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RISE AND FALL

Specialty Definition: RISE AND FALL

DomainDefinition

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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Synonyms within Context: RISE AND FALL

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Air

Weather, climate, rise and fall of the barometer, isobar.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: RISE AND FALL

English words defined with "RISE AND FALL": Arnold Joseph Toynbee, Arnold Toynbeeconcerneddatelessendlessfallinterested, intonationlanding stagepitch contoursempiternalThe merry dancers, tide, Tide table, Time-table, Toynbeewelter. (references)
Specialty definitions using "RISE AND FALL": analog-pulse power, analogue-pulse powercore stripper, COREMAKER, MACHINE Ieconomic cyclefloat well, floating rate bondgauge well, Gaussian-pulse power, gradation of population, guidesMean blood pressurerecorder wellshort-term business cycle, Solar activity, stilling well, Sunspot CycleTHERMOMETER TESTER, Tidal Power, transistor Gaussian-pulse power rating. (references)

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Modern Usage: RISE AND FALL

DomainUsage

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)

The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960)

Rise and Fall of the Spartans (2002)

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Commercial Usage: RISE AND FALL

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Books

  • The Rise and Fall of Abacus Banking in Japan and China: (reference)

  • Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad That Crossed an Ocean (reference)

  • And Their Children After Them: The Legacy of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, James Agee, Walker Evans, and the Rise and Fall of Cotton in the South (reference)

  • The Rise and Fall of Elites: An Application of Theoretical Sociology (reference)

  • Ana Pauker: The Rise and Fall of a Jewish Communist (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Dogs - The Rise and Fall of an All-Girl Bookie Joint (reference)

  • Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

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Photo Album: RISE AND FALL

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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.

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

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Familiar Quotations: RISE AND FALL

AuthorQuotation

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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Use in Literature: RISE AND FALL

TitleAuthorQuote

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expressions: RISE AND FALL

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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Frequency of Internet Keywords: RISE AND FALL

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

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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Modern Translation: RISE AND FALL

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

   

Portuguese

  

tempo de estabelecimento e descida (rise and fall times). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

tiempos de establecimiento y caída (rise and fall times). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: RISE AND FALL

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.

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

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Quotations: Familiar
6. Quotations: Fiction
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Anagrams
11. Bibliography


  

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