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# fall

«fall» in Mova's school dictionary: **to drop down toward the ground** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (fall, falls, fell, fallen, falling); noun (a fall, falls; fall — the season in the USA and Canada)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To fall means to drop down toward the ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fall/#m1)

2) To fall is to go down in amount, like prices or temperatures. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fall/#m2)

3) Fall (in the USA and Canada) is autumn, the season after summer, when leaves fall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fall/#m3)

4) A fall is a time when someone or something drops. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fall/#m4)

5) Falls are a waterfall, like Niagara Falls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fall/#m5)

6) To fall asleep is to begin to sleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fall/#m6)

7) Fall ill means to become sick. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fall/#m7)

### sense in the lessons

maths: things that drop (subtract), temperatures or prices that fall (fell by 5 subtracts; fell to 5 gives the new amount); or the season; science: gravity makes things fall; leaves fall in autumn; rain and snow fall; safety: falls are a common cause of injury, hold the rail; stories: fall in love, fall asleep; phrases: «fall over», «fall behind», «fall apart»

### examples

- 5 apples fell from the tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fall/#x1)
- The temperature falls 3 degrees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fall/#x2)
- In the fall she picked 40 apples. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fall/#x3)
- How many leaves are left after 12 fall? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fall/#x4)
- Hold the rail so you don't fall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fall/#x5)
- Snow fell all night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fall/#x6)
- Leaves turn red in the fall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fall/#x7)
- The baby fell asleep in the car. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fall/#x8)
- We visited Niagara Falls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fall/#x9)
- Then he fell ill and died. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fall/#x10)

### note

Falling usually takes away: subtract. Trap: «fell to 5» gives the new amount; «fell by 5» subtracts 5. Past forms: fell, has fallen (not «falled»). British and Australian English say «autumn» for the season.

### In the corpora

- [Energy bills pay for gas and electricity, and their prices rise and fall with world events.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/6-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills/13/)
- [Buying, selling or renting a home has many steps, and things can take months or fall through.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/1/)
- [Some cancer treatments make hair fall out because they attack fast-growing cells; the hair usually grows back after treatment.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/21-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness/14/)
- [Drunk means so much alcohol that balance, speech and judgement stop working properly; drunk people can fall, fight and act unpredictably.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/27-coffee-tea-wine-and-the-pub/13/)
- [If someone stops coming to something, ask how they are instead of deciding they have fallen out with you.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/42-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fall» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fall/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.