to fall
- verb
- /fɔl/
- Christmas falls during the winter season in many countries.
- fall on a day
the US Open and Yom Kippur generally fall during the same season of time.
- the US Open and Yom Kippur generally fall during the same season of time.
Examples
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From my point of view, though, the emphasis falls on the power of the natural world.
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However, the funded ratio fell to a low of 51.2 percent in 2014.
Academic text (2017) -
Now a number of key questions fall from that.
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Similarly, this risk premium should fall as your income is higher.
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Once the calendar is established, the rest of the program falls in place quite easily.
Academic text (1990) -
An exhaustive analysis of all findings falls well beyond the scope of a single article.
Academic text (2011) -
the US Open and Yom Kippur generally fall during the same season of time.
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Virtual manipulatives can be best classified as falling between the concrete and representational stages.
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The important deadline falls on the last day of the month.
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This festival falls on a Saturday every year.
Synonyms
To happen on a certain day or date
Idioms
- Informal
To accept what happens and not try to change the result
- Informal
To fail completely and feel embarrassed in front of others
Children often look and behave like their parents
- Informal
To react strongly because something is very funny or surprising
- Vulgar
To lose your balance and land on your backside in an awkward or embarrassing way
- Informal
Suddenly fail completely because it is weak or badly built
- Formal
To die as a Christian who trusts in God and expects life after death
To keep trying after many failures no matter how often you fail
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Literature
An event in the Bible when Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, lost their innocence, and left the Garden
- Specialized
A green or brown caterpillar with white stripes that eats tree leaves in autumn
A small European plant with yellow flowers that blooms in the fall and is now common in North America
- US
The time when day and night are almost the same length, marking the start of autumn in the Northern Hemisphere
- Literature
A Christian belief that people lose their innocence when they disobey God
- Specialized
A caterpillar that lives in large silk nests on tree branches and eats the leaves in late summer and fall
A bush that loses its leaves and has large cone-shaped flowers in fall
Surface Forms
Etymology
Fall meaning 'happen on' comes from the idea of something landing on a day, like a leaf landing on the ground, from old English feallan 'to fall'. So if a date 'falls' on a day, it simply happens then.