Descent vs. Falls — What's the Difference?

An act of moving downwards, dropping, or falling

To drop or come down freely under the influence of gravity

The origin or background of a person in terms of family or nationality

To drop oneself to a lower or less erect position

A sudden violent attack

To lose an upright or erect position suddenly

The act or an instance of descending

To drop wounded or dead, especially in battle.

A way down

To hang down

A downward incline or passage; a slope

To be cast down

Hereditary derivation; lineage

To be directed toward or come into contact; rest

The fact or process of being derived or developing from a source

To come into existence or occur as if by falling

(Law) Transmission of property, especially real estate, to a hereditary heir by an intestate owner.

To occur at a specified time or place

A lowering or decline, as in status or level

To be removed as if by falling

A sudden visit or attack; an onslaught

To come forth as if by falling; issue

An instance of descending; act of coming down.

To assume an expression of consternation or disappointment

A way down.

To undergo conquest or capture, especially as the result of an armed attack

A sloping passage or incline.

To experience defeat or ruin

Lineage or hereditary derivation.

To lose office

A drop to a lower status or condition; decline. en

To move downward to a lower level; be reduced

A falling upon or invasion.

To slope downward

(topology) A particular extension of the idea of gluing. See Descent (mathematics).

To become less in amount or degree

The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.

To diminish in pitch or volume

Incursion; sudden attack; especially, hostile invasion from sea; - often followed by upon or on; as, to make a descent upon the enemy.

To decline in financial value

Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction.

To give into temptation; suffer a moral lapse.

Progress downward, as in station, virtue, as in station, virtue, and the like, from a higher to a lower state, from a higher to a lower state, from the more to the less important, from the better to the worse, etc.

(Theology) To lose primordial innocence and happiness. Used of humanity as a result of the Fall.

Transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending line; title to inherit an estate by reason of consanguinity.

To pass into a particular state, condition, or situation

Inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent.

To come, as by chance

That which is descended; descendants; issue.

To be given by assignment or distribution

A step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation.

To be given by right or inheritance.

Lowest place; extreme downward place.

To be included within the range or scope of something

A movement downward

To apply oneself

Properties attributable to your ancestry;

To be born. Used chiefly of lambs.

The act of changing your location in a downward direction

To cut down (a tree); fell.

The kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors

The act or an instance of falling.

A downward slope or bend

A sudden drop from a relatively erect to a less erect position.

The descendants of one individual;

Something that has fallen

An amount that has fallen

The distance that something falls

Autumn.

Falls(used with a sing. or pl. verb) A waterfall.

A downward movement or slope.

A veil hung from a hat and down the wearer's back.

An ornamental cascade of lace or trimming attached to a dress, usually at the collar.

A hairpiece with long, free-hanging hair.

An overthrow; a collapse

Armed capture of a place under siege

A reduction in value, amount, or degree

A marked, often sudden, decline in status, rank, or importance

A moral lapse.

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.

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.

Any of various wrestling maneuvers resulting in such an act.

A break or rise in the level of a deck.

Falls The apparatus used to hoist and transfer cargo or lifeboats.

The end of a cable, rope, or chain that is pulled by the power source in hoisting.

The birth of an animal, especially a lamb.

All the animals born at one birth; a litter.

A family of woodcock in flight.

(Botany) One of the outer, drooping segments of a flower, especially an iris.

Of, having to do with, occurring in, or appropriate to the season of fall

Grown during the season of fall

A waterfall.

Plural of fall

A steep descent of the water of a river