fall out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: falls out
form: falling out
form: fell out
form: fallen out
Senses: examples: text: I opened the cupboard and a can fell out onto my foot.
text: Part of No. 10 platform at Kings Cross was cordoned off on August 23 after a container of radio-active material had fallen from a trolley. The special box in which it was packed split open, allowing the container to fall out.
ref: 1956 October, “Notes and News: Radioactivity at Kings Cross”, in Railway Magazine, page 711:
glosses: To come out of something by falling.
examples: text: Dave and I fell out after a long argument.
text: Petronius calleth this paſſion [i.e., jealousy] amantium furioſam æmulationem, a furious emulation, and their ſymptomes are well expreſſed by Sʳ Ieffrey Chaucer in his firſt Canterbury tale. It will make the neareſt & deareſt friends fall out; they will endure al other things to be common, goods, lands, moneyes, participate of all other pleaſures, and take in good part any diſgraces, iniuries in another kind, but as Propertius well deſcribes it in an Elegie of his, in this they will ſuffer nothing, have no corriuals.
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Iealousie, His Equivocations, Name, Definition, Extent, Seuerall Kindes, of Princes, Parents, Friends. In Beasts, Men, before Marriage, as Corriuals, or after, as in this Place”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 3, section 3, member 1, subsection 1, pages 465–466:
text: Before the incident Robins had fallen out with Knutton, 30. Knutton had made a complaint over Robins' boyfriend.
ref: 2011 December 14, Steven Morris, “Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave”, in Guardian:
glosses: To cease to be on friendly terms.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To leave one's place in the current formation of ranks in order to take one's place in a new formation.
examples: text: The company fell out for an artillery drill.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To leave one's current location to report for duty at a new location.
glosses: To pass out.
examples: text: Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 1:10:
text: I expected to be in the States long before this, but things fell out otherwise.
ref: 1866, Mark Twain, in a letter to William Bowen, 7 May 1866
text: For days Ailie had an absent eye and a sad face, and it so fell out that in all that time young Heriotside, who had scarce missed a day, was laid up with a broken arm and never came near her.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
glosses: To turn out, happen.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: To fall off due to the quoins holding it in place having become wet and therefore loose.
raw_tags: of type
examples: text: The board he was walking on fell out.
synonyms: drop out
qualifier: Of a trapdoor or similar
glosses: To give way under someone.
examples: text: The ground fell out from under him.
text: When she left him, his world fell out beneath him.
synonyms: drop out
qualifier: Of the ground; floor; snow; a worldview or foundation; Of the ground; floor; snow; a worldview or foundation
glosses: To cause someone to slip and/or fall down.
examples: text: When the band started, everybody fell out.
glosses: To be enthusiastic about something; to laugh very hard.
glosses: To depart.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To collapse; to pass out from intoxication.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To be shocked by something.
Derived terms: word: falling-out
word: falling out
word: fall-out
word: fallout
Related terms: fall away
fall down
fall off
fall out of flesh
fall out of lease
fall out upon