What's the difference between collapsed and fallen?

Collapsed


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Collapse

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As collapse was imminent, MAP increased but CO and TPR did not change significantly.
  • (2) Video games specialist Game was teetering on the brink of collapse on Friday after a rescue deal put forward by private equity firm OpCapita appeared to have been given the cold shoulder by lenders who are owed more than £100m.
  • (3) Meeting after meeting during 2011 to try to hammer out agreements about the basic shape of the Egyptian constitution – meetings that always mysteriously collapsed.
  • (4) Poor workplace health and safety, inadequate toilet facilities and dangerous fumes from mosquito fogging that led to one asylum seeker with asthma collapsing were all raised as concerns by Kilburn, although he stressed that he believed G4S management and expatriate G4S staff acted appropriately.
  • (5) The ATPase inhibitor dicyclohexylcarbodiimide, which collapsed the chemical and electrical components of the proton motive force, caused rapid cell swelling in the presence of glucose (and high intracellular ATP levels).
  • (6) Cobra collapsed into administration in 2009 after which Lord Bilimoria was criticised for using a “pre-pack” deal to buy back a stake in the firm.
  • (7) For the next three years, Foxtons suffered collapsing sales and staff culls.
  • (8) Sometimes it can seem as if the history of the City is the history of its crises and disasters, from the banking crisis of 1825 (which saw undercapitalised banks collapse – perhaps the closest historic parallel to the contemporary credit crunch), through the Spanish panic of 1835, the railway bust of 1837, the crash of Overend Gurney, the Kaffir boom, the Westralian boom, the Marconi scandal, and so on and on – a theme with endless variations.
  • (9) The Rio+ 20 Earth summit could collapse after countries failed to agree on acceptable language just two weeks before 120 world leaders arrive at the biggest UN summit ever organised, WWF warned on Wednesday.
  • (10) Dicyclohexylcarbodiimide (DCCD) inhibits this carrier in a time- and concentration -dependent manner as shown by the following evidence: it inhibits the carrier-mediated pH gradient driven monoamine uptake without collapsing the pH gradient; it affects the binding of the specific inhibitors [2-3H]dihydrotetrabenazine and [3H]reserpine.
  • (11) After completion of the hepatectomy, he developed circulatory collapse of unknown cause and died shortly after the operation.
  • (12) Secularism is the only way to stop collapse and chaos and to foster bonds of citizenship in our complex democracy.
  • (13) In such cases, hypertension must be controlled with phentolamine or sodium nitroprusside, cardiac arrhythmia with lignocaine, and collapse with volaemic expansion.
  • (14) Two conditions must be fulfilled: a lesion of a non collapsible vein; and a pressure gradient from outside to inside the vein, as occurs for instance during puncture of a large vein in a hypovolemic patient.
  • (15) Gastroduodenal investigation must of course be comprised of pictures during collapse, semi-collapse and repletion of the entire duodenal outline; once out of every two times, one has to recourse to intravenous duodenography which has become a routine investigation.
  • (16) When communism collapsed at the end of the 1980s and the sledgehammers started to thud into the Berlin Wall, the future for laissez-faire economics was brighter than it had been since 1914.
  • (17) Emergency teams are still working to reconnect 10,000 households in northern England which lost power in blizzards and gales, after all-night repairs on collapsed cables which left 80,000 cut off.
  • (18) In 4 persons the test had to be stopped because of collapse.
  • (19) Peacocks , the budget fashion chain, has fallen into administration, putting 9,600 jobs at risk, after a management buyout deal collapsed at the last minute.
  • (20) Nuclear pyknosis was seen in cortical cells of animals dying in collapse.

Fallen


Definition:

  • (p. p.) of Fall
  • (a.) Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Guardian Australia reported last week that morale at the national laboratory had fallen dramatically, with one in three staff “seriously considering” leaving their jobs in the wake of the cuts.
  • (2) The ratio of male:female students admitted has fallen from 3.4:1 in 1968 to 1.4:1 in 1987.
  • (3) In Europe, for example, the basket of goods tested has fallen 18% in Greece (Corfu) to £57.50, making prices a third cheaper than Italy (Sorrento) at £87.06, the most expensive of six eurozone destinations surveyed.
  • (4) Shares in the bank have fallen more than 30% since Britain voted to leave the EU and the share closed on Monday at 167p, well below the 502p average price at which taxpayers bought their stake in the bank.
  • (5) Her predecessor, Bingu wa Mutharika, had fallen out with international donors, but Banda managed to rebuild relationships.
  • (6) The organizers of the protest march he participated in said the man had fallen ill before any rioting had broken out.
  • (7) If they included a warning in the package ‘tamper resistance’ feature that works by non-Apple-authorised repair services may be mistaken for tampering attempts, and lead to the phone being disabled’, then it would be purely a feature ... By concealing the feature prior to sales, and only even revealing it after being repeatedly pressured over it, Apple turned what could have been a feature into a landmine.” Apple shares have fallen more than 20% in the past three months as investors begin to doubt whether it can maintain the stellar growth posted since the iPhone first went on sale eight years ago.
  • (8) By the fourth injection, arachidonic acid had fallen 48% below control and was accompanied by reciprocal increases of more saturated fatty acids including linoleic (18:2), oleic (18:1) and palmitic (16:0) acids.
  • (9) Peacocks , the budget fashion chain, has fallen into administration, putting 9,600 jobs at risk, after a management buyout deal collapsed at the last minute.
  • (10) Union urges M&S to open talks about pay and pension changes Read more M&S’s shares, which have fallen more than 40% in the past year, have come under pressure as investors assess the impact of Rowe’s plans on its profitability as well as the prospect of a high street downturn following the Brexit vote.
  • (11) Instead, 28% have simply fallen into arrears for the first time.
  • (12) Only 321 birds have fallen in the first six months of this year and the project is working to minimize the death tally, according to Thomas Doyle, president of NRG’s renewable energy business.
  • (13) Beckham has fallen out of favour at Real this season under new coach Fabio Capello, and had previously been linked with a number of major English and European sides, including Bolton, Newcastle, Internazionale and AC Milan, as well as various Major League Soccer sides.
  • (14) It therefore seems inevitable that the region will have fallen back into a new recession in the third quarter And here's a summary of the data, showing that only two countries expanded: Ireland: 51.8 (2-month high) The Netherlands: 50.7 (13-month high) Germany: 47.4 (6-month high) Italy: 45.7 (6-month high) Austria: 45.1 (39-month low) Spain: 44.5 (6 month low) France: 42.7 (41-month low) Greece: 42.2 (4-month high) 9.07am BST EUROZONE RECESSION ALL BUT CERTAIN The eurozone's manufacturing sector shrank again in September, making a double-dip recession all but certain.
  • (15) Platelet counts had fallen by eight hours after infusion, but had reached pretransfusion levels by 24 hours.
  • (16) Similarly, the proportion of severe cases seems to have fallen over the last thirty years, possibly due to earlier and more aggressive treatment but more probably due to an increase in the number of minor exposures reported.
  • (17) Youth unemployment has fallen by 59,000 since the scheme's launch, but the low take-up of the wage incentive scheme means it can claim little credit.
  • (18) The prevalence of iron deficiency anaemia among Swedish women of child-bearing age has fallen markedly since the mid-1960s.
  • (19) At the time when the number of mitoses had fallen to a subnormal level due to galactose-feeding (i.e., after 7 days), lenses of prolactin-treated animals exhibited less of a decrease in mitotic activity.
  • (20) The media, smelling blood, has fallen into pack formation.

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