What is "falling"

Fall \Fall\ (f[add]l), v. i. [imp. Fell (f[e^]l); p. p. Fallen (f[add]l"'n); p. pr. & vb. n. Falling.] [AS. feallan; akin to D. vallen, OS. & OHG. fallan, G. fallen, Icel. Falla, Sw. falla, Dan. falde, Lith. pulti, L. fallere to deceive, Gr. sfa`llein to cause to fall, Skr. sphal, sphul, to tremble. Cf. Fail, Fell, v. t., to cause to fall.]

1. 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.

   I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
   --Luke x. 18.

2. 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.

   I fell at his feet to worship him.
   --Rev. xix. 10.

3. To find a final outlet; to discharge its waters; to empty; -- with into; as, the river Rhone falls into the Mediterranean.

4. To become prostrate and dead; to die; especially, to die by violence, as in battle.

   A thousand shall fall at thy side.
   --Ps. xci. 7.

   He rushed into the field, and, foremost fighting, fell.
   --Byron.

5. To cease to be active or strong; to die away; to lose strength; to subside; to become less intense; as, the wind falls.

6. To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; -- said of the young of certain animals.
   --Shak.

7. 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 price falls; stocks fell two points.

   I am a poor fallen man, unworthy now To be thy lord and master.
   --Shak.

   The greatness of these Irish lords suddenly fell and vanished.
   --Sir J. Davies.

8. To be overthrown or captured; to be destroyed.

   Heaven and earth will witness, If Rome must fall, that we are innocent.
   --Addison.

9. 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.

   Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.
   --Heb. iv. 11.

10. To become insnared or embarrassed; to be entrapped; to be worse off than before; as, to fall into error; to fall into difficulties.

11. To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; -- said of the countenance.

    Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
    --Gen. iv. 5.

    I have observed of late thy looks are fallen.
    --Addison.

12. To sink; to languish; to become feeble or faint; as, our spirits rise and fall with our fortunes.

13. 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.

14. To happen; to to come to pass; to light; to befall; to issue; to terminate.

    The Romans fell on this model by chance.
    --Swift.

    Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall.
    --Ruth. iii. 18.

    They do not make laws, they fall into customs.
    --H. Spencer.

15. To come; to occur; to arrive.

    The vernal equinox, which at the Nicene Council fell on the 21st of March, falls now [1694] about ten days sooner.
    --Holder.

16. To begin with haste, ardor, or vehemence; to rush or hurry; as, they fell to blows.

    They now no longer doubted, but fell to work heart and soul.
    --Jowett (Thucyd. ).

17. 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.

18. To belong or appertain.

    If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all.
    --Pope.

19. To be dropped or uttered carelessly; as, an unguarded expression fell from his lips; not a murmur fell from him. To fall abroad of (Naut.), to strike against; -- applied to one vessel coming into collision with another. To fall among, to come among accidentally or unexpectedly. To fall astern (Naut.), to move or be driven backward; to be left behind; as, a ship falls astern by the force of a current, or when outsailed by another. To fall away.

    1. To lose flesh; to become lean or emaciated; to pine.

    2. To renounce or desert allegiance; to revolt or rebel.

    3. To renounce or desert the faith; to apostatize. ``These . . . for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.''
       --Luke viii. 13.

    4. To perish; to vanish; to be lost. ``How . . . can the soul . . . fall away into nothing?''
       --Addison.

    5. To decline gradually; to fade; to languish, or become faint. ``One color falls away by just degrees, and another rises insensibly.'' --Addison. To fall back.

       1. To recede or retreat; to give way.

       2. To fail of performing a promise or purpose; not to fulfill. To fall back upon or To fall back on.

          1. (Mil.) To retreat for safety to (a stronger position in the rear, as to a fort or a supporting body of troops).

          2. To have recourse to (a reserved fund, a more reliable alternative, or some other available expedient or support). To fall calm, to cease to blow; to become calm. To fall down.

             1. To prostrate one's self in worship. ``All kings shall fall down before him.''
                --Ps. lxxii. 11.

             2. To sink; to come to the ground. ``Down fell the beauteous youth.''
                --Dryden.

       3. To bend or bow, as a suppliant.

       4. (Naut.) To sail or drift toward the mouth of a river or other outlet. To fall flat, to produce no response or result; to fail of the intended effect; as, his speech fell flat. To fall foul of.

          1. (Naut.) To have a collision with; to become entangled with

          2. To attack; to make an assault upon. To fall from, to recede or depart from; not to adhere to; as, to fall from an agreement or engagement; to fall from allegiance or duty. To fall from grace (M. E. Ch.), to sin; to withdraw from the faith. To fall home (Ship Carp.), to curve inward; -- said of the timbers or upper parts of a ship's side which are much within a perpendicular. To fall in.

             1. To sink inwards; as, the roof fell in.

             2. (Mil.) To take one's proper or assigned place in line; as, to fall in on the right.

          3. To come to an end; to terminate; to lapse; as, on the death of Mr. B., the annuuity, which he had so long received, fell in.

          4. To become operative. ``The reversion, to which he had been nominated twenty years before, fell in.'' --Macaulay. To fall into one's hands, to pass, often suddenly or unexpectedly, into one's ownership or control; as, to spike cannon when they are likely to fall into the hands of the enemy. To fall in with.

             1. To meet with accidentally; as, to fall in with a friend.

             2. (Naut.) To meet, as a ship; also, to discover or come near, as land.

             3. To concur with; to agree with; as, the measure falls in with popular opinion.

             4. To comply; to yield to. ``You will find it difficult to persuade learned men to fall in with your projects.'' --Addison. To fall off.

                1. To drop; as, fruits fall off when ripe.

                2. To withdraw; to separate; to become detached; as, friends fall off in adversity. ``Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide.''
                   --Shak.

                3. To perish; to die away; as, words fall off by disuse.

                4. To apostatize; to forsake; to withdraw from the faith, or from allegiance or duty.

                   Those captive tribes . . . fell off From God to worship calves.
                   --Milton.

       5. To forsake; to abandon; as, his customers fell off.

    6. To depreciate; to change for the worse; to deteriorate; to become less valuable, abundant, or interesting; as, a falling off in the wheat crop; the magazine or the review falls off. ``O Hamlet, what a falling off was there!''
       --Shak.

    7. (Naut.) To deviate or trend to the leeward of the point to which the head of the ship was before directed; to fall to leeward. To fall on.

       1. To meet with; to light upon; as, we have fallen on evil days.

       2. To begin suddenly and eagerly. ``Fall on, and try the appetite to eat.''
          --Dryden.

       3. To begin an attack; to assault; to assail. ``Fall on, fall on, and hear him not.''
          --Dryden.

       4. To drop on; to descend on. To fall out.

          1. To quarrel; to begin to contend.

             A soul exasperated in ills falls out With everything, its friend, itself.
             --Addison.

          2. To happen; to befall; to chance. ``There fell out a bloody quarrel betwixt the frogs and the mice.''
             --L'Estrange.

          3. (Mil.) To leave the ranks, as a soldier. To fall over.

             1. To revolt; to desert from one side to another.

             2. To fall beyond. --Shak. To fall short, to be deficient; as, the corn falls short; they all fall short in duty. To fall through, to come to nothing; to fail; as, the engageent has fallen through. To fall to, to begin. ``Fall to, with eager joy, on homely food.'' --Dryden. To fall under.

                1. To come under, or within the limits of; to be subjected to; as, they fell under the jurisdiction of the emperor.

                2. To come under; to become the subject of; as, this point did not fall under the cognizance or deliberations of the court; these things do not fall under human sight or observation.

             3. To come within; to be ranged or reckoned with; to be subordinate to in the way of classification; as, these substances fall under a different class or order. To fall upon.

                1. To attack. [See To fall on.]

                2. To attempt; to have recourse to. ``I do not intend to fall upon nice disquisitions.''
                   --Holder.

                3. To rush against.

                   Note: Fall primarily denotes descending motion, either in a perpendicular or inclined direction, and, in most of its applications, implies, literally or figuratively, velocity, haste, suddenness, or violence. Its use is so various, and so mush diversified by modifying words, that it is not easy to enumerate its senses in all its applications.

Falling \Fall"ing\, a. & n. from Fall, v. i.

Falling away, Falling off, etc. See To fall away, To fall off, etc., under Fall, v. i.

Falling band, the plain, broad, linen collar turning down over the doublet, worn in the early part of the 17th century.

Falling sickness (Med.), epilepsy.
--Shak.

Falling star. (Astron.) See Shooting star.

Falling stone, a stone falling through the atmosphere; a meteorite; an a["e]rolite.

Falling tide, the ebb tide.

Falling weather, a rainy season. [Colloq.]
--Bartlett.

present participle adjective from fall (v.). Falling star is from 1560s; falling off "decrease, declining" is from c.1600. Falling evil "epilepsy" is from early 13c.

1. That falls or fall. n. The action of the verb '''to fall'''. v

2. (present participle of fall English)

1. adj. suddenly losing an upright position; "they ran from the falling tree"; "a falling wall crushed the car" [ant: standing]

2. decreasing in amount or degree; "falling temperature"

3. becoming lower or less in degree or value; "a falling market"; "falling incomes" [ant: rising]

4. coming down freely under the influence of gravity; "the eerie whistle of dropping bombs"; "falling rain" [syn: dropping]

Falling may refer to:

• Falling (physics), movement due to gravity
• Falling (accident)
• Falling (execution)
• Falling (sensation)

Falling is a real-time card game from James Ernest in which all players are falling from the sky for no apparent reason. The object of the game is to hit the ground last. As the box copy says, "It's not much of a goal, but it's all you could think of on the way down."

The game has an uncommon element in card games, in that one player is a dealer whose only role is to smoothly pass out cards in front of the other player. All players may play cards simultaneously, as in other real-time games like Brawl and Fightball. A game takes about a minute to play before everyone hits the ground with predictable results.

The players receive stacks of cards, and try to cope with them as quickly and accurately as they can. At any time, a player may take the top card from any stack belonging to him or her, and then must play it before doing anything else. Some cards are called riders, and can be played on oneself or any other player (except the dealer). These have effects such as creating an extra pile in front of a player, or giving a player an extra card when the dealer gets to him or her. Other cards cancel or move the effects of riders between players. When encountering riders, the dealer immediately removes them and implements their effects, then moves to the next player.

On the bottom of the deck are five Ground cards: when a player get a Ground card, he or she is out, and the last player to hit the Ground wins.

Falling (ISBN 0-330-36889-3) is a 1999 novel by British writer Elizabeth Jane Howard. It was later filmed as a drama for ITV.

Falling (1994) (orig. Dutch Vallen) is a novel by the Flemish author Anne Provoost.

"Falling" is a song by the American dream pop singer Julee Cruise. It is the lead single and second track from her debut studio album, Floating into the Night (1989). Featuring music composed by Angelo Badalamenti and lyrics written by David Lynch, an instrumental version of "Falling" was used as the theme song for the ABC television series Twin Peaks.

Twin Peaks gained a cult following after its original broadcast in April 1990 and "Falling" subsequently charted in twelve countries worldwide—including peaking at number 1 on the Australian Singles Chart. The instrumental version of the song, performed by Badalamenti, won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance at the 32nd Grammy Awards. This instrumental version is included in the first volume of the Pure Moods compilation album series but is erroneously titled on the artwork and liner notes as being the theme for Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me.

Cruise released a new version of the song as a hidden track on her 2002 album The Art of Being a Girl

In 2010, Pitchfork Media ranked "Falling" at number 146 on its "Top 200 Tracks of the 1990s."

Falling is a song by Cathy Dennis. It was released in 1993 and was the third single from 'Into The Skyline' in the UK.

The single version of 'Falling' was remixed by PM Dawn. This recording lead to Cathy singing backing vocals on ' Looking Through Patient Eyes'.

Falling is the second leading cause of accidental death worldwide and is a major cause of personal injury, especially for the elderly. Falls in older adults are an important class of preventable injuries. Builders, electricians, miners, and painters are occupations with high rates of fall injuries.

About 155 million new cases of a significant fall occurred in 2013. These unintentional falls resulted in 556,000 deaths up from 341,000 deaths in 1990.

"Falling" is a 1986 single by Melba Moore. The single was a follow-up to "A Little Bit More" her number one soul single with Freddie Jackson. Just as she had done with her previous single, "Falling" peaked at number one on the soul singles chart, for one week.

A sensation of falling occurs when the labyrinth or vestibular apparatus, a system of fluid-filled passages in the inner ear, detects changes in acceleration. This sensation can occur when a person begins to fall, which in terms of mechanics amounts to a sudden acceleration increase from zero to roughly 9.8 m/s. If the body is in free fall (for example, during skydiving) with no other momenta (rotation, etc.) there is no falling sensation. This almost never occurs in real-life falling situations because when the faller leaves his support there are usually very significant quantities of residual momenta such as rotation and these momenta continue as the person falls, causing a sensation of dysphoria. The faller doesn't fall straight down but spins, flips, etc. due to these residual momenta and also due to the asymmetric forces of air resistance on his asymmetric body. While velocity continues to increase, the downward acceleration due to gravity remains constant. Increasing drag force may even cause a feeling of ascent.

The vestibular apparatus also detects spatial orientation with respect to visual input. A similar sensation of falling can be induced when the eyes detect rapid apparent motion with respect to the environment. This system enables people to keep their balance by signalling when a physical correction is necessary. Some medical conditions, known as balance disorders, also induce the sensation of falling. In the early stages of sleep, a falling sensation may be perceived in connection with a hypnic jerk, sometimes awaking the sleeper abruptly.

Throwing or dropping people from great heights has been used as a form of execution since ancient times. People executed in this way die from injuries caused by hitting the ground at high velocity.

In ancient Delphi the sacrilegious were hurled from the top of the Hyampeia, the high crag of the Phaedriades to the east of the Castalian Spring.

In pre-Roman Sardinia, elderly people who were unable to support themselves were ritually killed. They were intoxicated with a neurotoxic plant known as the " sardonic herb" (which some scientists think is hemlock water dropwort) and then dropped from a high rock or beaten to death.

During the Roman Republic, the Tarpeian Rock, a steep cliff at the southern summit of the Capitoline Hill, was used for public executions. Murderers and traitors, if convicted by the quaestores parricidii, were flung from the cliff to their deaths. Those who had a mental or significant physical disability also suffered the same fate as they were thought to have been cursed by the gods.

Later, during the Roman Empire, the Gemonian stairs were used for this purpose. Their use as a place of execution is most closely associated with the later part of the reign of the emperor Tiberius. The condemned were usually strangled before their bodies were bound and thrown down the stairs. Occasionally the corpses of the executed were transferred here for display from other places of execution in Rome. Corpses were usually left to rot on the staircase for extended periods of time in full view of the Forum, scavenged by dogs or other carrion animals, until eventually being thrown into the Tiber. Death on the stairs was considered extremely dishonourable and dreadful, yet several senators and even an emperor met their demise here.

Suetonius records the rumours of lurid tales of sexual perversity and cruelty of Tiberius during the later part of his reign while he was living at Capri, Tiberius would execute people by having them thrown from a cliff into the sea while he watched. These people were tortured before being executed and if they survived the fall, men waiting below in boats would break their bones with oars and boathooks.

In pre-colonial South Africa, several tribes including the Xhosa and the Zulu had named Execution Hills, from which miscreants were hurled to their deaths. These societies had no form of imprisonment so punishment was corporal, capital or expulsion. It is believed that during the Namibian war of independence numerous SWAPO troops were dropped from South African helicopters over the sea.

During the Spanish Civil War, both the right-wing Nationalist and left-wing Republican sides of the conflict made use of this execution method on their prisoners, though the practice was far more widespread on the part of the Nationalists.

During Argentina's Dirty War of the late 1970s, those secretly adbucted were often thrown from aircraft, in what were known as death flights.

Iran may have used this form of execution for the crime of sodomy. According to Amnesty International in 2008, two men were convicted of raping two university students and sentenced to death. They were to be thrown off a cliff or from a great height. Other men involved in this incident were sentenced to lashes, presumably because they did not engage in penetrative sex with the victims. The European Union condemned Iran for this action in a declaration against Iran's use of the death penalty.

In 2015, members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant executed men who were accused of being gay by pushing them off towers.

"Falling" was the second single released from Montell Jordan's second album, More.... Like the previous single, " I Like", "Falling" was co-produced by Derick "D Man" McEleveen and James Earl Jones, who sampled MC Eiht's " Streiht Up Menace". "Falling" was the most successful of the three singles, making it to 18 on the Billboard 200, and was certified gold on December 3, 1996 for individual sales of 500,000 copies. The official remix featured a guest appearance from rapper, Flesh-n-Bone.

Falling was the second full-length album by the Toronto-based new wave band Blue Peter. Coming on the heels of Up To You, their successful 1982 EP, Steve Nye was selected to produce their next album, which included the hit song, "Don't Walk Past". Nye's production emphasized keyboards over guitars, and drew comparisons with his work with Roxy Music and Japan.

Falling is the sixth studio album by Praga Khan and is the soundtrack to the movie Falling. It was released in 2001.

"Falling" is vocalist Alison Moyet's only single of 1993 and first single from the album Essex.

The single failed to enter the UK top 40, peaking at #42 for a total of three weeks. Moyet's previous single "Hoodoo" failed to chart in the UK top 100 at all.

A promotional video was created for the single.

Due to the disappointing charting, CBS/Columbia Records insisted that " Whispering Your Name" was re-recorded and re-produced to create a more 'commercial' package for the next single.

The b-side for the single "Ode to Boy" appeared on the same album as well as being released as a single in 1994. The song was written by Moyet and was originally performed by Moyet and Vince Clarke in Yazoo.

The American CD single featured the bonus track " It Won't Be Long (Acoustic)" which is an acoustic version of Moyet's 1991 single.

For the single, the artwork based on a postage stamp is related to the "Essex" album which also carries the same theme.

"Falling" is a song by industrial rock band Gravity Kills from the album Perversion, released by TVT Records in 1998.

"Falling" is a song by American group Haim. The song was released in the United Kingdom on February 12, 2013. It is the third single from their debut studio album Days Are Gone. The song has peaked at number 30 on the UK Singles Chart and finished 2013 having sold over 107,500 copies according to UKMIX.org. A music video to accompany the release of "Falling" was first released onto YouTube on February 19, 2013 at a total length of four minutes and eleven seconds. The video was shot in the hills near Pasadena, California. The video's director was Tabitha Denholm, formerly of the band Queens of Noize.

"Falling" is the fourteenth single by Ant & Dec and the last to be taken from their final album, The Cult of Ant & Dec. It was released in 1997 and served as their final single until 2002's " We're on the Ball". "Falling" reached number 14 in the UK charts on its initial release.

"Falling" is a song written and recorded by Canadian singer-songwriter Bruce Guthro. It was released in 1998 as the second single from his second studio album, Of Your Son. The song peaked at number 15 on the RPM Country Tracks and number 12 on the RPM Adult Contemporary Tracks chart. It also peaked at number 39 on the RPM Top Singles chart.

"Falling" is a 2001 single by English pop group Boom!. The song was a hit, peaking at #11 on the UK Singles Chart in early 2001.

Falling is a 2015 Nigerian romantic drama film written and produced by Uduak Isong Oguamanam, and directed by Niyi Akinmolayan. It stars Desmond Elliot, Blossom Chukwujekwu, Adesua Etomi, Tamara Eteimo and Koffi Adjorlolo.

The film narrates the story of a young couple, Muna (Adesua Etomi) and Imoh (Kunle Rhemmy); Muna has to live with the effects of an accident that has left Imoh deeply unconscious for several months.

"Falling" is the sixteenth episode in the first season of the CBS television series Supergirl, which aired on March 14, 2016. The episode's teleplay was written by Robert Rovner & Jessica Queller, and directed by Larry Teng.

"Falling" is the debut single by American Idol season fifteen winner Trent Harmon and is also his coronation song from the contest. It was co-written by singer songwriter and American Idol judge Keith Urban with Dallas Davidson and Brett James. This song also failed to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 thus making it the second and the final American Idol coronation single to do so.