falling
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈfɔːlɪŋ/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈfɔlɪŋ/
- (cot–caught merger) enPR: fälʹĭng,IPA(key): /ˈfɑlɪŋ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔːlɪŋ
Verb
falling
- present participle and gerund of fall
- a falling leaf
- the falling prices of luxury goods
- 1941 March, “Notes and News: Fastest Runs in Scotland, 1940 and 1941”, in Railway Magazine, page 130:
- Of these, nine were on the Forfar-Perth section, eight were over the sharply-falling grades from Gleneagles to Perth, [...].
Derived terms
- deviation of a falling body
- downfalling
- everfalling
- falling action
- falling band
- falling collar
- falling diphthong
- falling-disease
- falling-door
- falling dunes
- falling-evil
- falling factorial
- falling film evaporator
- falling front or back
- falling-gate
- falling-hinge
- falling houses
- falling-ill
- falling-in
- falling knife
- falling leaf
- falling limb
- falling-mold
- falling-off
- falling palate
- falling rhythm
- falling-rising
- falling ruff
- falling scream
- falling sequential product
- falling sickness
- falling-sluice
- falling sphere
- falling star
- falling stone
- falling tide
- falling tone
- falling weather
- falling weight deflectometer
- in-falling
- rising-falling
- tear-falling
- wall-falling
Noun
falling (usually uncountable, plural fallings)
- verbal noun of fall
- 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:
- Epilepsies, or fallings and reelings, and beastly vomitings. The least of these, even when the tongue begins to be untied, is a degree of drunkenness.
Derived terms
Terms derived from the noun falling
- downfalling
- falling axe
- falling-off
- falling of the leaf
- falling of the womb
- falling rope
- falling saw
- falling-short
- falling sickness
- falling wedge
- infalling
- intelligent falling
- off-falling
- outfalling
References
- “falling”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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