Drop vs. Fall: Know the Difference
By Shumaila Saeed || Updated on December 25, 2023
Drop generally means to let something fall intentionally, while fall refers to moving downwards by gravity, often accidentally.
Key Differences
Drop implies intentionally letting go of something, causing it to move downwards, whereas fall usually occurs without direct human intervention, as an object or person moves downwards due to gravity.
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When something is dropped, it's often from a relatively controlled height or position, while falling can occur from any height and is often uncontrolled or accidental.
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The act of dropping is typically a deliberate action, while falling is frequently an unintentional result of loss of balance or stability.
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In context, drop can also mean a small amount of liquid or a decline in quantity or quality, unlike fall, which is primarily associated with a physical downward movement.
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Fall can also refer to a season (autumn) or a decline in status or condition, extending beyond the physical sense of moving downwards, unlike the more specific action implied by drop.
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Comparison Chart
Context of Use
Can mean a small quantity or decrease
Refers to physical movement or a season
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Additional Meanings
Can imply a reduction or decline
Can signify a decline in status or season
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Drop and Fall Definitions
Drop
To let something fall deliberately.
She dropped the letter into the mailbox.
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Fall
A decrease or decline in status or amount.
The company's profits took a fall last quarter.
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Drop
To cease or discontinue.
The company decided to drop the unprofitable product line.
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Fall
To lose one's balance and collapse.
He slipped on the ice and had a nasty fall.
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Drop
A small amount of a liquid, drawn into a roughly spherical mass by surface tension.
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Fall
To drop or come down freely under the influence of gravity
Leaves fell from the tree.
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Drop
The quantity of liquid contained in such a mass, especially when measured out by a dropper.
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Fall
To drop oneself to a lower or less erect position
I fell back in my chair. The pilgrims fell to their knees.
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Fall
To be directed toward or come into contact; rest
My gaze fell upon the letter. The light fell on my book.
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Fall
To come into existence or occur as if by falling
A plague fell on the town. Night fell quickly.
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Drop
The act of falling; descent
The drop of the curtain.
The sun's drop toward the horizon.
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Fall
To occur at a specified time or place
The holiday falls on a Thursday. The stress falls on the last syllable.
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Drop
A swift decline or decrease, as in quality, quantity, or intensity
A drop in sales.
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Drop
The vertical distance from a higher to a lower level
The cliff has a drop of 50 feet.
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Fall
To come forth as if by falling; issue
Did any thanks fall from their lips?.
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Fall
To assume an expression of consternation or disappointment
His face fell when he heard the report.
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Fall
To undergo conquest or capture, especially as the result of an armed attack
The city fell after a long siege.
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Drop
A descent or delivery of something by parachute
Made a drop of supplies to the explorers.
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Fall
To experience defeat or ruin
The home team fell to the visitors. After 300 years the dynasty fell.
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Drop
Something, such as a trapdoor on a gallows, that is arranged to fall or be lowered.
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A central place or establishment where something, such as mail, is brought and subsequently distributed.
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A predetermined location for the deposit and subsequent removal of secret communications or illicit goods, such as drugs.
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Drop
(Electronics) A connection made available for an input or output unit on a transmission line.
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Fall
(Theology) To lose primordial innocence and happiness. Used of humanity as a result of the Fall.
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Fall
To pass into a particular state, condition, or situation
Fell silent.
Fall in love.
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Drop
To fall from a higher to a lower place or position
The plate dropped onto the floor.
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To become less, as in number, intensity, or volume
The temperature dropped below 0.
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Fall
To be given by assignment or distribution
The greatest task fell to me.
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Drop
To move or descend from one height or level to another
He dropped into a crouch. The sun dropped below the horizon.
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Fall
To be included within the range or scope of something
The specimens fall into three categories.
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Drop
To pass or slip into a specified state or condition
Dropped into a doze.
Drop out of sight.
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Drop
To cause to fall, as by hitting or shooting
Dropped him with a left hook.
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Fall
The distance that something falls
The victim suffered a fall of three stories to the ground.
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Drop
To terminate an association or a relationship with
An actor who was dropped by the talent agency.
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Fall
An ornamental cascade of lace or trimming attached to a dress, usually at the collar.
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Drop
To leave or set down at a particular place; unload
I dropped the book in your office.
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Drop
(Informal) To spend, especially lavishly or rashly
"dropping $50,000 in an Atlantic City casino" (George F. Will).
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Fall
A marked, often sudden, decline in status, rank, or importance
His fall from power.
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Fall
Often Fall(Theology)The loss of humanity's original innocence and happiness resulting from Adam and Eve's eating of the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden.
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Drop
A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own round shape through surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid.
Put three drops of oil into the mixture.
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Fall
The act of holding a wrestling opponent on the opponent's back so that the shoulders remain in contact with the mat for a designated period, usually one or two seconds, thereby winning the match. Also called pin.
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Drop
(pharmacology) A dose of liquid medicine in the form of a drop (sense 1).
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A liquid medicine that is intended to be administered in drops (sense 1).
Ear drops
Eye drops
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Drop
(figuratively) A very small quantity of liquid, or (by extension) of anything.
My aunt asked for just a drop more tea.
He was thirsty but there wasn’t a drop of water to be found
They didn’t show a drop of remorse
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Drop
A small amount of an alcoholic beverage.
He usually enjoys a drop after dinner.
She won’t touch a drop while she’s on duty.
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Fall
The end of a cable, rope, or chain that is pulled by the power source in hoisting.
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Drop
Usually preceded by the: alcoholic spirits in general.
It doesn’t matter where you’re from, anyone who enjoys the drop is a friend of mine.
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Drop
That which hangs or resembles a liquid globule, such as a hanging diamond earring or ornament, a glass pendant on a chandelier, etc.
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Often preceded by a defining word: a small, round piece of hard candy, such as a lemon drop; a lozenge.
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Fall
(Botany) One of the outer, drooping segments of a flower, especially an iris.
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Fall
Of, having to do with, occurring in, or appropriate to the season of fall
Fall fashion.
Fall harvests.
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The cover mounted on a swivel over a keyhole that rests over the keyhole when not in use to keep out debris, but is swiveled out of the way before inserting the key.
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(agriculture) A fruit which has fallen off a tree, etc., or has been knocked off accidentally, rather than picked.
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Fall
To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
Thrown from a cliff, the stone fell 100 feet before hitting the ground.
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Drop
(American football) A dropped pass.
Yet another drop for the Tiger tight end.
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Drop
An item made available for the player to pick up from the remains of a defeated enemy.
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Fall
To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself.
He fell to the floor and begged for mercy.
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Drop
(theater) A curtain which falls in front of a theatrical stage; also, a section of (cloth) scenery lowered on to the stage like a curtain.
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Drop
An act of moving downwards under the force of gravity; a descent, a fall.
That was a long drop, but fortunately I didn’t break any bones.
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Drop
An instance of making a delivery of people, supplies, or things, especially by parachute out of an aircraft (an airdrop), but also by truck, etc.
The delivery driver has to make three more drops before lunch.
The spy made the drop, leaving the plans under the tree as arranged.
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Drop
(gambling) The amount of money that a gambler exchanges for chips in a casino.
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Fall
To become.
She has fallen ill.
The children fell asleep in the back of the car.
When did you first fall in love?
Fall silent, fall sick, fall pregnant, fall victim to something
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Fall
(intransitive) To collapse; to be overthrown or defeated.
Rome fell to the Goths in 410 AD.
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Fall
To die, especially in battle or by disease.
This is a monument to all those who fell in the First World War.
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Fall
(intransitive) To become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc.).
The candidate's poll ratings fell abruptly after the banking scandal.
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Drop
A decline in degree, quality, quantity, or rate.
The drop in demand for oil resulted in a drop in prices.
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Fall
To occur (on a certain day of the week, date, or similar); to happen.
Thanksgiving always falls on a Thursday.
Last year, Commencement fell on June 3.
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Fall
(intransitive) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.
And so it falls to me to make this important decision.
The estate fell to his brother; the kingdom fell into the hands of his rivals.
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Drop
The distance through which something drops, or falls below a certain level.
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The distance below a cliff or other high position through which someone or something could fall; hence, a steep slope.
On one side of the road was a 50-foot drop.
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Fall
To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals.
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Drop
(engineering) The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
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(intransitive) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin.
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(law enforcement) The distance that a person drops when being executed by hanging.
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Fall
(intransitive) To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.
To fall into error;
To fall into difficulties
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Drop
(nautical) The depth of a (square) sail (generally applied to the courses only); the vertical dimension of a sail.
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Fall
(intransitive) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the face.
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Drop
A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, whether openly (as with a mail drop), or secretly or illegally (as in crime or espionage); a drop-off point.
I left the plans at the drop, like you asked.
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Fall
(intransitive) To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.
After arguing, they fell to blows.
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Drop
(music) A point in a song, usually electronic music such as dubstep, house, trace, or trap, where there is a very noticeable and pleasing change in bass, tempo, and/or overall tone; a climax, a highlight.
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Fall
(intransitive) To be dropped or uttered carelessly.
An unguarded expression fell from his lips.
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Fall
To hang down under the influence of gravity.
An Empire-style dress has a high waistline – directly under the bust – from which the dress falls all the way to a hem as low as the floor.
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Drop
To fall (straight down) under the influence of gravity, like a drop of liquid.
A single shot was fired and the bird dropped from the sky.
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Drop
(intransitive) To fall or sink quickly or suddenly to the ground.
Drop and give me thirty push-ups, private!
If your clothes are on fire, stop, drop and roll.
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Drop
(intransitive) To collapse in exhaustion or injury; also, to fall dead, or to fall in death.
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Fall
The time of the year when the leaves typically fall from the trees; autumn; the season of the year between the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice.
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Drop
(intransitive) To come to an end (by not being kept up); to lapse, to stop.
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Drop
(intransitive) To decrease, diminish, or lessen in condition, degree, value, etc.
The stock dropped 1.5% yesterday.
We can take our vacation when the price of fuel drops.
Watch for the temperature to drop sharply, then you’ll know the reaction is complete.
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Drop
(intransitive) Of a song or sound: to lower in key, pitch, tempo, or other quality.
My synthesizer makes the notes sound funny when they drop below C2.
The song, 180 beats per minute, drops to 150 BPM near the end.
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Drop
(intransitive) Of a voice: to lower in timbre, often due to puberty.
Billy’s voice dropped suddenly when he turned 12.
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Fall
(curling) A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given direction.
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(intransitive) To fall behind or to the rear of a group of people, etc., as a result of not keeping up with those at the front.
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(intransitive) Usually followed by by, in, or into: of a person: to visit someone or somewhere informally or without a prior appointment.
Do drop by soon and I’ll lend you that book.
We’ll drop in on her tomorrow.
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Fall
A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover hair loss.
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Of a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.: to enter public distribution.
The album Hip-Hop Xmas dropped in time for the holidays.
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Fall
Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.
He set up his rival to take the fall.
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Fall
(nautical) The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).
Have the goodness to secure the falls of the mizzen halyards.
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Drop
Of the testicles: to hang further away from the body and begin producing sperm due to puberty.
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A short, flexible piece of leather forming part of a bullwhip, placed between the thong and the cracker.
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To let (something) fall; to allow (something) to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip on).
Don’t drop that plate!
The police ordered the men to drop their weapons.
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Drop
(transitive) To move to a lower position; to allow to hang downwards; to lower.
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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.
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Drop
(cooking) To cook (food, especially fast food), particularly by lowering into hot oil to deep-fry, or by grilling.
Drop a basket of fries.
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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.
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Drop
(transitive) To reduce; to make smaller.
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Fall
To find a final outlet; to discharge its waters; to empty; - with into; as, the river Rhone falls into the Mediterranean.
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(transitive) Of an animal (usually a sheep): to give birth to (young); of a bird: to lay (an egg).
To drop a lamb
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Fall
To become prostrate and dead; to die; especially, to die by violence, as in battle.
A thousand shall fall at thy side.
He rushed into the field, and, foremost fighting, fell.
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Drop
(transitive) To mention (something) casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.
The lecturer would drop hints whenever the students struggled.
Name drop
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Fall
To cease to be active or strong; to die away; to lose strength; to subside; to become less intense; as, the wind falls.
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Drop
(transitive) To let (a letter, etc.) fall into a postbox; hence, to send (a letter, email, or other message) in an offhand manner.
As she had a free moment, she dropped her a text.
Drop me a note when you get to the city.
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Fall
To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; - said of the young of certain animals.
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(transitive) To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot, etc.; to bring down, to shoot down.
Make any sudden movements and I will drop you!
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Fall
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 nowTo be thy lord and master.
The greatness of these Irish lords suddenly fell and vanished.
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Drop
(transitive) To set down (someone or something) from a vehicle; to stop and deliver or deposit (someone or something); to drop off.
Could you drop me at the airport on your way to work tomorrow?
I’ll be dropping the parcel at your place later.
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Fall
To be overthrown or captured; to be destroyed.
Heaven and earth will witness,If Rome must fall, that we are innocent.
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Fall
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.
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Fall
To become insnared or embarrassed; to be entrapped; to be worse off than before; as, to fall into error; to fall into difficulties.
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Drop
(transitive) To cease concerning oneself over (someone or something); to have nothing more to do with (a discussion, subject, etc.).
I’m tired of this subject. Will you just drop it?
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Fall
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.
I have observed of late thy looks are fallen.
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Drop
(transitive) To dispose or get rid of (something); to lose, to remove.
I dropped ten pounds and an obnoxious fiancée.
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To sink; to languish; to become feeble or faint; as, our spirits rise and fall with our fortunes.
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(transitive) To cease to include (something), as if on a list; to dismiss, to eject, to expel.
I’ve been dropped from the football team.
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Fall
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.
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Drop
(transitive) To cancel or cease to participate in (a scheduled course, event, or project).
I had to drop calculus because it was taking up too much of my time.
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Fall
To happen; to to come to pass; to light; to befall; to issue; to terminate.
The Romans fell on this model by chance.
Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall.
They do not make laws, they fall into customs.
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Fall
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.
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Fall
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.
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Fall
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.
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Fall
To belong or appertain.
If to her share some female errors fall,Look on her face, and you'll forget them all.
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Drop
To release (a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.) to the public.
They dropped the album Hip-Hop Xmas in time for the holidays.
That hacker has been threatening to drop my docs [i.e. publish my personal information].
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Fall
To be dropped or uttered carelessly; as, an unguarded expression fell from his lips; not a murmur fell from him.
Those captive tribes . . . fell offFrom God to worship calves.
A soul exasperated in ills falls outWith everything, its friend, itself.
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Drop
To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter, etc.).
Cockneys drop their aitches.
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Drop
To play (a portion of music) in the manner of a disc jockey.
I love it when he drops his funky beats.
That guy can drop the bass like a monster.
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Fall
To diminish; to lessen or lower.
Upon lessening interest to four per cent, you fall the price of your native commodities.
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Drop
(cricket) Of a fielder: to fail to dismiss (a batsman) by accidentally dropping a batted ball that had initially been caught.
Warne dropped Tendulkar on 99. Tendulkar went on to get a century next ball.
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Fall
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.
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Drop
To cover (something) with or as if with drops, especially of a different colour; to bedrop, to variegate.
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The act of dropping or tumbling from an erect posture; as, he was walking on ice, and had a fall.
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Fall
Death; destruction; overthrow; ruin.
They thy fall conspire.
Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
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Drop
To present the user with a more basic interface.
You are being dropped to a recovery shell.
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Fall
Downfall; degradation; loss of greatness or office; termination of greatness, power, or dominion; ruin; overthrow; as, the fall of the Roman empire.
Beholds thee glorious only in thy fall.
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Drop
The quantity of fluid which falls in one small spherical mass; a liquid globule; a minim; hence, also, the smallest easily measured portion of a fluid; a small quantity; as, a drop of water.
With minute drops from off the eaves.
As dear to me as are the ruddy dropsThat visit my sad heart.
That drop of peace divine.
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Fall
The surrender of a besieged fortress or town ; as, the fall of Sebastopol.
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Drop
That which resembles, or that which hangs like, a liquid drop; as a hanging diamond ornament, an earring, a glass pendant on a chandelier, a sugarplum (sometimes medicated), or a kind of shot or slug.
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Fall
Diminution or decrease in price or value; depreciation; as, the fall of prices; the fall of rents.
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Fall
A sinking of tone; cadence; as, the fall of the voice at the close of a sentence.
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Drop
Whatever is arranged to drop, hang, or fall from an elevated position; also, a contrivance for lowering something
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Drop
Any medicine the dose of which is measured by drops; as, lavender drops.
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Fall
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.
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Fall
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.
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Fall
Extent of descent; the distance which anything falls; as, the water of a stream has a fall of five feet.
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Drop
To pour or let fall in drops; to pour in small globules; to distill.
The recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever.
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Fall
The season when leaves fall from trees; autumn.
What crowds of patients the town doctor kills,Or how, last fall, he raised the weekly bills.
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Drop
To cause to fall in one portion, or by one motion, like a drop; to let fall; as, to drop a line in fishing; to drop a courtesy.
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Fall
That which falls; a falling; as, a fall of rain; a heavy fall of snow.
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Drop
To let go; to dismiss; to set aside; to have done with; to discontinue; to forsake; to give up; to omit.
They suddenly drop't the pursuit.
That astonishing ease with which fine ladies drop you and pick you up again.
The connection had been dropped many years.
Dropping the too rough H in Hell and Heaven.
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Drop
To bestow or communicate by a suggestion; to let fall in an indirect, cautious, or gentle manner; as, to drop hint, a word of counsel, etc.
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Fall
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.
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Fall
Formerly, a kind of ruff or band for the neck; a falling band; a faule.
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Fall
That part (as one of the ropes) of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting.
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Drop
To cover with drops; to variegate; to bedrop.
Show to the sun their waved coats dropped with gold.
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Fall
A sudden drop from an upright position;
He had a nasty spill on the ice
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Drop
To fall in drops.
The kindly dew drops from the higher tree,And wets the little plants that lowly dwell.
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Fall
The lapse of mankind into sinfulness because of the sin of Adam and Eve;
Women have been blamed ever since the Fall
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Drop
To fall, in general, literally or figuratively; as, ripe fruit drops from a tree; wise words drop from the lips.
Mutilations of which the meaning has dropped out of memory.
When the sound of dropping nuts is heard.
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Drop
To let drops fall; to discharge itself in drops.
The heavens . . . dropped at the presence of God.
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Fall
A lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity;
A fall from virtue
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Drop
To fall dead, or to fall in death; as, dropping like flies.
Nothing, says Seneca, so soon reconciles us to the thoughts of our own death, as the prospect of one friend after another dropping round us.
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Fall
A sudden decline in strength or number or importance;
The fall of the House of Hapsburg
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Drop
To come to an end; to cease; to pass out of mind; as, the affair dropped.
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Drop
To come unexpectedly; - with in or into; as, my old friend dropped in a moment.
Takes care to drop in when he thinks you are just seated.
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Fall
The act of surrendering (under agreed conditions);
They were protected until the capitulation of the fort
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Drop
To fall or be depressed; to lower; as, the point of the spear dropped a little.
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Fall
The time of day immediately following sunset;
He loved the twilight
They finished before the fall of night
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Drop
To fall short of a mark.
Often it drops or overshoots by the disproportion of distance.
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Drop
To be deep in extent; to descend perpendicularly; as, her main topsail drops seventeen yards.
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Fall
A free and rapid descent by the force of gravity;
It was a miracle that he survived the drop from that height
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Drop
A small quantity (especially of a liquid);
One drop of each sample was analyzed
Any child with a drop of negro blood was legally a negro
There is not a drop of pity in that man
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Fall
A sudden sharp decrease in some quantity;
A drop of 57 points on the Dow Jones index
There was a drop in pressure in the pulmonary artery
A dip in prices
When that became known the price of their stock went into free fall
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Drop
A shape that is small and round;
He studied the shapes of low-viscosity drops
Beads of sweat on his forehead
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Fall
Descend in free fall under the influence of gravity;
The branch fell from the tree
The unfortunate hiker fell into a crevasse
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Drop
A sudden sharp decrease in some quantity;
A drop of 57 points on the Dow Jones index
There was a drop in pressure in the pulmonary artery
A dip in prices
When that became known the price of their stock went into free fall
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Fall
Move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way;
The temperature is going down
The barometer is falling
The curtain fell on the diva
Her hand went up and then fell again
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Drop
A steep high face of rock;
He stood on a high cliff overlooking the town
A steep drop
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Fall
Pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind;
Fall into a trap
She fell ill
They fell out of favor
Fall in love
Fall asleep
Fall prey to an imposter
Fall into a strange way of thinking
She fell to pieces after she lost her work
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Drop
A predetermined hiding place for the deposit and distribution of illicit goods (such as drugs or stolen property)
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Fall
Come under, be classified or included;
Fall into a category
This comes under a new heading
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Drop
A free and rapid descent by the force of gravity;
It was a miracle that he survived the drop from that height
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Fall
Fall from clouds;
Rain, snow and sleet were falling
Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on Herculaneum
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Drop
A curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies; often used as background scenery
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Fall
Suffer defeat, failure, or ruin;
We must stand or fall
Fall by the wayside
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Fall
Decrease in size, extent, or range;
The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester
The cabin pressure fell dramatically
Her weight fall to under a hundred pounds
His voice fell to a whisper
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Drop
The act of dropping something;
They expected the drop would be successful
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Fall
Die, as in battle or in a hunt;
Many soldiers fell at Verdun
Several deer have fallen to the same gun
The shooting victim fell dead
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Fall
Touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly;
Light fell on her face
The sun shone on the fields
The light struck the golden necklace
A strange sound struck my ears
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Fall
Occur at a specified time or place;
Christmas falls on a Monday this year
The accent falls on the first syllable
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Fall
Lose office or power;
The government fell overnight
The Qing Dynasty fell with Sun Yat-sen
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Fall
To be given by assignment or distribution;
The most difficult task fell on the youngest member of the team
The onus fell on us
The pressure to succeed fell on the yougest student
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Drop
Cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow;
Strike down a tree
Lightning struck down the hikers
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Fall
To be given by right or inheritance;
The estate fell to the oldest daughter
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Fall
Fall to somebody by assignment or lot;
The task fell to me
It fell to me to notify the parents of the victims
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Drop
Hang freely;
The ornaments dangled from the tree
The light dropped from the ceiling
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Fall
Be inherited by;
The estate fell to my sister
The land returned to the family
The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead
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Drop
Stop associating with;
They dropped her after she had a child out of wedlock
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Fall
Lose an upright position suddenly;
The vase fell over and the water spilled onto the table
Her hair fell across her forehead
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Fall
Drop oneself to a lower or less erect position;
She fell back in her chair
He fell to his knees
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Drop
Leave undone or leave out;
How could I miss that typo?
The workers on the conveyor belt miss one out of ten
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Fall
Fall or flow in a certain way;
This dress hangs well
Her long black hair flowed down her back
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Fall
Assume a disappointed or sad expression;
Her face fell when she heard that she would be laid off
His crest fell
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Drop
Grow worse;
Her condition deteriorated
Conditions in the slums degenerated
The discussion devolved into a shouting match
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Drop
A small amount of a liquid.
Add just a drop of lemon juice to the recipe.
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Drop
A sudden decrease in amount or quality.
There was a significant drop in temperature overnight.
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Drop
To fall or decrease suddenly.
His energy level dropped after the long run.
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Fall
To move downwards by the force of gravity.
The ripe apples began to fall from the tree.
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Fall
Autumn, the season between summer and winter.
The leaves change color in the fall.
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Fall
To succumb to temptation or a negative influence.
The hero would not fall to the villain's trickery.
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Repeatedly Asked Queries
Is dropping something always intentional?
Mostly, though it can be accidental in some contexts.
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Does 'drop' have a seasonal meaning?
No, 'drop' does not refer to a season.
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Is falling always unintentional?
Typically, but it can be intentional in some contexts, like skydiving.
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Can 'drop' refer to a liquid?
Yes, it can refer to a small amount of liquid.
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What does 'drop' usually imply?
It often implies intentionally letting go of something so it falls.
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Can 'drop' mean a decline?
Yes, it can indicate a sudden decrease in level or quality.
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Does 'fall' have a specific height associated with it?
No, it can occur from any height.
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Is 'fall' used in physical and non-physical contexts?
Yes, it's used in both physical (movement) and metaphorical (status) senses.
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What does 'fall' typically indicate?
It usually indicates moving downwards by gravity, often accidentally.
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Is dropping an object a controlled action?
Usually, it's more controlled than falling.
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Can 'drop' be used figuratively?
Yes, it can be used figuratively to indicate a reduction.
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Can 'drop' be a noun?
Yes, it can be a noun, referring to a small amount or decline.
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Is the action of dropping quick?
It can be, depending on the context and the object involved.
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Do 'drop' and 'fall' have the same severity?
Not always; 'fall' often implies a more serious or dramatic action.
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Can 'fall' indicate a decrease in status?
Yes, it can refer to a decline in status or condition.
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Does 'fall' have a positive connotation?
It often has a neutral or negative connotation, depending on context.
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Can 'fall' be used in sports?
Yes, particularly in terms indicating losing balance or being taken down.
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Can both 'drop' and 'fall' be used metaphorically?
Yes, both can have metaphorical uses, like "drop a hint" or "fall from grace."
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