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Definition: Fall Out |
Fall OutVerb1. Have a breach in relations; "We fell out over a trivial question". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Fall Out (To). To quarrel; to happen. (Latin, accido.) (See Fall In.) "Three children sliding on the ice Upon a summer's day; As it fell out they all fell in, The rest they ran away." Porson: Mother Goose. "See ye fall not out by the way." - Genesis xlv. 24. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Nuclear Energy & Physics | Deposition of radioactive dust etc. from the atmosphere, resulting from the explosion of nuclear weapons or from accidental release. Source: European Union. (references) |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Discord | Fall out, quarrel, dispute; litigate; controvert; (deny); squabble, wrangle, jangle, brangle, bicker, nag; spar; (contend); have words; n. with; fall foul of. |
Enmity | Verb: be inimical; Adjective: keep at arm's length, hold at arm's length; be at loggerheads; bear malice; fall out; take umbrage; harden the heart, alienate, estrange. |
Eventuality | Verb: happen, occur; take place, take effect; come, become of; come off, comeabout, come round, come into existence, come forth, come to pass, come on; pass, present itself; fall; fall out, turn out; run, be on foot, fall in; befall, betide, bechance; prove, eventuate, draw on; turn up, crop up, spring up, pop up, arise, show up, show its face, appear, come forth, cast up; supervene, survene; issue, arrive, ensue, arise, start, hold, take its course; pass off; (be past). |
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Crosswords: Fall Out |
| English words defined with "fall out": Gomphiasis ♦ run out ♦ spill ♦ To break with, To fall foul. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "fall out": Butter-fingers ♦ CHLOROPHORA TINCTORIA ♦ Fall Out of, flowchart ♦ pipe sampling ♦ REVERSED, Riparian buffer ♦ vugh-arching. (references) |
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Screenplays | Screws fall out all the time, sir. It's an imperfect world (The Breakfast Club ; writing credit: John Hughes) Yeah, and if I had a stick I could watch all of my money fall out! (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein) | |
Lyrics | Now you wanna stress me out, you put me on a route til my hair fall out (Take Your Time; performing artist: HOT) Had a fall out, disagreement, yeah an argument (O.P.P.; performing artist: Naughty By Nature) Gonna free fall out into nothin' ("Free Fallin'"; performing artist: Tom Petty) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Thieves Fall Out (1941) When Pals Fall Out (1919) Degas and Pissarro Fall Out (1994) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Dutch Gross, ex world war veteran, trapeze artist, airplane stunt man, friend of "Spike" Conner, the famous blood donner, and the only man to fall out of an airplane at 2000 feet and live (he fell on high tension wire) Better known as "the Flying Dutchma. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Benjamin Franklin | When knaves fall out, honest men get their goods; when priests dispute, we come to the truth. |
Isaac Watts | Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight. |
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne | The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | When hair loss does occur, the hair may become thinner or fall out entirely. (references) | |
Many people say their head becomes sensitive before losing hair. Hair may fall out gradually or in clumps. (references) | ||
Baby teeth play an important role in holding the correct spacing for permanent teeth -- so it is important to keep baby teeth healthy so they don't fall out early. (references) | ||
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Expressions using "fall out": fall out of ♦ fall out of favour with smb. ♦ fall out of love ♦ fall out of use ♦ fall out with ♦ radioactive fall out ♦ To fall out. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "fall out"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | prishem (be destroyed, break off, decay, decompose, deteriorate, fail, fall, fall to pieces, go awry, go phut, go wrong, pack up, perish, putrefy, quarrel, rot, run to seed, separate, take apart, touch, turn sour), ngjet (become, come, happen, transpire), ndodh (become, befall, chance, come about, come off, come to pass, eventuate, exist, fall, hap, happen, occur, pass, set, transpire), mbeturina radioaktive, grindem (altercate, Bicker, brawl, cample, carp, differ, disagree, dispute, fight, find fault with, fray, fret, grizzle, grouse, have words with, Pule, quarrel, spat, swear, wrangle), dal nga rreshti. (various references) | |
Arabic | حدث (befall, calamity, come, come about, come by, come off, disaster, episode, event, flow, go, happen, happening, incident, juvenile, occasion, occur, pass, phenomenon, place, rise, take place, transpire, work, young, youngish, youngling, youngster), تنحى (step aside), تخاصم (argue, bicker, quarrel, wrangle), خرج من الصف, إنتهى (determine, do, end, finish, have smth. done, issue, pack up, run out, turn out, wink), إنتشر (be widespread, catch on, circulate, deploy, diffuse, emit, extend, fan, flow, mushroom, outspread, percolate, permeate, pervade, prevail, propagate, radiate, reproduce, resound, run, send forth, suffuse, swarm, transpire, unfold, unroll). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | скарвам се (broil, tangle), случвам се (befall, chance, come, come about, eventuate, fall, intervene, occur, pass, rise, take place, transpire), вторичен продукт (by product), отпадане (decay, decline, droping out, failure, falling away, obsolescence), окапвам (drop off, fall off, soil, spot), опадвам (drop off, fall away, fall off), преставам (cease, desist, finish, leave off, lift, quit, stop, subside), прибягвам до (fall back on, lend oneself to), падане на радиоактивен прах, падане на вулканичен прах, падам (attach, come down, crash, descend, drop, drop off, fall, fall off, go down, hang, land, lapse, light, prang, ring down, roll off, set, settle, settle down, slip down, topple, tumble, tumble down), изоставам (break away, cast off, drag, fall behind, lag, lose, pack in, run behind, tail away, tail off), излизам от строя, изпадам от. (various references) | |
Czech | vypadnout (bugger off, come off, come out, drop out, go out, make off, push off), rozejít se (break up, disject, disperse, estrange, part, separate, sheer off, split up), rozchod (dismiss, farewell, Gage, gauge, parting, track gauge), pohnìvat se, pohádat se (have a quarrel). (various references) | |
Danish | stratosfaerenedfald (stratospheric fall out). (various references) | |
Dutch | stratosfeerneerslag (stratospheric fall out). (various references) | |
Finnish | riitaantua (have a disagreement). (various references) | |
French | se produire, se passer, se disputer, se brouiller, rompre les rangs, retombées (fallout, radioactive fallout), retombée radioactive (radioactive fall out), radiation nucléaire résiduelle (radioactive fall out). (various references) | |
German | ausfallen (assault, attack, be canceled, be lost, be omitted, be precipitated, break down, drop out, fail, lunge, retire, thrust, to fall out). (various references) | |
Greek | συμβαίνω (bechance, befall, betide, chance, come about, fortune, go on, go on 1, go on 2, hap, happen, occur, pass off, transpire, turn up), λύνω τουσ ζυγούσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | לריב (quarrel, row, squabble, strife), לצאת מן "שור", שיר" (defection, dropping, fall, falling, shedding), שורת (filings, turnings), פולת. (various references) | |
Hungarian | rádióaktív csapadék, kihullás (spillage, spilling), kihull, kicsapódás (aggregation, fall-out), elõfordul (befall, happen, occur), összeveszik valakivel (quarrel with). (various references) | |
Indonesian | gelup (drop ot), bubar (dissolve), bercekcokan (squabble with), bercekcok (bicket, squabble). (various references) | |
Italian | fall out (radioactive fall out), ricaduta radiottiva (radioactive fall out), ricaduta (relapse, setback), pioggia radio-attiva, pioggia di pulviscolo radioattivo. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 抜ける (to be, to be omitted, to come out, to fall out). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぬけかわる (to fall out, to moult, to shed), ぬける (to be missing, to be omitted, to come out, to escape, to fall out), あいそ'つかす (to be disgusted with, to fall out of love, to run out of patience). (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 over, 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 outay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | chuva radiactiva (radioactive fall out), brigar (altercate, bicker, brawl, fight, get in a quarrel, quarrel, scrap, scrimmage, scuffle, struggle, wrestle). (various references) | |
Romanian | se certa (altercate, be at odds, brawl, dispute, fall foul of, go foul of, haggle, jangle, quarrel, row, run foul of, spar, squabble, wrangle), precipitaţii radioactive. (various references) | |
Russian | выпадать (come, precipitate, prolapse, prolapsus). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | svađati se (altercate, brawl, dispute, natter, quarrel, spat), svađanje (kick up, quarreling), razilaženje (breaking up, dissent), razići se (disband, disperse, diverge, split up), radioaktivne padavine (fallout), opasti (ebb, fall off, go down, slump, subside), opadanje (decline, decrease, decrement, downtrend, ebb, falling, fallout, loss, subsidence, wane, waning), ispasti (prolapse, turn out), ispadanje (fallout, prolapse). (various references) | |
Spanish | tener un disgusto, romper filas (break ranks), reñir (argue, fight, quarrel, scold, spat, tell off, wrangle), pelearse con, pelearse (brawl, broil, clash, scramble, scrap, set to, tussle), lluvia radiactiva (fallout, radioactive fall out), desprenderse (become detached, break away, break off, come away, come off, drop off, drop out, fall away, fall off, fly off), caer (catch on, come down, crumble, decline, demise, droop, drop, fall, fall down, fall off, fall on, fall over, 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 ut (drop out, empty, pour into), utfalla (go, turn out), ramla ut, råka i gräl, nedfall (fallout), lämna ledet, avlöpa (end, pass off, turn out). (various references) | |
Turkish | yan ürün (by product, fallout, spin-off, waste product), sıradan çıkmak, ortaya çıkmak (appear, approve oneself, arise, burst, come along, come forward, come in sight, come in view, come into the open, come out, crop out, crop up, debouch, emerge, occur, offer, outcrop, shape, show up, spawn, spring, surface, turn up), nükleer atık (fallout, nuclear waste), külahları değişmek, eksilmek (decrease, drop off, fall away, grow less, lessen, ooze away, taper off), döküntü (debris, detritus, dilapidated, dreg, excuse, fallout, heap, junk, litter, refuse, residuum, rubbish, rubble, scrap, skin eruption, spoils, sweeps, tot, waste), dökülmek (be poured, come off, course, disembogue, disgorge, drape, empty, fall, fall into, fall into decay, fall off, feel cheap, flow, go to pieces, molder, moulder, Peel, peel off, pour, pour forth, pour out, rub off, run down, slop over, spill, teem, trail), dışarıya çıkmak (go out, go outside, sally forth, sally out), bozuşmak (disagree, disunite, divide, fall out with, quarrel with), atık (contaminant, contamination, faecal matter, faeces, fallout, refuse, rejectamenta, rejection, throw out, waste, waste product). (various references) | |
Turkmen | gopmak (fall off). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | випадати (precipitate). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | excidant, excidatis, excidebantur, exciderat, excideris, exciderit, exciderunt, excidisti, excidit, exciditur. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | 2 Chronicles Chapter 21, Verse 15 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai su en malakia ponhra en nosw koiliaV ewV ou exelqh h koilia sou meta thV malakiaV ex hmerwn eiV hmeraV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Tu autem aegrotabis pessimo languore uteri donec egrediantur vitalia tua paulatim per dies singulos |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Thou forsothe schalt waxen seek the most warst langour of wombe, to the tyme that thi guttis gon out lityl melum by sundre days. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And thou shalt have great sickness by disease of thy bowels, until thy bowels fall out by reason of the sickness day by day. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And you yourself will undergo the cruel pains of a disease in your stomach, so that day by day your inside will be falling out because of the disease. |
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| Language | 2 Chronicles Chapter 21, Verse 15 |
| Cebuano | Ug ikaw pagatakboyan sa usa ka dakung sakit sa imong mga tinae, hangtud nga ang imong mga tinae mangahabwa tungod sa imong sakit, sa adlaw-adlaw. |
| Croatian | Oboljet æeš od mnogih bolesti: od bolesti u crijevima, tako da æe ti crijeva izaæi od bolesti koja æe trajati dane i dane.'" |
| Danish | Og selv skal du falde i en hård Sygdom og blive syg i dine Indvolde, så at Indvoldene nogen Tid efter skal træde ud som Følge af Sygdommen!" |
| Dutch | Gij zult ook in grote krankheden zijn, door de krankheid uwer ingewanden, totdat uw ingewanden uitgaan vanwege de krankheid, jaar op jaar. |
| Finnish | ja sinä itse olet sairastava vaikeata tautia, sisusvaivaa, kunnes vuoden, parin kuluttua sisuksesi taudin voimasta tunkeutuvat ulos." |
| French | et toi, il te frappera d`une maladie violente, d`une maladie d`entrailles, qui augmentera de jour en jour jusqu` ce que tes entrailles sortent par la force du mal. |
| German | du aber wirst viel Krankheit haben in deinem Eingeweide, bis daß dein Eingeweide vor Krankheit herausgehe in Jahr und Tag. |
| Haitian Creole | Ou menm pou tèt pa ou, ou pral malad anpil. Ou pral gen yon sèl maladi vant ki pral fè ou soufri jouk trip ou va soti. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Baginda sendiri pun akan menderita penyakit usus yang makin hari makin parah!" |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Dan engkau sendiripun akan kena penyakit payah, yaitu penyakit isi perutmu dari pada setahun datang kepada setahun, sehingga isi perutmu itu akan keluar dari sebab penyakit itu. |
| Italian | Tu soffrirai gravi malattie, una malattia intestinale tale che per essa le tue viscere ti usciranno nel giro di due anni». |
| Maori | A tera e nui ou mate, he mate no ou whekau, no ka puta ki waho ou whekau i te mate i tenei ra, i tenei ra. |
| Norwegian | Og selv skal du rammes av en svær sykdom, en sykdom i dine innvoller, så dine innvoller efter år og dag skal falle ut på grunn av sykdommen. |
| Portuguese | e tu terás uma grave enfermidade; a saber, um mal nas tuas entranhas, ate que elas saiam, de dia em dia, por causa do mal. |
| Rumanian | Iar pe tine, te va lovi cu o boalq grea, cu o boalq de mqruntaie, care se va kngreuia din zi kn zi pknq cknd kyi vor iewi mqruntaiele din pricina tqriei bolii.`` |
| Spanish | Y a ti te herirá con muchas enfermedades. Una enfermedad de los intestinos ocasionará que éstos se te salgan a causa de la enfermedad, día tras día." |
| Swedish | och själv skall du träffas av svår sjukdom, en sjukdom i dina inälvor, så svår att dina inälvor, efter år och dagar, skola falla ut i följd av sjukdomen." |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: fallout, outfall. | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-l-l-o-t-u" | |
-2 letters: afoul, allot, aloft, atoll, fault, float, flota, flout. | |
-3 letters: alto, auto, fall, flat, foal, foul, full, loaf, loft, lota, lout, olla, tall, tofu, tola, toll, tolu, tufa. | |
-4 letters: aft, all, alt, fat, flu, fou, lat, lot, oaf, oat, oft, out, tao, tau, uta. | |
-5 letters: al, at, fa, la, lo, of, ta, to, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-f-l-l-o-t-u" | |
+1 letter: fallouts, loathful, outfalls. | |
+3 letters: boastfully, flocculant, flocculate, multifocal. | |
+4 letters: conflictual, flocculants, flocculated, flocculates, flocculator. | |
+5 letters: flagitiously, flocculating, flocculation, flocculators, functionally, slumpflation, unifoliolate. | |
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