different between collapse vs fal

English

Etymology

From Latin coll?psus (past participle of coll?bor).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??læps/
• Rhymes: -æps

Verb

collapse (third-person singular simple present collapses, present participle collapsing, simple past and past participle collapsed)

1. (intransitive) To break apart and fall down suddenly; to cave in.
   • 1843, Samuel Maunder, The Scientific and Literary Treasury

     A balloon collapses when the gas escapes from it.

2. (intransitive) To cease to function due to a sudden breakdown; to fail suddenly and completely.

3. (intransitive) To fold compactly.
4. (transitive, computing) To hide additional directory (folder) levels below the selected directory (folder) levels. When a folder contains no additional folders, a minus sign (-) appears next to the folder.
5. (cricket) For several batsmen to get out in quick succession
6. (transitive) To cause something to collapse.

7. (intransitive) To pass out and fall to the floor or ground, as from exhaustion or other illness; to faint.

Derived terms

• collapsible

Translations

Noun

collapse (countable and uncountable, plural collapses)

1. The act of collapsing.
2. Constant function, one-valued function (in automata theory) (in particular application causing a reset). (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Translations

Anagrams

• Capellos, escallop

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: collapsent, collapses

Verb

collapse

1. first-person singular present indicative of collapser
2. third-person singular present indicative of collapser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of collapser
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of collapser
5. second-person singular imperative of collapser

Latin

Participle

coll?pse

1. vocative masculine singular of coll?psus

English

Verb

fal

1. Obsolete spelling of fall
   • 1598, John Marston, The Scourge of Villanie

     By chaunce, in Livias modest company;
     When, after the god-saving ceremony,
     For want of talke-stuffe, fals to foinery;
     Out goes his rapier, and to Livia
     He shewes the ward by puncta reversa

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *spala, from Proto-Indo-European *p?l-, *sp?l- (“to fall”). Cognate to Ancient Greek ?????? (spháll?, “to overthrow”), Lithuanian pùlti (“to attack, rush”), German fallen (“to fall”).

Verb

fal (first-person singular past tense fala, participle falur)

1. I forgive
2. I give (as a present)
3. I pray, am respectful
4. I salute, greet
5. to set (of the sun)

Related terms

• falje
• falë
• falas
• faltore
• faj

References

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?f?l]
• Rhymes: -?l

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *pad? (“dam, weir”). Cognates include Finnish pato (“dam”).

Noun

fal (plural falak)

2. wall

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Proto-Uralic *pala- (“to devour”). Cognates include Finnish palaa (“to burn”).

Verb

fal

2. (transitive) to devour, gorge, wolf, scarf (eat greedily, voraciously, or ravenously)

   Synonyms: zabál, habzsol, tömi magát

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

References

Further reading

• (wall): fal in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
• (to devour): fal in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Icelandic

Noun

fal

1. indefinite accusative singular of falur
2. indefinite dative singular of falur

Kott

Alternative forms

• phal

Etymology

From Proto-Yeniseian *?apV ("hotness, sweat"). Compare Assan palá, pfóltu, paltu ("hot").

Adjective

fal

1. hot, warm

Related terms

• ap?k?
• ap?k? ugana?
• ap?k?án
• pala

Ladin

Noun

fal m (plural fai)

1. error

Luxembourgish

Verb

fal

1. second-person singular imperative of falen

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse falr

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??l/

Adjective

fal (masculine and feminine fal, neuter falt, definite singular and plural fale, comparative falare, indefinite superlative falast, definite superlative falaste)

1. (archaic) for sale
2. (archaic) available

References

• “fal” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fal/

Noun

fal f

1. genitive plural of fala

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse falr

Adjective

fal (not comparable)

1. (dated) for sale, that can be bought, bribable, corrupt

   en fal kvinna

   a prostitute

Declension

Related terms

• falbjuda
• falhet

References

• fal in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (8th ed., 1923)
• fal in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• Alf, alf

Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (fa?l).

Noun

fal (definite accusative fal?, plural fallar)

1. fortune telling, omen

Declension

See also

• fala inanma, fals?z da kalma
• falc?
• fal bakmak
• kahve fal?

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from English fall and German Fall.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fal/

Noun

fal (nominative plural fals)

1. the action of falling
2. (grammar) grammatical case (in classic or original Volapük (Volapük rigik: kimfal (“nominative”), kimafal (“genitive”), borrowed from German Fall (“case”))

Declension

Derived terms

• däfalön (“to fall to pieces”)
• falayan (“trapdoor, hatch”)
• falön (“to fall”)
• fälön (“to make or cause to fall, to fell”)
• vatafal (“water fall”)