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to fall into

to fall into

137 3.6
To belong to a group or type
  • phrasal verb
  • /fɔl ˈɪntu/
translation icon : entrar en
  • Many of the other textual prayers described above can also fall into the devotional category.
  • fall into categories
  • fall into classes
  • fall into a pattern

Where does talent fall into all of this?

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Examples

  • Every single diet that works falls into three categories.

  • Many organisms fall into the category of mammals due to their warm-blooded nature.

  • And then he says that these fall into two classes of things.

  • And so in that one, these fall into the same cell.

  • Where does talent fall into all of this?

    Rich Roll

  • The rest will fall into place.

    Casino (1995)

  • We fall into that category?

    Wild at Heart (1990)

  • Human beings fall into two very distinct groups.

    Love and Other Catastrophes (1996)

  • Thinking about the limited sample of data, it falls into two broad categories.

  • All right, so which common ligands fall into which categories?

Synonyms

to fall
vsto fall into
234 4.1

Belong to a particular group or type

is the phrasal form expressing inclusion into a group
to fall under
vsto fall into
50 3.4

To be part of a group or category

is the phrasal form that uses a particle showing entry into a category

Antonyms

to exclude
338 3.0

To keep someone or something out so they are not part of something

to disassociate
16 7.0

To end a connection with a person, group, or idea

How Classified

to categorize
  • US
59 3.5
to fall into
137 3.6

Surface Forms

fall into infinitive
falling into present participle
falls into third person singular
fell into past
fallen into past participle

Morphology

fall + into

The meaning 'to be included in or classified as' is derivable from combining the motion sense of 'fall' (to end up) with 'into' (indicating entry/change of state), so learners can often infer it as 'end up in a category'. However, this is a metaphorical extension of physical motion to classification (not fully literal), and while common cross-linguistically, the mapping is indirect rather than purely compositional, so it is only partially transparent to B1 learners.

Etymology

Fall into comes from the simple picture of something that falls into a box or pile. When it lands inside, it becomes part of that group, so to fall into a category means to be 'included' in that group.