Fall vs. Gall

Fallnoun

The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.

Fallnoun

A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.

Fallnoun

The time of the year when the leaves typically fall from the trees; autumn; the season of the year between the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice.

Fallnoun

A loss of greatness or status.

Fallnoun

That which falls or cascades.

Fallnoun

(sport) A crucial event or circumstance.

Fallnoun

The action of a batsman being out.

Fallnoun

(curling) A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given direction.

Fallnoun

(wrestling) An instance of a wrestler being pinned to the mat.

Fallnoun

A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover hair loss.

Fallnoun

Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.

Fallnoun

The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).

Fallnoun

See falls

Fallnoun

An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.

Fallnoun

A short, flexible piece of leather forming part of a bullwhip, placed between the thong and the cracker.

Fallverb

To move downwards.

Fallverb

To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity.

Fallverb

To come down, to drop or descend.

Fallverb

To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself.

Fallverb

To be brought to the ground.

Fallverb

(transitive) To be moved downwards.

Fallverb

(obsolete) To let fall; to drop.

Fallverb

(obsolete) To sink; to depress.

Fallverb

To fell; to cut down.

Fallverb

(intransitive) To happen, to change negatively.

Fallverb

(copulative) To become.

Fallverb

To occur (on a certain day of the week, date, or similar); said of an instance of a recurring event such as a holiday or date.

Fallverb

(intransitive) To collapse; to be overthrown or defeated.

Fallverb

To die, especially in battle or by disease.

Fallverb

(intransitive) To become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc.).

Fallverb

(followed by a determining word or phrase) To become; to be affected by or befallen with a calamity; to change into the state described by words following; to become prostrated literally or figuratively Usage notes]] below.

Fallverb

(transitive) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.

Fallverb

To diminish; to lessen or lower.

Fallverb

To bring forth.

Fallverb

To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals.

Fallverb

(intransitive) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin.

Fallverb

(intransitive) To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.

Fallverb

(intransitive) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the face.

Fallverb

(intransitive) To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).

Fallverb

(intransitive) To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.

Fallverb

(intransitive) To be dropped or uttered carelessly.

Fallverb

To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; the mercury falls in the barometer.

Fallverb

To cease to be erect; to take suddenly a recumbent posture; to become prostrate; to drop; as, a child totters and falls; a tree falls; a worshiper falls on his knees.

Fallverb

To find a final outlet; to discharge its waters; to empty; - with into; as, the river Rhone falls into the Mediterranean.

Fallverb

To become prostrate and dead; to die; especially, to die by violence, as in battle.

Fallverb

To cease to be active or strong; to die away; to lose strength; to subside; to become less intense; as, the wind falls.

Fallverb

To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; - said of the young of certain animals.

Fallverb

To decline in power, glory, wealth, or importance; to become insignificant; to lose rank or position; to decline in weight, value, price etc.; to become less; as, the price falls; stocks fell two points.

Fallverb

To be overthrown or captured; to be destroyed.

Fallverb

To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin; to depart from the faith; to apostatize; to sin.

Fallverb

To become insnared or embarrassed; to be entrapped; to be worse off than before; as, to fall into error; to fall into difficulties.

Fallverb

To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; - said of the countenance.

Fallverb

To sink; to languish; to become feeble or faint; as, our spirits rise and fall with our fortunes.

Fallverb

To pass somewhat suddenly, and passively, into a new state of body or mind; to become; as, to fall asleep; to fall into a passion; to fall in love; to fall into temptation.

Fallverb

To happen; to to come to pass; to light; to befall; to issue; to terminate.

Fallverb

To come; to occur; to arrive.

Fallverb

To begin with haste, ardor, or vehemence; to rush or hurry; as, they fell to blows.

Fallverb

To pass or be transferred by chance, lot, distribution, inheritance, or otherwise; as, the estate fell to his brother; the kingdom fell into the hands of his rivals.

Fallverb

To belong or appertain.

Fallverb

To be dropped or uttered carelessly; as, an unguarded expression fell from his lips; not a murmur fell from him.

Fallverb

To let fall; to drop.

Fallverb

To sink; to depress; as, to fall the voice.

Fallverb

To diminish; to lessen or lower.

Fallverb

To bring forth; as, to fall lambs.

Fallverb

To fell; to cut down; as, to fall a tree.

Fallnoun

The act of falling; a dropping or descending be the force of gravity; descent; as, a fall from a horse, or from the yard of ship.

Fallnoun

The act of dropping or tumbling from an erect posture; as, he was walking on ice, and had a fall.

Fallnoun

Death; destruction; overthrow; ruin.

Fallnoun

Downfall; degradation; loss of greatness or office; termination of greatness, power, or dominion; ruin; overthrow; as, the fall of the Roman empire.

Fallnoun

The surrender of a besieged fortress or town ; as, the fall of Sebastopol.

Fallnoun

Diminution or decrease in price or value; depreciation; as, the fall of prices; the fall of rents.

Fallnoun

A sinking of tone; cadence; as, the fall of the voice at the close of a sentence.

Fallnoun

Declivity; the descent of land or a hill; a slope.

Fallnoun

Descent of water; a cascade; a cataract; a rush of water down a precipice or steep; - usually in the plural, sometimes in the singular; as, the falls of Niagara.

Fallnoun

The discharge of a river or current of water into the ocean, or into a lake or pond; as, the fall of the Po into the Gulf of Venice.

Fallnoun

Extent of descent; the distance which anything falls; as, the water of a stream has a fall of five feet.

Fallnoun

The season when leaves fall from trees; autumn.

Fallnoun

That which falls; a falling; as, a fall of rain; a heavy fall of snow.

Fallnoun

The act of felling or cutting down.

Fallnoun

Lapse or declension from innocence or goodness. Specifically: The first apostasy; the act of our first parents in eating the forbidden fruit; also, the apostasy of the rebellious angels.

Fallnoun

Formerly, a kind of ruff or band for the neck; a falling band; a faule.

Fallnoun

That part (as one of the ropes) of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting.

Fallnoun

the season when the leaves fall from the trees;

Fallnoun

a sudden drop from an upright position;

Fallnoun

the lapse of mankind into sinfulness because of the sin of Adam and Eve;

Fallnoun

a downward slope or bend

Fallnoun

a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity;

Fallnoun

a sudden decline in strength or number or importance;

Fallnoun

a movement downward;

Fallnoun

the act of surrendering (under agreed conditions);

Fallnoun

the time of day immediately following sunset;

Fallnoun

when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat

Fallnoun

a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity;

Fallnoun

a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity;

Fallverb

descend in free fall under the influence of gravity;

Fallverb

move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way;

Fallverb

pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind;

Fallverb

come under, be classified or included;

Fallverb

fall from clouds;

Fallverb

suffer defeat, failure, or ruin;

Fallverb

decrease in size, extent, or range;

Fallverb

die, as in battle or in a hunt;

Fallverb

touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly;

Fallverb

be captured;

Fallverb

occur at a specified time or place;

Fallverb

yield to temptation or sin;

Fallverb

lose office or power;

Fallverb

to be given by assignment or distribution;

Fallverb

move in a specified direction;

Fallverb

be due;

Fallverb

lose one's chastity;

Fallverb

to be given by right or inheritance;

Fallverb

come into the possession of;

Fallverb

fall to somebody by assignment or lot;

Fallverb

be inherited by;

Fallverb

slope downward;

Fallverb

lose an upright position suddenly;

Fallverb

drop oneself to a lower or less erect position;

Fallverb

fall or flow in a certain way;

Fallverb

assume a disappointed or sad expression;

Fallverb

be cast down;

Fallverb

come out; issue;

Fallverb

be born, used chiefly of lambs;

Fallverb

begin vigorously;

Fallverb

go as if by falling;

Fallverb

come as if by falling;

Fallverb

move from a higher to a lower level, typically rapidly and without control

Fallverb

become detached and drop to the ground

Fallverb

hang down

Fallverb

(of land) slope downwards

Fallverb

(of a river) flow or discharge itself into

Fallverb

(of someone's eyes or glance) be directed downwards

Fallverb

(of someone's face) show dismay or disappointment by appearing to droop

Fallverb

(of a person) lose one's balance and collapse

Fallverb

throw oneself to the ground

Fallverb

(of a tree or structure) collapse to the ground

Fallverb

(of computer hardware or software) stop working suddenly; crash

Fallverb

decrease in number, amount, intensity, or quality

Fallverb

(of a measuring instrument) show a lower reading

Fallverb

(in sport) play less well

Fallverb

be captured or defeated

Fallverb

(of a wicket) be taken by the bowling side

Fallverb

die in battle

Fallverb

(of a government or leader) lose office or be overthrown.

Fallverb

yield to temptation

Fallverb

pass into a specified state, situation, or position

Fallverb

occur or take place

Fallverb

begin to do something

Fallverb

be drawn accidentally into

Fallverb

be classified in the way specified

Fallnoun

an act of falling or collapsing

Fallnoun

a controlled act of falling, especially as a stunt or in martial arts

Fallnoun

a move which pins the opponent's shoulders on the ground for a count of three.

Fallnoun

a downward difference in height between parts of a surface

Fallnoun

a thing which falls or has fallen

Fallnoun

a sudden onset or arrival

Fallnoun

a waterfall or cascade

Fallnoun

a downward turn in a melody

Fallnoun

the way in which something falls or hangs

Fallnoun

the parts or petals of a flower which bend downwards, especially the outer perianth segments of an iris.

Fallnoun

a decrease in size, number, rate, or level

Fallnoun

a defeat or downfall

Fallnoun

a person's moral decline.

Fallnoun

the lapse of humankind into a state of sin, ascribed in traditional Jewish and Christian theology to the disobedience of Adam and Eve as described in Genesis.

Fallnoun

autumn

Fallnoun

a flock of woodcock

Gallnoun

Bile, especially that of an animal; the greenish, profoundly bitter-tasting fluid found in bile ducts and gall bladders, structures associated with the liver.

Gallnoun

(anatomy) The gall bladder.

Gallnoun

Great misery or physical suffering, likened to the bitterest-tasting of substances.

Gallnoun

(countable) A bump-like imperfection resembling a gall.

Gallnoun

(uncountable) A feeling of exasperation.

Gallnoun

(uncountable) Impudence or brazenness; temerity, chutzpah.

Gallnoun

A sore or open wound caused by chafing, which may become infected, as with a blister.

Gallnoun

(countable) A sore on a horse caused by an ill-fitted or ill-adjusted saddle; a saddle sore.

Gallnoun

(countable) A pit on a surface being cut caused by the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.

Gallnoun

A blister or tumor-like growth found on the surface of plants, caused by burrowing of insect larvae into the living tissues, especially that of the common oak gall wasp Cynips quercusfolii.

Gallverb

(transitive) To bother or trouble.

Gallverb

To harass, to harry, often with the intent to cause injury.

Gallverb

To chafe, to rub or subject to friction; to create a sore on the skin.

Gallverb

To exasperate.

Gallverb

To cause pitting on a surface being cut from the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.

Gallverb

To scoff; to jeer.

Gallverb

To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts in dyeing.

Gallnoun

The bitter, alkaline, viscid fluid found in the gall bladder, beneath the liver. It consists of the secretion of the liver, or bile, mixed with that of the mucous membrane of the gall bladder.

Gallnoun

The gall bladder.

Gallnoun

Anything extremely bitter; bitterness; rancor.

Gallnoun

Impudence; brazen assurance.

Gallnoun

An excrescence of any form produced on any part of a plant by insects or their larvae. They are most commonly caused by small Hymenoptera and Diptera which puncture the bark and lay their eggs in the wounds. The larvae live within the galls. Some galls are due to aphids, mites, etc. See Gallnut.

Gallnoun

A wound in the skin made by rubbing.

Gallverb

To impregnate with a decoction of gallnuts.

Gallverb

To fret and wear away by friction; to hurt or break the skin of by rubbing; to chafe; to injure the surface of by attrition; as, a saddle galls the back of a horse; to gall a mast or a cable.

Gallverb

To fret; to vex; as, to be galled by sarcasm.

Gallverb

To injure; to harass; to annoy; as, the troops were galled by the shot of the enemy.

Gallverb

To scoff; to jeer.

Gallnoun

an open sore on the back of a horse caused by ill-fitting or badly adjusted saddle

Gallnoun

a skin sore caused by chafing

Gallnoun

abnormal swelling of plant tissue caused by insects or microorganisms or injury

Gallnoun

a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will

Gallnoun

a digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder; aids in the digestion of fats

Gallnoun

the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties

Gallverb

become or make sore by or as if by rubbing

Gallverb

irritate or vex;

Gall

Galls (from Latin galla, 'oak-apple') or cecidia (from Greek kēkidion, anything gushing out) are a kind of swelling growth on the external tissues of plants, fungi, or animals. Plant galls are abnormal outgrowths of plant tissues, similar to benign tumors or warts in animals.