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fall 1. Machinery nautical the end of a tackle to which power is applied to hoist it 2. Nautical one of the lines of a davit for holding, lowering, or raising a boat 3. Wrestling a scoring move, pinning both shoulders of one's opponent to the floor for a specified period 4. Hunting a. another word for deadfall b. (as modifier): a fall trap Fall the Theol Adam's sin of disobedience and the state of innate sinfulness ensuing from this for himself and all mankind fall [fȯl] (astronomy) Of a spacecraft or spatial body, to drop toward a spatial body under the influence of its gravity. (engineering) The minimum slope that is required to facilitate proper drainage of liquid inside a pipe. (mechanical engineering) The rope or chain of a hoisting tackle. (mining engineering) A mass of rock, coal, or ore which has fallen from the roof or side in any subterranean working or gallery. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Yet Green Day have fallen afoul of corporate media with their hit single "American Idiot," with certain stations censoring the couplet "Maybe I am the faggot America / I'm not a part of a redneck agenda. If Beagle 2 remains silent during future low-level passes, it may have fallen afoul of a jinx that seems to afflict most missions to Mars. However much the Kunstwollen may have fallen afoul of positivist admonitions, it would be difficult to understand Riegl's practices as an "art scientist" without reference to something like it. |
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