Fall vs. Summer

move from a higher to a lower level, typically rapidly and without control

Summer is the hottest of the four temperate seasons, falling after spring and before autumn. At or around the summer solstice (about 3 days before Midsummer Day), the earliest sunrise and latest sunset occurs, the days are longest and the nights are shortest, with day length decreasing as the season progresses after the solstice.

(of a person) lose one's balance and collapse

the warmest season of the year, in the northern hemisphere from June to August and in the southern hemisphere from December to February

decrease in number, amount, intensity, or quality

a horizontal bearing beam, especially one supporting joists or rafters.

be captured or defeated

spend the summer in a particular place

pass into a specified state, situation, or position

In the Northern Hemisphere, the usually warmest season of the year, occurring between spring and autumn and constituting June, July, and August. In the Southern Hemisphere, it constitutes December, January, and February.

an act of falling or collapsing

The season extending from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox.

a thing which falls or has fallen

A period of fruition, fulfillment, happiness, or beauty.

a decrease in size, number, rate, or level

A year

a defeat or downfall

A heavy horizontal timber that serves as a supporting beam, especially for the floor above.

autumn

A lintel.

a flock of woodcock

A large, heavy stone usually set on the top of a column or pilaster to support an arch or lintel.

To drop or come down freely under the influence of gravity

To lodge or keep during the summer

To drop oneself to a lower or less erect position

To pass the summer

To lose an upright or erect position suddenly

Relating to or occurring in summer

To drop wounded or dead, especially in battle.

Grown during the season of summer

To hang down

One of four seasons, traditionally the second, marked by the longest and typically hottest days of the year due to the inclination of the Earth and thermal lag. Typically regarded as being from June 21 to September 22 or 23 in parts of the USA, the months of June, July and August in the United Kingdom and the months of December, January and February in the Southern Hemisphere.

To be cast down

year; used to give the age of a person, usually a young one.

To be directed toward or come into contact; rest

Someone with light, pinkish skin that has a blue undertone, light hair and eyes, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.

To come into existence or occur as if by falling

(architecture) A horizontal beam supporting a building.

To occur at a specified time or place

(obsolete) A pack-horse.

To be removed as if by falling

A person who sums.

To come forth as if by falling; issue

A machine or algorithm that sums.

To assume an expression of consternation or disappointment

(intransitive) To spend the summer, as in a particular place on holiday.

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

One who sums; one who casts up an account.

To experience defeat or ruin

A large stone or beam placed horizontally on columns, piers, posts, or the like, serving for various uses. Specifically: (a) The lintel of a door or window. (b) The commencement of a cross vault. (c) A central floor timber, as a girder, or a piece reaching from a wall to a girder. Called also summertree.

To lose office

The season of the year in which the sun shines most directly upon any region; the warmest period of the year.

To move downward to a lower level; be reduced

To pass the summer; to spend the warm season; as, to summer in Switzerland.

To slope downward

To keep or carry through the summer; to feed during the summer; as, to summer stock.

To become less in amount or degree

the warmest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox;

To diminish in pitch or volume

spend the summer;

To decline in financial value

To give into temptation; suffer a moral lapse.

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

To pass into a particular state, condition, or situation

To come, as by chance

To be given by assignment or distribution

To be given by right or inheritance.

To be included within the range or scope of something

To apply oneself

To be born. Used chiefly of lambs.

To cut down (a tree); fell.

The act or an instance of falling.

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

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

To be moved downwards.

To move to a lower position under the effect of gravity.

To come down, to drop or descend.

To come as if by dropping down.

To come to the ground deliberately, to prostrate oneself.

To be brought to the ground.

(transitive) To move downwards.

(obsolete) To let fall; to drop.

(obsolete) To sink; to depress.

To fell; to cut down.

(intransitive) To change, often negatively.

To become.

(intransitive) To collapse; to be overthrown or defeated.

To die, especially in battle or by disease.

(intransitive) To become lower (in quantity, pitch, etc.).

To occur (on a certain day of the week, date, or similar); to happen.

(intransitive) To be allotted to; to arrive through chance, fate, or inheritance.

To diminish; to lessen or lower.

To bring forth.

To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals.

(intransitive) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin.

(intransitive) To become ensnared or entrapped; to be worse off than before.

(intransitive) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; said of the face.

(intransitive) To happen; to come to pass; to chance or light (upon).

(intransitive) To begin with haste, ardour, or vehemence; to rush or hurry.

(intransitive) To be dropped or uttered carelessly.

To hang down under the influence of gravity.

The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.

A reduction in quantity, pitch, etc.

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.

A loss of greatness or status.

That which falls or cascades.

(sport) A crucial event or circumstance.

The action of a batsman being out.

(curling) A defect in the ice which causes stones thrown into an area to drift in a given direction.

(wrestling) An instance of a wrestler being pinned to the mat.

A hairpiece for women consisting of long strands of hair on a woven backing, intended primarily to cover hair loss.

Blame or punishment for a failure or misdeed.

(nautical) The part of the rope of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting (usu. plural).

An old Scots unit of measure equal to six ells.

A short, flexible piece of leather forming part of a bullwhip, placed between the thong and the cracker.

The lid, on a piano, that covers the keyboard

(nautical) The chasing of a hunted whale.

(nautical) The cry given when a whale is sighted, or harpooned.

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.

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.

To find a final outlet; to discharge its waters; to empty; - with into; as, the river Rhone falls into the Mediterranean.

To become prostrate and dead; to die; especially, to die by violence, as in battle.

To cease to be active or strong; to die away; to lose strength; to subside; to become less intense; as, the wind falls.

To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; - said of the young of certain animals.

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.

To be overthrown or captured; to be destroyed.

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.

To become insnared or embarrassed; to be entrapped; to be worse off than before; as, to fall into error; to fall into difficulties.

To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; - said of the countenance.

To sink; to languish; to become feeble or faint; as, our spirits rise and fall with our fortunes.

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.

To happen; to to come to pass; to light; to befall; to issue; to terminate.

To come; to occur; to arrive.

To begin with haste, ardor, or vehemence; to rush or hurry; as, they fell to blows.

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.

To belong or appertain.

To be dropped or uttered carelessly; as, an unguarded expression fell from his lips; not a murmur fell from him.

To let fall; to drop.

To sink; to depress; as, to fall the voice.

To diminish; to lessen or lower.

To bring forth; as, to fall lambs.

To fell; to cut down; as, to fall a tree.

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.

The act of dropping or tumbling from an erect posture; as, he was walking on ice, and had a fall.

Death; destruction; overthrow; ruin.

Downfall; degradation; loss of greatness or office; termination of greatness, power, or dominion; ruin; overthrow; as, the fall of the Roman empire.

The surrender of a besieged fortress or town ; as, the fall of Sebastopol.

Diminution or decrease in price or value; depreciation; as, the fall of prices; the fall of rents.

A sinking of tone; cadence; as, the fall of the voice at the close of a sentence.

Declivity; the descent of land or a hill; a slope.

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.

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.

Extent of descent; the distance which anything falls; as, the water of a stream has a fall of five feet.

The season when leaves fall from trees; autumn.

That which falls; a falling; as, a fall of rain; a heavy fall of snow.

The act of felling or cutting down.

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.

Formerly, a kind of ruff or band for the neck; a falling band; a faule.

That part (as one of the ropes) of a tackle to which the power is applied in hoisting.

the season when the leaves fall from the trees;

a sudden drop from an upright position;

the lapse of mankind into sinfulness because of the sin of Adam and Eve;

a downward slope or bend

a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity;

a sudden decline in strength or number or importance;

a movement downward;

the act of surrendering (under agreed conditions);

the time of day immediately following sunset;

when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat

a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity;

a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity;

descend in free fall under the influence of gravity;

move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way;

pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind;

come under, be classified or included;

fall from clouds;

suffer defeat, failure, or ruin;

decrease in size, extent, or range;

die, as in battle or in a hunt;

touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly;

be captured;

occur at a specified time or place;

yield to temptation or sin;

lose office or power;

to be given by assignment or distribution;

move in a specified direction;

be due;

lose one's chastity;

to be given by right or inheritance;

come into the possession of;

fall to somebody by assignment or lot;

be inherited by;

slope downward;

lose an upright position suddenly;

drop oneself to a lower or less erect position;

fall or flow in a certain way;

assume a disappointed or sad expression;

be cast down;

come out; issue;

be born, used chiefly of lambs;

begin vigorously;

go as if by falling;

come as if by falling;