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Fall can be a noun or a verb.

fall used as a noun:

  1. The act of moving in a fluid or vacuum under the effect of gravity to a lower position.
  2. A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.
  3. Autumn.
  4. A loss of greatness or status.
    "the fall of Rome"
  5. The action of a batsman being out.
  6. A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given direction
  7. Blame; punishment
    "He set up his rival to take the fall."
  8. See falls

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

fall used as a verb:

  1. To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
    "Thrown from a cliff, the stone fell 100 feet before hitting the ground."
  2. To come down, to drop or descend.
    "The rain fell at dawn."
  3. To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself.
    "He fell to the floor and begged for mercy."
  4. To be brought to the ground.
  5. To collapse; to be overthrown or defeated.
    "Rome fell to the Goths in 410 AD."
  6. To die, especially in battle.
    "This is a monument to all those who fell in the First World War."
  7. To be allotted to; to arrive through chance or fate.
    "And so it falls to me to make this important decision."
  8. To become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc).
    "The candidate's poll ratings fell abruptly after the banking scandal."
  9. To become; to be affected by or befallen with a calamity; to change into the state described by the adjective that follows; to become prostrated literally or figuratively .
    "Our senator fell into disrepute because of the banking scandal."
  10. To become.
    "She has fallen ill."
  11. To cause something to descend to the ground; especially to cause a tree to descend to the ground by cutting it down.

Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →

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As detailed above, 'fall' can be a noun or a verb. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Noun usage: the fall of Rome
  2. Noun usage: He set up his rival to take the fall.
  3. Verb usage: Thrown from a cliff, the stone fell 100 feet before hitting the ground.
  4. Verb usage: The rain fell at dawn.
  5. Verb usage: He fell to the floor and begged for mercy.
  6. Verb usage: Rome fell to the Goths in 410 AD.
  7. Verb usage: This is a monument to all those who fell in the First World War.
  8. Verb usage: And so it falls to me to make this important decision.
  9. Verb usage: The candidate's poll ratings fell abruptly after the banking scandal.
  10. Verb usage: Our senator fell into disrepute because of the banking scandal.
  11. Verb usage: She has fallen ill.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of fall are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of fall, and guess at its most common usage.

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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.

The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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