(n.) A variety of pigeon with a large crop; a pouter.
(n.) A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth.
(n.) A fall on one's head when riding at full speed, as in hunting; hence, a sudden failure or collapse.
Example Sentences:
(1) When Hayley Cropper swallows poison on Coronation Street on Monday night, taking her own life to escape inoperable pancreatic cancer, with her beloved husband, Roy, in pieces at her bedside, it will be the end of a character who, thanks to Hesmondhalgh's performance, has captivated and challenged British TV viewers for 16 years.
(2) Coronation Street star Julie Hesmondhalgh said there was "an almost holy atmosphere" during her last scene when her character Hayley Cropper committed suicide in the face of incurable cancer.
(3) The columnist came a cropper in 2008 with his front-page Sunday Times story about John Le Carre's temptation to defect to the Soviet Union .
(4) Updated at 3.06pm BST 2.56pm BST O'Sullivan's rescue mission immediately comes a cropper, though, missing the black after his first red.
(5) And their confidence has meant some have come a cropper.
(6) The man, an army veteran whose identity has been withheld, was working as a translator for the US marines in the volatile Anbar province when he was detained for nine months at Camp Cropper, a US military facility near Baghdad airport dedicated to holding "high-value" detainees.
(7) The man, an army veteran whose identity has been withheld, worked as a translator for the US marines in the volatile Anbar province when he was detained for nine months at Camp Cropper, a US military facility near Baghdad airport dedicated to holding "high-value" detainees.
(8) "Croppers and livestock keepers in sub-Saharan Africa have in the past shown themselves to be highly adaptable to short- and long-term variations in climate.
(9) I flick idly through a few pictures, subjecting them to either the heart icon or the big red X. I'm careful not to use it in the office: friends of mine have already come a cropper by discovering their colleagues on the screen and finding out more than they ever wanted to know – a picture of the IT coordinator's penis is never welcome.
(10) The public had not and [the coalition] came a cropper big style".
(11) While everyone may have been under the impression that these products were being recycled, the reality is they more than likely weren’t,” he says, en route to the James Cropper mill in Kendal, Cumbria , where the Simply Cups cups are turned into new packaging.
(12) "The stakes in holding detainees at Camp Cropper may have been high, but one purpose of the constitutional limitations on interrogation techniques and conditions of confinement even domestically is to strike a balance between government objectives and individual rights, even when the stakes are high," he ruled.
(13) You can paint the name of your favourite rider on the road, though you are asked to use non-slippy chalk-based paint so that the riders don't come a cropper.
(14) Ironically, given the extensive choice, it's not one of these that Medway couple Michelle and David Reade came a cropper with.
(15) Cropper has made a handful of appearances on the bench for Southampton, but his prospects of getting a game this year do not look too good, after the club spent £10m to sign the England international Fraser Forster from Celtic .
(16) In neither sex was there a significant relation of pleural calcification to smoking, ventilatory capacity, nor type of work, though those classified as field croppers had a slightly higher prevalence.
(17) "He won't be the first or last youth to try and change the world and come a cropper," Ruffell said.
(18) District judge Wayne Andersen in Illinois last year ruled that Donald Vance and Nathan Ertel, Americans who worked in Iraq as contractors and were held at Camp Cropper, could pursue claims that they were tortured using Rumsfeld-approved methods after they suspected the security firm they worked for of engaging in illegal activities.
(19) For the sixth time in eight years, the club have not come a cropper at the play-off round.
(20) Julie Hesmondhalgh is best known for her award-winning performance as Hayley Cropper in Coronation Street – the first transgender character in a television serial.
Fall
Definition:
(v. t.) To Descend, either suddenly or gradually; particularly, to descend by the force of gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; the mercury falls in the barometer.
(v. t.) To cease to be erect; to take suddenly a recumbent posture; to become prostrate; to drop; as, a child totters and falls; a tree falls; a worshiper falls on his knees.
(v. t.) To find a final outlet; to discharge its waters; to empty; -- with into; as, the river Rhone falls into the Mediterranean.
(v. t.) To become prostrate and dead; to die; especially, to die by violence, as in battle.
(v. t.) To cease to be active or strong; to die away; to lose strength; to subside; to become less intense; as, the wind falls.
(v. t.) To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; -- said of the young of certain animals.
(v. t.) To decline in power, glory, wealth, or importance; to become insignificant; to lose rank or position; to decline in weight, value, price etc.; to become less; as, the falls; stocks fell two points.
(v. t.) To be overthrown or captured; to be destroyed.
(v. t.) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin; to depart from the faith; to apostatize; to sin.
(v. t.) To become insnared or embarrassed; to be entrapped; to be worse off than before; asm to fall into error; to fall into difficulties.
(v. t.) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; -- said of the countenance.
(v. t.) To sink; to languish; to become feeble or faint; as, our spirits rise and fall with our fortunes.
(v. t.) To pass somewhat suddenly, and passively, into a new state of body or mind; to become; as, to fall asleep; to fall into a passion; to fall in love; to fall into temptation.
(v. t.) To happen; to to come to pass; to light; to befall; to issue; to terminate.
(v. t.) To come; to occur; to arrive.
(v. t.) To begin with haste, ardor, or vehemence; to rush or hurry; as, they fell to blows.
(v. t.) To pass or be transferred by chance, lot, distribution, inheritance, or otherwise; as, the estate fell to his brother; the kingdom fell into the hands of his rivals.
(v. t.) To belong or appertain.
(v. t.) To be dropped or uttered carelessly; as, an unguarded expression fell from his lips; not a murmur fell from him.
(v. t.) To let fall; to drop.
(v. t.) To sink; to depress; as, to fall the voice.
(v. t.) To diminish; to lessen or lower.
(v. t.) To bring forth; as, to fall lambs.
(v. t.) To fell; to cut down; as, to fall a tree.
(n.) The act of falling; a dropping or descending be the force of gravity; descent; as, a fall from a horse, or from the yard of ship.
(n.) The act of dropping or tumbling from an erect posture; as, he was walking on ice, and had a fall.
(n.) Death; destruction; overthrow; ruin.
(n.) Downfall; degradation; loss of greatness or office; termination of greatness, power, or dominion; ruin; overthrow; as, the fall of the Roman empire.
(n.) The surrender of a besieged fortress or town ; as, the fall of Sebastopol.
(n.) Diminution or decrease in price or value; depreciation; as, the fall of prices; the fall of rents.
(n.) A sinking of tone; cadence; as, the fall of the voice at the close of a sentence.
(n.) Declivity; the descent of land or a hill; a slope.
(n.) Descent of water; a cascade; a cataract; a rush of water down a precipice or steep; -- usually in the plural, sometimes in the singular; as, the falls of Niagara.
(n.) The discharge of a river or current of water into the ocean, or into a lake or pond; as, the fall of the Po into the Gulf of Venice.
(n.) Extent of descent; the distance which anything falls; as, the water of a stream has a fall of five feet.
(n.) The season when leaves fall from trees; autumn.
(n.) That which falls; a falling; as, a fall of rain; a heavy fall of snow.
(n.) The act of felling or cutting down.
(n.) Lapse or declension from innocence or goodness. Specifically: The first apostasy; the act of our first parents in eating the forbidden fruit; also, the apostasy of the rebellious angels.
(n.) Formerly, a kind of ruff or band for the neck; a falling band; a faule.
(n.) That part (as one of the ropes) of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the fall of 1975, 1,915 children in grades K through eight began a school-based program of supervised weekly rinsing with 0.2 percent aqueous solution of sodium fluoride in an unfluoridated community in the Finger Lakes area of upstate New York.
(2) In all groups, there was a fall in labeling index with time reflecting increasing tumor size.
(3) McDonald said cutting better deals with suppliers and improving efficiency as well as raising some prices had only partly offset the impact of sterling’s fall against the dollar.
(4) In the clinical trials in which there was complete substitution of fat-modified ruminant foods for conventional ruminant products the fall in serum cholesterol was approximately 10%.
(5) Rise time and fall time constants have been quantified for describing kinetics of response.
(6) Elderly women need to follow the same strategies as postmenopausal women with more emphasis on prevention of falls.
(7) In the 153 women to whom iron supplements were given during pregnancy, the initial fall in haemoglobin concentration was less, was arrested by 28 weeks gestation and then rose to a level equivalent to the booking level.
(8) It is suggested that the rapid phase is due to clearance of peptides in the circulation which results in a fall to lower blood concentrations which are sustained by slow release of peptide from binding sites which act as a depot.
(9) Defibrotide prevents the dramatic fall of creatine phosphokinase activity in the ischemic ventricle: metabolic changes which reflect changes in the cells affected by prolonged ischemia.
(10) Though the 54-year-old designer made brief returns to the limelight after his fall from grace, designing a one-off collection for Oscar de la Renta last year , his appointment at Margiela marks a more permanent comeback.
(11) Addition of extracellular mevalonate led to a concentration-dependent fall in both processes, although a higher concentration was required to produce the same effect on LDL degradation as on HMG-CoA reductase activity.
(12) The fall of the cell number in the liquor cerebrospinalis was more rapidly in the GAGPS treatment.
(13) With fields and fells already saturated after more than four times the average monthly rainfall falling within the first three weeks of December, there was nowhere left to absorb the rainfall which has cascaded from fields into streams and rivers.
(14) The asthma group's fall in FEV1 was also abolished.
(15) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
(16) This transient paresis was accompanied by a dramatic fall in the MFCV concomitant with a shift of the power spectrum to the lower frequencies.
(17) As many girls as boys receive primary and secondary education, maternal mortality is lower and the birth rate is falling .
(18) Compliance during dehydration was 7.6 and 12.5% change in IFV per millimeter Hg fall in IFP (micropipettes) in skin and muscle, respectively, whereas compliance in subcutis based on perforated capsule pressure was 2.0% change in IFV per millimeter Hg.
(19) The fall of a tyrant is usually the cause of popular rejoicing followed by public vengeance.
(20) If women psychiatrists are to fill some of the positions in Departments of Psychiatry, which will fall vacant over the next decade, much more attention must be paid to eliminating or diminishing the multiple obstacles for women who chose a career in academic psychiatry.