Definitions for falls
falls

Princeton's WordNet(3.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. fallsnoun

   the petals or sepals of a flower that bend downward (especially the outer perianth of an iris)

2. waterfall, fallsnoun

   a steep descent of the water of a river

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. fallsnoun

   A waterfall.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. falls

   When a ship is not flush, this is the term given to those risings of some parts of her decks (which she may have) more than others.

Matched Categories

1. • Body Of Water
   • Perianth
   • River

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'falls' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4310

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'falls' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4234

How to pronounce falls?

1. Alex

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

How to say falls in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of falls in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of falls in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of falls in a Sentence

1. Advocate General Priit Pikamae:

   A passenger biting other passengers and attacking the cabin crew trying to calm him down, resulting in the deviation of a Lisbon-Fortaleza flight to the nearest airport in order to disembark this passenger and his baggage, leading to a flight delay, falls under the concept of extraordinary circumstances.

2. Arthur Conan Doyle:

   Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

3. Yuri Shafranik:

   Even if oil falls below $40, they would endure it.

4. Shruthi Reddy:

   We've declared employee pay cuts if revenue falls below a threshold.

5. Per Hammarlund:

   It's just a matter of time before the government falls or we have a major reshuffling, the anti-corruption measures have been much more controversial than we would have liked, and now with the IMF putting pressure on them ... something will have to give.

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