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Meaning of "falling" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FALLING

falling  [ˈfɔːlɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FALLING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Falling is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES FALLING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Falling

Falling may refer to: ▪ Falling, movement due to gravity ▪ Falling ▪ Falling ▪ Falling...

Definition of falling in the English dictionary

The definition of falling in the dictionary is declining; deteriorating. Other definition of falling is coming down from higher level.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FALLING


appalling
əˈpɔːlɪŋ
bawling
ˈbɔːlɪŋ
brawling
ˈbrɔːlɪŋ
calling
ˈkɔːlɪŋ
caterwauling
ˈkætəˌwɔːlɪŋ
crawling
ˈkrɔːlɪŋ
disinthralling
ˌdɪsɪnˈθrɔːlɪŋ
drawling
ˈdrɔːlɪŋ
enthralling
ɪnˈθrɔːlɪŋ
footballing
ˈfʊtˌbɔːlɪŋ
galling
ˈɡɔːlɪŋ
kerb-crawling
kɜːb ˈkrɔːlɪŋ
morling
ˈmɔːlɪŋ
paintballing
ˈpeɪntˌbɔːlɪŋ
Pauling
ˈpɔːlɪŋ
sprawling
ˈsprɔːlɪŋ
squalling
ˈskwɔːlɪŋ
trawling
ˈtrɔːlɪŋ
unrecalling
ˌʌnrɪˈkɔːlɪŋ
warling
ˈwɔːlɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FALLING

fallen
fallen arch
faller
fallfish
fallibilism
fallibilist
fallibility
fallible
fallibleness
fallibly
falling band
falling evil
falling market
falling sickness
falling star
falling-off
falling-out
Fallopian tube
Fallot´s tetralogy
fallout

WORDS THAT END LIKE FALLING

bestselling
billing
chilling
compelling
controlling
direct selling
drilling
dwelling
feeling
filling
hot-selling
installing
killing
modelling
rolling
scrolling
selling
spelling
telling
travelling
willing

Synonyms and antonyms of falling in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «FALLING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «falling» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of falling

Translation of «falling» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FALLING

Find out the translation of falling to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of falling from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «falling» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

下降
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cayendo
570 millions of speakers

English

falling
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गिरने
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

السقوط
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

падения
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

caindo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পতনশীল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

chute
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Jatuh
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

rückläufig
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

落下
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

하락
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mudhun
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

giảm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வீழ்ச்சி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

घसरण
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

düşen
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

caduta
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

spada
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

падіння
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

care se încadrează
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

που
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

val
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

fallande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fallende
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of falling

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FALLING»

The term «falling» is very widely used and occupies the 5.657 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FALLING» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «falling» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «falling» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about falling

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10 QUOTES WITH «FALLING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word falling.
1
Maria Bello
When you fall head over heels for someone, you're not falling in love with who they are as a person; you're falling in love with your idea of love.
2
Yehuda Berg
If falling into desperation worked to make things better, then I would say, 'Let's all jump into despair.' But it doesn't help. The only way to truly find meaning and fulfillment is to look at the disaster, the pain, the difficulty, and know with complete certainty that good can come from this.
3
James Best
I do mostly Southern landscapes. I do beautiful old barns that are falling down, and beautiful trees reflecting in the water. My lovely wife Dorothy and I travel quite a bit, so I take pictures of different things that inspire me to come home, when I come home here in North Carolina, into my art studio and paint these things.
4
Ken Burns
When you are editing, the final master is Aristotle and his poetics. You might have a terrific episode, but if people are falling out because there are just too many elements in it, you have to begin to get rid of things.
5
John Byng
Falling little wind, it was five before I could form my line, or distinguish any of the enemy's motions; and could not judge at all of their force, more than by numbers, which were seventeen, and thirteen appeared large.
6
Peter Capaldi
The best advice is to get on with it. I'm very prone to falling into depressions - not clinical, just 'can't be bothered.' It's such a waste of time.
7
Kris Carr
If I let a blue mood run rampant, before I know it I'm obsessing about the color of the satin lining in my coffin - will it match my dress? That's when I feel like Alice in Cancerland falling down the rabbit hole and just have to stop.
8
J. M. Coetzee
Everyone seems to see bleakness and despair in my books. I don't read them that way. I see myself as writing comic books, books about ordinary people trying to live ordinary, dull, happy lives while the world is falling to pieces around them.
9
Edwin Louis Cole
You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.
10
Peter Cook
I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FALLING»

Discover the use of falling in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to falling and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Sound of Things Falling: A Novel
* National Bestseller * Hailed by Edmund White as "a brilliant new novel" on the cover of the New York Times Book Review * One of NPR’s 6 Best Books of the Summer * Esquire recommends The Sound of Things Falling “if you read only one ...
Juan Gabriel Vasquez, 2013
2
Falling Man: A Novel
And their small son Justin, standing at the window, scanning the sky for more planes. These are lives choreographed by loss, grief and the enormous force of history.
Don DeLillo, 2007
3
Falling
A powerful, disturbing book about racial tensions, intolerance, and the seductive appeal of right-wing extremism, this story explores the difficult pathways of love, fear, anger and forgiveness.
Anne Provoost, 1997
4
Snow Falling on Cedars
A “finely wrought, flawlessly written” novel (New York Times Book Review), set on a small island in the Puget Sound, that is “at various moments a courtroom drama, an interracial love story, and a war chronicle” (San Francisco ...
David Guterson, 1994
5
Falling Kingdoms: A Falling Kingdoms Novel
Treacherous betrayals, secret alliances, unforeseen murders, and forbidden love— The world of Mytica will hold you captive: AURANOS - Privileged Princess Cleo is forced to confront violence for the first time in her life when a shocking ...
Morgan Rhodes, 2012
6
Falling
With this, her second novel, Anne Simpson proves herself to be one of our most striking and original writers. From the Hardcover edition.
Anne Simpson, 2011
7
Falling Cloudberries: A World of Family Recipes
Collects recipes from Finland, Greece, Cyprus, South Africa, and Italy that reflect the author's world travels, multicultural heritage, and family traditions.
Tessa Kiros, 2009
8
Falling for You
Affection turns to obsession—and love means both devastation and redemption—in this gripping novel from the author of I Heart You, You Haunt Me. Rae’s always dreamed of dating a guy like Nathan.
Lisa Schroeder, 2013
9
Falling: Story of a Marriage
In her most personal memoir yet, the bestselling author of "Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight" and "Cocktails Under the Tree of Forgetfulness" tells the heartrending story of her long and stormy marriage to Charlie Ross, the love of ...
Alexandra Fuller, 2012
10
Falling
In Falling, Christopher Pike explores the depth and breadth of human emotion through two brilliantly etched characters: Kelly Feinman, who pays a terrible price to understand the nature of true evil; and Matt Connor, a classic anti-hero who ...
Christopher Pike, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FALLING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term falling is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Europe is the falling knife you can catch
An ancient saw holds that you should never try to catch a falling knife — or, in other words, try to be too clever by buying into a stock market as it ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»
2
Oil prices could keep falling due to oversupply, says IEA
Oil prices have not reached rock bottom and could continue falling well into next year, the west's energy watchdog has said. The International ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
3
The Russian Air Force is falling out of the sky
Now, after months of aggressive flying, Russia's overworked air force is falling out of the sky. On July 5, a Su-24M tactical bomber crashed ... «The Week Magazine, Jul 15»
4
Girl airlifted from swimming area in Nova Scotia after falling into ravine
NORTH RIVER — Police say a 16-year-old girl was airlifted from a swimming spot in Colchester County after falling down a ravine. «Cape Breton Post, Jul 15»
5
Manenberg truce 'slowly falling apart'
Cape Town - Manenberg residents are concerned that a fresh spate of gang violence might be gripping the area after a 13-year-old girl was ... «Independent Online, Jul 15»
6
United apologizes for 'falling short' during computer glitch
United Airlines sent apology letters to customers Thursday for "falling short" when a systems glitch grounded its flights worldwide. «CNNMoney, Jul 15»
7
'Falling Skies' Season 5 Episode 3 Spoilers: Tom Makes A Huge …
In the next episode of "Falling Skies," Tom (Noah Wyle) will have to make a decision that could result in the death of a character. The next ... «Latin Post, Jul 15»
8
Boy, 5, killed after falling into Rome metro lift shaft
UPDATED: Three people have been detained for manslaughter after a five-year-old boy died on Thursday when he fell into the lift shaft at a ... «The Local.it, Jul 15»
9
Why Apple Stock Is Falling Today: Goldman
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) shares are falling -- down over 2 percent at one point -- on a day when most peers are in the green. Aside from ... «Benzinga, Jul 15»
10
Ashes 2015: Trevor Bayliss effect taking hold as NSW players falling
THE Trevor Bayliss effect took hold on day two of the Ashes, as Australia's NSW contingent fell into every trap set for them by their former coach. «NEWS.com.au, Jul 15»

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