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| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A system of reduction of levels by working out the rise or fall of staff readings from each level point to the one following it.See also:collimation. (references) |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Air | Weather, climate, rise and fall of the barometer, isobar. |
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Crosswords: RISE AND FALL |
| English words defined with "RISE AND FALL": Arnold Joseph Toynbee, Arnold Toynbee ♦ concerned ♦ dateless ♦ endless ♦ fall ♦ interested, intonation ♦ landing stage ♦ pitch contour ♦ sempiternal ♦ The merry dancers, tide, Tide table, Time-table, Toynbee ♦ welter. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "RISE AND FALL": analog-pulse power, analogue-pulse power ♦ core stripper, COREMAKER, MACHINE I ♦ economic cycle ♦ float well, floating rate bond ♦ gauge well, Gaussian-pulse power, gradation of population, guides ♦ Mean blood pressure ♦ recorder well ♦ short-term business cycle, Solar activity, stilling well, Sunspot Cycle ♦ THERMOMETER TESTER, Tidal Power, transistor Gaussian-pulse power rating. (references) |
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Lyrics | Through the rise and fall (I Will Wait; performing artist: Hootie & The Blowfish) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Rise and Fall of the World as Seen from a Sexual Position (1972) The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1968) Rise and Fall of Emily Sprod (1962) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Science and research. Mineral prospecting. Micro-fossils can play an important role in locating the proper spot to drill an oil well. A magnificent history of the flow of ancient seas, of climate, of the rise and fall of empires of primitive forms of life. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
John Fitzgerald Kennedy | A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. |
Lord Acton | Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Your eyebrows rise and fall in rhythm. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | By means of this loadstone, the island is made to rise and fall, and move from one place to another. |
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Expressions using "RISE AND FALL": rise and fall of an empire ♦ rise and fall of the barometer ♦ rise and fall times. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
rise and fall of the third reich | 17 |
the rise and fall of the soviet union | 10 |
the rise and fall of jim crow | 4 |
the rise and fall of the great power | 3 |
the rise and fall of little voice | 2 |
rise and fall of adolf hitler | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "RISE AND FALL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | stigetid og faldetid (rise and fall times). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | stijg-en afvaltijden (rise and fall times). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | nousu-ja laskuaika (rise and fall times). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | temps de montée et de descente (rise and fall times). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Aufwärts-und Abwärts-Zeitdauer (rise and fall times), aufstieg und niedergang eines weltreichs (rise and fall of an empire). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | χρόνοι ανόδου και καθόδου (rise and fall times). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | árapály (ebb and flow, rise and fall of the sea, tidal, tide). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | fluttuare (float, fluctuate, flutter, ride, stream, waver). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 浮沈 (ebb and flow, floating and sinking, ups and downs). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | たかひく (high and low), しょうちょう (ebb and flow, ministries and government offices, prosperity and decay, small intestine, symbol, the authorities, ups and downs), さしひき (balance, deduction, ebb and flow, subtraction), ふち" (ebb and flow, floating and sinking, ups and downs), せいすい (clearwater, elegance, purity, unselfishness, ups and downs, vicissitudes, welfare), "うたい (a luminous body, alternation, antibody, backspace, change, exchange, relay, relief, retreat, shift), "うぼう (beam of light, offense and defense, promising future, studio, ups and downs, workshop), "う' (flowers and incense, superiority and inferiority), "うはい (crossbreeding, cross-fertilization, destiny, good dividend, good offices, good spouse, halo, junior, married couple, mating, one's attitude, ruin, spouse, state of affairs, your trouble), "うてい (affirmation, amount of work, best pupil, brotherly love, campus, distance, emperor, filial piety, flight, high and low, leading disciple, mine-pit bottom, official, official residence, path length, place of ceremony, positive, public place, revision, run, sail, work schedule), あがりさがり (fluctuation), とうらく (election results, fluctuations, ups and downs). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iseray anday allfay tempo de estabelecimento e descida (rise and fall times). (various references) tiempos de establecimiento y caída (rise and fall times). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-f-i-l-l-n-r-s" | |
-2 letters: fairleads, falderals, rainfalls. | |
-3 letters: adrenals, araneids, dalliers, diallers, fairlead, falderal, faradise, flinders, islander, landlers, laniards, rainfall, safaried, salaried. | |
-4 letters: adrenal, aerials, ainsell, aldrins, aliners, araneid, arsenal, dallier, dallies, darnels, denials, derails, dialers, dialler, fadeins, failles, fallers, fardels, farinas, farside, fillers, finales, finders, flailed, flinder, friends, frilled, infalls, infares, ladlers, landers, landler, laniard, nadiral. | |
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