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Definition: Fall Over |
Fall OverVerb1. 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. |
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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 OverSynonym: go over (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Fall Over |
| English words defined with "fall over": break ♦ go over ♦ keel over ♦ Lancashire style wrestling ♦ stumble ♦ To fall over, trip. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "fall over": Absalom, Achan, ARSY YARSEY ♦ black bat, Bridge ♦ Carryover, CIGARETTE-PACKING-MACHINE OPERATOR, clouds, core stripper, COREMAKER, MACHINE I ♦ Decide, Devil to Pay and no Pitch Hot, Dying Sayings ♦ EGG BREAKER ♦ fair value, falling-pin seismometer ♦ hurricanes ♦ Lord Thomas ♦ Monomictic, Mortification ♦ packaging operator, Precipice, PRIMER BOXER ♦ screen loading chute, Serat ♦ Weeble, Wetherill's magnetic separator, Windows sockets. (references) |
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Screenplays | I can also vomit, fall over, and make dirty calls to your sister. (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás) | |
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| Bowling ball hitting the pins, some fall over gently. | |
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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 using "fall over": fall over backwards ♦ fall over each other ♦ To fall over. 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 |
fall over | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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) | |
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Misspellings | |
"Fall Over" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fallover. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
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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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 61 6C 6C      4F 76 65 72 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01001111 01110110 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F a l l   O v e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0061 006C 006C      004F 0076 0065 0072 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40677878249887184 |
| 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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