(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.
Slide
Definition:
(v. t.) To move along the surface of any body by slipping, or without walking or rolling; to slip; to glide; as, snow slides down the mountain's side.
(v. t.) Especially, to move over snow or ice with a smooth, uninterrupted motion, as on a sled moving by the force of gravity, or on the feet.
(v. t.) To pass inadvertently.
(v. t.) To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance; as, a ship or boat slides through the water.
(v. t.) To slip when walking or standing; to fall.
(v. t.) To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cassation of sound.
(v. t.) To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence.
(v. t.) To cause to slide; to thrust along; as, to slide one piece of timber along another.
(v. t.) To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip; as, to slide in a word to vary the sense of a question.
(n.) The act of sliding; as, a slide on the ice.
(n.) Smooth, even passage or progress.
(n.) That on which anything moves by sliding.
(n.) An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, esp. one constructed on a mountain side for conveying logs by sliding them down.
(n.) A surface of ice or snow on which children slide for amusement.
(n.) That which operates by sliding.
(n.) A cover which opens or closes an aperture by sliding over it.
(n.) A moving piece which is guided by a part or parts along which it slides.
(n.) A clasp or brooch for a belt, or the like.
(n.) A plate or slip of glass on which is a picture or delineation to be exhibited by means of a magic lantern, stereopticon, or the like; a plate on which is an object to be examined with a microscope.
(n.) The descent of a mass of earth, rock, or snow down a hill or mountain side; as, a land slide, or a snow slide; also, the track of bare rock left by a land slide.
(n.) A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.
(n.) A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below.
(n.) An apparatus in the trumpet and trombone by which the sounding tube is lengthened and shortened so as to produce the tones between the fundamental and its harmonics.
(n.) A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound.
(n.) Same as Guide bar, under Guide.
(n.) A slide valve.
Example Sentences:
(1) (4) Despite the removal of the cruciate ligaments and capsulo-ligamentous slide, no significant residual instability was found in either plane.
(2) The Pakistan government, led as usual by a general, was anxious to project the army's role as bringers of order to a country that was sliding quickly towards civil war.
(3) For routine use, 50 mul of 12% BTV SRBC, 0.1 ml of a spleen cell suspension, and 0.5 ml of 0.5% agarose in a balanced salt solution were mixed and plated on a microscope slide precoated with 0.1% aqueous agarose.
(4) That piece was placed on the slide and embedded with a mixture of agar and antiserum.
(5) Slides and short films were used in primary and secondary schools.
(6) One cytotechnologist screened the slides for all occurrences of a standard set of classic cytopathologic signs.
(7) It was the ease with which minor debt could slide into a tangle of hunger and despair.
(8) Slide smears revealed the rosette-shaped pattern characteristic of malignant neuroblastoma, many of which were fitted with dendritic plasmatic processes.
(9) In the 55th minute Ivanovic dispossessed Bale and beat Ricketts before sliding the ball across to give Tadic a simple finish.
(10) Perfused or immersion-fixed epithalamic tissues, sectioned, and mounted on glass slides were processed through the avidin-biotin immunofluorescence method.
(11) The staining method consisted of sequential treatment of slides with crest serum, fluorosceinated goat-antihuman and swine-antigoat antibodies, and propidium iodide.
(12) These additional cues involved different sensations in effort of the perfomed movement sliding heavy object vs. sliding light object (sS test), as well as different sensations in pattern of movement and joints - sliding vs. lifting of an object (SL test).
(13) Portugal's slide towards a Greek-style second bailout accelerated after its principal private lenders indicated that they were growing weary of assurances from Lisbon that it could get on top of the country's debts.
(14) Children as young as 18 months start by sliding on tiny skis in soft supple boots, while over-threes have more formal lessons in the snow playground.
(15) In addition to the cytologic characteristics, the possibility of detecting muscle antigens as markers for these embryonal small cells, even in previously stained slides, provides a successful method for defining the specific type of sarcoma.
(16) Tissue slides obtained at autopsy from 80 cases with AIDS were studied immunhistochemically for infection with Toxoplasma gondii.
(17) These results confirmed that 'punctuated' labeling was not an artefact due to a distortion of the cell's shape by having been dried on glass slides.
(18) The proportion of persons with P. malariae in this sample population, as determined by slide examination, appears to be the greatest ever reported for any area before the introduction of control measures.
(19) The new slide latex particle agglutination test gave better results, with 100% specificity, 80% sensitivity, high predictive values (greater than or equal to 91%), and an overall diagnostic efficiency of 93%.
(20) No, Did they invent sliding fingers across substances?