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noun
- An act of falling down.
- The cause of such a fall; a critical blow or error.
- A precipitous decline in fortune; death or rapid deterioration, as in status or wealth.
- the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist)
- a sudden decline in strength or number or importance
- failure that results in a loss of position or reputation
verb
noun
- One who falls.
- a person who falls
- A fruit that falls from the tree, rather than being picked.
- Synonym of feller (“one who cuts down trees”).
- (engineering) A part which acts by falling, such as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks.
- a person who fells trees
verb
- fall in drops
- let or cause to fall in drops
- (impersonal, of the weather) To rain lightly; to drizzle.
- (transitive) To let fall in drops.
- (UK, naval slang, intransitive) To whine or complain consistently; to grumble.
- (intransitive, usually with with) To have a superabundance of (something).
- (stative, slang) Be impressive or attractive.
- (intransitive) To be wet, to be soaked.
- (intransitive) To fall one drop at a time.
- (intransitive) To leak slowly.
noun
- A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.
- the sound of a liquid falling drop by drop
- flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid
- (architecture) a projection from a cornice or sill designed to protect the area below from rainwater (as over a window or doorway)
- (architecture) That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member that projects beyond the rest, and has a section designed to throw off rainwater.
- (colloquial, derogatory) A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.
- (medicine) An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream.
- (slang, uncountable) Style; swagger; fashionable and/or expensive clothing.
- (finance) Alternative letter-case form of DRIP (“dividend reinvestment plan”)
- A drop of a liquid.
verb
noun
verb
- fall down, as if collapsing
- fall suddenly and sharply
- suffer a sudden downfall, overthrow, or defeat
- throw together in a confused mass
- put clothes in a tumbling barrel, where they are whirled about in hot air, usually with the purpose of drying
- roll over and over, back and forth
- fly around
- understand, usually after some initial difficulty
- fall apart
- do gymnastics, roll and turn skillfully
- cause to topple or tumble by pushing
- (cryptocurrencies) To obscure the audit trail of funds by means of a tumbler.
- (transitive) To smooth and polish (e.g. gemstones or pebbles) by means of a rotating tumbler.
- (transitive) To throw headlong.
- (intransitive) To drop rapidly.
- (intransitive, informal) To have sexual intercourse.
- (intransitive) To fall end over end; to roll over and over.
- (intransitive) To move or rush in a headlong or uncontrolled way.
- To muss, to make disorderly; to tousle or rumple.
- (intransitive) To perform gymnastics such as somersaults, rolls, and handsprings.
noun
verb
intj
noun
verb
- fall forward and down
- (intransitive, idiomatic, informal, South Africa) To break down; to become inoperable.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) Of an argument, to fail to be valid.
- (intransitive, idiomatic, informal, computing) Of a computer program or system, to crash.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To fall from an upright or standing position to a horizontal or prone position.
verb
- fall forward and down
- examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition
- hold a review (of troops)
- happen in a particular manner
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To create a response or impression.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, over.
- (rugby) To score a try.
- (transitive) To encompass or cover (a subject).
- (graffiti) To spray paint graffiti over someone else's graffiti.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To look at carefully; to scrutinize; to analyze.
- (intransitive, by extension) To convert or switch sides.
noun
- A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
- (sports, UK, Australia, New Zealand) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) (Not often used in the US or Canada, where "field" is the preferred word.)
- An effort to sell or promote something.
- (geology) Pitchstone.
- The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
- The angle at which an object sits.
- (golf) A short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
- A dark, extremely viscous material still remaining after distilling crude oil or natural tar.
- The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.
- Prominence; importance.
- The height a bird reaches in flight, especially a bird of prey preparing to swoop down on its prey.
- (nautical, aviation) The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down.
- (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
- (by extension) The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.
- (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
- (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
- (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
- A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
- (now British, regional) A person's or animal's height.
- (music, phonetics) The perceived frequency of a sound, note or electromagnetic wave.
- A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
- (music) The standard to which a group of musical instruments are tuned or in which a piece is performed, usually by reference to the frequency to which the musical note A above middle C is tuned.
- (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
- A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
- A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
- An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
- (aviation) A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
- (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
- (rare) The field of battle.
- The most thrust-out point of a headland or cape.
- promotion by means of an argument and demonstration
- abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)
- a sports field with predetermined dimensions for playing soccer
- the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration
- a high approach shot in golf
- a vendor's position (especially on the sidewalk)
- any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
- the act of throwing a baseball or softball by the pitcher towards home plate, which initiates play by giving the batter a chance to hit it
- an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump
- degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
- the action or manner of throwing something
verb
- fall or plunge forward
- To cover or smear with pitch.
- (transitive) To set or fix (a price or value).
- (transitive) To fix or set the tone of.
- (brewing) To add yeast as a step while making beer
- (transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent). Also used figuratively.
- (with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
- (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
- (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
- (transitive) To set at an angle, especially a downwards one; to cause to tilt.
- (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
- (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
- (transitive) To set, face, or pave (an embankment or roadway) with rubble or undressed stones.
- (transitive) To throw away; discard.
- (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
- (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
- (transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
- (transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
- (transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
- (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
- (transitive) To throw.
- (transitive, card games, slang) To discard (a card) for some gain.
- To attack, or position or assemble for attack.
- (ambitransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternately up and down.
- heel over
- set to a certain pitch
- sell or offer for sale from place to place
- move abruptly
- throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball
- be at an angle
- set the level or character of
- throw or toss with a light motion
- erect and fasten
- lead (a card) and establish the trump suit
- hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin
adj
verb
- come as if by falling
- come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example
- move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
- do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
- (intransitive) To physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position; to come or go down in any way, such as by climbing, falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to move downwards; to fall, to sink.
- (transitive) Of a flight of stairs, a road, etc.: to lead down (a hill, a slope, etc.).
- (chiefly poetic or religion) Chiefly in the form descend into (or within) oneself: to mentally enter a state of (deep) meditation or thought; to retire.
- (transitive) To pass from a higher to a lower part of (something, such as a flight of stairs or a slope); to go down along or upon.
- Of a physical thing (such as a cloud or storm) or a (generally negative) immaterial thing (such as darkness, gloom, or silence): to settle upon and start to affect a person or place.
- Chiefly followed by on or upon: to make an attack or incursion, from or as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence.
- In speech or writing: to proceed from one matter to another; especially, to pass from more general or important to specific or less important matters to be considered.
- (music) To pass from a higher to a lower note or tone; to fall in pitch.
- (mathematics) Of a sequence or series: to proceed from higher to lower values.
- To come or go down, or reduce, in intensity or some other quality.
- (intransitive, chiefly law) Of property, a right, etc.: to pass down to a generation, a person, etc., by inheritance.
- To come down to a humbler or less fortunate, or a worse or less virtuous, rank or state; to abase or lower oneself; to condescend or stoop to something.
- Chiefly followed by into or to: of a situation: to become worse; to decline, to deteriorate.
- (intransitive) To slope or stretch downwards.
- (astronomy) Of a celestial body: to move away from the zenith towards the horizon; to sink; also, to move towards the south.
- (intransitive) Of a characteristic: to be transmitted from a parent to a child.
- (intransitive, often passive voice) Chiefly followed by from or (obsolete) of: to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source; to originate, to stem.
- Chiefly followed by on or upon: to arrive suddenly or unexpectedly, especially in a manner that causes disruption or inconvenience.
- (biology, physiology) Of a body part: to move downwards, especially during development of the embryo; specifically, of the testes of a mammal: to move downwards from the abdominal cavity into the scrotum.
- (astrology) Of a zodiac sign: to move away from the zenith towards the horizon; to sink; also, of a planet: to move to a place where it has less astrological significance.
- (intransitive, chiefly historical) To alight from a carriage, a horse, etc.; also, to disembark from a vessel; to land.
verb
- come as if by falling
- go as if by falling
- descend in free fall under the influence of gravity
- To come as if by dropping down.
- drop oneself to a lower or less erect position
- move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
- assume a disappointed or sad expression
- slope downward
- pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind
- lose one's chastity
- yield to temptation or sin
- decrease in size, extent, or range
- lose an upright position suddenly
- move in a specified direction
- begin vigorously
- die, as in battle or in a hunt
- fall to somebody by assignment or lot; passed
- be due
- be inherited by
- come out; issue
- occur at a specified time or place
- be born, used chiefly of lambs
- lose office or power
- touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
- come under, be classified or included
- come into the possession of
- fall or flow in a certain way
- fall from clouds
- be captured
- to be given by assignment or distribution
- be cast down
- to be given by right or inheritance
- suffer defeat, failure, or ruin
- To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
- (intransitive) To collapse; to be overthrown or defeated.
- (intransitive) To become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc.).
- To come down, to drop or descend.
- (copulative, in idiomatic expressions) To become (chiefly used with negative states).
- (intransitive) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin.
- To occur (on a certain day of the week, date, or similar); to happen.
- To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself.
- (intransitive) To be dropped or uttered carelessly.
- (intransitive) To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
- (intransitive) To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
- (intransitive) To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
- (intransitive) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
- (intransitive, formal, euphemistic) To die, especially in battle or by disease.
- (intransitive) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the face.
- To be brought to the ground.
- (intransitive, of a fabric) To hang down (under the influence of gravity).
- (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To visit; to go to a place.
noun
- That which falls or cascades.
- a sudden drop from an upright position
- a sudden decline in strength or number or importance
- a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity
- the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions)
- when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat
- the season when the leaves fall from the trees
- a movement downward
- a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity
- a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
- the time of day immediately following sunset
- a downward slope or bend
- (nautical) The chasing of a hunted whale.
- A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover hair loss.
- The lid, on a piano, that covers the keyboard.
- (cricket, of a wicket) The action of a batsman being out.
- A loss of greatness or status.
- An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
- The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
- A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
- (wrestling) An instance of a wrestler being pinned to the mat.
- (nautical) The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).
- A short, flexible piece of leather forming part of a bullwhip, placed between the thong and the cracker.
- The height of that which falls or cascades.
- (informal, US) Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
- (curling) A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given direction.
intj
verb
- come as if by falling
- settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground
- form a community
- come to terms
- sink down or precipitate
- end a legal dispute by arriving at a settlement
- become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
- bring to an end; settle conclusively
- accept despite lack of complete satisfaction
- arrange or fix in the desired order
- go under
- become resolved, fixed, established, or quiet
- make final; put the last touches on; put into final form
- take up residence and become established
- cause to become clear by forming a sediment (of liquids)
- fix firmly
- dispose of; make a financial settlement
- settle conclusively; come to terms
- become clear by the sinking of particles
- come to rest
- establish or develop as a residence
- get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury
- (transitive) To clear or purify (a liquid) of dregs and impurities by causing them to sink.
- (transitive) To render compact or solid; to cause to become packed down.
- (transitive) In particular, to terminate (a lawsuit), usually out of court, by agreement of all parties.
- (intransitive) To become clear due to the sinking of sediment. (Used especially of liquid. Also used figuratively.)
- (transitive) To determine (something which was exposed to doubt or question); to resolve conclusively; to set or fix (a time, an order of succession, etc).
- (transitive, in particular) To colonize (an area); to migrate to (a land, territory, site, etc).
- (transitive) To conclude, to cause (a dispute) to finish.
- (intransitive, with "in") To be established in a profession or in employment.
- (intransitive) To become compact due to sinking.
- (transitive) To put into (proper) place; to make sit or lie properly.
- (intransitive) To conclude a lawsuit by agreement of the parties rather than a decision of a court.
- (intransitive) To become firm, dry, and hard, like the ground after the effects of rain or frost have disappeared.
- (transitive) To cause to sink down or to be deposited (dregs, sediment, etc).
- (intransitive, usually with "down", "in", "on" or another preposition) To become stationary or fixed; to come to rest.
- (intransitive) To fix one's residence in a place; to establish a dwelling place, home, or colony. (Compare settle down.)
- (transitive) In particular, to establish in life; to fix in business, in a home, etc.
- (intransitive) To sink to the bottom of a body of liquid, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reservoir.
- (transitive) To bring or restore (ground, roads, etc) to a smooth, dry, or passable condition.
- (British, dialectal) To silence, especially by force.
- (transitive) To place in(to) a fixed or permanent condition or position or on(to) a permanent basis; to make firm, steady, or stable; to establish or fix.
- (transitive) To cause to no longer be in a disturbed, confused or stormy; to quiet; to calm (nerves, waters, a boisterous or rebellious child, etc).
- To kill.
- (intransitive) To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, for example the foundation of a house, etc.
- (intransitive) To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement on matters in dispute.
- (intransitive) To become married, or a householder.
- (transitive, colloquial) To pay (a bill).
- (ambitransitive) Of an animal: to make or become pregnant.
- (transitive) To close, liquidate or balance (an account) by payment, sometimes of less than is owed or due.
- (transitive) To place or arrange in(to) a desired (especially: calm) state, or make final disposition of (something).
- (transitive, law) To formally, legally secure (an annuity, property, title, etc) on (a person).
- (intransitive) To become calm, quiet, or orderly; to stop being agitated.
- (transitive) To move (people) to (a land or territory), so as to colonize it; to cause (people) to take residence in (a place).
noun
verb
- fall backwards and down
- move back and away from
- go back to bad behavior
- have recourse to
- retreat
- hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
- To retreat.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fall, back.
- To turn the clocks back for the end of daylight saving time.
- To fail to fulfill a promise or purpose.
noun
- A heavy, passive fall; a plopping down.
- (poker) The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.
- (by confusion, computing) One floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed.
- Dung, as in cow-flop.
- A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.
- (slang) A flophouse.
- (computing) Abbreviation of floating-point operation.
- someone who is unsuccessful
- an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers
- the act of throwing yourself down; collapse; sink
- a complete failure
verb
- fall loosely
- fall suddenly and abruptly
- (poker, transitive) To have (a hand) using the community cards dealt on the flop.
- (intransitive, slang) To stay, sleep or live in a place.
- (transitive) To flip; to reverse (an image).
- (intransitive) To fall heavily due to lack of energy.
- (intransitive, informal) To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.).
- (sports, intransitive) To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer)
- (transitive, prison slang) To deny someone parole.
- (intransitive) To strike about with something broad and flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; to flap.
- (transitive) To cause to drop heavily.
- fail utterly; collapse
adv
intj
noun
- Downward movement, fall.
- A reduction or diminution of activity, prevalence or quantity.
- A deterioration of condition; a weakening or worsening.
- A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
- The act of declining or refusing something.
- a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state; decline
- change toward something smaller or lower
- a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current
- a downward slope or bend
verb
- (intransitive) To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
- (by extension) To run through from first to last; to recite in order as though declining a noun.
- (transitive) To cause to decrease or diminish.
- (transitive) To choose not to do something; refuse, forbear, refrain.
- (transitive, grammar, usually of substantives, adjectives and pronouns) To inflect for case, number, gender, and the like.
- (American football, Canadian football) To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because the result of accepting it would benefit the non-penalized team less than the preceding play.
- (transitive) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
- (intransitive) To become weaker or worse.
- To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
- (transitive, grammar) To recite all the different declined forms of (a word): to recite its declension.
- go down
- not accept as true
- show unwillingness towards
- inflect for number, gender, case, etc.
- grow smaller
- fall in value
- grow worse
noun
- A fall or stumble.
- (mining) One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
- A small stick or piece of paper used to light a candle, cigarette etc by the transfer of a flame from a fire.
- (countable) A mess of something that has been dropped.
- A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask'; a spile.
- A spillikin.
- (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
- (Shropshire, Herefordshire) A splinter caught in the skin.
- A metallic rod or pin.
- (Australian politics) A declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant, and open for re-election. Short form of leadership spill.
- a channel that carries excess water over or around a dam or other obstruction
- a sudden drop from an upright position
- the act of allowing a fluid to escape
- liquid that is spilled
verb
- (intransitive, of a crowd or people within a crowd) To overflow out of a designated area.
- To mar; to damage; to destroy by misuse; to waste.
- (ambitransitive) To reveal information to an uninformed party.
- (transitive) To express (something), especially repeatedly or floridly; to be expressed.
- (of a knot) To come undone.
- (transitive, Australian politics) To open the leadership of a parliamentary party for re-election.
- (intransitive) To spread out or fall out, as above.
- (transitive) To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour.
- (intransitive, also figurative) To overflow or flow out, over or off something.
- To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
- (nautical) To relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind, so that it can be more easily reefed or furled, or to lessen the strain.
- (transitive) To drop something that was intended to be caught.
- (transitive) To cause or flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed.
- reduce the pressure of wind on (a sail)
- cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container
- pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities
- cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over
- reveal information
- flow, run or fall out and become lost
noun
- A hurried headlong fall.
- (figuratively) Unwise or rash rapidity; sudden haste.
- (meteorology) The amount of water precipitated in any form.
- (countable, uncountable, chemistry) A reaction that leads to the formation of a heavier, and often less soluble, solid in a lighter liquid; the precipitate so formed at the bottom of the container.
- (meteorology) Any or all of the forms of water particles, whether liquid or solid, that fall from the upper atmosphere (e.g., rain, hail, snow or sleet). It is a major class of hydrometeor, but it is distinguished from cloud, fog, dew, rime, frost, etc., in that it must fall. It is distinguished from cloud and virga in that it must reach the ground.
- the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist)
- the quantity of water falling to earth at a specific place within a specified period of time
- the process of forming a chemical precipitate
- overly eager speed (and possible carelessness)
- the act of casting down or falling headlong from a height
- an unexpected acceleration or hastening
verb
- let fall to the ground
- to fall vertically
- fall or descend to a lower place or level
- pay out
- utter with seeming casualness
- take (a drug, especially LSD), by mouth
- change from one level to another
- remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave
- lower the pitch of (musical notes)
- stop pursuing or acting
- cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow
- fall or sink into a state of exhaustion or death
- grow progressively worse
- stop associating with
- leave undone or leave out
- let or cause to fall in drops
- to remove
- go down in value
- lose (a game)
- omit (a letter or syllable) in speaking or writing
- give birth; used for animals
- hang loosely
- terminate an association with
- (cooking) To cook (food, especially fast food), particularly by lowering into hot oil to deep-fry, or by grilling.
- (transitive, music) To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.
- (intransitive) Of a liquid: to fall in drops or droplets.
- (transitive) To cease concerning oneself over (someone or something); to have nothing more to do with (a discussion, subject, etc.).
- (intransitive, computing) To enter a more basic interface.
- (transitive) To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot, etc.; to bring down, to shoot down; to kill.
- (intransitive, physiology, informal) Of the testicles: to hang further away from the body and begin producing sperm due to puberty.
- (transitive) To reduce; to make smaller.
- Especially in drop acid: to swallow (a drug, particularly LSD).
- (intransitive) Of a voice: to lower in timbre, often due to puberty.
- (transitive, computing, music, television, colloquial) To release (a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.) to the public.
- (intransitive) To decrease, diminish, or lessen in condition, degree, value, etc.
- (intransitive, computing, music, television, colloquial) Of a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.: to enter public distribution.
- (transitive) To drip (a liquid) in drops or small amounts.
- (originally US) To (unexpectedly) lose (a competition, game, etc.).
- To lose, spend, or otherwise part with (money).
- (intransitive, also figuratively) To fall (straight down) under the influence of gravity, like a drop of liquid.
- (intransitive) To come to an end (by not being kept up); to lapse, to stop.
- (intransitive) To fall into a particular condition or state.
- (intransitive, online gaming, video games) Of an item: To appear for the player to pick up, usually after an enemy has been defeated.
- To impart (something).
- (intransitive) Usually followed by by, in, or into: of a person: to visit someone or somewhere informally or without a prior appointment.
- (intransitive) To fall or sink quickly or suddenly to the ground.
- (rugby) To score (a goal) by means of a drop kick.
- (transitive) To cancel or cease to participate in (a scheduled course, event, or project).
- To perform (rap music).
- (transitive) To mention (something) casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.
- (transitive) To set down (someone or something) from a vehicle; to stop and deliver or deposit (someone or something); to drop off.
- (transitive) To lower (a sound, a voice, etc.) in pitch or volume.
- (transitive, computing) To present (the user) with a more basic interface.
- (transitive) To cease to include (something), as if on a list; to dismiss, to eject, to expel.
- To quickly lower or take down (one's trousers), especially in public.
- (cricket) Of a fielder: to fail to dismiss (a batsman) by accidentally dropping a batted ball that had initially been caught.
- (transitive, linguistics) To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter, etc.).
- To pass or use (counterfeit cheques, money, etc.).
- (intransitive) To collapse in exhaustion or injury; also, to fall dead, or to fall in death.
- (transitive, ergative, also figuratively) To let (something) fall; to allow (something) to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip on).
- (transitive) To move to a lower position; to allow to hang downwards; to lower.
- (intransitive) Of a song or sound: to lower in key, pitch, tempo, or other quality.
- (transitive, online gaming, video games) Of a defeated enemy or container: To leave behind an item that the player can collect.
- To play (a portion of music) in the manner of a disc jockey.
- (intransitive, gambling) To drop out of the betting.
- (transitive) Of an animal (usually a sheep): to give birth to (young); of a bird: to lay (an egg).
- (transitive) To let (a letter, etc.) fall into a postbox; hence, to send (a letter, email, or other message) in an offhand manner.
- (transitive) To dispose or get rid of (something); to lose, to remove.
- (US, Singapore, ergative, military, slang) To make someone, or be made to do push-ups or some other form of exercise on the ground as punishment.
- (intransitive) To fall behind or to the rear of a group of people, etc., as a result of not keeping up with those at the front.
noun
- An act of moving downwards under the force of gravity; a descent, a fall.
- a shape that is spherical and small
- a central depository where things can be left or picked up
- a steep high face of rock
- a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity
- a predetermined hiding place for the deposit and distribution of illicit goods (such as drugs or stolen property)
- the act of dropping something
- a curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies; often used as background scenery
- a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
- a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid)
- Of women's clothes: the difference between the bust circumference and hip circumference.
- (online gaming, video games) An item made available for the player to pick up from the remains of a defeated enemy.
- (pinball) Ellipsis of drop target.
- (rugby) Ellipsis of drop kick.
- (pharmacology, chiefly in the plural) A liquid medicine that is intended to be administered in drops (sense 1).
- (agriculture) A fruit which has fallen off a tree, etc., or has been knocked off accidentally, rather than picked.
- (informal) Only used in get the drop on, have the drop on: an advantage.
- A decline in degree, quality, quantity, or rate.
- (nautical) The depth of a (square) sail (generally applied to the courses only); the vertical dimension of a sail.
- (electrics, telecommunications) An overhead electrical line running from a utility pole to a customer's building or other premises.
- (American football) A dropped pass.
- Usually preceded by the: relegation from one division to a lower one.
- (law enforcement) The distance that a person drops when being executed by hanging.
- Often preceded by a defining word: a small, round piece of hard candy, such as a lemon drop; a lozenge.
- (theater) A curtain which falls in front of a theatrical stage; also, a section of (cloth) scenery lowered on to the stage like a curtain.
- (slang, US) An automobile with a drop-top roof, a convertible.
- Licorice in confectionery form.
- Ellipsis of drop hammer or drop press.
- The distance below a cliff or other high position through which someone or something could fall; hence, a steep slope.
- (also figuratively) A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own rounded shape through surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid.
- (law enforcement, informal) Preceded by the: execution by hanging.
- (music) A point in a song, usually electronic music such as dubstep, house, trance, or trap, where there is a very noticeable and pleasing change in bass, tempo, and/or overall tone; a climax, a highlight.
- A release (of music, a video game, etc).
- (Ireland, informal) A single measure of whisky.
- Of men's clothes: the difference between the chest circumference and waist circumference.
- (figuratively) A very small quantity of liquid, or (by extension) of anything.
- (law enforcement) A trapdoor (“hinged platform”) on a gallows; a gallows itself.
- The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
- A mechanism for lowering something, such as a machine for lowering heavy weights on to a ship's deck, or a device for temporarily lowering a gas jet, etc.
- (pharmacology) A dose of liquid medicine in the form of a drop (sense 1).
- (engineering) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
- (surfing) A near vertical decent down the face of a breaking wave.
- (cricket) A place (specified by an ordinal) in the batting order after the openers.
- (architecture) An ornament resembling a pendant; a gutta.
- (American football) Ellipsis of drop-back.
- (gambling) The amount of money that a gambler exchanges for chips in a casino.
- (chiefly British) Usually preceded by the: alcoholic spirits in general.
- (golf) Ellipsis of drop shot.
- The cover mounted on a swivel over a keyhole that rests over the keyhole when not in use to keep out debris, but is swiveled out of the way before inserting the key.
- (chiefly Australia, British) A small amount of an alcoholic beverage.
- A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, whether openly (as with a mail drop), or secretly or illegally (as in crime or espionage); a drop-off point.
- An instance of making a delivery of people, supplies, or things, especially by parachute out of an aircraft (an airdrop), but also by truck, etc.
verb
- stumble and nearly fall
- fail utterly; collapse
- sink below the surface
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- (intransitive, especially of horses) To fall; to stumble and go lame.
- (transitive) To disable or lame (a horse) by causing internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs.
- (intransitive) To fail; to miscarry.
- (intransitive, of a ship) To flood with water and sink.
noun
- inflammation of the laminated tissue that attaches the hoof to the foot of a horse
- a person who founds or establishes some institution
- a worker who makes metal castings
- (genetics) A common ancestor of some population (especially one with a certain genetic mutation).
- One who founds or establishes (a company, project, organisation, state, etc.).
- The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.
- (veterinary medicine) A severe laminitis of a horse, caused by untreated internal inflammation in the hooves.
- One who casts metals in various forms; a caster.
verb
- fall or come down violently
- cause to crash
- hurl or thrust violently
- stop operating
- break violently or noisily; smash
- undergo a sudden and severe downturn
- move violently as through a barrier
- occupy, usually uninvited
- sleep in a convenient place
- move with, or as if with, a crashing noise
- enter uninvited; informal
- make a sudden loud sound
- undergo damage or destruction on impact
- (ambitransitive, slang) Ellipsis of gatecrash.
- (intransitive, slang) To lie down for a long rest, sleep or nap, as from tiredness or exhaustion.
- To make a sudden loud noise.
- To take a sudden and severe turn for the worse; to rapidly and catastrophically deteriorate.
- (computing, hardware, software, transitive) To cause an exception that terminates or halts execution.
- (transitive, Scotland, education) To take a subject at higher level without having previously studied it.
- (transitive) To cause something to collide with something else, especially when this results in damage.
- (transitive, slang) To give, as a favor.
- (intransitive) To experience a period of depression and/or lethargy after a period of euphoria, as after the euphoric effect of a psychotropic drug has dissipated.
- (transitive, management) To accelerate a project or a task or its schedule by devoting more resources to it.
- (intransitive) To collide with something destructively; to fall or come down violently.
- (transitive) To hit or strike with force.
- (computing, hardware, software, intransitive) To terminate or halt execution due to an exception.
- (intransitive, slang) To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements, especially overnight.
noun
- the act of colliding with something
- a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)
- (computer science) an event that causes a computer system to become inoperative
- a loud resonant repeating noise
- a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles)
- (informal) A comedown from a drug.
- (finance) A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures).
- An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.
- (collective) A group of rhinoceroses.
- (ecology) A sudden decline in any living form's population levels, often leading to extinction.
- (computing) A malfunction of computer software or hardware which causes it to shut down or become partially or totally inoperable.
- A sudden, intense, loud sound, as made for example by cymbals.
- (textiles) A type of rough linen.
adj
verb
- fall sharply
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- find the solution or key to
- become punctured or penetrated
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- do a break dance
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- separate from a clinch, in boxing
- cause to give up a habit
- weaken or destroy in spirit or body
- change directions suddenly
- exchange for smaller units of money
- undergo breaking
- give up
- interrupt a continued activity
- interrupt the flow of current in
- break a piece from a whole
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- move away or escape suddenly
- invalidate by judicial action
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- cease an action temporarily
- happen or take place
- render inoperable or ineffective
- emerge from the surface of a body of water
- come to an end (of an event)
- cause the failure or ruin of
- put an end to a state or an activity
- fracture a bone of
- stop operating or functioning
- diminish or discontinue abruptly
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- terminate or end
- come forth or begin from a state of latency
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- crack; of the male voice in puberty
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- come into being
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- find a flaw in
- ruin completely
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- happen
- go to pieces
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- pierce or penetrate
- surpass in excellence
- lessen in force or effect
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- scatter or part
- be broken in
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- reduce to bankruptcy
- be released or become known; of news
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- (transitive, tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin or end.
- (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
- (intransitive, of a spell of settled weather) To end.
- (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- (intransitive, of a male voice) To become deeper at puberty.
- (transitive, backgammon) To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- (transitive) To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- (intransitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- (intransitive, of a voice) To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- (specifically) To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- (transitive, theater) To end the run of (a play).
- (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- (transitive) To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- (specifically) To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- (intransitive, of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.
- (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- (transitive, with for) To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- (rare, mainly historical or a misspelling) To brake.
- (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
- (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- (music, slang) To B-boy; to breakdance.
- (specifically, in programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- (programming) To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- (transitive, intransitive) To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- (ergative, transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- (computing) To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- (transitive) To ruin financially.
- (transitive, gaming slang) To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- (finance, intransitive) Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- (computing) To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- (intransitive, of a fever) To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- (intransitive, of a sauce or emulsion) To de-emulsify.
- (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
- (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
noun
- an unexpected piece of good luck
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- an escape from jail
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- the act of breaking something
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- the occurrence of breaking
- a sudden dash
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- (programming) Ellipsis of breakpoint.
- (music) The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- An interruption of continuity; departure from or rupture with.
- Alternative form of brake (“cart or carriage without a body, for breaking in horses”)
- (computing) The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- (soccer) The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- (snooker) The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- (finance) A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- (computing) A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- (UK, education) A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- (geography, chiefly in the plural) An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- (British, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- (surfing) A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- An act of escaping.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- (tennis) A game won by the receiving player(s).
- (horse racing) The start of a horse race.
- The opening of packages of cards for a collectible card game, often for further distribution to paying customers.
- (golf) The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) The first shot in a game of billiards.
- (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
verb
- fall abruptly
- throw away as refuse
- sell at artificially low prices
- drop (stuff) in a heap or mass
- knock down with force
- sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly
- (transitive, computing) To copy (data) from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
- (transitive) To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
- (transitive, computing) To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug.
- (transitive) To discard; to get rid of something one no longer wants.
- (transitive, Australia) Of a surf wave, to crash a swimmer, surfer, etc., heavily downwards.
- (transitive) To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping.
- (transitive) To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it
- (transitive, US) To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.
- (transitive, informal) To end a romantic relationship with.
noun
- a coarse term for defecation
- (computer science) a copy of the contents of a computer storage device; sometimes used in debugging programs
- a piece of land where waste materials are dumped
- a place where supplies can be stored
- That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
- (mining) A pile of ore or rock.
- (historical, Australia, Canada) A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).
- A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
- (usually in the plural) A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency.
- (computing) A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program.
- (slang, often with the verb "take", euphemistic) An act of defecation; a defecating.
- A storage place for supplies, especially military.
- (slang) An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring, or depressing looking place.
- A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.
- (marketing) A temporary display case that holds many copies of an item being sold.
- (computing) An act of dumping, or its result.
- (Northern England) A deep hole in a river bed; a pool.
- Absence of mind; reverie.
- (Internet slang) A disorganized collection of images posted on social media.
verb
- fall abruptly
- thrust or throw into
- drop steeply
- dash violently or with great speed or impetuosity
- cause to be immersed
- begin with vigor
- immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
- devote (oneself) fully to
- (intransitive, slang) To bet heavily and recklessly; to risk large sums in gambling.
- (figuratively, transitive) To cast, stab or throw deep and fast into some thing, state, condition or action.
- (intransitive) To pitch or throw oneself headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
- (figuratively, intransitive) To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition.
- (transitive) To remove a blockage by suction.
- (transitive) To thrust into liquid, or into any penetrable substance; to immerse.
- (intransitive) To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge oneself.
noun
- a steep and rapid fall
- a brief swim in water
- A dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water).
- The act of plunging or submerging.
- (figuratively) The act of pitching or throwing oneself headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse.
- (slang) Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation.
noun
- (sometimes figurative) A heavy fall.
- (historical) A person hired to howl in mourning at a funeral.
- (slang) A hilarious joke.
- (slang) A tremendous lie (especially an obvious one); a whopper.
- (psychology) A person who expresses aggression openly in the form of threats.
- (slang) A painfully obvious mistake.
- (historical) A 32-ounce ceramic, plastic, or stainless steel jug used to transport draft beer.
- (slang) A serious accident (especially to come a howler or go a howler; compare come a cropper).
- (slang) A small child.
- (slang) A bitterly cold day.
- That which howls, especially an animal such as a wolf or a howler monkey.
- monkey of tropical South American forests having a loud howling cry
- a glaring blunder
- a joke that seems extremely funny
verb
- (literally) To come out of something by falling.
- (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To be shocked by something.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To cease to be on friendly terms.
- (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To collapse; to pass out from intoxication.
- (intransitive, Of the ground, floor, snow, etc., or figuratively, a worldview or foundation) To cause someone to slip and/or fall down.
- (intransitive, slang) To depart.
- (dialect, intransitive) To pass out.
- (intransitive, Of a trapdoor or similar) To give way under someone.
- (military, intransitive, figuratively) To leave one's current location to report for duty at a new location.
- (intransitive, slang) To be enthusiastic about something; to laugh very hard.
- (military, intransitive, literally) To leave one's place in the current formation of ranks in order to take one's place in a new formation.
- come as a logical consequence; follow logically
- have a breach in relations
- drop out
- leave (a barracks) in order to take a place in a military formation, or leave a military formation
- come to pass
noun
adj
- Of a fall: straight downwards; headlong.
- Inclined to make rapid decisions without due consideration; hasty, impulsive, rash.
- (chiefly figurative) Acting, happening, or moving quickly; fast, rapid, swift; also, abrupt, sudden, unexpected.
- (chemistry) That causes precipitation (“formation of a heavier solid in a lighter liquid as a result of a chemical reaction”).
- done with very great haste and without due deliberation
noun
- (chemistry) A substance that, when added to a solution, causes a dissolved substance to form a precipitate.
- Something which causes or hastens the occurrence of an act or event; specifically (chiefly psychology), something which brings about a mental or physiological condition.
- an agent that causes a precipitate to form
noun
- That which falls in drops.
- The act of falling in drops, or the act of pouring out in drops.
- (machine learning) The transformation of a complex large language model into a smaller one.
- The substance extracted by distilling.
- (petrochemistry) Separation of petroleum into specific hydrocarbon groups; fractionation.
- Purification through repeated or continuous distilling; rectification.
- a purified liquid produced by condensation from a vapor during distilling; the product of distilling
- the process of purifying a liquid by boiling it and condensing its vapors
verb
- To stumble and fall over
- To burgeon so as to exceed a limit.
- (electronics) To be oversensitive in triggering a fail-safe mechanism, especially to incorrectly activate or trip a circuit breaker.
- To tip a balance.
- To move where another is also moving or occur at the same time as another is occurring; to fail to coordinate (with)
noun
noun
- An act of falling back.
- (construction) A reduction in bitumen softening point, sometimes called refluxing or overheating, in a relatively closed container.
- Pulverised material that falls back to earth after a nuclear explosion; fallout.
- A backup plan or contingency strategy; an alternative which can be used if something goes wrong with the main plan; a recourse.
- to break off a military action with an enemy
adj
verb
verb
adj
- Not moving; calm.
- Not effervescing; not sparkling.
- Uttering no sound; silent.
- Comparatively quiet or silent; soft; gentle; low.
- (not comparable) Having the same stated quality continuously from a past time
- free from noticeable current
- used of pictures; of a single or static photograph not presented so as to create the illusion of motion; or representing objects not capable of motion
- not in physical motion
- not sparkling
- (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves
- marked by absence of sound
adv
- (conjunctive) Nevertheless.
- Alternative spelling of styll.
- (extensive) Even, yet.
- (degree) To an even greater degree. Used to modify comparative adjectives or adverbs.
- Without motion.
- (aspect) Up to a time, as in the preceding time.
- despite anything to the contrary (usually preceding a concession)
- to a greater degree or extent; used with comparisons
- with reference to action or condition; without change, interruption, or cessation
- without moving or making a sound
noun
- A building where liquors are distilled; a distillery.
- (slang) A resident of the Falkland Islands.
- (catering) A large water boiler used to make tea and coffee.
- A device for distilling liquids.
- (photography) A photograph, as opposed to movie footage.
- (cinematography) A single frame from a film.
- (catering) The area in a restaurant used to make tea and coffee, separate from the main kitchen.
- A period of calm or silence.
- a static photograph (especially one taken from a movie and used for advertising purposes)
- an apparatus used for the distillation of liquids; consists of a vessel in which a substance is vaporized by heat and a condenser where the vapor is condensed
- a plant and works where alcoholic drinks are made by distillation
- (poetic) tranquil silence
adv
adj
prep
noun
adj
adv
verb
- (intransitive) To favor or decide in favor of. [with for ‘something’]
- (transitive) To cast or let drop (something) all at once, suddenly and heavily.
- (transitive) To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up.
- (intransitive) To give a plumper (kind of vote).
- (intransitive) To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.
- (intransitive) To grow plump; to swell out.
- (transitive) To give (a vote), as a plumper.
- drop sharply
- make fat or plump
- set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise
- give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number
adj
noun
- (astrology) The intersection of the western (setting) horizon and the ecliptic, its ecliptical longitude; the astrological sign it corresponds to.
- (linguistics) A word or form in one language that is descended from a counterpart in an ancestor language.
- (figuratively) A thing that derives directly from a given precursor or source.
- (linguistics) A language that is descended from another.
- One of the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations.
- (biology) A later evolutionary type.
- a person considered as descended from some ancestor
noun
- A headlong fall, jump or dive.
- (networking) the first part of a packet or stream, often containing its address and descriptors.
- The rodeo performer who drives the steer toward the heeler to be tied.
- (Ireland, derogatory) A headcase; a nutjob (mentally unbalanced, unpredictable person).
- (informal) A font, text style, or typesetting used for any of the above.
- One who puts a head on something.
- (masonry) A brick that is laid sideways (on its largest face), for example at the top of a wall or within the brickwork, with its smallest side showing (oriented so that that side is wider than it is tall).
- A machine that separates and gathers the heads of grain etc.
- Text, or other visual information, that goes at the top of a column of information in a table.
- A horizontal structural or finish piece over an opening.
- (programming) Clipping of header file.
- Text, or other visual information, used to mark off a quantity of text, often titling or summarizing it.
- (soccer) The act of hitting the ball with the head.
- (computing) The first part of a file or record that describes its contents.
- A raised tank that supplies water at constant pressure, especially to a central heating and hot water system; a header tank.
- (soccer) Someone who heads the ball.
- A pipe which connects several smaller pipes.
- The upper portion of a page (or other) layout.
- a machine that cuts the heads off grain and moves them into a wagon
- a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
- (soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your head
- horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window
- a headlong jump (or fall)
- brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall
- a framing member crossing and supporting the ends of joists, studs, or rafters so as to transfer their weight to parallel joists, studs, or rafters
verb
noun
- a heavy footfall
- a vagrant
- a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure)
- a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex
- a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure
- a commercial steamer for hire; one having no regular schedule
- Any ship which does not have a fixed schedule or published ports of call.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A long walk, possibly of more than one day, in a scenic or wilderness area.
- A metal plate worn by diggers under the hollow of the foot to save the shoe.
- (sometimes derogatory) A homeless person; a vagabond.
- (in apposition) Of objects, stray, intrusive and unwanted.
- Shaking or juddering of a vehicle's driving axle under hard acceleration or braking, caused by the suspension not fully restraining it, and leading to reduction in tire traction.
- Clipping of trampoline, especially a very small one.
- (derogatory) A disreputable, promiscuous woman; a slut.
verb
- walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
- travel on foot, especially on a walking expedition
- cross on foot
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- (transitive) To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.
- (transitive, Scotland) To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water.
- (colloquial, intransitive) To scram; begone.
- (intransitive) To shake or judder under hard acceleration or braking, referring to the movement of a vehicle's driving axle caused by the suspension not fully restraining it, leading to reduction in tire traction.
- To walk for a long time (usually through difficult terrain).
- To hitchhike.
- To walk with heavy footsteps.
- (transitive) To travel or wander through.
noun
- A falling off, decay or descent.
- (grammar) The act of declining a word; the act of listing the inflections of a noun, pronoun or adjective in order.
- (grammar) The product of that act; a list of declined forms.
- (grammar) A way of categorizing nouns, pronouns, or adjectives according to the inflections they receive.
- the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages
- process of changing to an inferior state
- a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms
- a downward slope or bend
noun
- An instance of descending; act of coming down.
- A way down.
- A falling upon or invasion.
- (topology) A particular extension of the idea of gluing.
- A drop to a lower status or condition; decline.
- Lineage or hereditary derivation.
- A sloping passage or incline.
- the act of changing your location in a downward direction
- the hereditary derivation of an individual
- a movement downward
- the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
- properties attributable to your ancestry
- a downward slope or bend
verb
- miss a step and fall or nearly fall
- make an error
- walk unsteadily, tripping repeatedly
- encounter by chance
- To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; with on, upon, across, or against.
- (intransitive) To make a mistake or have trouble.
- (transitive) To cause to stumble or trip.
- (transitive, figurative) To mislead; to confound; to cause to err or to fall.
- (intransitive) To trip or fall; to walk clumsily.
noun
verb
- miss a step and fall or nearly fall
- get high, stoned, or drugged
- make a trip for pleasure
- cause to stumble
- put in motion or move to act
- (intransitive) To fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot
- (intransitive) To be guilty of a misstep or mistake; to commit an offence against morality, propriety, etc
- (nautical) To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.
- (intransitive) To experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs.
- (transitive, sometimes followed by "up") To cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble by knocking their feet from under them.
- (transitive) To activate or set in motion, as in the activation of a trap, explosive, or switch.
- (intransitive) To be activated, as by a signal or an event
- Of an electrical circuit, to trip out (through overload, a short circuit).
- (nautical) To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular, most commonly used in the form tripping) To become unreasonably upset, especially over something unimportant; to cause a scene or a disruption.
- (intransitive) To journey, to make a trip.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) To act foolishly or irrationally.
noun
- a journey for some purpose (usually including the return)
- a light or nimble tread
- an exciting or stimulating experience
- an unintentional but embarrassing blunder
- an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall
- a catch mechanism that acts as a switch
- a hallucinatory experience induced by drugs
- A faux pas, a social error.
- The act of tripping someone, or causing them to lose their footing.
- (engineering) A mechanical cutout device.
- A stumble or misstep.
- (colloquial) A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.
- (by extension) Intense involvement in or enjoyment of a condition.
- (electricity) A trip-switch or cut-out.
- A journey; an excursion or jaunt.
- A flock of wigeons.
- (nautical) A single tack while beating (sailing to windward).
- A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.
adj
adj
noun
verb
noun
verb
- seize or catch with a swooping motion
- move down on as if in an attack
- move with a sweep, or in a swooping arc
- (British, prison slang) To search the ground for discarded cigarette butts that can be made into new cigarettes.
- (transitive) To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing.
- (intransitive) To move swiftly, as if with a sweeping movement, especially to attack something.
- (transitive) To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep.
- (intransitive) To fly or glide downwards suddenly; to plunge (in the air) or nosedive.
- (intransitive) To pass with pomp; to sweep.
verb
- fall or sink heavily
- fall or descend to a lower place or level
- fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly
- descend into or as if into some soft substance or place
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- embed deeply
- go under
- appear to move downward
- cause to sink
- (intransitive) To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
- (transitive) To (directly or indirectly) cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight.
- (intransitive) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
- (ergative) To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.
- (transitive) To push (something) into something.
- (transitive, figurative) To cause to decline; to depress or degrade.
- (transitive, slang) To drink (especially something alcoholic).
- (transitive, slang) To pay absolutely.
- (transitive) To make by digging or delving.
- (transitive, snooker, pool, billiards, golf) To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.
- (intransitive, figuratively, of the heart or spirit) To experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression.
- (intransitive) To demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
noun
- a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof
- plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe
- a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it
- (technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system
- (graph theory) A destination vertex in a transportation network.
- A place that absorbs resources or energy.
- (theater) A stage trapdoor for shifting scenery.
- A drain for carrying off wastewater.
- A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
- A basin used for holding water for washing.
- A depression in a stereotype plate.
- (computing, programming) An object or callback that captures events.
- (game development) One or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation.
- (uncountable) Descending motion; descent.
- (baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch.
- (geology) A sinkhole.
- (ecology) A habitat that cannot support a population on its own but receives the excess of individuals from some other source.
- (graph theory) A node in directed graph for which all of its edges go into it; one with no outgoing edges.
- A heat sink.
- (mining) An excavation smaller than a shaft.
- An abode of degraded persons; a wretched place.
verb
- fall or sink heavily
- fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly
- assume a drooping posture or carriage
- fall in value
- (intransitive) To collapse heavily or helplessly.
- (transitive) To lump; to throw together messily.
- (intransitive) To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
- (intransitive) To slouch or droop.
- To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
- (transitive, slang) To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unconscious; to kill.
noun
- a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality
- a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment
- (slang by extension) A period when a person goes without the expected amount of sex or dating.
- (UK, dialect) A boggy place.
- (Scotland) The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
- (geology) A form of mass wasting in which a coherent mass of loosely consolidated materials or a rock layer moves a short distance down a slope.
- (Scotland) The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
- A measure of the fluidity of freshly mixed concrete, based on how much the concrete formed in a standard slump cone sags when the cone is removed.
- A cobbler-like dessert cooked on a stove.
- (geology, loosely) A crater or depression (an area where the ground slumps) which forms as a result of such wasting. (A large crater is colloquially called a megaslump.)
- A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
noun
- An act of falling down.
- The cause of such a fall; a critical blow or error.
- A precipitous decline in fortune; death or rapid deterioration, as in status or wealth.
- the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist)
- a sudden decline in strength or number or importance
- failure that results in a loss of position or reputation
verb
noun
- One who falls.
- a person who falls
- A fruit that falls from the tree, rather than being picked.
- Synonym of feller (“one who cuts down trees”).
- (engineering) A part which acts by falling, such as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks.
- a person who fells trees
noun
- A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
- (sports, UK, Australia, New Zealand) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) (Not often used in the US or Canada, where "field" is the preferred word.)
- An effort to sell or promote something.
- (geology) Pitchstone.
- The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
- The angle at which an object sits.
- (golf) A short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
- A dark, extremely viscous material still remaining after distilling crude oil or natural tar.
- The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.
- Prominence; importance.
- The height a bird reaches in flight, especially a bird of prey preparing to swoop down on its prey.
- (nautical, aviation) The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down.
- (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
- (by extension) The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.
- (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
- (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
- (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
- A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
- (now British, regional) A person's or animal's height.
- (music, phonetics) The perceived frequency of a sound, note or electromagnetic wave.
- A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
- (music) The standard to which a group of musical instruments are tuned or in which a piece is performed, usually by reference to the frequency to which the musical note A above middle C is tuned.
- (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
- A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
- A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
- An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
- (aviation) A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
- (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
- (rare) The field of battle.
- The most thrust-out point of a headland or cape.
- promotion by means of an argument and demonstration
- abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)
- a sports field with predetermined dimensions for playing soccer
- the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration
- a high approach shot in golf
- a vendor's position (especially on the sidewalk)
- any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
- the act of throwing a baseball or softball by the pitcher towards home plate, which initiates play by giving the batter a chance to hit it
- an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump
- degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
- the action or manner of throwing something
verb
- fall or plunge forward
- To cover or smear with pitch.
- (transitive) To set or fix (a price or value).
- (transitive) To fix or set the tone of.
- (brewing) To add yeast as a step while making beer
- (transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent). Also used figuratively.
- (with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
- (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
- (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
- (transitive) To set at an angle, especially a downwards one; to cause to tilt.
- (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
- (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
- (transitive) To set, face, or pave (an embankment or roadway) with rubble or undressed stones.
- (transitive) To throw away; discard.
- (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
- (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
- (transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
- (transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
- (transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
- (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
- (transitive) To throw.
- (transitive, card games, slang) To discard (a card) for some gain.
- To attack, or position or assemble for attack.
- (ambitransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternately up and down.
- heel over
- set to a certain pitch
- sell or offer for sale from place to place
- move abruptly
- throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball
- be at an angle
- set the level or character of
- throw or toss with a light motion
- erect and fasten
- lead (a card) and establish the trump suit
- hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin
adj
noun
- A heavy, passive fall; a plopping down.
- (poker) The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.
- (by confusion, computing) One floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed.
- Dung, as in cow-flop.
- A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.
- (slang) A flophouse.
- (computing) Abbreviation of floating-point operation.
- someone who is unsuccessful
- an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers
- the act of throwing yourself down; collapse; sink
- a complete failure
verb
- fall loosely
- fall suddenly and abruptly
- (poker, transitive) To have (a hand) using the community cards dealt on the flop.
- (intransitive, slang) To stay, sleep or live in a place.
- (transitive) To flip; to reverse (an image).
- (intransitive) To fall heavily due to lack of energy.
- (intransitive, informal) To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.).
- (sports, intransitive) To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer)
- (transitive, prison slang) To deny someone parole.
- (intransitive) To strike about with something broad and flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; to flap.
- (transitive) To cause to drop heavily.
- fail utterly; collapse
adv
intj
noun
- Downward movement, fall.
- A reduction or diminution of activity, prevalence or quantity.
- A deterioration of condition; a weakening or worsening.
- A sloping downward, e.g. of a hill or road.
- The act of declining or refusing something.
- a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state; decline
- change toward something smaller or lower
- a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current
- a downward slope or bend
verb
- (intransitive) To move downwards, to fall, to drop.
- (by extension) To run through from first to last; to recite in order as though declining a noun.
- (transitive) To cause to decrease or diminish.
- (transitive) To choose not to do something; refuse, forbear, refrain.
- (transitive, grammar, usually of substantives, adjectives and pronouns) To inflect for case, number, gender, and the like.
- (American football, Canadian football) To reject a penalty against the opposing team, usually because the result of accepting it would benefit the non-penalized team less than the preceding play.
- (transitive) To bend downward; to bring down; to depress; to cause to bend, or fall.
- (intransitive) To become weaker or worse.
- To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to withdraw.
- (transitive, grammar) To recite all the different declined forms of (a word): to recite its declension.
- go down
- not accept as true
- show unwillingness towards
- inflect for number, gender, case, etc.
- grow smaller
- fall in value
- grow worse
noun
- A fall or stumble.
- (mining) One of the thick laths or poles driven horizontally ahead of the main timbering in advancing a level in loose ground.
- A small stick or piece of paper used to light a candle, cigarette etc by the transfer of a flame from a fire.
- (countable) A mess of something that has been dropped.
- A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask'; a spile.
- A spillikin.
- (sound recording) The situation where sound is picked up by a microphone from a source other than that which is intended.
- (Shropshire, Herefordshire) A splinter caught in the skin.
- A metallic rod or pin.
- (Australian politics) A declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant, and open for re-election. Short form of leadership spill.
- a channel that carries excess water over or around a dam or other obstruction
- a sudden drop from an upright position
- the act of allowing a fluid to escape
- liquid that is spilled
verb
- (intransitive, of a crowd or people within a crowd) To overflow out of a designated area.
- To mar; to damage; to destroy by misuse; to waste.
- (ambitransitive) To reveal information to an uninformed party.
- (transitive) To express (something), especially repeatedly or floridly; to be expressed.
- (of a knot) To come undone.
- (transitive, Australian politics) To open the leadership of a parliamentary party for re-election.
- (intransitive) To spread out or fall out, as above.
- (transitive) To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour.
- (intransitive, also figurative) To overflow or flow out, over or off something.
- To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory, etc.; to inlay.
- (nautical) To relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind, so that it can be more easily reefed or furled, or to lessen the strain.
- (transitive) To drop something that was intended to be caught.
- (transitive) To cause or flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed.
- reduce the pressure of wind on (a sail)
- cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container
- pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities
- cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over
- reveal information
- flow, run or fall out and become lost
noun
- A hurried headlong fall.
- (figuratively) Unwise or rash rapidity; sudden haste.
- (meteorology) The amount of water precipitated in any form.
- (countable, uncountable, chemistry) A reaction that leads to the formation of a heavier, and often less soluble, solid in a lighter liquid; the precipitate so formed at the bottom of the container.
- (meteorology) Any or all of the forms of water particles, whether liquid or solid, that fall from the upper atmosphere (e.g., rain, hail, snow or sleet). It is a major class of hydrometeor, but it is distinguished from cloud, fog, dew, rime, frost, etc., in that it must fall. It is distinguished from cloud and virga in that it must reach the ground.
- the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist)
- the quantity of water falling to earth at a specific place within a specified period of time
- the process of forming a chemical precipitate
- overly eager speed (and possible carelessness)
- the act of casting down or falling headlong from a height
- an unexpected acceleration or hastening
verb
- fall down, as if collapsing
- fall suddenly and sharply
- suffer a sudden downfall, overthrow, or defeat
- throw together in a confused mass
- put clothes in a tumbling barrel, where they are whirled about in hot air, usually with the purpose of drying
- roll over and over, back and forth
- fly around
- understand, usually after some initial difficulty
- fall apart
- do gymnastics, roll and turn skillfully
- cause to topple or tumble by pushing
- (cryptocurrencies) To obscure the audit trail of funds by means of a tumbler.
- (transitive) To smooth and polish (e.g. gemstones or pebbles) by means of a rotating tumbler.
- (transitive) To throw headlong.
- (intransitive) To drop rapidly.
- (intransitive, informal) To have sexual intercourse.
- (intransitive) To fall end over end; to roll over and over.
- (intransitive) To move or rush in a headlong or uncontrolled way.
- To muss, to make disorderly; to tousle or rumple.
- (intransitive) To perform gymnastics such as somersaults, rolls, and handsprings.
noun
noun
- (sometimes figurative) A heavy fall.
- (historical) A person hired to howl in mourning at a funeral.
- (slang) A hilarious joke.
- (slang) A tremendous lie (especially an obvious one); a whopper.
- (psychology) A person who expresses aggression openly in the form of threats.
- (slang) A painfully obvious mistake.
- (historical) A 32-ounce ceramic, plastic, or stainless steel jug used to transport draft beer.
- (slang) A serious accident (especially to come a howler or go a howler; compare come a cropper).
- (slang) A small child.
- (slang) A bitterly cold day.
- That which howls, especially an animal such as a wolf or a howler monkey.
- monkey of tropical South American forests having a loud howling cry
- a glaring blunder
- a joke that seems extremely funny
verb
- let fall to the ground
- to fall vertically
- fall or descend to a lower place or level
- pay out
- utter with seeming casualness
- take (a drug, especially LSD), by mouth
- change from one level to another
- remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave
- lower the pitch of (musical notes)
- stop pursuing or acting
- cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow
- fall or sink into a state of exhaustion or death
- grow progressively worse
- stop associating with
- leave undone or leave out
- let or cause to fall in drops
- to remove
- go down in value
- lose (a game)
- omit (a letter or syllable) in speaking or writing
- give birth; used for animals
- hang loosely
- terminate an association with
- (cooking) To cook (food, especially fast food), particularly by lowering into hot oil to deep-fry, or by grilling.
- (transitive, music) To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.
- (intransitive) Of a liquid: to fall in drops or droplets.
- (transitive) To cease concerning oneself over (someone or something); to have nothing more to do with (a discussion, subject, etc.).
- (intransitive, computing) To enter a more basic interface.
- (transitive) To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot, etc.; to bring down, to shoot down; to kill.
- (intransitive, physiology, informal) Of the testicles: to hang further away from the body and begin producing sperm due to puberty.
- (transitive) To reduce; to make smaller.
- Especially in drop acid: to swallow (a drug, particularly LSD).
- (intransitive) Of a voice: to lower in timbre, often due to puberty.
- (transitive, computing, music, television, colloquial) To release (a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.) to the public.
- (intransitive) To decrease, diminish, or lessen in condition, degree, value, etc.
- (intransitive, computing, music, television, colloquial) Of a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.: to enter public distribution.
- (transitive) To drip (a liquid) in drops or small amounts.
- (originally US) To (unexpectedly) lose (a competition, game, etc.).
- To lose, spend, or otherwise part with (money).
- (intransitive, also figuratively) To fall (straight down) under the influence of gravity, like a drop of liquid.
- (intransitive) To come to an end (by not being kept up); to lapse, to stop.
- (intransitive) To fall into a particular condition or state.
- (intransitive, online gaming, video games) Of an item: To appear for the player to pick up, usually after an enemy has been defeated.
- To impart (something).
- (intransitive) Usually followed by by, in, or into: of a person: to visit someone or somewhere informally or without a prior appointment.
- (intransitive) To fall or sink quickly or suddenly to the ground.
- (rugby) To score (a goal) by means of a drop kick.
- (transitive) To cancel or cease to participate in (a scheduled course, event, or project).
- To perform (rap music).
- (transitive) To mention (something) casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.
- (transitive) To set down (someone or something) from a vehicle; to stop and deliver or deposit (someone or something); to drop off.
- (transitive) To lower (a sound, a voice, etc.) in pitch or volume.
- (transitive, computing) To present (the user) with a more basic interface.
- (transitive) To cease to include (something), as if on a list; to dismiss, to eject, to expel.
- To quickly lower or take down (one's trousers), especially in public.
- (cricket) Of a fielder: to fail to dismiss (a batsman) by accidentally dropping a batted ball that had initially been caught.
- (transitive, linguistics) To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter, etc.).
- To pass or use (counterfeit cheques, money, etc.).
- (intransitive) To collapse in exhaustion or injury; also, to fall dead, or to fall in death.
- (transitive, ergative, also figuratively) To let (something) fall; to allow (something) to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip on).
- (transitive) To move to a lower position; to allow to hang downwards; to lower.
- (intransitive) Of a song or sound: to lower in key, pitch, tempo, or other quality.
- (transitive, online gaming, video games) Of a defeated enemy or container: To leave behind an item that the player can collect.
- To play (a portion of music) in the manner of a disc jockey.
- (intransitive, gambling) To drop out of the betting.
- (transitive) Of an animal (usually a sheep): to give birth to (young); of a bird: to lay (an egg).
- (transitive) To let (a letter, etc.) fall into a postbox; hence, to send (a letter, email, or other message) in an offhand manner.
- (transitive) To dispose or get rid of (something); to lose, to remove.
- (US, Singapore, ergative, military, slang) To make someone, or be made to do push-ups or some other form of exercise on the ground as punishment.
- (intransitive) To fall behind or to the rear of a group of people, etc., as a result of not keeping up with those at the front.
noun
- An act of moving downwards under the force of gravity; a descent, a fall.
- a shape that is spherical and small
- a central depository where things can be left or picked up
- a steep high face of rock
- a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity
- a predetermined hiding place for the deposit and distribution of illicit goods (such as drugs or stolen property)
- the act of dropping something
- a curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies; often used as background scenery
- a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
- a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid)
- Of women's clothes: the difference between the bust circumference and hip circumference.
- (online gaming, video games) An item made available for the player to pick up from the remains of a defeated enemy.
- (pinball) Ellipsis of drop target.
- (rugby) Ellipsis of drop kick.
- (pharmacology, chiefly in the plural) A liquid medicine that is intended to be administered in drops (sense 1).
- (agriculture) A fruit which has fallen off a tree, etc., or has been knocked off accidentally, rather than picked.
- (informal) Only used in get the drop on, have the drop on: an advantage.
- A decline in degree, quality, quantity, or rate.
- (nautical) The depth of a (square) sail (generally applied to the courses only); the vertical dimension of a sail.
- (electrics, telecommunications) An overhead electrical line running from a utility pole to a customer's building or other premises.
- (American football) A dropped pass.
- Usually preceded by the: relegation from one division to a lower one.
- (law enforcement) The distance that a person drops when being executed by hanging.
- Often preceded by a defining word: a small, round piece of hard candy, such as a lemon drop; a lozenge.
- (theater) A curtain which falls in front of a theatrical stage; also, a section of (cloth) scenery lowered on to the stage like a curtain.
- (slang, US) An automobile with a drop-top roof, a convertible.
- Licorice in confectionery form.
- Ellipsis of drop hammer or drop press.
- The distance below a cliff or other high position through which someone or something could fall; hence, a steep slope.
- (also figuratively) A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own rounded shape through surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid.
- (law enforcement, informal) Preceded by the: execution by hanging.
- (music) A point in a song, usually electronic music such as dubstep, house, trance, or trap, where there is a very noticeable and pleasing change in bass, tempo, and/or overall tone; a climax, a highlight.
- A release (of music, a video game, etc).
- (Ireland, informal) A single measure of whisky.
- Of men's clothes: the difference between the chest circumference and waist circumference.
- (figuratively) A very small quantity of liquid, or (by extension) of anything.
- (law enforcement) A trapdoor (“hinged platform”) on a gallows; a gallows itself.
- The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
- A mechanism for lowering something, such as a machine for lowering heavy weights on to a ship's deck, or a device for temporarily lowering a gas jet, etc.
- (pharmacology) A dose of liquid medicine in the form of a drop (sense 1).
- (engineering) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
- (surfing) A near vertical decent down the face of a breaking wave.
- (cricket) A place (specified by an ordinal) in the batting order after the openers.
- (architecture) An ornament resembling a pendant; a gutta.
- (American football) Ellipsis of drop-back.
- (gambling) The amount of money that a gambler exchanges for chips in a casino.
- (chiefly British) Usually preceded by the: alcoholic spirits in general.
- (golf) Ellipsis of drop shot.
- The cover mounted on a swivel over a keyhole that rests over the keyhole when not in use to keep out debris, but is swiveled out of the way before inserting the key.
- (chiefly Australia, British) A small amount of an alcoholic beverage.
- A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, whether openly (as with a mail drop), or secretly or illegally (as in crime or espionage); a drop-off point.
- An instance of making a delivery of people, supplies, or things, especially by parachute out of an aircraft (an airdrop), but also by truck, etc.
verb
- fall abruptly
- thrust or throw into
- drop steeply
- dash violently or with great speed or impetuosity
- cause to be immersed
- begin with vigor
- immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
- devote (oneself) fully to
- (intransitive, slang) To bet heavily and recklessly; to risk large sums in gambling.
- (figuratively, transitive) To cast, stab or throw deep and fast into some thing, state, condition or action.
- (intransitive) To pitch or throw oneself headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
- (figuratively, intransitive) To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition.
- (transitive) To remove a blockage by suction.
- (transitive) To thrust into liquid, or into any penetrable substance; to immerse.
- (intransitive) To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge oneself.
noun
- a steep and rapid fall
- a brief swim in water
- A dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water).
- The act of plunging or submerging.
- (figuratively) The act of pitching or throwing oneself headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse.
- (slang) Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation.
noun
- That which falls in drops.
- The act of falling in drops, or the act of pouring out in drops.
- (machine learning) The transformation of a complex large language model into a smaller one.
- The substance extracted by distilling.
- (petrochemistry) Separation of petroleum into specific hydrocarbon groups; fractionation.
- Purification through repeated or continuous distilling; rectification.
- a purified liquid produced by condensation from a vapor during distilling; the product of distilling
- the process of purifying a liquid by boiling it and condensing its vapors
verb
- come as if by falling
- go as if by falling
- descend in free fall under the influence of gravity
- To come as if by dropping down.
- drop oneself to a lower or less erect position
- move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
- assume a disappointed or sad expression
- slope downward
- pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind
- lose one's chastity
- yield to temptation or sin
- decrease in size, extent, or range
- lose an upright position suddenly
- move in a specified direction
- begin vigorously
- die, as in battle or in a hunt
- fall to somebody by assignment or lot; passed
- be due
- be inherited by
- come out; issue
- occur at a specified time or place
- be born, used chiefly of lambs
- lose office or power
- touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
- come under, be classified or included
- come into the possession of
- fall or flow in a certain way
- fall from clouds
- be captured
- to be given by assignment or distribution
- be cast down
- to be given by right or inheritance
- suffer defeat, failure, or ruin
- To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
- (intransitive) To collapse; to be overthrown or defeated.
- (intransitive) To become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc.).
- To come down, to drop or descend.
- (copulative, in idiomatic expressions) To become (chiefly used with negative states).
- (intransitive) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin.
- To occur (on a certain day of the week, date, or similar); to happen.
- To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself.
- (intransitive) To be dropped or uttered carelessly.
- (intransitive) To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
- (intransitive) To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
- (intransitive) To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
- (intransitive) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
- (intransitive, formal, euphemistic) To die, especially in battle or by disease.
- (intransitive) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the face.
- To be brought to the ground.
- (intransitive, of a fabric) To hang down (under the influence of gravity).
- (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To visit; to go to a place.
noun
- That which falls or cascades.
- a sudden drop from an upright position
- a sudden decline in strength or number or importance
- a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity
- the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions)
- when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat
- the season when the leaves fall from the trees
- a movement downward
- a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity
- a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
- the time of day immediately following sunset
- a downward slope or bend
- (nautical) The chasing of a hunted whale.
- A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover hair loss.
- The lid, on a piano, that covers the keyboard.
- (cricket, of a wicket) The action of a batsman being out.
- A loss of greatness or status.
- An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
- The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
- A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
- (wrestling) An instance of a wrestler being pinned to the mat.
- (nautical) The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).
- A short, flexible piece of leather forming part of a bullwhip, placed between the thong and the cracker.
- The height of that which falls or cascades.
- (informal, US) Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
- (curling) A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given direction.
intj
noun
- An act of falling back.
- (construction) A reduction in bitumen softening point, sometimes called refluxing or overheating, in a relatively closed container.
- Pulverised material that falls back to earth after a nuclear explosion; fallout.
- A backup plan or contingency strategy; an alternative which can be used if something goes wrong with the main plan; a recourse.
- to break off a military action with an enemy
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verb
noun
adj
adv
verb
- (intransitive) To favor or decide in favor of. [with for ‘something’]
- (transitive) To cast or let drop (something) all at once, suddenly and heavily.
- (transitive) To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up.
- (intransitive) To give a plumper (kind of vote).
- (intransitive) To drop or fall suddenly or heavily, all at once.
- (intransitive) To grow plump; to swell out.
- (transitive) To give (a vote), as a plumper.
- drop sharply
- make fat or plump
- set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise
- give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number
noun
- A headlong fall, jump or dive.
- (networking) the first part of a packet or stream, often containing its address and descriptors.
- The rodeo performer who drives the steer toward the heeler to be tied.
- (Ireland, derogatory) A headcase; a nutjob (mentally unbalanced, unpredictable person).
- (informal) A font, text style, or typesetting used for any of the above.
- One who puts a head on something.
- (masonry) A brick that is laid sideways (on its largest face), for example at the top of a wall or within the brickwork, with its smallest side showing (oriented so that that side is wider than it is tall).
- A machine that separates and gathers the heads of grain etc.
- Text, or other visual information, that goes at the top of a column of information in a table.
- A horizontal structural or finish piece over an opening.
- (programming) Clipping of header file.
- Text, or other visual information, used to mark off a quantity of text, often titling or summarizing it.
- (soccer) The act of hitting the ball with the head.
- (computing) The first part of a file or record that describes its contents.
- A raised tank that supplies water at constant pressure, especially to a central heating and hot water system; a header tank.
- (soccer) Someone who heads the ball.
- A pipe which connects several smaller pipes.
- The upper portion of a page (or other) layout.
- a machine that cuts the heads off grain and moves them into a wagon
- a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
- (soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your head
- horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window
- a headlong jump (or fall)
- brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall
- a framing member crossing and supporting the ends of joists, studs, or rafters so as to transfer their weight to parallel joists, studs, or rafters
verb
verb
- fall in drops
- let or cause to fall in drops
- (impersonal, of the weather) To rain lightly; to drizzle.
- (transitive) To let fall in drops.
- (UK, naval slang, intransitive) To whine or complain consistently; to grumble.
- (intransitive, usually with with) To have a superabundance of (something).
- (stative, slang) Be impressive or attractive.
- (intransitive) To be wet, to be soaked.
- (intransitive) To fall one drop at a time.
- (intransitive) To leak slowly.
noun
- A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.
- the sound of a liquid falling drop by drop
- flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid
- (architecture) a projection from a cornice or sill designed to protect the area below from rainwater (as over a window or doorway)
- (architecture) That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member that projects beyond the rest, and has a section designed to throw off rainwater.
- (colloquial, derogatory) A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.
- (medicine) An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream.
- (slang, uncountable) Style; swagger; fashionable and/or expensive clothing.
- (finance) Alternative letter-case form of DRIP (“dividend reinvestment plan”)
- A drop of a liquid.
noun
- a heavy footfall
- a vagrant
- a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure)
- a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex
- a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure
- a commercial steamer for hire; one having no regular schedule
- Any ship which does not have a fixed schedule or published ports of call.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A long walk, possibly of more than one day, in a scenic or wilderness area.
- A metal plate worn by diggers under the hollow of the foot to save the shoe.
- (sometimes derogatory) A homeless person; a vagabond.
- (in apposition) Of objects, stray, intrusive and unwanted.
- Shaking or juddering of a vehicle's driving axle under hard acceleration or braking, caused by the suspension not fully restraining it, and leading to reduction in tire traction.
- Clipping of trampoline, especially a very small one.
- (derogatory) A disreputable, promiscuous woman; a slut.
verb
- walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
- travel on foot, especially on a walking expedition
- cross on foot
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- (transitive) To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.
- (transitive, Scotland) To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water.
- (colloquial, intransitive) To scram; begone.
- (intransitive) To shake or judder under hard acceleration or braking, referring to the movement of a vehicle's driving axle caused by the suspension not fully restraining it, leading to reduction in tire traction.
- To walk for a long time (usually through difficult terrain).
- To hitchhike.
- To walk with heavy footsteps.
- (transitive) To travel or wander through.
noun
- A falling off, decay or descent.
- (grammar) The act of declining a word; the act of listing the inflections of a noun, pronoun or adjective in order.
- (grammar) The product of that act; a list of declined forms.
- (grammar) A way of categorizing nouns, pronouns, or adjectives according to the inflections they receive.
- the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages
- process of changing to an inferior state
- a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms
- a downward slope or bend
noun
- An instance of descending; act of coming down.
- A way down.
- A falling upon or invasion.
- (topology) A particular extension of the idea of gluing.
- A drop to a lower status or condition; decline.
- Lineage or hereditary derivation.
- A sloping passage or incline.
- the act of changing your location in a downward direction
- the hereditary derivation of an individual
- a movement downward
- the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
- properties attributable to your ancestry
- a downward slope or bend
noun
verb
- seize or catch with a swooping motion
- move down on as if in an attack
- move with a sweep, or in a swooping arc
- (British, prison slang) To search the ground for discarded cigarette butts that can be made into new cigarettes.
- (transitive) To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing.
- (intransitive) To move swiftly, as if with a sweeping movement, especially to attack something.
- (transitive) To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep.
- (intransitive) To fly or glide downwards suddenly; to plunge (in the air) or nosedive.
- (intransitive) To pass with pomp; to sweep.
verb
- fall in drops
- let or cause to fall in drops
- (impersonal, of the weather) To rain lightly; to drizzle.
- (transitive) To let fall in drops.
- (UK, naval slang, intransitive) To whine or complain consistently; to grumble.
- (intransitive, usually with with) To have a superabundance of (something).
- (stative, slang) Be impressive or attractive.
- (intransitive) To be wet, to be soaked.
- (intransitive) To fall one drop at a time.
- (intransitive) To leak slowly.
noun
- A falling or letting fall in drops; act of dripping.
- the sound of a liquid falling drop by drop
- flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid
- (architecture) a projection from a cornice or sill designed to protect the area below from rainwater (as over a window or doorway)
- (architecture) That part of a cornice, sill course, or other horizontal member that projects beyond the rest, and has a section designed to throw off rainwater.
- (colloquial, derogatory) A limp, ineffectual, or uninteresting person.
- (medicine) An apparatus that slowly releases a liquid, especially one that intravenously releases drugs into a patient's bloodstream.
- (slang, uncountable) Style; swagger; fashionable and/or expensive clothing.
- (finance) Alternative letter-case form of DRIP (“dividend reinvestment plan”)
- A drop of a liquid.
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noun
verb
- fall down, as if collapsing
- fall suddenly and sharply
- suffer a sudden downfall, overthrow, or defeat
- throw together in a confused mass
- put clothes in a tumbling barrel, where they are whirled about in hot air, usually with the purpose of drying
- roll over and over, back and forth
- fly around
- understand, usually after some initial difficulty
- fall apart
- do gymnastics, roll and turn skillfully
- cause to topple or tumble by pushing
- (cryptocurrencies) To obscure the audit trail of funds by means of a tumbler.
- (transitive) To smooth and polish (e.g. gemstones or pebbles) by means of a rotating tumbler.
- (transitive) To throw headlong.
- (intransitive) To drop rapidly.
- (intransitive, informal) To have sexual intercourse.
- (intransitive) To fall end over end; to roll over and over.
- (intransitive) To move or rush in a headlong or uncontrolled way.
- To muss, to make disorderly; to tousle or rumple.
- (intransitive) To perform gymnastics such as somersaults, rolls, and handsprings.
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noun
verb
- fall forward and down
- (intransitive, idiomatic, informal, South Africa) To break down; to become inoperable.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) Of an argument, to fail to be valid.
- (intransitive, idiomatic, informal, computing) Of a computer program or system, to crash.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To fall from an upright or standing position to a horizontal or prone position.
verb
- fall forward and down
- examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition
- hold a review (of troops)
- happen in a particular manner
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To create a response or impression.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, over.
- (rugby) To score a try.
- (transitive) To encompass or cover (a subject).
- (graffiti) To spray paint graffiti over someone else's graffiti.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To look at carefully; to scrutinize; to analyze.
- (intransitive, by extension) To convert or switch sides.
verb
- come as if by falling
- come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example
- move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
- do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
- (intransitive) To physically move or pass from a higher to a lower place or position; to come or go down in any way, such as by climbing, falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to move downwards; to fall, to sink.
- (transitive) Of a flight of stairs, a road, etc.: to lead down (a hill, a slope, etc.).
- (chiefly poetic or religion) Chiefly in the form descend into (or within) oneself: to mentally enter a state of (deep) meditation or thought; to retire.
- (transitive) To pass from a higher to a lower part of (something, such as a flight of stairs or a slope); to go down along or upon.
- Of a physical thing (such as a cloud or storm) or a (generally negative) immaterial thing (such as darkness, gloom, or silence): to settle upon and start to affect a person or place.
- Chiefly followed by on or upon: to make an attack or incursion, from or as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence.
- In speech or writing: to proceed from one matter to another; especially, to pass from more general or important to specific or less important matters to be considered.
- (music) To pass from a higher to a lower note or tone; to fall in pitch.
- (mathematics) Of a sequence or series: to proceed from higher to lower values.
- To come or go down, or reduce, in intensity or some other quality.
- (intransitive, chiefly law) Of property, a right, etc.: to pass down to a generation, a person, etc., by inheritance.
- To come down to a humbler or less fortunate, or a worse or less virtuous, rank or state; to abase or lower oneself; to condescend or stoop to something.
- Chiefly followed by into or to: of a situation: to become worse; to decline, to deteriorate.
- (intransitive) To slope or stretch downwards.
- (astronomy) Of a celestial body: to move away from the zenith towards the horizon; to sink; also, to move towards the south.
- (intransitive) Of a characteristic: to be transmitted from a parent to a child.
- (intransitive, often passive voice) Chiefly followed by from or (obsolete) of: to come down or derive from an ancestor or ancestral stock, or a source; to originate, to stem.
- Chiefly followed by on or upon: to arrive suddenly or unexpectedly, especially in a manner that causes disruption or inconvenience.
- (biology, physiology) Of a body part: to move downwards, especially during development of the embryo; specifically, of the testes of a mammal: to move downwards from the abdominal cavity into the scrotum.
- (astrology) Of a zodiac sign: to move away from the zenith towards the horizon; to sink; also, of a planet: to move to a place where it has less astrological significance.
- (intransitive, chiefly historical) To alight from a carriage, a horse, etc.; also, to disembark from a vessel; to land.
verb
- come as if by falling
- go as if by falling
- descend in free fall under the influence of gravity
- To come as if by dropping down.
- drop oneself to a lower or less erect position
- move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
- assume a disappointed or sad expression
- slope downward
- pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind
- lose one's chastity
- yield to temptation or sin
- decrease in size, extent, or range
- lose an upright position suddenly
- move in a specified direction
- begin vigorously
- die, as in battle or in a hunt
- fall to somebody by assignment or lot; passed
- be due
- be inherited by
- come out; issue
- occur at a specified time or place
- be born, used chiefly of lambs
- lose office or power
- touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
- come under, be classified or included
- come into the possession of
- fall or flow in a certain way
- fall from clouds
- be captured
- to be given by assignment or distribution
- be cast down
- to be given by right or inheritance
- suffer defeat, failure, or ruin
- To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
- (intransitive) To collapse; to be overthrown or defeated.
- (intransitive) To become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc.).
- To come down, to drop or descend.
- (copulative, in idiomatic expressions) To become (chiefly used with negative states).
- (intransitive) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin.
- To occur (on a certain day of the week, date, or similar); to happen.
- To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself.
- (intransitive) To be dropped or uttered carelessly.
- (intransitive) To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).
- (intransitive) To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
- (intransitive) To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
- (intransitive) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
- (intransitive, formal, euphemistic) To die, especially in battle or by disease.
- (intransitive) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the face.
- To be brought to the ground.
- (intransitive, of a fabric) To hang down (under the influence of gravity).
- (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To visit; to go to a place.
noun
- That which falls or cascades.
- a sudden drop from an upright position
- a sudden decline in strength or number or importance
- a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity
- the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions)
- when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat
- the season when the leaves fall from the trees
- a movement downward
- a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity
- a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
- the time of day immediately following sunset
- a downward slope or bend
- (nautical) The chasing of a hunted whale.
- A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover hair loss.
- The lid, on a piano, that covers the keyboard.
- (cricket, of a wicket) The action of a batsman being out.
- A loss of greatness or status.
- An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.
- The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
- A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
- (wrestling) An instance of a wrestler being pinned to the mat.
- (nautical) The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).
- A short, flexible piece of leather forming part of a bullwhip, placed between the thong and the cracker.
- The height of that which falls or cascades.
- (informal, US) Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
- (curling) A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given direction.
intj
verb
- come as if by falling
- settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground
- form a community
- come to terms
- sink down or precipitate
- end a legal dispute by arriving at a settlement
- become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style
- bring to an end; settle conclusively
- accept despite lack of complete satisfaction
- arrange or fix in the desired order
- go under
- become resolved, fixed, established, or quiet
- make final; put the last touches on; put into final form
- take up residence and become established
- cause to become clear by forming a sediment (of liquids)
- fix firmly
- dispose of; make a financial settlement
- settle conclusively; come to terms
- become clear by the sinking of particles
- come to rest
- establish or develop as a residence
- get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury
- (transitive) To clear or purify (a liquid) of dregs and impurities by causing them to sink.
- (transitive) To render compact or solid; to cause to become packed down.
- (transitive) In particular, to terminate (a lawsuit), usually out of court, by agreement of all parties.
- (intransitive) To become clear due to the sinking of sediment. (Used especially of liquid. Also used figuratively.)
- (transitive) To determine (something which was exposed to doubt or question); to resolve conclusively; to set or fix (a time, an order of succession, etc).
- (transitive, in particular) To colonize (an area); to migrate to (a land, territory, site, etc).
- (transitive) To conclude, to cause (a dispute) to finish.
- (intransitive, with "in") To be established in a profession or in employment.
- (intransitive) To become compact due to sinking.
- (transitive) To put into (proper) place; to make sit or lie properly.
- (intransitive) To conclude a lawsuit by agreement of the parties rather than a decision of a court.
- (intransitive) To become firm, dry, and hard, like the ground after the effects of rain or frost have disappeared.
- (transitive) To cause to sink down or to be deposited (dregs, sediment, etc).
- (intransitive, usually with "down", "in", "on" or another preposition) To become stationary or fixed; to come to rest.
- (intransitive) To fix one's residence in a place; to establish a dwelling place, home, or colony. (Compare settle down.)
- (transitive) In particular, to establish in life; to fix in business, in a home, etc.
- (intransitive) To sink to the bottom of a body of liquid, as dregs of a liquid, or the sediment of a reservoir.
- (transitive) To bring or restore (ground, roads, etc) to a smooth, dry, or passable condition.
- (British, dialectal) To silence, especially by force.
- (transitive) To place in(to) a fixed or permanent condition or position or on(to) a permanent basis; to make firm, steady, or stable; to establish or fix.
- (transitive) To cause to no longer be in a disturbed, confused or stormy; to quiet; to calm (nerves, waters, a boisterous or rebellious child, etc).
- To kill.
- (intransitive) To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, for example the foundation of a house, etc.
- (intransitive) To adjust differences or accounts; to come to an agreement on matters in dispute.
- (intransitive) To become married, or a householder.
- (transitive, colloquial) To pay (a bill).
- (ambitransitive) Of an animal: to make or become pregnant.
- (transitive) To close, liquidate or balance (an account) by payment, sometimes of less than is owed or due.
- (transitive) To place or arrange in(to) a desired (especially: calm) state, or make final disposition of (something).
- (transitive, law) To formally, legally secure (an annuity, property, title, etc) on (a person).
- (intransitive) To become calm, quiet, or orderly; to stop being agitated.
- (transitive) To move (people) to (a land or territory), so as to colonize it; to cause (people) to take residence in (a place).
noun
verb
- fall backwards and down
- move back and away from
- go back to bad behavior
- have recourse to
- retreat
- hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
- To retreat.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fall, back.
- To turn the clocks back for the end of daylight saving time.
- To fail to fulfill a promise or purpose.
verb
- let fall to the ground
- to fall vertically
- fall or descend to a lower place or level
- pay out
- utter with seeming casualness
- take (a drug, especially LSD), by mouth
- change from one level to another
- remove (cargo, people, etc.) from and leave
- lower the pitch of (musical notes)
- stop pursuing or acting
- cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow
- fall or sink into a state of exhaustion or death
- grow progressively worse
- stop associating with
- leave undone or leave out
- let or cause to fall in drops
- to remove
- go down in value
- lose (a game)
- omit (a letter or syllable) in speaking or writing
- give birth; used for animals
- hang loosely
- terminate an association with
- (cooking) To cook (food, especially fast food), particularly by lowering into hot oil to deep-fry, or by grilling.
- (transitive, music) To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.
- (intransitive) Of a liquid: to fall in drops or droplets.
- (transitive) To cease concerning oneself over (someone or something); to have nothing more to do with (a discussion, subject, etc.).
- (intransitive, computing) To enter a more basic interface.
- (transitive) To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot, etc.; to bring down, to shoot down; to kill.
- (intransitive, physiology, informal) Of the testicles: to hang further away from the body and begin producing sperm due to puberty.
- (transitive) To reduce; to make smaller.
- Especially in drop acid: to swallow (a drug, particularly LSD).
- (intransitive) Of a voice: to lower in timbre, often due to puberty.
- (transitive, computing, music, television, colloquial) To release (a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.) to the public.
- (intransitive) To decrease, diminish, or lessen in condition, degree, value, etc.
- (intransitive, computing, music, television, colloquial) Of a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.: to enter public distribution.
- (transitive) To drip (a liquid) in drops or small amounts.
- (originally US) To (unexpectedly) lose (a competition, game, etc.).
- To lose, spend, or otherwise part with (money).
- (intransitive, also figuratively) To fall (straight down) under the influence of gravity, like a drop of liquid.
- (intransitive) To come to an end (by not being kept up); to lapse, to stop.
- (intransitive) To fall into a particular condition or state.
- (intransitive, online gaming, video games) Of an item: To appear for the player to pick up, usually after an enemy has been defeated.
- To impart (something).
- (intransitive) Usually followed by by, in, or into: of a person: to visit someone or somewhere informally or without a prior appointment.
- (intransitive) To fall or sink quickly or suddenly to the ground.
- (rugby) To score (a goal) by means of a drop kick.
- (transitive) To cancel or cease to participate in (a scheduled course, event, or project).
- To perform (rap music).
- (transitive) To mention (something) casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.
- (transitive) To set down (someone or something) from a vehicle; to stop and deliver or deposit (someone or something); to drop off.
- (transitive) To lower (a sound, a voice, etc.) in pitch or volume.
- (transitive, computing) To present (the user) with a more basic interface.
- (transitive) To cease to include (something), as if on a list; to dismiss, to eject, to expel.
- To quickly lower or take down (one's trousers), especially in public.
- (cricket) Of a fielder: to fail to dismiss (a batsman) by accidentally dropping a batted ball that had initially been caught.
- (transitive, linguistics) To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter, etc.).
- To pass or use (counterfeit cheques, money, etc.).
- (intransitive) To collapse in exhaustion or injury; also, to fall dead, or to fall in death.
- (transitive, ergative, also figuratively) To let (something) fall; to allow (something) to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip on).
- (transitive) To move to a lower position; to allow to hang downwards; to lower.
- (intransitive) Of a song or sound: to lower in key, pitch, tempo, or other quality.
- (transitive, online gaming, video games) Of a defeated enemy or container: To leave behind an item that the player can collect.
- To play (a portion of music) in the manner of a disc jockey.
- (intransitive, gambling) To drop out of the betting.
- (transitive) Of an animal (usually a sheep): to give birth to (young); of a bird: to lay (an egg).
- (transitive) To let (a letter, etc.) fall into a postbox; hence, to send (a letter, email, or other message) in an offhand manner.
- (transitive) To dispose or get rid of (something); to lose, to remove.
- (US, Singapore, ergative, military, slang) To make someone, or be made to do push-ups or some other form of exercise on the ground as punishment.
- (intransitive) To fall behind or to the rear of a group of people, etc., as a result of not keeping up with those at the front.
noun
- An act of moving downwards under the force of gravity; a descent, a fall.
- a shape that is spherical and small
- a central depository where things can be left or picked up
- a steep high face of rock
- a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity
- a predetermined hiding place for the deposit and distribution of illicit goods (such as drugs or stolen property)
- the act of dropping something
- a curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies; often used as background scenery
- a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
- a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid)
- Of women's clothes: the difference between the bust circumference and hip circumference.
- (online gaming, video games) An item made available for the player to pick up from the remains of a defeated enemy.
- (pinball) Ellipsis of drop target.
- (rugby) Ellipsis of drop kick.
- (pharmacology, chiefly in the plural) A liquid medicine that is intended to be administered in drops (sense 1).
- (agriculture) A fruit which has fallen off a tree, etc., or has been knocked off accidentally, rather than picked.
- (informal) Only used in get the drop on, have the drop on: an advantage.
- A decline in degree, quality, quantity, or rate.
- (nautical) The depth of a (square) sail (generally applied to the courses only); the vertical dimension of a sail.
- (electrics, telecommunications) An overhead electrical line running from a utility pole to a customer's building or other premises.
- (American football) A dropped pass.
- Usually preceded by the: relegation from one division to a lower one.
- (law enforcement) The distance that a person drops when being executed by hanging.
- Often preceded by a defining word: a small, round piece of hard candy, such as a lemon drop; a lozenge.
- (theater) A curtain which falls in front of a theatrical stage; also, a section of (cloth) scenery lowered on to the stage like a curtain.
- (slang, US) An automobile with a drop-top roof, a convertible.
- Licorice in confectionery form.
- Ellipsis of drop hammer or drop press.
- The distance below a cliff or other high position through which someone or something could fall; hence, a steep slope.
- (also figuratively) A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own rounded shape through surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid.
- (law enforcement, informal) Preceded by the: execution by hanging.
- (music) A point in a song, usually electronic music such as dubstep, house, trance, or trap, where there is a very noticeable and pleasing change in bass, tempo, and/or overall tone; a climax, a highlight.
- A release (of music, a video game, etc).
- (Ireland, informal) A single measure of whisky.
- Of men's clothes: the difference between the chest circumference and waist circumference.
- (figuratively) A very small quantity of liquid, or (by extension) of anything.
- (law enforcement) A trapdoor (“hinged platform”) on a gallows; a gallows itself.
- The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
- A mechanism for lowering something, such as a machine for lowering heavy weights on to a ship's deck, or a device for temporarily lowering a gas jet, etc.
- (pharmacology) A dose of liquid medicine in the form of a drop (sense 1).
- (engineering) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
- (surfing) A near vertical decent down the face of a breaking wave.
- (cricket) A place (specified by an ordinal) in the batting order after the openers.
- (architecture) An ornament resembling a pendant; a gutta.
- (American football) Ellipsis of drop-back.
- (gambling) The amount of money that a gambler exchanges for chips in a casino.
- (chiefly British) Usually preceded by the: alcoholic spirits in general.
- (golf) Ellipsis of drop shot.
- The cover mounted on a swivel over a keyhole that rests over the keyhole when not in use to keep out debris, but is swiveled out of the way before inserting the key.
- (chiefly Australia, British) A small amount of an alcoholic beverage.
- A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, whether openly (as with a mail drop), or secretly or illegally (as in crime or espionage); a drop-off point.
- An instance of making a delivery of people, supplies, or things, especially by parachute out of an aircraft (an airdrop), but also by truck, etc.
verb
- stumble and nearly fall
- fail utterly; collapse
- sink below the surface
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- (intransitive, especially of horses) To fall; to stumble and go lame.
- (transitive) To disable or lame (a horse) by causing internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs.
- (intransitive) To fail; to miscarry.
- (intransitive, of a ship) To flood with water and sink.
noun
- inflammation of the laminated tissue that attaches the hoof to the foot of a horse
- a person who founds or establishes some institution
- a worker who makes metal castings
- (genetics) A common ancestor of some population (especially one with a certain genetic mutation).
- One who founds or establishes (a company, project, organisation, state, etc.).
- The iron worker in charge of the blast furnace and the smelting operation.
- (veterinary medicine) A severe laminitis of a horse, caused by untreated internal inflammation in the hooves.
- One who casts metals in various forms; a caster.
verb
- fall or come down violently
- cause to crash
- hurl or thrust violently
- stop operating
- break violently or noisily; smash
- undergo a sudden and severe downturn
- move violently as through a barrier
- occupy, usually uninvited
- sleep in a convenient place
- move with, or as if with, a crashing noise
- enter uninvited; informal
- make a sudden loud sound
- undergo damage or destruction on impact
- (ambitransitive, slang) Ellipsis of gatecrash.
- (intransitive, slang) To lie down for a long rest, sleep or nap, as from tiredness or exhaustion.
- To make a sudden loud noise.
- To take a sudden and severe turn for the worse; to rapidly and catastrophically deteriorate.
- (computing, hardware, software, transitive) To cause an exception that terminates or halts execution.
- (transitive, Scotland, education) To take a subject at higher level without having previously studied it.
- (transitive) To cause something to collide with something else, especially when this results in damage.
- (transitive, slang) To give, as a favor.
- (intransitive) To experience a period of depression and/or lethargy after a period of euphoria, as after the euphoric effect of a psychotropic drug has dissipated.
- (transitive, management) To accelerate a project or a task or its schedule by devoting more resources to it.
- (intransitive) To collide with something destructively; to fall or come down violently.
- (transitive) To hit or strike with force.
- (computing, hardware, software, intransitive) To terminate or halt execution due to an exception.
- (intransitive, slang) To make or experience informal temporary living arrangements, especially overnight.
noun
- the act of colliding with something
- a sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)
- (computer science) an event that causes a computer system to become inoperative
- a loud resonant repeating noise
- a serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles)
- (informal) A comedown from a drug.
- (finance) A sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures).
- An automobile, airplane, or other vehicle accident.
- (collective) A group of rhinoceroses.
- (ecology) A sudden decline in any living form's population levels, often leading to extinction.
- (computing) A malfunction of computer software or hardware which causes it to shut down or become partially or totally inoperable.
- A sudden, intense, loud sound, as made for example by cymbals.
- (textiles) A type of rough linen.
adj
noun
- A heavy, passive fall; a plopping down.
- (poker) The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.
- (by confusion, computing) One floating-point operation per second, a unit of measure of processor speed.
- Dung, as in cow-flop.
- A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.
- (slang) A flophouse.
- (computing) Abbreviation of floating-point operation.
- someone who is unsuccessful
- an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers
- the act of throwing yourself down; collapse; sink
- a complete failure
verb
- fall loosely
- fall suddenly and abruptly
- (poker, transitive) To have (a hand) using the community cards dealt on the flop.
- (intransitive, slang) To stay, sleep or live in a place.
- (transitive) To flip; to reverse (an image).
- (intransitive) To fall heavily due to lack of energy.
- (intransitive, informal) To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.).
- (sports, intransitive) To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer)
- (transitive, prison slang) To deny someone parole.
- (intransitive) To strike about with something broad and flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; to flap.
- (transitive) To cause to drop heavily.
- fail utterly; collapse
adv
intj
verb
- fall sharply
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- find the solution or key to
- become punctured or penetrated
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- do a break dance
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- separate from a clinch, in boxing
- cause to give up a habit
- weaken or destroy in spirit or body
- change directions suddenly
- exchange for smaller units of money
- undergo breaking
- give up
- interrupt a continued activity
- interrupt the flow of current in
- break a piece from a whole
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- move away or escape suddenly
- invalidate by judicial action
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- cease an action temporarily
- happen or take place
- render inoperable or ineffective
- emerge from the surface of a body of water
- come to an end (of an event)
- cause the failure or ruin of
- put an end to a state or an activity
- fracture a bone of
- stop operating or functioning
- diminish or discontinue abruptly
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- terminate or end
- come forth or begin from a state of latency
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- crack; of the male voice in puberty
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- come into being
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- find a flaw in
- ruin completely
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- happen
- go to pieces
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- pierce or penetrate
- surpass in excellence
- lessen in force or effect
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- scatter or part
- be broken in
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- reduce to bankruptcy
- be released or become known; of news
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- (transitive, tennis) To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- (intransitive, of a storm) To begin or end.
- (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
- (intransitive, of a spell of settled weather) To end.
- (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- (intransitive, of a male voice) To become deeper at puberty.
- (transitive, backgammon) To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- (transitive) To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- (intransitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- (intransitive, of a voice) To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- (specifically) To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- (transitive, theater) To end the run of (a play).
- (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- (transitive) To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- (specifically) To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- (intransitive, of morning, dawn, day etc.) To arrive.
- (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- (transitive, with for) To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- (rare, mainly historical or a misspelling) To brake.
- (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
- (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- (music, slang) To B-boy; to breakdance.
- (specifically, in programming) To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- (programming) To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- (transitive, intransitive) To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- (ergative, transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- (computing) To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- (transitive) To ruin financially.
- (transitive, gaming slang) To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- (finance, intransitive) Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- (computing) To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- (intransitive, of a fever) To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- (intransitive, of a sauce or emulsion) To de-emulsify.
- (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
- (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
noun
- an unexpected piece of good luck
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- an escape from jail
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- the act of breaking something
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- the occurrence of breaking
- a sudden dash
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- (programming) Ellipsis of breakpoint.
- (music) The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- An interruption of continuity; departure from or rupture with.
- Alternative form of brake (“cart or carriage without a body, for breaking in horses”)
- (computing) The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- (soccer) The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- (snooker) The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- (finance) A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- (computing) A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- (UK, education) A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- (geography, chiefly in the plural) An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- (British, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- (surfing) A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- An act of escaping.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- (tennis) A game won by the receiving player(s).
- (horse racing) The start of a horse race.
- The opening of packages of cards for a collectible card game, often for further distribution to paying customers.
- (golf) The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
- (billiards, snooker, pool) The first shot in a game of billiards.
- (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
verb
- fall abruptly
- throw away as refuse
- sell at artificially low prices
- drop (stuff) in a heap or mass
- knock down with force
- sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly
- (transitive, computing) To copy (data) from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
- (transitive) To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
- (transitive, computing) To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug.
- (transitive) To discard; to get rid of something one no longer wants.
- (transitive, Australia) Of a surf wave, to crash a swimmer, surfer, etc., heavily downwards.
- (transitive) To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping.
- (transitive) To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it
- (transitive, US) To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.
- (transitive, informal) To end a romantic relationship with.
noun
- a coarse term for defecation
- (computer science) a copy of the contents of a computer storage device; sometimes used in debugging programs
- a piece of land where waste materials are dumped
- a place where supplies can be stored
- That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
- (mining) A pile of ore or rock.
- (historical, Australia, Canada) A small coin made by punching a hole in a larger coin (called a holey dollar).
- A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
- (usually in the plural) A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency.
- (computing) A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program.
- (slang, often with the verb "take", euphemistic) An act of defecation; a defecating.
- A storage place for supplies, especially military.
- (slang) An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring, or depressing looking place.
- A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.
- (marketing) A temporary display case that holds many copies of an item being sold.
- (computing) An act of dumping, or its result.
- (Northern England) A deep hole in a river bed; a pool.
- Absence of mind; reverie.
- (Internet slang) A disorganized collection of images posted on social media.
verb
- fall abruptly
- thrust or throw into
- drop steeply
- dash violently or with great speed or impetuosity
- cause to be immersed
- begin with vigor
- immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
- devote (oneself) fully to
- (intransitive, slang) To bet heavily and recklessly; to risk large sums in gambling.
- (figuratively, transitive) To cast, stab or throw deep and fast into some thing, state, condition or action.
- (intransitive) To pitch or throw oneself headlong or violently forward, as a horse does.
- (figuratively, intransitive) To fall or rush headlong into some thing, action, state or condition.
- (transitive) To remove a blockage by suction.
- (transitive) To thrust into liquid, or into any penetrable substance; to immerse.
- (intransitive) To dive, leap or rush (into water or some liquid); to submerge oneself.
noun
- a steep and rapid fall
- a brief swim in water
- A dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water).
- The act of plunging or submerging.
- (figuratively) The act of pitching or throwing oneself headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse.
- (slang) Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation.
verb
- (literally) To come out of something by falling.
- (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To be shocked by something.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To cease to be on friendly terms.
- (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To collapse; to pass out from intoxication.
- (intransitive, Of the ground, floor, snow, etc., or figuratively, a worldview or foundation) To cause someone to slip and/or fall down.
- (intransitive, slang) To depart.
- (dialect, intransitive) To pass out.
- (intransitive, Of a trapdoor or similar) To give way under someone.
- (military, intransitive, figuratively) To leave one's current location to report for duty at a new location.
- (intransitive, slang) To be enthusiastic about something; to laugh very hard.
- (military, intransitive, literally) To leave one's place in the current formation of ranks in order to take one's place in a new formation.
- come as a logical consequence; follow logically
- have a breach in relations
- drop out
- leave (a barracks) in order to take a place in a military formation, or leave a military formation
- come to pass
noun
verb
- To stumble and fall over
- To burgeon so as to exceed a limit.
- (electronics) To be oversensitive in triggering a fail-safe mechanism, especially to incorrectly activate or trip a circuit breaker.
- To tip a balance.
- To move where another is also moving or occur at the same time as another is occurring; to fail to coordinate (with)
noun
verb
adj
- Not moving; calm.
- Not effervescing; not sparkling.
- Uttering no sound; silent.
- Comparatively quiet or silent; soft; gentle; low.
- (not comparable) Having the same stated quality continuously from a past time
- free from noticeable current
- used of pictures; of a single or static photograph not presented so as to create the illusion of motion; or representing objects not capable of motion
- not in physical motion
- not sparkling
- (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves
- marked by absence of sound
adv
- (conjunctive) Nevertheless.
- Alternative spelling of styll.
- (extensive) Even, yet.
- (degree) To an even greater degree. Used to modify comparative adjectives or adverbs.
- Without motion.
- (aspect) Up to a time, as in the preceding time.
- despite anything to the contrary (usually preceding a concession)
- to a greater degree or extent; used with comparisons
- with reference to action or condition; without change, interruption, or cessation
- without moving or making a sound
noun
- A building where liquors are distilled; a distillery.
- (slang) A resident of the Falkland Islands.
- (catering) A large water boiler used to make tea and coffee.
- A device for distilling liquids.
- (photography) A photograph, as opposed to movie footage.
- (cinematography) A single frame from a film.
- (catering) The area in a restaurant used to make tea and coffee, separate from the main kitchen.
- A period of calm or silence.
- a static photograph (especially one taken from a movie and used for advertising purposes)
- an apparatus used for the distillation of liquids; consists of a vessel in which a substance is vaporized by heat and a condenser where the vapor is condensed
- a plant and works where alcoholic drinks are made by distillation
- (poetic) tranquil silence
noun
- A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
- (sports, UK, Australia, New Zealand) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) (Not often used in the US or Canada, where "field" is the preferred word.)
- An effort to sell or promote something.
- (geology) Pitchstone.
- The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
- The angle at which an object sits.
- (golf) A short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
- A dark, extremely viscous material still remaining after distilling crude oil or natural tar.
- The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.
- Prominence; importance.
- The height a bird reaches in flight, especially a bird of prey preparing to swoop down on its prey.
- (nautical, aviation) The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down.
- (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
- (by extension) The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.
- (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
- (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
- (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
- A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
- (now British, regional) A person's or animal's height.
- (music, phonetics) The perceived frequency of a sound, note or electromagnetic wave.
- A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
- (music) The standard to which a group of musical instruments are tuned or in which a piece is performed, usually by reference to the frequency to which the musical note A above middle C is tuned.
- (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
- A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
- A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
- An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
- (aviation) A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
- (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
- (rare) The field of battle.
- The most thrust-out point of a headland or cape.
- promotion by means of an argument and demonstration
- abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)
- a sports field with predetermined dimensions for playing soccer
- the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration
- a high approach shot in golf
- a vendor's position (especially on the sidewalk)
- any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
- the act of throwing a baseball or softball by the pitcher towards home plate, which initiates play by giving the batter a chance to hit it
- an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump
- degree of deviation from a horizontal plane
- the action or manner of throwing something
verb
- fall or plunge forward
- To cover or smear with pitch.
- (transitive) To set or fix (a price or value).
- (transitive) To fix or set the tone of.
- (brewing) To add yeast as a step while making beer
- (transitive) To assemble or erect (a tent). Also used figuratively.
- (with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
- (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
- (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
- (transitive) To set at an angle, especially a downwards one; to cause to tilt.
- (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
- (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
- (transitive) To set, face, or pave (an embankment or roadway) with rubble or undressed stones.
- (transitive) To throw away; discard.
- (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
- (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
- (transitive) To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
- (transitive or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
- (transitive) To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
- (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
- (transitive) To throw.
- (transitive, card games, slang) To discard (a card) for some gain.
- To attack, or position or assemble for attack.
- (ambitransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternately up and down.
- heel over
- set to a certain pitch
- sell or offer for sale from place to place
- move abruptly
- throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball
- be at an angle
- set the level or character of
- throw or toss with a light motion
- erect and fasten
- lead (a card) and establish the trump suit
- hit (a golf ball) in a high arc with a backspin
adj
verb
- miss a step and fall or nearly fall
- make an error
- walk unsteadily, tripping repeatedly
- encounter by chance
- To strike or happen (upon a person or thing) without design; to fall or light by chance; with on, upon, across, or against.
- (intransitive) To make a mistake or have trouble.
- (transitive) To cause to stumble or trip.
- (transitive, figurative) To mislead; to confound; to cause to err or to fall.
- (intransitive) To trip or fall; to walk clumsily.
noun
verb
- miss a step and fall or nearly fall
- get high, stoned, or drugged
- make a trip for pleasure
- cause to stumble
- put in motion or move to act
- (intransitive) To fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot
- (intransitive) To be guilty of a misstep or mistake; to commit an offence against morality, propriety, etc
- (nautical) To pull (a yard) into a perpendicular position for lowering it.
- (intransitive) To experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs.
- (transitive, sometimes followed by "up") To cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble by knocking their feet from under them.
- (transitive) To activate or set in motion, as in the activation of a trap, explosive, or switch.
- (intransitive) To be activated, as by a signal or an event
- Of an electrical circuit, to trip out (through overload, a short circuit).
- (nautical) To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular, most commonly used in the form tripping) To become unreasonably upset, especially over something unimportant; to cause a scene or a disruption.
- (intransitive) To journey, to make a trip.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) To act foolishly or irrationally.
noun
- a journey for some purpose (usually including the return)
- a light or nimble tread
- an exciting or stimulating experience
- an unintentional but embarrassing blunder
- an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall
- a catch mechanism that acts as a switch
- a hallucinatory experience induced by drugs
- A faux pas, a social error.
- The act of tripping someone, or causing them to lose their footing.
- (engineering) A mechanical cutout device.
- A stumble or misstep.
- (colloquial) A period of time in which one experiences drug-induced reverie or hallucinations.
- (by extension) Intense involvement in or enjoyment of a condition.
- (electricity) A trip-switch or cut-out.
- A journey; an excursion or jaunt.
- A flock of wigeons.
- (nautical) A single tack while beating (sailing to windward).
- A quick, light step; a lively movement of the feet; a skip.
adj
verb
- fall or sink heavily
- fall or descend to a lower place or level
- fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly
- descend into or as if into some soft substance or place
- pass into a specified state or condition; sink into
- embed deeply
- go under
- appear to move downward
- cause to sink
- (intransitive) To decrease in volume, as a river; to subside; to become diminished in volume or in apparent height.
- (transitive) To (directly or indirectly) cause a vessel to sink, generally by making it no longer watertight.
- (intransitive) To be overwhelmed or depressed; to fail in strength.
- (ergative) To descend or submerge (or to cause to do so) into a liquid or similar substance.
- (transitive) To push (something) into something.
- (transitive, figurative) To cause to decline; to depress or degrade.
- (transitive, slang) To drink (especially something alcoholic).
- (transitive, slang) To pay absolutely.
- (transitive) To make by digging or delving.
- (transitive, snooker, pool, billiards, golf) To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.
- (intransitive, figuratively, of the heart or spirit) To experience apprehension, disappointment, dread, or momentary depression.
- (intransitive) To demean or lower oneself; to do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
noun
- a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof
- plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe
- a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it
- (technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system
- (graph theory) A destination vertex in a transportation network.
- A place that absorbs resources or energy.
- (theater) A stage trapdoor for shifting scenery.
- A drain for carrying off wastewater.
- A depression in land where water collects, with no visible outlet.
- A basin used for holding water for washing.
- A depression in a stereotype plate.
- (computing, programming) An object or callback that captures events.
- (game development) One or several systems that remove currency from the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation.
- (uncountable) Descending motion; descent.
- (baseball) The motion of a sinker pitch.
- (geology) A sinkhole.
- (ecology) A habitat that cannot support a population on its own but receives the excess of individuals from some other source.
- (graph theory) A node in directed graph for which all of its edges go into it; one with no outgoing edges.
- A heat sink.
- (mining) An excavation smaller than a shaft.
- An abode of degraded persons; a wretched place.
verb
- fall or sink heavily
- fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly
- assume a drooping posture or carriage
- fall in value
- (intransitive) To collapse heavily or helplessly.
- (transitive) To lump; to throw together messily.
- (intransitive) To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
- (intransitive) To slouch or droop.
- To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
- (transitive, slang) To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unconscious; to kill.
noun
- a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality
- a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment
- (slang by extension) A period when a person goes without the expected amount of sex or dating.
- (UK, dialect) A boggy place.
- (Scotland) The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
- (geology) A form of mass wasting in which a coherent mass of loosely consolidated materials or a rock layer moves a short distance down a slope.
- (Scotland) The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
- A measure of the fluidity of freshly mixed concrete, based on how much the concrete formed in a standard slump cone sags when the cone is removed.
- A cobbler-like dessert cooked on a stove.
- (geology, loosely) A crater or depression (an area where the ground slumps) which forms as a result of such wasting. (A large crater is colloquially called a megaslump.)
- A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
adv
adj
prep
adj
- Of a fall: straight downwards; headlong.
- Inclined to make rapid decisions without due consideration; hasty, impulsive, rash.
- (chiefly figurative) Acting, happening, or moving quickly; fast, rapid, swift; also, abrupt, sudden, unexpected.
- (chemistry) That causes precipitation (“formation of a heavier solid in a lighter liquid as a result of a chemical reaction”).
- done with very great haste and without due deliberation
noun
- (chemistry) A substance that, when added to a solution, causes a dissolved substance to form a precipitate.
- Something which causes or hastens the occurrence of an act or event; specifically (chiefly psychology), something which brings about a mental or physiological condition.
- an agent that causes a precipitate to form
adj
noun
- (astrology) The intersection of the western (setting) horizon and the ecliptic, its ecliptical longitude; the astrological sign it corresponds to.
- (linguistics) A word or form in one language that is descended from a counterpart in an ancestor language.
- (figuratively) A thing that derives directly from a given precursor or source.
- (linguistics) A language that is descended from another.
- One of the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations.
- (biology) A later evolutionary type.
- a person considered as descended from some ancestor