shuttling, sibling, signaling, signalling, singling, sizzling, skilling, smelling, smiling, smuggling, snarling, Snelling, snowballing, sparkling, Sparling, spelling, spilling, spiraling, spiralling, spoiling, sprawling, sprinkling, squabbling, squealing, stalling, stapling, starling, startling, stealing, stenciling, sterling, stifling, stockpiling, stonewalling, storytelling, straddling, strangling, strickling, stripling, strolling, struggling, stumbling, styling, suckling, surveilling, swashbuckling, swelling, swilling, swindling, swirling, swiveling, tabling, tackling, tailing, tangling, telling, thrilling, throttling, Tilling, tingling, tinkling, toddling, toggling, toiling, tolling, tooling, toppling, totaling, totalling, toweling, trailing, trampling, traveling, travelling, trembling, trickling, trifling, trilling, tripling, trolling, troubling, tumbling, tunneling, twiddling, twinkling, twirling, unappealing, unavailing, unbundling, underling, underselling, unfailing, unfeeling, unfurling, unraveling, unsettling, unsmiling, untangling, unveiling, unwilling, veiling, waffling, waggling, wailing, walling, warbling, weakling, welling, whaling, wheeling, whirling, whistling, whittling, wholesaling, wiggling, wiling, willing, wobbling, wrangling, wrestling, wrinkling, yearling, yelling, yodeling. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-g-i-l-l-n" | |
-1 letter: infall. | |
-2 letters: algin, align, fagin, final, flail, fling, glial, liang, ligan, linga. | |
-3 letters: agin, alif, anil, fail, fain, fall, fang, fila, fill, flag, flan, gain, gall, gill, glia, lain, lang, ling, naif, nail, nill. | |
-4 letters: ail, ain, all, ani, fag, fan, fig, fil, fin, gal, gan, gin, ill, lag, lin, nag, nil. | |
-5 letters: ag, ai. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-g-i-l-l-n" | |
+1 letter: flailing, flatling. | |
+2 letters: befalling, failingly, fallowing, fellating, flagellin, flamingly, flaringly, flatlings, gainfully, infalling, nightfall, refalling. | |
+3 letters: bafflingly, flagellins, flaggingly, flanneling, flatlining, leafleting, nightfalls. | |
+4 letters: alkalifying, backfilling, falteringly, farewelling, fireballing, firewalling, flannelling, flauntingly, leafletting, unfailingly. | |
+5 letters: allografting, fibrillating, flagellating, flagellation, flatteringly, flimflamming, flocculating, forestalling, fungicidally, magnifically, meaningfully, syllabifying, unflaggingly. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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